A little redecorating at The Bres
by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 17, 2009 12:55 AM CDT
in Michigan State Spartans Basketball
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Your 2009 Michigan State Midnight Madness bullet points:
- First Midnight Madness sellout in the history of the program. Tom Izzo can check that off his bucket list. The place was legitimately filled to the rafters. My son and I showed up 10 minutes before the doors opened and had to sit in the upper deck, despite not stopping for autographs. People were lined up around the block. (The good news is I had an excellent vantage point from which to take the photo above.)
- Tom Izzo's arrival was via Indy Car, looking ahead to the location of next year's Final Four. The ladies donned cowboy hats, since the women's Final Four will be held in San Antonio.
- Beyond that, the program was fairly conventional. The focus really was on savoring the 2009 tournament run--and particularly the Final Four in Detroit--one more time. Izzo emphasized how proud he is that MSU has been involved in the three highest-attended basketball games in history.
- The Green-and-White scrimmage will be next Saturday.
- With Korie Lucious on the sidelines tonight, Mike Kebler started at point guard for the White team and the players basically shared responsibility for bringing the ball up the floor. I'll be interested to see what the arrangement is next Saturday, assuming Lucious still isn't up to game/scrimmage speed. Seems like we sort of need a back-up back-up plan, given that the regular season starts four weeks from now.
- The scrimmage was even less intense than these sorts of scrimmages generally are, so not much to report on the players.
- Except this: Delvon Roe looks very, very healthy.
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Did it apear to anyone else like Kalin Lucas was passing the ball off to Green really early in some possessions with a “alright, big guy, let’s see what you can do with it” attitude? Perhaps MSU really is scouting DayDay as an emergency PG – at least on the offensive end. He looked just as good handling the ball as Chris Allen.
I was sitting at the top of the lower bowl on the opposite side, a bit to the scorer’s-table side. The lines were crazy, and they appeared to have reserved the entire midsection of one side for some huge group of somewhat-sports-enthusiastic (at best) high school kids. The program was fun, the actual scrimmage was a bit blah.
Green looked good, appears more conditioned, and looks to have been working on a longer shot. Roe looks really good. And I’m impressed with Nix. He’s a bit slow, but he’s not the stumbling bumbling load I’d feared. He’s extremely solid and once he gets a bit quicker with that footing, he’s going to be really good. My only impression of Sherman was that he appears to be a slightly smaller Herzog, who did look a bit fuller, but nothing to write home about.
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Maybe it's just my own OCD-ness
But aren’t those banners a bit out of order now?
"Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do."
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I think that was just emphasizing the latest installment to their banner collection. I have to think they’ll rehang them in order later.
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Yeah, the middle slot was empty to start
and they dropped the 2009 banner as part of the program.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 17, 2009 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
My wife and....
….I got there at about 9:45 (due to a stop at the Riv for nostalgia’s sake. An expensive stop. Beer inflation was over 200 percent) and sat about halfway up the upper deck.
Izzo seems to genuinely enjoy the goofiness of Midnight Madness. The women’s team mostly danced to songs that came out around the time they were born, in effort to remind me that I"m old.
I was wondering about the looser than a pickup game scrimage, so that’s pretty normal, huh?
I’d guess you’d go to Summers if you needed a point that whose name didn’t start with K.
Madness
One of the disadvantages of living far from EL is missing out on these nights. Thanks for sharing the ambiance. Just wondering – can you have a sellout if tickets are free? :)
"Sellout"
Thought about that as I put this post up, but didn’t have energy at 2 in the morning to figure out the technically-accurate description. :)
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 17, 2009 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Ding! Ding!
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 17, 2009 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
This is technically correct, I suppose. Evidently they had to turn folks away at some point, which blows my mind.
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by Spartalytical on Oct 17, 2009 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice Screensaver
KJ – Thanks for jpeg. No other school can make that statement. Sherman looks like he put on about 15 pounds and Nix is going in the right direction. Those guys may be the key for this year, a la Davis/Lorbek in 2003.
No problem
Higher resolution version and a few more photos from the evening are here.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 18, 2009 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions
1957 & 1979 Banners
Did they do anything to the older NC and final four banners?
No
It’d be nice for them to work up something similar for the two pre-Izzo Final Four appearances. Part of the problem might be the lack of snazzy, city-specific Final Four logos going back that far. Izzo talked about part of the rationale for the new banners being to remember the specific locations they played in.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 18, 2009 6:11 PM CDT up reply actions
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