I think you’re confusing a not very talented basketball team for a soft basketball team.
This exact same team was tough as nails on defense last year. I’m not confusing a 17ing thing.
Let me guess: Some good talent back, some good additions from a decent year last season. Early season success raises expectations and then a late season lull leaves us wondering if we'll make post season. We inch in and then "oh well wait till next year". That scenario applies to most all MSU sports. Did I miss anything?
Michigan St. has the same talent as Auburn. Notice that 4 of the 5 players on the court could shoot 3's reliably. Again, we have only one player who could shoot a 3 reliably and guess who they chose to shut down or at least slow down. As soon as they did that...........it was Ballgame. Jans is the right man to lead our program. He will absolutely have to find enough 3pt marksmen so that we can at least have 3 on the court at all times. Only way to compete in today's game.
And if we take a step back and look at the last few weeks as a whole, we lost 6 of 8 games and it took a 2nd half blitz to take one of those games from LSU. It hasn't been a particularly good month of basketball, and the UT win was the outlier
We were 3rd in the SEC both last season and this season in Team Defense Efficiency. We did dip from 8th nationally to 52nd nationally, but that’s to be expected when you have a year of offseason film review from a first year coach. Throw on top of that our most athletic post player missing nearly half the season, and that explains a lot. We were still a damn good defensive team this year, particularly after Tolu got back to full speed. Defense was not the problem at all with this team….it was again a strength.
That’s the million dollar question with this staff. We’ve got some meh recruiters at a school that is in the bottom third in NIL in conference. Not a good combo
It makes them feel good about themselves to find a player and bash them relentlessly. We are talking about a team sport aren't we? For some reason they feel it comes down to one player every time.
Rumor is they have offered Hubbard a blank check**
Define significant…
I've seen people talk about him coming back or at least having another year. I think Tolu participated last year on Senior Day. If he can and does come back, his role needs to be strictly defined. I wasn't a fan of how much he was handling the ball up top.
Getting 2-3 guys who are near the top at their position in the portal, I would consider that significant. I have seen a few big men that we are after (Amari Williams for example) that would be great additions.
Wow… that would be bigger gets that I’d expect. Personally if we land 1 guy who’s at the top of his position I’d be thrilled.
Sam Alexis is another coming from Chattanooga. If we could get either of those two I would be thrilled. Alexis has two years of eligibility so probably preferable to Williams. I think we will be able to get a good guard who wants to play with Hubbard. No idea who we are targeting there, but Warren is a good signee out of high school who will probably contribute next year.
And this is what I disagree with.
Vroom Maroon.
Seems like the difference in Southern, Kentucky and South Carolina home games. Probably a damn 5 seed without those chokes.
Good luck selling any portal player on coming here if we refuse to pony up and pay the best freshman we've ever had. You know there are players in the portal who aren't primary scorers but really help a team right? It's not like the portal is exclusively ball dominant shooting guards.
Yes I do. That’s what I said if we get 1 impact guy and 2 role guys I’d be thrilled.
3rd worst. We lost by 20 as a 5 seed to Eastern Michigan in 91. I don't want to see another green Michigan team in the NCAAT.
