Preview: Michigan State Spartans vs. Grand Valley State Lakers
by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 8, 2009 9:14 PM CST
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PrintThe rundown on the Lakers:
- 21-10 record last season, including 14-8 in the GLIAC (good for a 3rd-place tie in the overall league standings).
- They're a paradox: A young team (no seniors; 8 freshmen) with quite a bit of experience. They return 6 of the 8 players who started at least 9 games last season. Exceptions: Leading scorer Pete Trammel and one-time Wolverine Jerret Smith.
- Another guy who's missing is newly-minted Spartan Anthony Ianni, who averaged 8.9 minutes per game in 27 apperances for Grand Valley last season.
- Picked to win the GLIAC North Division this season.
- And, oh yeah, they beat us two years ago.
The Lakers' top three players this season look to be:
- 6'4" junior swingman Justin Ringler: 12.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game last season. (Also of note: He scored 16 points in the 2007 win vs. MSU.)
- 6'5" junior guard Toreau Brown: 10.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game last season.
- 6'5" junior swingman (and another one-time Wolverine) K'Len Morris: 8.5 points per game in 12 games last season before suffering a season-ending injury.
Also, look out for sophomore guard Wes Trammel (brother of Pete), who hit 61.1% of his 3-point attempts in limited playing time last season.
Grand Valley should give MSU a little tougher test than Northwood did. They played solid defense (43.2 opp 2-pt%, 33.8 opp 3-pt%) and were a very good rebounding team last season (36.7 OffReb%, 73.5 DefReb%). They forced a large number of 3-point shots, indicating they may play some zone.
Still, it's hard to see an upset happening again. The 2007 MSU team was in search of its offensive identity (a search that continued through the season). This team shouldn't have that issue: They want to push the ball in transition, attack the basket, and crash the boards. The one factor that reduces MSU's margin for error is injuries, as Raymar Morgan and Delvon Roe will likely both miss the game and Chris Allen and Korie Lucious are both nursing injuries.
For those of us willing to up our investment with bigtennetwork.com to $5.98, this post will also serve as the open thread for the game. (CLARIFICATION: It's $2.99 for this game. $5.98 total if you ponied up for the last game, too.)
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any radio websites that will broadcast the game for people in chicago?
I don't think so
Generally, I don’t think radio stations are allowed to stream the game broadcasts on their websites.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 8:45 AM CST up reply actions
www.wjimam.com
I’ve used that to follow hockey occasionally, and they do have the hoops game on right now.
TV replay
For those who just want to see the game, I believe the Big Ten Network will be replaying the it on Tuesday at 11am.
Need to beat them
GVSU is full of Wal-verines. Also, losing to them is particularly intolerable for me as I live 15 minutes from GVSU.
Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Game costs $2.99 on BTN site
Your $5.98 comment might be confusing to some. (Northwood was $2.99, GVSU is $2.99.)
by red_cedar on Nov 9, 2009 8:34 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Thanks
I’ll edit to clarify, in case there’s any confusion.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 8:42 AM CST up reply actions
Game streaming
Thanks intrpdtrvlr for the replay tip. I’ll probably pass on the game streaming – the quality of the broadcast against Northwood was marginal, though Tim Bograkos was good for a couple of chuckles with his color commentary – “Michigan State is forcing a lot of unforced turnovers.”
I say that lightly. I loved the energy Bograkos brought to the court. This team would do well to emulate his hustle.
Bograkos' shot to beat Kentucky
is one of my favorite MSU bball moments ever.
Izzo's comment...
about bograkos being the 6th option out of the five guys on the court was my favorite Izzo comment ever :-).
Big Ten Tech Department FAIL
Video is super choppy.
A couple nice passes from Green so far, from what I’ve actually been able to see.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:10 PM CST reply actions
Nix showing nice moves down low again
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:26 PM CST reply actions
Durrell Summers
Hit in face, bleeding, going to locker room.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:30 PM CST reply actions
Anybody else here?
(Only asking because my therapist says I should stop talking to myself.)
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:33 PM CST reply actions
Nope, nobody here
What’s the score? I’m not willing to pay for streaming video of an exhibition game
23-13 with 4 minutes left in the first half
Offense looking pretty ragged.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:45 PM CST reply actions
Lots of Dahlman/Thornton/Kebler
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:46 PM CST reply actions
Weird line-ups...
Funny that this is basically MSU’s practice squad…
Nix...
Anyone else really liking Nix so far? He is looking like the second coming of Draymond Green (and not just because he lost a lot of weight). Good hands, and seems to have good basketball smarts.
Certainly looks like the leader
among the three new big men (including Herzog).
Had a nice steal on a pass into the post, too.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:56 PM CST up reply actions
31-21 at the half
GVSU hits a 3-pointer as the clock expires.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 6:55 PM CST reply actions
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:01 PM CST reply actions
Evan Turner...
Anyone notice his first-half stat-line?
12 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals.
Yikes
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:07 PM CST up reply actions
No kiddin...
I’m thinking Turner really wants player of the year honors this year…. probably going to deserve it to.
He probably deserved it last year.
But remember that they were playing Alcorn State, who were 6-25 last year.
"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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by LVS on Nov 9, 2009 8:15 PM CST up reply actions
Audio...
Anyone else not getting any audio with their feed right now?
Worse: My video is all jumbled
No audio either.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:12 PM CST up reply actions
Before I fire off my angry e-mail to BTN requesitng a refund of my hard-earned $2.99,
am I safe in assuming that everyone’s getting a choppy video feed?
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:20 PM CST reply actions
You are safe to assume that.
I got audio back.. but as soon as I did my video quality went way downhill.
It's clear they don't have the bandwith to keep the HD feed going
But they keep going back to it after dropping the video resolution down for short stretches.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:26 PM CST up reply actions
50-35 with 12 to go
Izzo just got teed up.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:30 PM CST reply actions
Yelling at the ref
No idea about what, given the feed situation.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:35 PM CST reply actions
Complaint form is here, BTW.
http://video.bigtennetwork.com/support
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:37 PM CST reply actions
Curent lineup
Lucious/Dahlman/Thornton/Green/Herzog
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:41 PM CST reply actions
Lead down to 11 with 7 minutes to go
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:41 PM CST reply actions
line-ups...
I almost feel like I’m not even really watching an MSU basketball game.
67-53 at the final media timeout
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 7:53 PM CST reply actions
Playing hard to the end
Forced a shot clock violation with 20 seconds left.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 9, 2009 8:03 PM CST reply actions
76-53 final
Recap later tonight.
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