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  1. Jim French Stepstool
    The defense was lacking early & then picked up, which happens quite a bit before adjustments. But Bynum & Royal hurt them bad. Combined 10-14 from the floor, & 4-6 from three (they both shoot under 30% from deep for the season). It's those two, plus the TO bug returned. It looked like Blackwell was shrugging off a mediocre start, but then committed his 2nd foul on a call off the ball, effectively making OSU's job much easier for the last 6 minutes of the half. Boyd is being defended well, but either way Blackwell just can't afford to be taking himself out of the game like he has been recently. Be smarter. Missing from three (1-8), but not enough attempts to really point to that as the main culprit. Just get more stops, try to get out & run, and it would be nice if Bynum & Royal came back to earth.
  2. Jim French Stepstool
    It feels to me like they're hoping for some combo of a healthy Mitchell/Perkins/maybe Lockridge to man CF. I know that doesn't excite folks, and I don't blame them. But I agree with @Michael Trzinski, I'd rather see Chourio anchored in LF. And I feel the same way re Frelick in RF.
  3. Jim French Stepstool
    Fair enough. I'll maintain I've seen it called right at 20 though. Thanks. I guess the 'trigger' was the culprit in Champaign. When it appeared to me that Rapp finally (to my eyes) secured the rebound, the shot clock was already at 28.
  4. Jim French Stepstool
    Nice to be back in the popularity poll!!! Really, the opportunity to get back to 4-5-6 seeding territory is right there in front of them, especially when considering the BTT. But notice I said OPPORTUNITY. Getting a little too satisfied is all it takes to slip, even on the northwest trip. Heavy loss for OSU, losing Mobley Jr. But Taison Chatman will (I assume) absorb a lot of his minutes, and he had arguably his best game of the season in Madison. UW has put some impressive feathers in their cap, now it's gotten to where WE'RE the feather to other teams. And OSU needs feathers. It'll be a battle.
  5. Jim French Stepstool
    Agreed. I'm surprised this still has legs. But FWIW I've seen many games where the violation is called right at 20 secs if the ball hasn't crossed midcourt. If 20 is 20.0 and NOT 20.6 or whatever, that's how it should be called, too. But as you said the timer really seemed to jump the gun in starting the shot clock.
  6. Jim French Stepstool
    I'm not sure if this fits the thread as it isn't being shown I guess the term would be 'commercially', but last night we attended a showing of "A Road at Night", a documentary detailing the automobile accident that left University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore severely disabled and took the lives of his wife & daughter. It's being shown through February 19th in Madison with all the proceeds benefitting Coach Moore's ongoing care. The hope is to eventually get the movie shown somewhere in the Milwaukee and/or Chicago areas (Coach is a Chicago native) & someday get picked up by a streaming service. To say the movie is extremely powerful is an understatement. I would greatly recommend it to anyone in the Madison area over the next four days. If not, hopefully it can reach a wider audience very soon.
  7. Jim French Stepstool
    ...A big plus, the stadium, compared to the situation in Seattle & Montreal---even DFW, which tried to shoehorn their way into the discussion at the time. I give Bud a lot of credit for getting the Chisox to come up here for those 20 games, in addition to a few exhibition games he arranged. I suspect the White Sox-Twins exhibition in (I think) 1967 went a long way toward that--it drew well over 50,000. Finley certainly was a headache for a lot of people.
  8. Jim French Stepstool
    I went to many of the White Sox games in Milwaukee in 68-69, thanks to an older sister. Unfortunately the Pilots-White sox game wasn't one of them. It was kinda surprising that Symington had the pull to bump up the Royals' start by two years, leaving KC without baseball for only one season. When you look at the hoops Selig had to jump through in comparison............although I'm sure the lawsuit from the locals in fighting the Braves' departure caused quite a bit of animosity from MLB.
  9. Jim French Stepstool
    So if the shot clock in the gym was wrong then that isn't really on Boyd, or anyone else bringing the ball up court. They might feel it getting close (9) in their head, glance up & see 3 or 4 secs left.
  10. Jim French Stepstool
    It's been 20, ever since they started using the clock to measure 10 sec violations, as opposed to the ref counting out 'by hand'.
  11. Jim French Stepstool
    I think you're a little optimistic on the timeline re Lara. Otherwise pretty darned accurate.
  12. Jim French Stepstool
    Fun fact, which I believe illustrates the great team defense, on & off the ball-----Jeremy Fears had twelve assists tonite. The rest of the MSU team combined for 1.
  13. Jim French Stepstool
    Early in the season, it looked to me like our physicality around the hoop was Winter, occasionally Garlock (physical enough but still raw), and guys like Boyd, Carrington & Janicki who give up size to a lot of people. Boy, has that changed. Even Bieliauskas, who never looked comfy offensively tonite, had five boards & three blocks in 18 minutes. Kudos to Gard & the staff for cultivating all this growth.
