Request: The Floor Slapping Sequence
I was wondering if anyone had come across that in gif or video.
From Nix: "We did it a lot my freshman year, but we do it more this year than any year I've been here," Nix said. "We did it more this year because that's what we pride ourselves on. "Not saying that other (Spartans) teams didn't, but when it's time to sit down, that's what time it is. It's just a discipline thing. It's a feel that everybody else on the court does. Once it's time to slap the floor, they knew we're about to sit down."
I feel like Burke was mocking msu doing it. They looked like a bunch of idiots doing it all of a sudden.
The first time he slaps the floor and I can still feel it. He even gets back up and walks towards the Michigan PG like "GAME ON, BITCH!"
...also I saw the 3 Michigan players do it, but I didn't notice that one was Robinson. That's pretty big because he's the last person you'd expect to do this (Stauskas #1 by a long shot).
Anyway, I'd love to get a zoom on Burke's first slap and reaction.
The problem with all this is after that timeout, State promptly cut down our 8-point lead and tied the game. If you're going to slap the floor, you actually have to play the defense. The much better response is just scoring in their face after they do the floor slap.
to be involved with those kind of theatrics and I love it! I'm Baaaaack!
We sit down and play defense after we slap the floor?
Ugh...you stood RIGHT back up and watched Burke blow past you.
this cut is great, but it missed my favorite Michigan floor slap - right after the 5 sparty sequence slaps, Trey makes the layup and you can clearly see Jordan Morgan slap the floor from his "pick" position...
Boo. That misses my favorite part of the floor-slapping sequence: Burke getting a layup after all the Spartans slapped the floor, and then Morgan slapping the floor after it went in.
(Nothing against you. I know you just embedded the BTN highlights, so someone else editted that part out. So boo them.)
but Michigan "gets it". A bit more subtle but Trey still tells sparty to GTFOMC ala Darius Morris.
All 5 MSU players slapped the floor and Burke beats his man and gets a layup. Then MSU turns the ball over and leads to a GR3 dunk. So much for solid defense.
It's towards the end of this video, his subtler version of "get the fuck off my court":
Is the MSU floor slapping in there? I found the Burke one (at about 4:07), but I haven't found the MSU one yet.
depends if he is in the game does he make two or three, 3 pointers?
I think this game really exposed Nik as our main defensive weakness (along with the hedges of non-Morgan big men). Nik gets beat too often off the dribble and forces other guys to help, leading to a lot of our defensive breakdowns. State definitely didn't have as many open looks (especially in half court) as our opponents have had in the last month or so.
I think LeVert needs to get some more minutes, which will hopefully lead to his offense becoming a bit more refined and maybe it will give Stauskas some fresher legs as well.
You may be right, but I would venture to guess that Stauskas would have hit a few threes as well. He wouldn't have been guarding Harris or Appling, so any points he gave up in this game probably would have been eclipsed by his offense.
Lavert was solid, though. Especially for a true freshman who came in way under the radar.
Stauskas started the game defending Harris. There's no reason to think that wasn't a large part of the game plan.
I think Stauskas getting pegged as our big weakness defensively is not really fair. He leads us in +/- average and has been in the positive in every game except for @OSU and @MSU
In comparison Lavert in 20 games played has been in the negetive 5 times and zero 3 times
.....thinking about "what ifs." Be happy that we have solid depth. If you tell me before the game that Stauskus leaves with an injury after only 4 minutes of game time and that Morgan fouls out with 3 minutes remaining, I wonder how the hell we keep the game close, much less win.
That Hardaway to GRIII alley oop was awesome.
to know what Izzo said to Hardaway when it looked like Hardaway went over to listen to Izzo and Appling.
Michigan got in their heads a little, unfortunately it may have lit the fire for their comeback in the last 4 minutes.
I'm sure it was something like, "get away, i'm talking to Keith."
Harris came over to listen to what Beilein was saying to players leading up to free throws at least twice. I wonder if that was a reaction to our doing it, or if Izzo's a hypocrite in addition to being a grumpy troll.
On BTN's B1G and Beyond tonight they highlighted both floor slap moments.
I'll take the win, but let's also remember we almost choked this game away by allowing a 10 pt lead to be cut to 3 in 90 seconds. Burke saved the day on a great steal, that probably had a little to do with Appling not being secure and Burke/coaches noticing a tendency in film/play. The win feels great, but I'm still nervous about the tournament.
That's not something you see on film. Mainly Burke taking advantage of Appling's ineptness.
http://btn.com/2013/03/03/track-today-no-10-michigan-state-at-no-4-michigan/
First video below the pictures. Start at 1:10.
nice
"Once it's time to slap the floor, they knew we're about to sit down."
That's funny, my dog likes to spin in a circle twice before he sits down. I didn't realize he meant he was about to defend the shit out of me.
Sparty should not steal things from Duke. I've met Duke (recalling something like a Duke 24-0 opening on UM at Cameron a decade ago) and Sparty you are no Duke.
If anyone has enough free time to splice MSU's clapping to the Miley Cyrus Boom boom clap, boomdee claptee clap song. Then our clapping to Queen's "We Will Rock You." That would be great. Disclaimer: I have 3 girls and thus am in the know of the Miley Cyrus song.
we all just get along?
for those of us with blocked video streaming at our offices, is this in Gif format yet somewhere? Or do I just have to wait for Ace to make OFAAT? There should be a ton of great stuff for that this week.
"Channeling their inner Steve Wojchiehowski (sic), the FLOOR SLAP. . ." love it. . .
It reminds me of when Spartans hold up the 4 fingers for the 4th quarter during that winning streak we had over them, as if they actually would finish in the 4th.
Gives a piss poor floor slap which allows his man to alley oop on the next possession.
Sparty really needs to practice this drill this week. It's a glaring weak spot and will expose them come tourney time.