@ Iowa

[LuciousGameWinner]

Its as if he floats to his left

Kind of looks like Nowitzki

 

[Sbee]

Payne coming back next week. Should really help our half court offense to have a big man to throw it to in the post.

Big time, we were always inside out, not perimeter oriented.

Hopefully ap can give a few minutes vs psu and then be ready for Wisconsin

 

[Sbee]

Kind of looks like Nowitzki

Without the high percentage

 

[Spartan23MSU]

Costello has been impressive!

 

[gotime909]

I'm hoping that the Injuries to Payne and Dawson are gonna pay off down the stretch. A lot of guys are getting valuable minutes that wouldn't be playing if those 2 were in the lineup. Much like the Cleaves stress fracture on his foot did in the 99-00 season.

 

[johnny2x2x]

I'm hoping that the Injuries to Payne and Dawson are gonna pay off down the stretch. A lot of guys are getting valuable minutes that wouldn't be playing if those 2 were in the lineup. Much like the Cleaves stress fracture on his foot did in the 99-00 season.

I think it will, guys are growing up fast. Might take a few games to get it going when our bug guys come back, but in the tourney I think we'll be awful tough and have a little margin for error against all but a few teams.

 

[LuciousGameWinner]

We played 9 guys 12+ minutes today. That's incredible.

 

[MSUMatt28]

Damn, that was satisfying. Byrd going Bograkos/Senior year Austin Thornton on them. Classic Izzo win.

 

[Sbee]

The minutes will pay off, I just want a big ten title as well. This win was a big step, 5-0 on the road in big ten play.

 

[Spartanmack]

Didn't get to watch as I was at a charity event for 3 veterans organizations last night - well worth missing a game. Will watch it tonight on the DVR but sounds like I missed an ugly one. And boy did I miss that over - 9 points shy with an extra 5 minutes of play. 15 minutes without a FG by the home team, poor shooting from 3 and the stripe from both squads will do that I guess.

 

[Sbee]

Didn't get to watch as I was at a charity event for 3 veterans organizations last night - well worth missing a game. Will watch it tonight on the DVR but sounds like I missed an ugly one. And boy did I miss that over - 9 points shy with an extra 5 minutes of play. 15 minutes without a FG by the home team, poor shooting from 3 and the stripe from both squads will do that I guess.

I'd expect our 3% to be down for the most part without a post presence, the location of defenders on the floor changes a lot

 

[MSUMatt28]

Their whole game plan was to not let Harris beat them. Any time he got the ball one guy was in his face and 2 others were lurking. Same deal any time he came off a screen. That doesn't happen with someone down low to throw it to.

 

[Sbee]

Their whole game plan was to not let Harris beat them. Any time he got the ball one guy was in his face and 2 others were lurking. Same deal any time he came off a screen. That doesn't happen with someone down low to throw it to.

Izzo said the same thing

They took Gary away, they did a heck of a job, and Gary struggled a little bit, but he's still my guy," Izzo said. "A lot of it was their defense, and I don't think he ever realized that they were going to almost box-and-one him to take him away that way. Maybe we didn't do as good a job of getting him open and maybe he didn't do as good a job of getting open. We'll work on that. It's nice when you can learn lessons with wins.

 

[Spartanmack]

I'd expect our 3% to be down for the most part without a post presence, the location of defenders on the floor changes a lot

agreed but Iowa shot an uncharacteristically low 3% and FG% as well. What scared me most was our FTs - 55% and haven't shot over 70% as a team since the Minnesota game. That's not good.

 

[Sbee]

agreed but Iowa shot an uncharacteristically low 3% and FG% as well. What scared me most was our FTs - 55% and haven't shot over 70% as a team since the Minnesota game. That's not good.

a lot of it has to do with who's shooting, having Schilling in there is a killer, though Dawson doesn't help in that category. AP is a big help because he's a big guy who can get to the line and knock down FT's, like Nix or Paul Davis, that's huge for a team.

3-4 from costello was big because they were all crucial, he was 58% entering the game with limited attempts

 

[Spartanmack]

a lot of it has to do with who's shooting, having Schilling in there is a killer, though Dawson doesn't help in that category. AP is a big help because he's a big guy who can get to the line and knock down FT's, like Nix or Paul Davis, that's huge for a team.

3-4 from costello was big because they were all crucial, he was 58% entering the game with limited attempts

yeah, costello was 5-6 and huge for the game but our guards were a combined 5-11, ex-Harris they were 2-7. Unacceptable, even w/ Ellis accounting for 2 of the misses. and it's not new, Harris was 5-9 and Appling was 4-6 against michigan, Appling and Dawson were awful in the IU game - the list goes on. Even with Payne back, Costello is going to get minutes so until he's consistently shooting at least high 60s (ideally, over 70%) and our guards aren't giving away points I consider the foul line a weakness for this team. We're almost always going to shoot fewer FTs than our opponents (often a lot fewer), we can't afford to be this bad...