“They’re playing zone, it’s pretty spread out…We were getting wide-open shots…but against the three-two zone…you have to drive that ball, get inside the paint.” “There’s a fine line there,” Forbes said. On the other hand, the Deacs shot just 11 times from two-point range. The team took 17 attempts from behind the arc, well above its usual clip, and made seven. Wake Forest was also serving a heavy dosage of three-point shots in the first half.

We should be able to set the tone from the start a little bit better.” “We know going into it that we can’t just sit around and feel where the intensity should be in the first couple of minutes. “Just gotta be a little bit better fired up defensively…” Andrew Carr noted. I thought that’s kind of how we started out.” You hope that they miss, but you’re not making them miss. You’re there, but you’re really not there. “I probably despise it more than anything, is on defense, when you’re cosmetic, fake,” Forbes said. Wake Forest - at 5-12 - was by no means shooting the lights out, but was chasing a team from behind not because of the offense. After a miss, they made four-straight additional shots. The Hornets were a perfect 4-4 to open the first half.

The Deacs allowed Delaware State to get as close as six in the early part of the second half, but from there, the team quickly powered away. Supercharged by a 14-0 run - part of a 24-4 stretch - the Wake Forest lead slowly crept up to 15. After leading by 10 at the half, a 20-8 closing stretch in the second gave Wake Forest a comfortable 88-59 victory.Īfter taking a one-point advantage with 17:13 remaining in the first half, Wake Forest did not lead again until a full nine minutes of game time later. Midway through the first half, the team found its footing, retook the lead and never looked back. I thought we had really good practices…so I was disappointed in the way that we started the game.” Maybe we were a little rusty coming out the gate, but that’s no excuse. His team was trailing Delaware State 21-16 and looked like a unit that hadn’t played in nine days. WINSTON-SALEM, NC – At the second media timeout, Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes was unhappy.

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