Yup, feels like that die's been cast. MSU always finishes strong. The idea that we'd finally finish ahead of them or Wisconsin in the standings seems laughable now in retrospect.
We were 3 games ahead of them on February 18th...
Izzo at Breslin > Bo Ryan at Kohl in terms of ref help
We could recruit Davison as a grad transfer . . .
So can Illinois. One of those two will be there, maybe both.
It's a team that knows what it's doing out there both offensively and defensively. Really fun to watch obviously. Hard to know how well it translates to the Big Ten, where every game is a rugby scrum to an extent. Sort of like the neutral zone trap neutralizing a free flowing offense. But the bigger picture is that the guy knows how to teach players how to do something well and consistently.
Well, is there a team in the Big Ten currently that plays roughly equivalent to that style?
I was thinking about that. Classically, basketball is basketball, and movement and screening are always present in the game and always will be. The coach who best exemplified it was Bob Knight, and he talked incessantly about it. In the present day, in my opinion, no offense is better at featuring movement than the swing offense at UW. It's baked into it, and the way they do it gets them mismatches (and is good at beating zone defenses; yes that's possible!). Some of the inside/outside motion I saw last night reminded me of the swing offense.
I've asked this a couple times in various places and never got a satisfactory answer.
I'll describe what I see: high ball screen after high ball screen, with the screener frequently open, but the ball handler almost never passes it to them. Lather, rinse, repeat. Eventually they get desperate enough that they force something to happen; sometimes it's a shot.
Thanks.
I don't doubt he gets recruits interested that way. "Look at what Marcus Carr is doing; that could be you."
Richard can lend him some burn cream.
Dominating them. Looks like Nebraska is going to get two in a row.
Momentum going into next year
