Guys, I don't think everyone looked at this game based on basketball, but seemingly, more on the seeding. When it came out I said on here that this game was a tough draw for us both, and I thought it would be THE game that decided if we went to the Final Four. Why would you say that about a 7 seed? Because, I don't know that I have ever thought a teams seed was worse than what MSU got this year. Problem is, it obviously works 2 ways. We played a team with several 5 star recruits, a senior guard that is playing his ass off, is always physical, has a great, great coach and plays the season in preperation for the NCAA tourney. Guys look it up, 7 of the last 8 years they have played the second weekend, 7 of 8. Izzo is now 20-4 in the second game of the weekend, which tells me they come in and do what they have been doing and just do it really well. Not a lot of adjustments, just hard nosed, though, physical and smart. Add some offensive skill and the mammoth set of balls Tristan Trice has and you have a perfect recipe for March Success. Even more, I thought barring a missed call last Sunday they would have
beaten Wiscy and come into the tourney with one March loss, g (and a better seed) that also being to Wisconsin at Wisconsin. Get past the seeding and you know we lost to a dam good team today. They got several points off of, not questionable, but wrong calls and outscored us by 5 from behind the arc(not counting the late meaningless 3) and that was the difference. I felt we had to not just play well, but great to win today and that would have included shooting at least 40%, and we obviously didn't. IMO, there was no choke, we have had lots of games where we didn't shoot very well, especially since Justin got hurt. Otherwise, we played fine. Combine a team that struggles to shoot vs an excellent defense, and you shoot 30%, it's how it works, it's not choking. Give them credit, because I hope one day we have guys just like TT who says "I got this"and that he will be surrounded by enough offensive skill to score against good D, because that requires skill more than scheme.
Until then, we will not be an elite tourney team, just face it.
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beaten Wiscy and come into the tourney with one March loss, g (and a better seed) that also being to Wisconsin at Wisconsin. Get past the seeding and you know we lost to a dam good team today. They got several points off of, not questionable, but wrong calls and outscored us by 5 from behind the arc(not counting the late meaningless 3) and that was the difference. I felt we had to not just play well, but great to win today and that would have included shooting at least 40%, and we obviously didn't. IMO, there was no choke, we have had lots of games where we didn't shoot very well, especially since Justin got hurt. Otherwise, we played fine. Combine a team that struggles to shoot vs an excellent defense, and you shoot 30%, it's how it works, it's not choking. Give them credit, because I hope one day we have guys just like TT who says "I got this"and that he will be surrounded by enough offensive skill to score against good D, because that requires skill more than scheme.
Until then, we will not be an elite tourney team, just face it.
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