OPEN GAME THREAD: MICHIGAN STATE VS. MINNESOTA
by LVS on Mar 12, 2010 8:17 PM CST
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Minnesota Golden Gophers at Michigan St. Spartans, Mar 12, 2010 8:15 PM CST
Your starting five: Raymar Morgan, Draymond Green, Isaiah Dahlman, Durrell Summers, Kalin Lucas. All week we've heard about how we're putting a bigger emphasis on the conference tournament this year. Time to go out and get it done.
Spartans vs. Gophers -- this is your OPEN GAME THREAD!
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Ugh
That near steal on the last possession actually pulled guys out of position
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Gus Johnson on Damian Johnson vs. Derrick Nix:
“Blood will be shed. Glass will be broken.”
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Travel wooo
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Lucas looks almost effortless on those drives
He makes the defense look flat-footed.
I'm watching hoops with the hockey game audio streaming
But yeah, not happening.
Solid Go Green, Go White.
Should have something of an advantage with that. I can’t imagine that too many people came down from Minneapolis.
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Our fans are bringing it
They made Minnesota shoot early in that last clock
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Yeah, there was anxiety on the Twitters all afternoon that there weren't many MSU fans in the house.
Guess they showed up. Good stuff.
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I love the shot-clock chant
Still remember it making SportsCenter when we tricked Purdue into two shot-clock violations in one game with the late-start countdown.
Solid if unspectacular start.
1 turnover. Zero fouls (Morgan, that means you especially).
Let’s build on it.
Good to see Summers
With the early 3
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Quarterback
One more of the many versatile roles the dancing Bear can fill
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Lots of awkward-looking stutter-steps for Minnesota
Thought they were lucky not to get called for traveling twice.
Out of control
but he was dribbling the whole time
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Wow
that was a great, quick offensive possession. 2 man game between Lucious and Green, and then the great interior pass to Roe.
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Pretty pass by Green
Sets up Roe for free throws.
WTF was that Luscious?
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Interesting line-up
I have a feeling Roe, Green, and Morgan have not spent a lot of time out there all together this season.
Yep.
Hope we got all the bad play in our zone out of the way tonight and tighten it up tomorrow and Sunday.
Well, like Brian said
Michigan’s an all-or-nothing team. Hopefully they’ll be nothing the next two nights.
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Our fans got the early shot clock again
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How did we miss that?
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All right, let's see that March focus now
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Lucious with the turnover
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Man, they are murdering us on the interior right now
Both on offense and defense. Call a timeout, Tom.
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Argh Lucious
His patented “drive and kick out to the other team” move leads to the usual result.
Nice foul
If you’re going to foul, make sure he doesn’t get a shot
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I'll forget this year happened for him in the off season
He did lose his practice time to a broken foot
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Odd line up
Sherman, Kebler, Lucas, Green, Morgan. On second thought, the only thing I’d change would be to take Nix back on the floor.
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Minnesota
They’re really big, just bad match up for us.
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Exactly what I feared would happen
They’re not letting us get anything inside, and our guards are awful.
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We've done it once already this year
But that’s an experience I don’t care to repeat.
Good D
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Green
makes it look that easy after we get nothing for 10 minutes
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Kebler to take free throws?
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Green looked like he was pushed there
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There's a lot of that going on both ways
Although the one they just called looked like absolutely nothing happened.
When Michigan's many threes are going in ...
… Minnesota’s interior height isn’t particularly relevant.
Michigan has 4 guards?
We have one who can play offense well?
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Allen's competent
He didn’t do much against Michigan, but he didn’t really need to.
Allen's competent
He didn’t do much against Michigan, but he didn’t really need to.
Man...
Is this like 5 straight games where MSU guards have turned into steaming piles of dog poop?
Green was hacked
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Thank you Lucious
more of THAT
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Hey! Korie!
That almost makes up for you playing like dogshit for the first 18 minutes.
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Hey, a 3 from Lucious!
That might be the first useful thing he’s done all day.
Another one?
Did Allen steal his jersey of something?
And cuts his shins out
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Back door win
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Good lord, Johnson
That was a hell of a swat.
Halftime reading:
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/8439/stewart-west-virginia-could-end-up-in-new-league
Everyone LOL at Bill Stewart.
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All right, that could have ended up a whole lot worse.
Nice rally at the end of the half there.
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Stay Classy Tubby
You’ve been getting away with pushes under the hoops
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I love gus...
but someone needs to tell that iverson is scoring because of the plays being ran for him – oh, and he has 6 points.
