OT: The Official "Tom Izzo's Team Is Garbage" Posbang Thread

Submitted by O.J. The Bouvier on
Almost lost to Boise State and LaLa Lafayette at home; will finally take a well-deserved dive at (YT) Miami. They're so much more terrible than we are. Finally. Bang em if you got em.
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StephenRKass

November 29th, 2012 at 9:26 AM ^

The mental images of wide wife, friend to fried chicken (pets the chicken, "it won't hurt while I chop your head off . . . you're going to chicken heaven, sweetheart. Luv you, bye!" Thwack,) just internally amuse me greatly, somehow.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

November 28th, 2012 at 9:25 PM ^

Miami.  Wow.  I think Ohio is also not as good as "advertised".  Indiana and Michigan may very well be the cream of the crop.  I did want the Big Ten to take home another "ACC/BigTen Challenge" title.

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funkywolve

November 29th, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^

Ohio St

 

Albany (5-2) W

Rhode Island (1-6) W

Washington (3-3) W

Mo-Kansas City (2-3) W

Duke (7-0) L

 

Michigan

Slippery Rock W

IUPUI (3-4) W

Cleveland St (5-2) W

Pitt (6-1) W

Kansas St (5-1) W

NC State (4-2) W

 

I haven't seen much of Ohio other than the second half last night but you really think their resume is better than UM's at this point?

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Paps

November 28th, 2012 at 9:26 PM ^

This also means that the B1G-ACC challenge is really close with Big Ten up 5-4. We need to win two of GT-Illinois, PSU-BC, and Duke-Ohio.

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NOLA Wolverine

November 28th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^

Wait for the matchups against Minnesota and Illinois (I suppose IU as well, but you can be a good team and lose to IU) at the end of January/start of Februrary. If Izzo can't pull them together by then (which seems to be his MO), then they'll be left behind in the dust for a while in this conference. 

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BlueTimesTwo

November 29th, 2012 at 1:43 AM ^

While I am more than happy to see Sparty choke, Boise State might be better than people think.  They just beat #11 Creighton 83-70, with Derrick Marks scoring 35 in the process.  Then again, had Marks not fouled out against MSU they might have beaten them too.

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rob6reid

November 28th, 2012 at 9:29 PM ^

Barry Larkin's son (who played baseball at Michigan) is Miam's starting PG and himself a good game too. There's always a Michigan connection somewhere.

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Mhpangr

November 28th, 2012 at 9:29 PM ^

Man... usually I don't do this, but I have been waiting 12 years for this moment and I will enjoy it!

FROM RCMB:

"The chicken littles are out in force tonight. Look, I wish we looked better right now too. I wish we could go undefeated every hoops season and win a National Championship every single season. Not gonna happen, sorry.

It's effing November, and this team just played four games in 8 days, with a whole lot of minutes minus Trice and Harris. Our season is not over at 5-2, not even close. You'd think at this point Izzo would have earned enough trust with the fanbase to play Gauna at point and not be questioned. The team will be FINE. Little bit of rest and some more practice time, and they will be just fine. So quit bitching about a poor showing on the road in November against a tournament-worthy team.

Izzo will destroy this game tape with a sledgehammer, and the team will go on a tear when it counts."

This is so good!

Also just for good measure...

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