OMG Shirtless

March 3rd, 2013 at 8:37 PM ^

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.

Mr. Yost

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^

I don't think there's anyone on this board that's not equally as pissed about PSU as they are happy about MSU. It's call being a fan and the harsh reality of sports.

Mr. Yost

March 3rd, 2013 at 9:47 PM ^

That analogy/scenario makes no sense.

Who would take a road win over the worst team in the conference over a victory at home vs. a hated rival and top 10 team in the country?

So that wasn't the alternative as you put it, of course you'll take what happened, we all would.

I'd take that win over any of our losses for that matter, including the loss @ IU. Beating a rival and a top 10 team just means so much more IMO.

Mr. Yost

March 4th, 2013 at 9:23 AM ^

That analogy/scenario makes no sense.

Who would take a road win over the worst team in the conference over a victory at home vs. a hated rival and top 10 team in the country?

So that wasn't the alternative as you put it, of course you'll take what happened, we all would.

I'd take that win over any of our losses for that matter, including the loss @ IU. Beating a rival and a top 10 team just means so much more IMO.

You're still a moron and it still doesn't make sense. No one in their right mind would take a PSU win over MSU.

jcouz

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^

That was ugly as hell but a much needed win.  I never thought I would see Michigan win a game, let alone against a top 10 team, without making a single 3-point shot.  The best thing that I saw was fight and defensive intensity.  Michigan played defense with intensity for 40 minutes.  Sparty played awful on offense but so did we.  Our defensive intensity kept us in and allowed us to pull it out.  Now, we just need to put some offense and defense together to get it going in the right direction next week.  Go Blue!!!!

Mr. Yost

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^

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.

Mr. Yost

March 4th, 2013 at 9:13 AM ^

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.

wlubd

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^

Wins game  despite being O-fer from 3 pt range. Most pts in paint MSU has allowed all year. No part of that makes sense but WOOOOO

B-Nut-GoBlue

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:38 PM ^

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.

B-Nut-GoBlue

March 4th, 2013 at 2:39 AM ^

Thanks.  I know this is redundant and probably unbelieveable (considering that gem above) but I'm a bit of a grammar/spelling nazi myself.   Earlier when I typed that post I was going to go back and figure out how to actually spell that (in the heat of the moment I drew a blank on how to spell the damn word, it happens*), and edit the post.  I forgot.

*For example I tried to spell Cincinnati a few months back and literally had no idea how it was actually spelled, ya know, all those n's, c's, and t's.

Rather be on BA

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:34 PM ^

Yeah, maybe I am just being a party pooper, but my joy over winning is being seriously tempered by letting them get back in the game at the end.  I think it was a mix of taking our foot of the accelerator, the refs, and making some bad decisions.  I am happy we won obviously, but I am having a hard time getting over being pissed the f*** off that we let them back into the game at the end.  I wish we could just really step on a good teams throat when given the chance instead of squeeking by like this.

inthebluelot

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:44 PM ^

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.

Naked Bootlegger

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:37 PM ^

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.

 

Mr. Yost

March 3rd, 2013 at 6:57 PM ^

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?