Linking Laconically is still admiring Delvon Roe's "heads down" play*
by KJ@theonlycolors on Mar 22, 2010 8:02 PM CDT
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Print*Full credit for this corny-but-brilliant turn of phrase to LVS.
- Adversity bringing Spartans closer - George Dohrmann - SI.com
"I got your back. All us here got your back." - Basketball Prospectus | Articles | The First Weekend
BP guys like Northern Iowa on Friday. Gasaway salutes Roe's duck. - Big Ten Geeks's Blog - Big Ten Network
"This was a close shave, America, close shave Barbasol." - X’s & O’s of Basketball: To Call Or Not to Call a Timeout, Izzo Pulls Back, MSU Wins
Better to not call TO with veterans on court; Draymond Green is a sophomoric veteran. - Video: Michigan State star loses tooth on block attempt - The Dagger - NCAAB Blog - Yahoo! Sports
In a game with some weird moments, this was perhaps the weirdest. - The Mid-Majority : Northern Iowa, Pride of the Valley
Read this. How UNI became what it is. - Trey Zeigler Narrows List to Five | UM Hoops.com
Still no word on whether we have the scholarship slot to offer him, but we're on the list. - Jefferson's 6-10 center will face two 5-5 guards in semifinal | High School Huddle
Block some shots, Adreian. - Detroit Pershing's Keith Appling to play for USA? | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Offseason play against quality opposition never hurts. - The Audacity of Hoops: Prediction System Bracket Challenge: Rd 2 Update
Obviously not a scientific study, but interesting to see the balanced Sagarin ratings winning at this point. - Analyzing the Roster Shakeup " "Battle Does It Again"
Talor Battle losing some teammates to transfers: Chris Babb and Bill Edwards. - MSU's Kalin Lucas injury confirmed: Ruptured Achilles tendon; out for season | detnews.com | The Detroit News
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Nonlaconic Commentary on Losing Our Star to a Terrible Injury
Obviously, the immediate impact of Kalin Lucas' achilles tear is losing our best player for the duration of this NCAA Tournament, which significantly reduces the expected value of said duration. The injury also means next season may not get off to a slower start, as Lucas will still be rounding back into playing shape (4-6 month recovery time--maybe up to 8). Hopefully, Korie Lucious will have a healthy offseason this time around to further develop toward being a consistently-starter-level point guard. And Keith Appling (that's Mr. Basketball to you) will get some time running the show this summer in informal workouts.
Most of all, this stinks just because any 21-year old athlete with the potential to go on to professional success in his sport suffering a injury of this seriousness stinks. I'd much rather have lost Lucas to the NBA early than have had him deal with this.
The injury, of course, makes it all the more sweet that MSU held on to win yesterday's game. A lost game combined with a lost star would have been doubly tragic. Bittersweet beats the heck out of bitterbitter.
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"I'd much rather have lost Lucas to the NBA early than have had him deal with this."
Word. Nobody deserves this, least of all a Mensch like Lucas.
I hope he's okay long term
because I’d almost rather have lost the game then jeopardize Lucas’s future. I hope the talk of a full recovery is accurate.
Lucas trying to defend on one foot
I will always remember Lucas hopping on one foot, trying to at least fill some space
with his body before the injury timeout was called.
Hard to say, predict how we will respond. I would like our chances much better
with a healthy Allen. Northern Iowa looks team solid ( read next home entry, enjoy the last radar graph) and the
fact that their 4 Kuch was MV MVP without being in the top 10 in any statistic in the league says something great about their team and players, really being a team and contributions solidly across the starting 5.
Certainly we have a chance, Morgan at the 3 and Summers continuing to play at
such a high level helps immensely as well as Roe giving so much on a hobbled knee.
Roe has not been able to elevate on his shot, missing some looks he would usually make, however, solid defense, rebounding and getting back are a huge contribution as well as his improved decision-making and passing have really been evident in the minutes he can play.
At one point i said to my husband, look we have the 3 sophomores and 2 walk-ons (Thornton and Kebler) out there. Yikes. All 3 sophomores have really improved and
Nix is certainly coming on. Valuable solid minutes from Nix and Sherman will let Morgan
stay at the 3 which will help make up for Lucas, Allen.
Sophomore love
After reading that quote about Roe, how he answered Izzo when he asked what the pain was like, “Off the charts,” I can’t believe he is playing as well as he is. You have to feel bad for a kid who turned down UNC to come to MSU and now will likely have surgery again. What a gutty performance from him. I’ll take a 50% or 30% or whatever % Roe over a lot of guys.
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