Costello: unimpressed

....and one of the major reasons I don't pay any attention to recruiting. Dude was suppose to be Mr hustle and instead he takes games off and mainly Mr foul. The weight loss didn't help and I blame the coaches for that. We needed a back up for Payne at center not a tall gazelle.

I swaer that fast break strategy may have only netted 10 total points all season. Fail all around

...and I'm only posting this now BC I wasn't allowed on tformer. Cue Fletch for his snarky sunshine.....

blanch -

Why did you change your name and improve your (previously) intentionally misspelled words/text abbreviations and poor grammar?  Are we supposed to consider this a schtick?  Or is it some kind of improved version/grown up version of you (blanch)?

Is this schtick/new blanch going to take on the persona of providing poor sports analysis (although spelled correctly)?

These questions need to be answered.

No idea why schticks are allowed. What do they add to the board?

kingstonlake wrote:No idea why schticks are allowed.  What do they add to the board?  

It's not a schtick (in that he has changed his user name, and doesn't have his old name).

It may be a schtick (in that he has no idea what he's talking about with regards to sports, as opposed to women...which was his old schtick).

Potato Cakes wrote:....and one of the major reasons I don't pay any attention to recruiting.  Dude was suppose to be Mr hustle and instead he takes games off and mainly Mr foul.   The weight loss didn't help and I blame the coaches for that.  We needed a back up for Payne at center not a tall gazelle.  

I swaer that fast break strategy may have only netted 10 total points all season.  Fail all around

You blame the coaches for the weight loss ?

NigelUno wrote:

It's not a schtick (in that he has changed his user name, and doesn't have his old name).

It may be a schtick (in that he has no idea what he's talking about with regards to sports, as opposed to women...which was his old schtick).

I see now......

Potato Cakes wrote:....and one of the major reasons I don't pay any attention to recruiting.  Dude was suppose to be Mr hustle and instead he takes games off and mainly Mr foul.   The weight loss didn't help and I blame the coaches for that.  We needed a back up for Payne at center not a tall gazelle.  

I swaer that fast break strategy may have only netted 10 total points all season.  Fail all around

He will get double the minutes he had this year.  His production will improve.  Just as it did from his freshman to sophomore year (all important stats more than doubling).  Grade him out at 30 minutes a game(he averaged 14 this year) and his stats are fine.  Relax.

I feel a lot better about Costello already.

NigelUno wrote:blanch -

Why did you change your name and improve your (previously) intentionally misspelled words/text abbreviations and poor grammar?  Are we supposed to consider this a schtick?  Or is it some kind of improved version/grown up version of you (blanch)?

Is this schtick/new blanch going to take on the persona of providing poor sports analysis (although spelled correctly)?

These questions need to be answered.

....and I am not the one you should be directing such questions to. The true question is why does this bother you so much? Elaborate on this mild obsession.

kingstonlake wrote:He will get double the minutes he had this year.  His production will improve.  Just as it did from his freshman to sophomore year (all important stats more than doubling).  Grade him out at  minutes a game and his stats are fine.  Relax.

Maybe, what will he be more focused?

I didn't like the Nebraska game with him where he even admits to overlooking and not respecting his opponent. Hell, that loss could have been part of the reason why MSU fell to a 4-seed. And maybe, just maybe a 3-seed would have been enough to get to a Final Four even with a weak Appling.

duffy munn wrote:


You blame the coaches for the weight loss ?

Yup. They are the ones that wanted him to cut weigh and not simply add strength.

Potato Cakes wrote:

Yup.  They are the ones that wanted him to cut weigh and not simply add strength.

You do know he had mono, right ?

Yes, he is unimpressed with your post.

Potato Cakes wrote:

....and I am not the one you should be directing such questions to.  The true question is why does this bother you so much?  Elaborate on this mild obsession.

You changed your user name? And I shouldn't be directing that question...to you? Who should I ask? Your roommate?

duffy munn wrote:


You do know he had mono, right ?

Let's not confuse sportsguruschtickyblanch with medical stuff.

Bench Travis Walton!

Potato Cakes wrote:

Yup.  They are the ones that wanted him to cut weigh and not simply add strength.

Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on this....you're talking out of your ass on this one.

NigelUno wrote:

Let's not confuse sportsguruschtickyblanch with medical stuff.  

No shit. Clearly Costello's mono is the fault of the medical staff.


Signed,

FWD

Potato Cakes wrote:

Yup.  They are the ones that wanted him to cut weigh and not simply add strength.

I hope this doesn't affect your argument but Costello weighed 225lbs when he got to MSU. He now weighs 240.

duffy munn wrote:


I hope this doesn't affect your argument but Costello weighed 225lbs when he got to MSU. He now weighs 240.

How? Do they have a weight room or something? Or is it just from eating dorm food?

duffy munn wrote:


I hope this doesn't affect your argument but Costello weighed 225lbs when he got to MSU. He now weighs 240.

Please do not let facts ruin an otherwise good argument.

In other news, most bigs develop over time. Payne made huge leaps each off season.