Also – Tubby…seriously? crying about the fouls???
Anyone else wish...
that Summers would kick the ball out after getting an offensive board for once? I swear he’s gotten like 3.. and then airballs his putback attempt.
Also
Rally gear time. Am now wearing my Izzone shirt.
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UGH
We make one in it’s wiped out by a foul
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Beautiful steal
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Pretty steal
Too bad Summers couldn’t quite finish.
Late whistle
But deserved
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If they didn't blow a whistle there, I don't know when they ever would
Morgan got pushed twice as he shot in addition to contact up high.
THEY apparently can
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Yes, but that wasn't what I asked.
(Incidentally … Terry Pratchett fan?)
No sorry
Did I accidentally pull out a reference?
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No idea if it started with him, but he’s the one I’ve most often seen it attributed to.
Thought the ref signaled 3 for Lucas
But on replay, it was definitely 2.
Yeah, I think that's the second time he's made a shot with his foot on the line.
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We may be the team most significantly affected by the new 3-line
I swear we make at least four would-have-been-three-pointers-three-years-ago a game.
This is going exactly to plan
the plan being to rip their hearts out at the end of a close game
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Anyone else notice on the replay
That the minnesota player on the ground curled his legs around Lucas to force him off balance?
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I have an idea
When Lucious is running the point, let’s run set plays where he backs up to the halfcourt line and then suddenly accelerates straight ahead. I think he’d make his best passes that way.
Tubby would approve
I’m sure he likes fast break points.
It's complicated
Bring the wings up behind him and have them charge the hoop at the same time. Kind of a basketball equivalent of the Might Ducks’ “flying V.” I bet Lucious’s turnovers would drop significantly.
Ugh
I hate that. We have the guy guarded and then in the split second there’s a switch he jacks one up for a three.
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That's only a hair beneath average for us
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At least that fast break was pretty
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we can't make FTs
Minnesota can just hack a shaq and jack 3s to victory
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You gotta be kidding me
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That will be sent to the commissioner
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That was nowhere near a charge
Hoffarber was still sliding.
Oh but we'll get called for the block
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BULLSHIT
If Summers’s was a charge, that was about six charges at once.
Have a rec sir
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Insult to injury...
MSU sucks AND the refs are blowing.
I'd call that a four-point swing
But given the way we’re shooting free throws, it’s probably only three.
If we weren't down 5...
that call warrants a Technical. Just a hideous call.
Big four minutes coming.
How is that not a travel!
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And then they get away with a moonwalk.
(Although to be fair, they might argue Hoffarber didn’t have control of the ball.)
Yeah, I think that one was a good no-call.
It’s just the rest that’s been garbage.
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He didn't before
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Seriously, as a fan getting worked up about refs, I am a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10
But Johnson extended his hands and pushed Lucas down from behind as he was about to the get the loose ball.
Yeah..
No point in bitching about the refs when MSU is playing so horribly. Moot point. MSU not playing well enough to win anyways.
WTF WAS THAT UNDER THE HOOP?
Nice box out? Are you kidding me?
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I was wondering the same
Since when is it legal to battering-ram a guy into the next county?
Even George Blaha is getting upset about the calls
and he doesn’t get upset
You hear that refs?
You’re upsetting Blaha. Nobody puts Blaha in the corner.
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then MSU should be doing the same damn thing back – and they’re not.
I didn't say the refs were letting everyone get away with axe-murder in the paint.
I said they were letting them get away with it.
Hard to know
When you can’t play the game with the way the game is called how can you play well?
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All right look at our lineup right now
Roe, Lucious, Morgan, Thornton, Kebler. WHERE THE HELL DOES THE SCORING COME FROM WITH THAT LINEUP?!?
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THANK YOU!
I realize that there is no exact line in the rulebook that says “it is a foul to maul another player”, but that’s gotta be implied in there somewhere.
Was wondering the same thing
But as it eventually led to a foul, I’m okay with that.
Haven't seen Nix in a while, could try throwing him out there
At the least he’s big enough to not be “boxed out”
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Lot of time left
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I'm so freaked
that I saw :32 and my brain thought it was the game clock. For a split second, I panicked before I came to my senses.
Hey free throws
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I hate 3s
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Why, oh why, did you leave him?
He was guarded tightly, then the defender sagged off for just a moment and BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE.
beat me to it
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Silly Iverson
Did you really think that blocking the ball after it hits the backboard was legal?
