Bingham seems like the obvious choice at 5. They could play small with Henry or Brown at the 4, but Izzo would never. Maybe McQuaid, if Izzo actually thinks heâs their best wing defender
I think Henry and Brown are both intriguing options as small ball fours. Wouldnât be surprised for that to become a thing. Not sure why Izzo wouldnât do that when he played Bridges there all freshman year.
Not sure that Bingham is physically ready especially to play the five.
Ward/Tillman gives you something at the five spot. Both guys can finish, post up, defend the rim, crash the offensive glass, etc.
The big reason they couldnât go smaller last year was because there wasnât really enough guard depth which will make Loyerâs development interesting.
Izzo only played Bridges at the 4 because he literally had no other options. And Bridges was muuuuuuch more of a big than Gabe Brown is. The biggest three players on that team were Ward, Bridges and Goins.
It just would not be very Izzo at all to play a skinny freshman guard at the 4 spot. Henry I could see a little bit more since he has some build, but I still couldnât see it happening very often.
You are confusing their conference results with their March Madness results.
Conference results with two bigs continue to be very good. March madnessâŠnot so much.
Yeah, not saying they shouldnât play Ward/Tillman at the 5⊠itâs just the four spot. You present two potential options there.
hmmm
Trying to hide Winston and Loyer on defense
Itâs going to be a disaster. Izzo is going to go crazy (not stale) when his boys are giving up offensive rebounds left and right. Izzo is going to be so in their heads (not stale) and it will compound their issues and hurt their performance. I will enjoy every minute of it (not stale).
Izzo has already fired up the excuse machine while throwing kids he recruited under the bus. Yea, itâs the state of Michiganâs fault that you recruited guards who are physically incapable of defending.
It will be a disaster.
Do you foresee Winston and Loyer on the court together? That would be interesting. Iâd think Henry or Brown being ready to contribute would help them a lot more.
For 30 minutes? Nah, but I can see it for a few minutes here and there. Run one of them off the ball and try to set them up as a shooter.
Winston, as far as NBA, in my opinion, is a 2 guard trapped in a point guards body. He is a fine college PG but doesnât have the requisite athleticism to play in NBA. But⊠I will watch with an open mind this season and reserve the right to change my opinion.
I think he and Loyer will play together and it will be fun watching them. Iâm a fan of their offense game.
Dane Fife said today that Miles Bridges and Jaren Jackson âwere late developers and not highly toutedâ. I had to listen twice to make sure he really said that. I donât think I agree with that
I am not familiar with the guys you are talking about. I vaguely remember a skinny kid from Flint and I think his name was Miles? Jaren Johnson? Was he that tallish guy who played basketball for MSU a little bit?
Skinny kid from Flint still gets me
People often forget that Magic Johnson really wasnât that good of passer in the NBA until after Tom Izzo took the assistant coaching job at Northern Michigan University.
Brendan wrote a full story on the MSU scrimmageâŠ
If you look closely at some of the defensive numbers they are scary bad.
Not gonna be a great defensive team when your best defender is Matt McQuaid