NigelUno wrote:

How?  Do they have a weight room or something?  Or is it just from eating dorm food?

I blame the coaches.

Sigh... You weren't allowed to make comments like this on the other board cause they are just plain stupid.

We will allow such comments, yet we also reserve the right to call you a dumbass.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Sigh... You weren't allowed to make comments like this on the other board cause they are just plain stupid.

We will allow such comments, yet we also reserve the right to call you a  dumbass.

Is it really a dumb comment to expect more than 4 points and 3 boards per game out of a highly-touted recruit?

It's fair to question our bigs heading into this season.. Look at last year. No one really worth a damn outside of Payne. Costello was a non factor at the end of the year.

For the record, I like the new sportsguruschtickyblanch. Will be very entertaining when football season starts.

Bizarro Fletch wrote:Bench Travis Walton!

Play Tom Herzog !

Payne's sophomore season was not even a blip in the radar. Bigs take time. Plus dude's roll was second fiddle to others. He will be big time before he's done.

Giant Moose wrote:
Is it really a dumb comment to expect more than 4 points and 3 boards per game out of a highly-touted recruit?

No. But it is really dumb to say the coaches asked him to lose weight. And even dumber not to understand that he had mono.

Costello is going to be a very good player when all is said and done. Blanch's basketball "analysis" is enough for me to believe that.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Payne's sophomore season was not even a blip in the radar. Bigs take time. Plus dude's roll was second fiddle to others. He will be big time before he's done.

Payne had OK numbers his sophomore year. Not great for what he was touted as either, but not dreadful. But the real truth is in the NCAA tourney if Izzo trusts you or not.

Costello only got 5 and 4 minutes against the two good teams we played in the Dance. Not a good sign that Izzo trusts him a whole lot.

Giant Moose wrote:
Payne had OK numbers his sophomore year. Not great for what he was touted as either, but not dreadful. But the real truth is in the NCAA tourney if Izzo trusts you or not.

Costello only got 5 and 4 minutes against the two good teams we played in the Dance. Not a good sign that Izzo trusts him a whole lot.

He has 2 years left. Are you saying he is a bust right now ?

duffy munn wrote:

He has 2 years left. Are you saying he is a bust right now ?

No, I'm agreeing that he hasn't been impressive so far. I'm well aware of the Drew Naymicks of the world who work hard and become key parts of our team. I hope he continues to grow defensively because there have been occasional bursts there where he does look like he has a valuable skillset.

Saying someone isn't impressive doesn't mean I am shutting the door on them completely. But in your world, everything tends to be absolute for some reason.

Giant Moose wrote:
No, I'm agreeing that he hasn't been impressive so far. I'm well aware of the Drew Naymicks of the world who work hard and become key parts of our team. I hope he continues to grow defensively because there have been occasional bursts there where he does look like he has a valuable skillset.

Saying someone isn't impressive doesn't mean I am shutting the door on them completely. But in your world, everything tends to be absolute for some reason.

Fair. I just asked the question and you answered.

But you have admit that agreeing with Blanch is bad for anyone's credibility.

duffy munn wrote:

Fair. I just asked the question and you answered.

But you have admit that agreeing with Blanch is bad for anyone's credibility.

I don't think blanch is that bad. I think his reputation is more what gets him.

He has a valid point about Costello. Not sure about the weight stuff; people were right to jump on him there but in all I just like dialogue as opposed to people posting about what they had for lunch and a blanch thread getting locked like it did on the old board.

Giant Moose wrote:
Payne had OK numbers his sophomore year. Not great for what he was touted as either, but not dreadful. But the real truth is in the NCAA tourney if Izzo trusts you or not.

Costello only got 5 and 4 minutes against the two good teams we played in the Dance. Not a good sign that Izzo trusts him a whole lot.

I'm not sure it was a matter of trust, as much as it was having our best players on the floor. The bench got shortened.

I will agree that Costello sucks, but not because of "taking games off". He might have the slowest feet of any regular starting big for MSU in a while. He gets burned in the post so much I want to punch the tv, and his offense in the post makes me wish for Derrick Nix back. And no he hasn't improved or gotten stronger, and you can quote me when I say he has hit his ceiling for development. I really hope I'm wrong.

Clearly sophomore Matt Costello should have relegated senior 1st round draft pick Payne and junior potential draft pick Dawson to the bench. very unimpressed.....

Danny Tanner wrote:I will agree that Costello sucks, but not because of "taking games off". He might have the slowest feet of any regular starting big for MSU in a while. He gets burned in the post so much I want to punch the tv, and his offense in the post makes me wish for Derrick Nix back. And no he hasn't improved or gotten stronger, and you can quote me when I say he has hit his ceiling for development. I really hope I'm wrong.

Yeah, Izzo should probably pull the scholarship.

duffy munn wrote:

Yeah, Izzo should probably pull the scholarship.

Hey it's not Izzo's fault that Costello just isn't that good and I'm not blaming him. Usually you can trust that a Mr. Basketball will be a solid player but it didn't happen. Back to the crooooooting trail.