With these refs?
Give it a shot
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Fight
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Hate that kid
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Looks like Green hit him with an elbow, which didn’t look intentional, and Iverson swung an arm at Green
Wish it had been intentional
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Normally I wouldn't say that
But someone on this team needs to put a stop to his antics
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No, I like having Green for the next few games.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 9:58 PM CST up reply actions
Which, with these refs ...
… will probably be a flagrant on Green and nothing on Iverson.
Izzo fired up
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This is one of the worst games I have seen
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they always save that for the B10 tourney
by wbrianr on Mar 12, 2010 10:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Not even close to @Mich 2006
But it’s in the running for top 5.
How did Lucious make that?
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I'm not sure
And not sure I care either.
That was a reach in by Iverson
should’ve been out
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Good riddence
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now he should be out
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Amazingly we're still in this
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Gotta give credit where it's due
Timely threes by Korie Lucious
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True
He’s at least rediscovered his shooting touch. Now if only he could figure out how to do something that is not astoundingly incompetent running the point.
Oh dear lord
Don’t scare me any more than usual, Lucious.
Probably just gave Izzo an aneurism
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How many times can we break Minnesota's heart this season?
NOT ENOUGH TIMES.
Tom Izzo's Lonely Hearts Clubber Band
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I want MINN to start thinking about The Barn this year
I want them to tighten up. I want them to get that look in their eyes that we get when UNC jumps to a 12-point lead.
Stepped on the baseline
Gotta know where you are, Kebler.
Oh Kebler...
this is why you’re a walk on
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he...
should stick to something he’s good at… like making cookies in the damn tree with the other elves
KEBLER
He’s been so good at points this year but he’s been so, so bad tonight.
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Oh c'mon, that was a tough play
Could have happened to anyone.
by intrpdtrvlr on Mar 12, 2010 10:09 PM CST up reply actions
Lets! Go! State!
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YES!
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Just like at Minnesota
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All right D do it again
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Oh my God he was mugged from behind
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Funniest part of this
is the “and/or”
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Didn't look like much to me
That’s the sort of thing that routinely (right or wrong) gets ignored in the final seconds.
I've always hated that though.
Do they ignore calls in football in the final seconds?
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:15 PM CST up reply actions
Not to the same degree, but yes
And I agree with you in principle that they shouldn’t. But of the many things we have to get worked up about in this game, that’s about #7 or #8 at best.
Oh, I don't disagree.
But it’s still silly.
I guess this is why I’m football first.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:17 PM CST up reply actions
OT
They have to play 5 minutes without Iverthug
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No Allen
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Need to pound it down low with Morgan and Green. Sampson can’t guard them.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:16 PM CST up reply actions
Ask and ye shall receive.
And Damian Johnson is gone as well.
This is where the first round bye needs to pay off
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Yeah, amazing, we're in overtime of the BTT
and Summers has been benched for Mike Kebler.
by intrpdtrvlr on Mar 12, 2010 10:19 PM CST up reply actions
Johnson out now too
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3 point play woo
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I hate 3s
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We're screwed!
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Weak call
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If Korie committed a foul
The Lucas should have been shooting 2 with 3 seconds left in regulation
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Doesn't count because it wasn't with under 30 secs to play.
Seriously, this stuff just kills basketball for me.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:21 PM CST up reply actions
Kebler's minutes seem huge right now
Is he playing lock down D? I’m only listening to it on the radio
Yesish
Their guards are hitting garbage threes
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has anybody gotten around Kebler all year?
Answer: no. You HAVE to shoot over him, if you can
ARGH free throws
Stop me if you’ve heard that before.
Uh three pointers
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PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUREEEEE
I dislike Gus Johnson.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:23 PM CST reply actions
No shit
Make free throws and this is a comfortable win in regulation, or at least tied up now.
4 fts missed
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Dear Lord
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:24 PM CST reply actions
Call it
TOD: 11:24 est
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I've watched some Minny games and I'm starting to think Tubby must be a master at working the refs.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:25 PM CST up reply actions
He sure was bitching them out at halftime
Despite some truly absurd calls his way.
We got our rumps kicked on Thursday no doubt, but Minny was getting every thing early on.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:27 PM CST up reply actions
Is that a Bushism
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That’s just Gus Johnson being Gus Johnson. He’ll make anything sound exciting.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:25 PM CST up reply actions
Don't you dare
compliment these officials
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Ok, Gus, I like you as an announcer and all
But bullshit on the officials doing a good job tonight.
