Chris Allen Suspended
by LVS on Mar 9, 2010 11:10 AM CST
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Per the Detroit News MSU Twitter feed, and now Joe Rexrode. Not many details yet on why or how long; all Izzo has said is that the suspension is for the cumulative effect of academic problems -- Rexrode's language, not Izzo's, apparently -- and that he'll be out for at least Friday's game. He won't practice with the team this week (edit: see below), and won't travel to Indianapolis for Friday's game, although he might be back a semifinal game on Saturday.
It's disappointing because Chris has matured so much as a basketball player this season; it seems that the maturation may not have continued off-the-court. Also (obviously), because he's been playing great basketball.
UPDATE #1: Quote from David Mayo's story: "Izzo said Allen would practice Wednesday in some capacity. 'Whether it’s with the team or not, I don’t know. He may have an individual practice with me,' Izzo said."
Also, more wonderful news from DetNews Twitter: "More breaking news: Delvon Roe says he will most likely need surgery on right wrist and right knee after the season. Been in pain all year."
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Bad news
This is obviously disappointing from Allen and the team’s perspective, because he had been playing so well.
However, I kind of have a different take on it. I can’t think of many other coaches in the country who would suspend such an important player for such an important game for what amounts to something that on the surface doesn’t look like an egregious error.
Teams will come and go here at MSU, but what good I can take out of this is that we have a coach in Tom Izzo that will go the extra mile to ensure his players play good basketball, but are also good students.
Absolutely agree
I think it shows how good of a coach he is. I can’t imagine Kentucky’s coach (who I won’t write because I will butcher his last name) doing the same thing to one of his players right before the conference tourney.
Kudos to Izzo for showing that winning isn’t always the most important thing.
Izzo quote
I got this from the story on The Free Press website. It just enforces my post above.
“Chris Allen is not going to be playing in the game Friday," Izzo said this morning. "Somebody’s got to grow up, and it’s taking a little longer for some to grow up. There’s some guys that don’t understand that your team is the most valuable thing you have. He’s not demonstrating that to me or my staff."
More worried about Roe
According to Izzo, the guy gives 110%. He hasn’t been able to live up to his potential because of injuries and that is difficult to watch.
It is tough
seems like a good kid who has had bad luck with the injuries.
by TheCrestedHelm on Mar 9, 2010 3:40 PM CST up reply actions
After the seasons ends:
My number one wish for next season is a monster Junior year for Roe. He deserves it, the program deserve it, the fans deserve it, and Izzo deserves it. It’s a win for everyone.
It would be great
but will depend on the nature of the surgery he needs and recovery time. And not getting hurt again next year, which at this point is a big if. The wrist injury could be a quick recovery thing to if all they need to do is a debridement (basically cleaning out some torn tissue with no major repair needed). I had that done in 2003 and was out of the soft cast within a few days and rehabbing. I don’t have any experience with meniscus tears so I don’t know what recovery time would be like for that.
by TheCrestedHelm on Mar 9, 2010 4:13 PM CST up reply actions
This explains everything, really
because if you really thought or Roe as healthy, then this season was shaping up as a massive disappointment. Within context, we just see the poor kid trying really really hard and getting no breaks. It’s really sad for him, I’m not sure we’ll ever get to see the 16 and 9 healthy Roe might’ve put up in college.
Weird interview
Izzo very upbeat. And couldn’t stop saying good things about Allen’s on-court performance.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Mar 9, 2010 1:25 PM CST up reply actions
timing
I wonder about the timing of this suspension. Did some academic red flag go up this morning, or did Izzo and the coaching staff wait until the Big ten title had been secured before suspending Allen for accumulated infractions. If the latter, it would confirm what we suspect, which is that Izzo does not really care about the Big Ten Tourney, which he views as mostly a set of teachable moments for the post season, rather than as a trophy to be pursued. There is nonetheless a real risk that this suspension has negative effects.
What is it about this group, that there has been so many of these kinds of events?
Not really about academics...
came up and he basically said it was ‘part’ of the reason. The main issue seems to stem from him not being a good teammate.. but didn’t explain what that specifically meant.
Sort of sounds like he did...
Not entirely academic related… not necessarily related to his on-court performance… sounds like a girl issue to me :-).
Yikes!!!
This means that Durrell Summers is going to have to play defense and lots of it. Hopefully his interest level in perimeter defense can be piqued prior to Friday’s game and that he can maintain a reasonalbe interest in it throughout the game.
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