[HKF]

Pittsburgh is running a clinic. Their defense is outstanding.

[HKF]

Purdue blowing this game wide open.

[Geaux Tigers]

Originally Posted by bball2223

He is awfully damn quick, and is probably the best Baylor guard (although their 5 best guard are all pretty good). How did he do against you guys in high school?

Oh he torched us. We played his team 5 times I think. I was the best perimeter defender on my team and he just did whatever he wanted pretty much. He would shoot well behind the three point line and if you got up to guard him he would just blow by you. He played SG a lot and their PG was even quicker than him. There was pretty much nothing you could do.

[bball2223]

Originally Posted by MLKG

The only year I thought they really underachieved was the Paul Davis, Maurice Ager, Shannon Brown year where they lost to George Mason. But those three guys all suck in the NBA, so maybe they weren't underachieving as much as people thought.

Last year they were massive overachievers, they had a team that had no buisness being in the tournament that beat Marquette in the first round and took UNC to the wire.

Their expectations this year were based around the fact that they added a strong freshman crop to a team that didn't lose anybody, but Neitzel's shooting has come back to earth this year and after him, all the upper classman are hustle players. For a team whose most consistant players are a freshman point guard and sophmore forward, I think they are about right were they should be. They were a couple bad calls away from winning the Big 10 tournament. If Neitzel has a good shooting game, they can beat anybody, but he's a small point guard playing the 2 - he has to work like crazy just to get small windows to shoot through.

Every 4 year player Izzo has coached has played in a Final Four, hard to call that underachieving.



Purdue and Baylor is the game to watch right now. This game could easily end up with 160-170 combined points.

Yeah I agree about what you said about MSU. If their freshman stay together for four years coupled with Draymond Green, Korie Lucious, and possibly '09 7 footer DaShonte Riley they have one really damn bright future. This year's team goes as far as Neitzel will take them. He should be playing the Point spot but they really don't have anyone who can shoot as well as he can. They have a bunch of potential in that frehman class though. Kalin Lucas has a chance to be the best PG Izzo has ever coached, Durrell Summers and Chris Allen are both uber-athletic and are going to be great fits in MSU's style. MSU will be good until Izzo decides to leave. He is a very good coach and has quite the talent pool in Michigan.

[Ghost]

So Far so good for my bracket, go Pitt

[MLKG]

So which place is emptier? This game thread or the Honda Center in Anaheim for the Marquette-Kentucky game?

[bball2223]

Originally Posted by HKF

Pittsburgh is running a clinic. Their defense is outstanding.

Yeah they really smother teams on defense. I know I wouldn't want to play them if I were Memphis or Texas.

[TM]

I can't believe all the empty seats. Those first games epecially were sparse.

[HKF]

Dominique James really sucks. Jeez. Yet people keep talking about this guy, not sure why.

[bball2223]

Originally Posted by MLKG

So which place is emptier? This game thread or the Honda Center in Anaheim for the Marquette-Kentucky game?

The UK/Marquette game isn't even coming on here in Michigan at least where I'm located. That was one I was very interested in watching.