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"A less serious guess…maybe the dude from Finland is red shirted."

Red shirting still counts against scholarship limits

My super serious guess is that Wilkins bails and Darrion Williams is scared off because Wade is going to play Copeland over him.

7/11/2025 2:07:09 PM

I Wilkins practicing with the team now?

I'm still not totally familiar with all the guys, but I don't recall seeing him in any of the practice pics so far.

7/11/2025 4:31:02 PM

^to answer my question, yes, he is practicing (I just saw practice pics of him)

7/14/2025 5:05:45 PM

ME TOO

7/14/2025 5:36:47 PM

Practice pics or it didn't happen

7/14/2025 5:44:17 PM

^^^^^dang i thought red shirting was only a football thing, which is why I said less serious lol

7/14/2025 7:33:58 PM

Wrong thread

[Edited on July 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM. Reason : (women's)]

7/16/2025 4:40:56 PM

Probably a good thing Sincere Parker didn't follow Wade here

7/19/2025 6:31:23 PM

I'm thinking this Matt Able guy might be pretty good

Quote :

"Earning the MVP award from Lillard at the adidas camp among 20 different high-level college players was the culmination of a wild summer for Able. After winning a state championship with Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sagemont Prep and committing to the Pack, he hit big shots with Rod Wave Elite in Chicago, won the three-point contest at the Iverson Classic, went to the U19 USA Basketball tryouts, participated in camps put on by Lillard, Chris Paul and Jayson Tatum before cooking at the Olin Simplis runs."

8/14/2025 1:59:16 PM

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"ESPN updated their Way-Too-Early 2025-26 Men’s Basketball Preseason Top-25 today, and they ranked NC State 24th."

9/3/2025 9:58:16 AM

https://packinsider.com/2025/09/23/by-the-numbers-breaking-down-nc-state-basketballs-summer-camp-metrics/

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"Our lower body stregth, which is the metric that coorilates most with winning shares, we increased that by 65% (huge point of emphasis)"

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"We have an average deadlift of 772 lbs"

Our team transformed from the Nerdlucks to the Monstars during summer camp.

9/23/2025 12:39:30 PM

Market Titus (club trillion) used to rt each fall all the CBB teams bragging about their S&C gains. Long story short, glad they're working out but, until told otherwise, I assume every other team is working out pretty hard too.

9/23/2025 12:55:13 PM

Lol yes

9/23/2025 1:39:03 PM

Also I meant to say market, it's my nickname for him, for private reasons

9/23/2025 2:03:54 PM

We discovered weight lifting.

The reckoning is here.

9/23/2025 2:39:33 PM

For $1 mil I'll come tell them to run stairs

9/23/2025 3:01:43 PM

We have been busting our asses off with conditioning and weight training while every other team has been playing nba2k

9/23/2025 3:07:48 PM

Y'all, I posted those quotes because the numbers are hilariously wrong, not to show how hard they're working.

A 772 lb average deadlift is like world championship level powerlifting given the average weight of a college basketball player.

LOL, do y'all even lift?

9/23/2025 4:42:40 PM

Excuse me for being a True Fan with faith in the strength of our athletes!!

But yea fair point

9/23/2025 4:57:01 PM

I deadlift 772 lbs in my sleep

Also these strength increases he's bragging about, it's individual increases of the guys he recruited, so he recruited a bunch of weak babies and made them less weak. Congrats? Like there are only 2 guys returning from last year and one was a walk on who will never play. But sure it's great that your admitting that you signed a bunch of guys who were little shrimps. A couple of these guys are with you last year. Why didn't they already max out physically??? Why didn't you push them harder last off-season???

[Edited on September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM. Reason : Like this is the dumbest shit for a basketball coach to talk about, much less brag about]

[Edited on September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM. Reason : I expect nothing less from PI]

9/23/2025 5:39:01 PM

Ok now I’m getting worried we’ve spent too much time lifting weights and not enough time practicing actual basketball.

And yeah, sorry the dead lifting numbers went way over my head.

9/23/2025 5:46:33 PM

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"Our lower body stregth, which is the metric that coorilates most with winning shares, we increased that by 65% (huge point of emphasis)"

Was this article written using speech to text? Garbage content.
Back when I took weight training in high school, the basketball players wouldn't participate in bench press because it would throw off their jump shot. Either we will be running laps around our opponents hitting layups all season, or we won't be able to throw a ball and hit the ocean.

9/23/2025 7:22:08 PM

Remember when Andrew Brackman got swole and then became a completely useless basketball player instead of a stretch 4 who could shoot?

How well did that work out for him? Please don't research this and look up his 7 figure signing bonus from the Yankees

9/23/2025 8:18:44 PM

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"Everyone loves a leader who can talk the talk, but at some point, if you don’t bring the receipts, you’re leadership will be questioned."

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"YOU ARE LEADERSHIP"

9/23/2025 8:34:48 PM

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"Back when I took weight training in high school, the basketball players wouldn't participate in bench press"

i think that's because a ton of people at the lower levels of the sport just repeat the same shit they heard when they were kids. I knew a guy in HS in the early aughts who swore by that despite the weight coach (who was doing some cutting edge stuff for us at the time) informing him otherwise. I think it is has widely been considered a myth at the upper levels of the sport for years now and just took time to percolate. The 90s Bulls, most notably Jordan, became well known for lifting (including bench press) even on game day.

9/23/2025 8:51:26 PM

[link]https://Sports Illustrated’s Men’s College Basketball Preseason Top 25 https://share.google/iXVb1sUtL2diauZIQ[/link]

Oh no! We're not #24 or #25!

9/30/2025 11:47:18 AM