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Hoops vs MSU

thewolverines24

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Michigan heads on the road tonight (9:00 p.m., Peacock) to face Michigan State at the Breslin Center. The Wolverines and Spartans have split their rivalry matchups home and away throughout Juwan Howard’s tenure in Ann Arbor, and Michigan hasn’t won in East Lansing since March 3rd, 2018, when Moritz Wagner scored 27 points.

Both programs feel a long way from where they were back then, consistently ranked in the top ten nationally and competing for league titles and Final Fours. Instead, Michigan’s program is in disarray and headed for its worst season in over a decade. Michigan State’s program is healthier, but “the best eight-loss team in college basketball” is far from the preseason top five where the year began.

KEYS

Nkamhoua/Hall matchup: Any path to Michigan being competitive in this game hinges on Nkamhoua winning this head-to-head battle outright. Both teams will try to play through their four-man, and I’d expect them to be content to let their four-man defend their opposition one-on-one. For his part, Nkamhoua has been an excellent addition to Michigan — the idea of this team without him is almost unimaginable — while also struggling in a few notable head-to-head matchups.

McDaniel-less offense: Michigan has been held under a point per possession four times this year. Two games were at Atlantis, and two were road games played without Dug McDaniel: .88 PPP at Maryland and .96 PPP at Purdue. Given the lack of perimeter shot creation on the active road roster, it’s tough to see any path to scoring above that mark. It would be a great investment if you could parlay Michigan scoring under a point per possession over the next four road games.

Play any form of defense: Over the last three games, Michigan has allowed 275 points in 209 possessions — that’s 1.31 points per trip. Before this year, Michigan hadn’t allowed 1.31 PPP in a game since January 2018 at Purdue. To allow that sort of offensive production in aggregate over a three-game span is a damning indictment that the wheels have come off completely. Transition defense, ball screen defense, off-ball defense, closing out on shooters, defensive rebounding- the list of necessary defensive improvements is very long.

BOTTOM LINE

Pour a stiff drink, expect the worst, hope for the best. KenPom sets the number at Michigan State 78, Michigan 67.

Go Blue!
 
Up 2 at half.

Already trail by 10 at the 15 minute mark..

William cut that lead to 7

Team just isn’t playing any defense or getting back

Back to 10
 
Msu pulling away up 15. Michigan defensively just can’t get enough stops.to much dribbling on offense.
 
Pretty sure Martelli asked everyone if they wanted to play defense this year. When they said no, he said "that's good because you don't have to do that anymore". Defense has been atrocious since game 1. Some unbelievably god awful habits went unchecked during the offseason and mid-season is far too late to turn that train around.
 
Yes they are very bad defensively sadly for the last few year. This year it is really bad.
They just can’t play a full game.
 
Just another bad second half. Oh well maybe next game . Out scored by 21 in the second half.

Win number 700 for Tom. Congrats to him . Also on his birthday.
 
The only outcome more predictable than this game was The Flood vs. Humanity (Minus the Inhabited Ark).
 
The only outcome more predictable than this game was The Flood vs. Humanity (Minus the Inhabited Ark).

That movie with Russel Crowe as Noah had awesome special effects. The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner also had awesome special effects, all those years ago.

I guess the Bible makes for awesome special effects movies - especially the Jewish Bible, with stories about massive, amounts of unnaturally moving water.

In the Christian Bible, sure, there’s a cool story about water changing into wine - but the water doesn’t crush masses of humanity, just gets everybody (who were still Jewish) drunk.

Maybe there were a few fights in the parking lot because everyone was drunk, but I don’t remember that from the Bible.

There were very few humans on the inhabited Ark.
 
Apparently the Red Sea in the Ten Commandments was actually a giant pool of jello-like liquid that was suspended and allowed to collapse on itself and then the film was played in reverse.

Imagine being Noah and God tells you "build this" and "gather all the animals and things that crawl in multiples of 2x2 or 7x7" and you say "no problem." That's trust.
 
Apparently the Red Sea in the Ten Commandments was actually a giant pool of jello-like liquid that was suspended and allowed to collapse on itself and then the film was played in reverse.

Imagine being Noah and God tells you "build this" and "gather all the animals and things that crawl in multiples of 2x2 or 7x7" and you say "no problem." That's trust.

I know, right?

That was the theme of the movie.

It was a good movie.
 
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