Deacon Dump 10/6: Jeff Goodman says it's Ish's team

by Martin Rickman on Oct 6, 2009 10:09 AM EDT

Short on links today. While the Deacs prepare for Maryland, be on the lookout for a few different things from us this week as we preview the Deacs' matchup against the Terps.

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Now that Jeff Teague and James Johnson are off to the NBA, it's clearly Al-Farouq Aminu's team at Wake Forest. However, the key to the Demon Deacons is speedy point guard Ishmael Smith.

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"We just need to stay focused," Wake Forest wide receiver Chris Givens told reporters after Saturday's victory. "Like you said, we are all close, so we just need to continue to stay close in the division."

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The school announced Monday that its game at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 17 will begin at noon and will be telecast by Raycom on the ACC regional network.

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Goodman is hatin'

by WakeJake on Oct 6, 2009 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

B-ball

well I guess according to fox sports, we should forget basketball and go straight from football to baseball

by olddeac on Oct 6, 2009 3:21 PM EDT reply actions

Goodman got burned by us last year. He probably wants us to earn back his trust.

Bah da da da da da da da, Go Deacs.

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by Martin Rickman on Oct 7, 2009 7:47 PM EDT reply actions

I am tired of people looking at 2 players getting drafted and ignoring the rest of the team (accept Aminu, it’s hard to forget about him). When it comes down to it, last year we had a top 5 recruiting class, and they are still there. To balance the extreme amount of young, talent there, we have 3 experienced, senior starters (well, I am not really sure if it’ll be Chas or Tony starting at center). I don’t think we will be as good as we were when we played UNC, but we are going to be much more consistent, and will never play as poorly as we did against the Techs, Maryland (in the ACC tourney), etc

To me the biggest question mark is the coaching. We know that Dino is one hell of a recruiter, now we are going to find out how good he is coaching a good team that doesn’t rely so heavily on players looking to the NBA (as we did last year).

The way I see it, Demon Deacon basketball is still on an upward trajectory with an extremely promising future. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I look for 2011-2012 to be our big year, hopefully we can finally make something happen postseason.

by tbrwfu on Oct 8, 2009 12:00 AM EDT reply actions