  14. Jim French Stepstool
    I hear what you're saying, but I just have a difficult time saying anything negative about Rohde even if it's occasionally deserved. His defensive versatility is so vital when you have a defender like Boyd, who you might not want to have guard an opposing PG. He can guard 1-3, and his back-to-back threes right off the bat kinda set the tone in that MSU had to come out & guard him. Some of his TOs are head-scratching, but he's only averaging one TO per game.
  15. Jim French Stepstool
    Mentioned to the missus about the night we were in the KC & watched Tonje light up Arizona. Boyds' performance reminded me of that night.
  16. Jim French Stepstool
    I absolutely love how they answered the MSU run & bumped the lead back up with Blackwell on the bench. John, John, John, you really didn't need to pick up that 2nd foul. Nice job of competing on the glass vs a very good rebounding team. And an impressive first half for Pete Maravi---I mean Nick Boyd. If some of those makes didn't evoke a throw-up-your-hands, what else can we do response from MSU, nothing will. Not much to complain about. We'll see how the whistles go in the 2nd half.
  17. Jim French Stepstool
    Yep. If you believe in the coming infield talent in the organization, the tradeoff is you basically upped your pitching depth in exchange for a possible one-year reduction in 3B play. And depending on whether the effects of the wrist injury lingered, Rengifo might be a nice bounce back candidate. I remember 2-3 years ago wishing we would've looked into picking him up to beef up the INF.
  18. Jim French Stepstool
    Things are definitely looking up for the post players---Winter is having a really solid season and Bieliauskas & Rapp have made strides defensively & on the boards, with Rapp also on a major offensive heater. They'll be tested big-time tonite. Michigan State is one of the better rebounding teams you'll find, on both ends of the floor. And they do it largely on the backs on veterans who weren't 5-star kids or seven-figure mercenaries from the portal but who developed toughness. Tom Izzo is easily my favorite non-UW coach in the B10. I'll be interested in who guards Fears. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Boyd but I'm not a fan of that. Either way you need to try to turn him into a jump shooter; actually that should be the goal for everyone on their squad save for Ugochukwu & maybe Kohler. And stay between Carr & the bucket, lest you allow him to create his at-the-rim pyrotechnics. Should be a great atmosphere. Wish I was going. Hope the KC is boisterous.
  19. Jim French Stepstool
    Not only for the theatrics, but I miss Fran every time I see Iowa play since McCollum took over. Much tougher team to play now. Same thing w/Minnesota, Indiana, & Michigan.
  20. Jim French Stepstool
    As I mentioned earlier, Rapp had the ball secured after the tangle under the hoop for the rebound, and the shot clock already was at 28. So yeah, it appears the shot clock (on the screen) jumped the gun.
  21. Jim French Stepstool
    I think you nailed it w/Boyd. Sometimes it might seem that way simply because he isn't a great defender, but on switches/screens yeah the energy level isn't always the same as on the offensive end. IMO Rohde is a workhorse on both ends, but a lot of the time he defers to really concentrating on getting the ball in the hands of others. To a fault? Maybe. But with backcourt mates avg'ing close to 40 a game I get it. We'd all like to see the shooting % higher & see him finish more at the rim, but his overall floor game has been pretty solid.
  22. Jim French Stepstool
    If/when they get to 100% health there's no doubt they're a FF caliber group, and could get to Monday.
  23. Jim French Stepstool
    I remember Koenigs' violation. Total brain cramp. Vs Florida maybe? I agree, in hindsight Illinois should've done more posting up & feeding the post. We weren't doubling (which I mostly agree with), and if we did you're talking about skilled bigs who can kick out to a step-in three. It's almost like an unwritten rule in CBB---you have a high-volume scorer in the backcourt, he HAS to have the ball in his hands halfway through the clock in a close game, and never give it up. Not saying it's dumb when you have a Wagler (or a Boyd, or Blackwell), but those are some talented bigs that Illinois was kinda freezing out. Agree in the last possession strategy. Unless you feel like Boyd has a huge advantage on a switch or something, the ball in Blackwells' hands works for me. Just keep the head up in the lane; in Bloomington he might've had Winter.
  24. Jim French Stepstool
    I couldn't find the entire sequence yet. But I saw the front end of the play, frame-by-framed it, and by the time Austin Rapp cleared traffic & secured the ball the shot clock was already at 28, and the game clock btwn 34 & 33. Seems like an awfully quick start to the shot clock. But if they crossed midcourt around 23-24 then yeah, it sounds iffy.
  25. Jim French Stepstool
    Just you🤪. Mirkovic & Wagler were both shooting over 80% from the line coming into tonite. They shot a combined 8-14. After Saturday's game, thank you very much, basketball gods.
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