Brutal no call to a Hauser 3. Shades of their last game.
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Theyāre gonna go up. Duke right now doesnāt look like a good team but itās still a āroadā win vs Duke, and no voters will pay attention to this game
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Their post defense is god awful. We actually match up with them pretty well. They donāt have a PG that will make Smith/Brooks pay. They donāt have a C that is a high-usage scorer. All their best players matchup with our gluttony of wings.
Dickinson vs. any of their posts might be the biggest matchup in that game.
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I donāt know. I could see Rocket tearing us up. And Henry and Brown getting down hill. We match up well with Hauser as long as heās not playing the 5. But it is a funny reversal of what weād come to expect out of this game
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Yeah, from what I remember Davis got some pretty good looks against MSU in the post last year too
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If Smith is matched up against Watts I agree. If we put Brooks, Brown or Franz on him, and one of the other ones on Henry that would be our best bet. Then put Livers on Hauser and try to hid Smith on Loyer/Langford when theyāre in (theyāve hit a combined 3 2 pointers this season) and maybe match up those minutes.
If we defend like we did to start the game today and weāve seen in chunks of this season it wonāt matter, but if we can get closer to how we played the rest of today by February then we could have some success.
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Itās definitely a team that I think weād fair a lot better with Smith on the bench. At least defensively. Brooks/Brown/Wagner/Livers could match up well with them defensively. Smith can play when loyer is in.
I know Langford hasnāt been good but I canāt imagine he wouldnāt bully Smith
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Yeah Iām with you. I probably agree about Langford (although he hasnāt been able to bully Detroit or WMU), heās probably the best chance for Smith of MSUās starters. But that should be a Smith bench game.
Yes, but that was only because MSU didnāt game plan for him.
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Weāre not putting our best ball handler/passer/penetrator on the bench.
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Canāt help but marvel at MSUās ball movement. 26 AST on 29 FG. Year after year their assist rate is the elite of elite.
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Thereās the Hauser perimeter threat I expected. You truly canāt leave him
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IMO he makes them the deadliest team in the B1G. Weāve already seen that Wisconsin can be snookered on a given night. Cracking MSU will be far more difficult.
Heās more athletic than I gave him credit for.
Penn state easily handling Seton Hall so far. They look like a solid team
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Seton Hall also might not be very good but PSU seems better than expected.
Also if Iām Penn State and only up 11 in that gameā¦ Iād be a bit nervous.
Penn Stateās 8/15 on 3 pointers at the half stands out to me. Will be interesting to see if they can stay that hot in the 2nd half. Hope they use up all the heat before they hit Ann Arbor next week!
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Dylan, do you plan on sending out a Big 10 newsletter again this year? Itād be nice to hear some analysis of out of conference for the league, in addition to whatever is on the pod next week.
Not sure I have the bandwidth to get the whole newsletter going. Much more likely that Iāll do some Big Ten-focused posts here.
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