But it's an emotional game!
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:26 PM CST up reply actions
You know what Gus?
If it’s a foul, it’s a foul. Forget this “emotion” crap.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:26 PM CST reply actions
If it's a flagrant, that just got us back in the game
Because that’s two shots and the ball.
Oh wait. Just the ball, then.
What did Raymar do except stand up?
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Are you kidding?
Raymar should’ve started talking trash FOUR YEARS AGO.
by Lesmana Lim on Mar 12, 2010 10:30 PM CST up reply actions
They don't want Tubby to yell at them.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:28 PM CST up reply actions
It is a foul to be pushed, apparently.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:28 PM CST up reply actions
Are you thinking of the Hightower photoshop I'm thinking of?
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
I wasn't
But you have piqued my curiosity.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:30 PM CST up reply actions
If we make our FTs
we’re only down 1… GAH!
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As long as it's not against another Big 10 team...
I doubt we have much trouble in the first round. The second round will be terrifying.
Let's not forget that we looked this butt-ugly against Iowa in 2005
That worked out okay.
That’ll help. Non-Big Ten teams aren’t this physical and aren’t familiar with Izzo’s style.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
Also, no Big Ten refs.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:32 PM CST up reply actions
Haha these refs suck so bad.
"Based on my estimates, it appears that Stanzi shall transcend the ages." - Cairo
by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:31 PM CST reply actions
Nevermind, it was clean!
"Based on my estimates, it appears that Stanzi shall transcend the ages." - Cairo
by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
How about our sophomore captain with the steal and dunk?
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Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Agreed
WJR’s feed is about 30 seconds behind too
Summers must have done something beyond playing poorly
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I dunno, Kebler hasn't been the problem, that would be free throws.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:35 PM CST up reply actions
Oh boy, we're going to the line
sigh
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Lucas doesn’t have his legs right now. Too many minutes with Allen not playing.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:34 PM CST up reply actions
Um, free throws rely quite a bit on legs. If you have an infected ankle and have played a ton of minutes, you might be tired at the end of an overtime game.
by SpartanBoiler on Mar 12, 2010 10:36 PM CST up reply actions
This is Penn State esque, to be honest.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:34 PM CST up reply actions
How did they not travel?
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This is why I hate the conference tournament.
Minnesota was pretty crappy in the regular season. They shouldn’t get in the tournament. And MSU shouldn’t be a 5 seed because of this loss.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:37 PM CST up reply actions
Nice foul draw Draymond
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This reminds me of the Iowa game in 2005
Alan Anderson missing the FT’s to ice it
Yes
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.
I have to be honest, the mental side of this team
anything beyond the first weekend will be nice.
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Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Yeah, good luck in the tournament.
I was rooting for you guys because you’re a classy bunch. And also because I despise Minnesota basketball.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:38 PM CST up reply actions
possession arrow...
Was toward MSU, why do you foul when all you need to do is put your hand on the god damn ball???
Nice three Lucas.
All through the game they fight.
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Did Minnesota go .500 in conference this year?
"Based on my estimates, it appears that Stanzi shall transcend the ages." - Cairo
by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:38 PM CST reply actions
Ok, they did.
Still doubt they’re in.
"Based on my estimates, it appears that Stanzi shall transcend the ages." - Cairo
by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:40 PM CST up reply actions
They're not terrible. Not by a long shot. But someone should ask Tubby how a team with this much talent struggled like this.
"Based on my estimates, it appears that Stanzi shall transcend the ages." - Cairo
by ReadingRambler on Mar 12, 2010 10:39 PM CST up reply actions
Ths Team Reminds me of
Torbert, Hill, Anderson years…… Tons of talent, zero chemistry.
Can’t wait for all that upcoming Lucas to the NBA talk. I hope all those he listens to reminds him just how NOT ready he is
Bummer 4 U guys-
I’m a Boilermaker fan (grew up in WL) but also bleed green (lived in Drew Namick territory- Muskegon- for a long time) and hate to see you guys outed so quicklt.
The silver lining? Big time wake up call for the team. The potential is there- the chemistry and the cookin’ needs a little salt.
Hopefully you shred through the first two rounds and make it to the 16 dance. Beyond that is gravy. All 8 cylinders- and you go to where you went last year- except in my neck of the woods (historically).
Good luck- chin up- and see you in Indy !!!!!
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