Michigan v. MSU Postgame Thread (discussion)

You're misinterpreting my comment.  At the time of posting that picture, there were about 7 post game threads.  The "I don't care" portion was in regards to the fact that I posted it in every single thread regardless of the redundancy of the gif.

There's your problem right there.  Stiches are an ineffecient way to heal wounds.  The team doctor's should've known to just rub some dirt on it, he'd be back out there in minutes.

~Herm

He was not on the bench for the second half

Ugh...makes that loss hurt that much more. We were controlling our own destiny. Now we need Ohio to help us...AGAIN (first time was them beating State at home).

There was a four-way tie in 2002 (Wisconsin, Indiana, OSU, Illinois) although OSU had to later vacate the season.

Didn't know that. That said, this could be a good thing. To beat a team like this when we don't play well, I take that as a glass half full type thing. I thought we executed an offense (in stretches) better today than we have in a loooong time. Just multiple guys touching the ball, back cuts, etc. We did a much better job of running motion rather than relying 100% on Burke creating.

Same here.  I liked him taking the shot but when he somehow missed it I had some bad premonitions.  Possible 12 point lead then got widdled down to 3 and then tied eventually.

Consider this, with about 3 min to go, we lost our best interior defender and our most senior starter. This is after we lose our best shooter early in the game. At that point, having missed 11 consecutive 3 pointers, we became incredibly one dimensional and predictable on offense. Izzo is a lot if things, but a bad "in-game" coach is not one of them. He exposed our weakness and they game back on us. Tremendous effort and hustle on defense secured this victory and you can't say that about the last month of basketball. We also benefitted from that human blimp Nix choking at the line to tie it up. Perhaps the Cheetos dust on his fingers was the reason, I'll let you decide.

Actually,. "Rather be on BA," you ARE being a party pooper.  Please report to the restroom on the concourse...

Yup.  We shot ourselves silly in the last few minutes.  The lane violation on the free throw amidst a five-point MSU play would've loomed huge if we lost.   Some sloppy ball handling.   Missed FT's.   Defensive rebounding.  

Energetic defense made up for the other sloppy mistakes, though.  That's the kind of defensive intensity I'd like to see carry through for the rest of the season.

Who cares. Let's beat the Hoosiers and win this conference.

They come in our building...slapping our floor...and lost.

Why do I need to be gracious towards them?

I'm not saying we need to be all "fuck Sparty" and sore winners...but why can't we talk about OUR team and not give a shit about how hard the other team played?