I wonder if the ankle was an issue?
Im hoping the 1989 team can give these guys some advice.
āUnfortunately, if you finish 3rd in the BIG, your season is pretty much over.ā
That 89 team surely had experience with messing all over themselves. Chaminade was a true low point, and the loss to Illinois was actually a pretty good match for today. Although that Illinois team versus this mediocre MSU team lol
We got punked by a team that isnāt that great and that was disappointing.
The 89 team actually lost to Alaska Anchorage.
I think our dudes know they are legit. But our bench players have no confidence, sans Livers.
I still believe. Things sometimes work out in unusual ways.
I knew I was messing that up.
I thought before the game that we would win if we simply won the turnover battle
We may have. Somehow MSU committed just 6 turnovers (to our 9). That I would not have predicted.
Castleton has so much more confidence than these other church mouses. Johns coming in so not ready to play has been one of the biggest disappointments for me this year. Today, he couldnāt even catch the damn ball.
Im interested to see how Beilein counters next game. Im hoping he does not become stubborn like Harbaugh.
Good one!
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Not a chance. Heās one of the truly great coaches around. Heāll learn from this. I was surprised how poor our 2nd half adjustments were - I thought if we got in at half near even weād win this game - but part of that was that we just looked slow on defense all game long. A bit hard to coach around that.
That team had 6 future Pro players on it. Got hot at right time and rode epic scoring performance of arguably Mās greatest player.
Talent won out.
Brazdeikis and Poole were simply awful defensively in the first half. Brazdeiksi really improved in the 2nd, Poole not so much. The game plan against the ball screen was also bad.
This sums it up for the offense today. Who on this team can consistently 1-1 beat you off the bounce?
Answer has to be Poole and Iggy IMO but it hasnāt been since non-conference play
Answer is to feed the damn ball to Teske when he gets a smaller player switched onto him.
We were having success early in the second half attacking the basket. And then everything just ground to a halt.
I agree, but I also feel the guards dont trust Teske posting up traditionally, even if its against somebody that he has a size advantage on. Its like one of those Know Your Personnel things. Notice that Teske has hardly ever had a traditional drop step or over the shoulder play to the basket. Its like the guards think or know from practices that he will mess it up like Ricky Doyle.
Redemption day for Winston unfortunately.
Thereās a reason he was our number one recruit for 2.5 years.