Stauskas B1G Player of Week; Walton B1G Freshman of Week
Congratulations on the well-deserved awards to Nik Stauskas and Derrick Walton Jr.
LINK.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
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January 27th, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
God Bless Nik Stauskas
January 27th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
January 27th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
The king in the north! The king in the north!
January 27th, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
Isildur? Sorry, finally watched Hobbit 2, and my Tolkein dorkiness was unleashed explaining things to my wife.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:51 AM ^
That's pretty close, but it's actually from Game of Thrones.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:32 AM ^
I was going to post the same but I'm happy to see that no fewer than three people are already on top of it.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:19 AM ^
"God bless him." T. Izzo
Amen, ChampsWest. Amen. And Walton's performance last week was a coming of age moment that we all hoped for, but could not necessarily expect. What a week for Michigan basketball!
January 27th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
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January 27th, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Walton has really improved. He would not have hit all of those free thows at the end of the gam earlier in the year. He seems much more comprtable running the offense also.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
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January 27th, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
It's incredible how State is the only team that has had any injuries. We're very fortunate to be amongst the other 350 Division I teams who have not sustained a single injury this year.
How State can survive against such tremendously adversity is just beyond me
January 27th, 2014 at 11:19 AM ^
January 27th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
MGoBlue had their own writeup as well (LINK). To review Stauskas' week:
Opening the week, Stauskas tied a career-high 26 points as U-M defeated No. 10 Iowa (Jan. 22) and held the Hawkeyes to a season-low 67 points. He added five rebounds, five assists, a block and a steal, while going 8-for-14 from the field (57.1 percent) and 4-for-9 (44.4 percent) from long range. Closing the week at No. 3 Michigan State, Stauskas showed no signs of letting up as he ended with 19 points as he went 7-for-12 (58.3 percent) from the field followed with a 5-for-6 performance from behind the arc.
Walton was limited in the Iowa game due to illness, of course, but came up huge against Michigan State, going 4-8 from the field including 2-2 from three-point land and, most importantly in this game perhaps, 9-10 from the stripe. Phenomenal stuff.
In these two players, if I did the math correctly, you would be looking at the two highest percentage shooters over the last five games that have play over 100 minutes. They have been ever-present and contributing big in conference play.
January 27th, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
January 27th, 2014 at 11:27 AM ^
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January 27th, 2014 at 11:36 AM ^
We all know about the shooting/scoring but remarkably he leads the conference in assist/turnover margin. Since conference play started Nik is averaging 4.7 assists to 1.4 turnovers.
http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2013-2014/confonly.html
January 27th, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
It's like a Sub-a-palooza.
Tom Izzo will be having a press conference to bestow his blessings on Nik, then will continue to lament injuries and refereeing.
January 27th, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
Great job guys, stepping up when we needed that effort most.
January 27th, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
Can't underestimate the difficulty of going into Breslin in a good game, with the defensive Zenmaster planning for you and throwing some new wrinkles your way, and coldly draining big three after big three.
January 27th, 2014 at 2:04 PM ^
Has Stauskas up to number 16 in this year's first round. Madness! I don't think he has the explosive leaping ability or or strength or lateral quickness to go in the lottery but I could see him going top 20.
January 27th, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
January 27th, 2014 at 3:31 PM ^
CBS named Nik National Player of the Week as well. Apparantly Gary "kicked in the face by a mule" Harris's grabbing and pulling on jersey's didn't impress people.