Morgan goes out with a sprained ankle, Mark Few takes advantage of the new rule that, when a player can't shoot his free throws, the opposing coach gets to choose any one of the remaining four players on the court to shoot. This is going to lead to an incredible amount of bad blood, isn't it? I see two possible situations:
(1) Coach tells his team, "Foul X, but if you can't get him, just foul anyone and make sure you hit him hard enough to knock him out of the game and we'll just make X shoot it anyway."
(2) The potential to play mind games with a player is just off the charts. Imagine you can choose the shooter, and the other team has a precocious freshman shooter. Maybe he's actually really good at the line, but in crunch time of a close game, the opposing coach looks right past a couple mediocre shooters and chooses the freshman with nothing more than a dismissive, "That guy ... he's gonna miss 'em." If that kid misses ... doesn't the other team just own him for the rest of this career? How great would that be?
Anyway, Michigan State has cut it to three, and I have no doubt they'll win this game, probably fairly easily, but I hope it stays close for awhile.
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i just gotta say, and i know i'm biased, that i REALLY don't understand officiating. how is it that one time a player will drive hard to the hoop in the midst of 4 opposing players and not get a foul, yet another time a guy will drive, get brushed by one guy, and the refs blow a whistle like they just saw someone try to put it in their daughter's ass?
ReplyDeletealso, i know i've discussed the "jumping into a guy and shooting when he's falling into you in order to draw a crappy foul" ploy with aaron, and i think both of us hate it, yet realize it's part of the game. however, if it's gonna be part of the game, IT GODDAMN WELL BETTER GET CALLED WHEN KALIN LUCAS DOES IT WITH 2 SECONDS LEFT FROM BEHIND THE ARC! FUCK!
you know, if he played for Duke...
ReplyDeletere: freshman centers:
ReplyDeletei like the idea of having derrick nix (6'8" 280, bad man boobs) just eating people alive in a few years. however, he needs to step his fucking game up. with the big ten as good as it is this year, there's gonna be one steep damn learning curve, and no coddling for our two freshman centers.