Re: 2017/18 Hoops Thread - Unfinished Business.

[Death Roe]

Dar Tucker?

[InTenSity]

Tum Tum

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Spartan Basketball‏Verified account @MSU_Basketball 19h19 hours ago
Warmer temps are in the air and our #SpartanOfTheWeek is ready to hit the pool! Any guesses who this could be? More clues coming this week.


Spartan Basketball‏Verified account @MSU_Basketball 12m12 minutes ago
Clue #2: Besides swimming, our #SpartanOfTheWeek has a few other favorites that he enjoys.

Spartan Basketball‏Verified account @MSU_Basketball 1h1 hour ago
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Here's the final clue for the #SpartanOfTheWeek! Put the three clues together and give us your best guess.

[WhiteBoyHatcher]

Kenny Goins!

Kampe wants the Top 3. (side note - I'm sure Izzo would play at the Orena - just gotta ask him)

https://twitter.com/KampeOU/status/867514914788847616

[tGreenWay]

Gotta be the black dude with glasses.

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Michigan State‏ @Michigan_State 4h4 hours ago
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Early 2017-18 Big Ten power rankings: Who's coming, who's going, how they stack up http://bit.ly/2rDeyeI #Spartans

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NBA Draft deadline: Whose stock is up, whose is down in college basketball

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Michigan State Spartans
We've got a lot of gainers listed here, but Michigan State is a cut above because it has the most well-regarded player all of the guys who opted to come back to school. Miles Bridges likely would have been a top-15 pick, yet he'll be a Sparty sophomore and should almost certainly be a preseason First Team All-American. Michigan State is now a preseason top-three team due to having the best foursome of sophomores in college basketball: Cassius Winston, Josh Langford and Nick Ward will be back in the fold too. After an up-and-down year last season, Michigan State will enter 2017-18 with Final Four goals.

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Spartan Basketball‏Verified account @MSU_Basketball 2h2 hours ago
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"They give up their life for us. We think sports is life or death. We found out that's not the case.'' -Tom Izzo #MotivationMonday

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isportsweb: Michigan State's backcourt holds it back from being consensus No. 1

[Floyd Robertson]

isportsweb: Michigan State's backcourt holds it back from being consensus No. 1

How do we trade Tum for Loyer between now and September 1?

[Floyd Robertson]

SG Brock Washington is coming per his twitter.

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SG Brock Washington is coming per his twitter.

Haven't seen schollie or PWO yet.   If schollie this closes the Bowen saga.

I'm guessing pwo since he has no offer list.

[Floyd Robertson]

SG Brock Washington is coming per his twitter.

Haven't seen schollie or PWO yet. If schollie this closes the Bowen saga.

Time to move on, one way or another.

[SawGreen]

Brock Washington

All in. Michigan kid who wants to be a Michigan (State) kid. Welcome aboard.

[Cameron]

SG Brock Washington is coming per his twitter.

Haven't seen schollie or PWO yet.   If schollie this closes the Bowen saga.

I'm guessing pwo since he has no offer list.

PWO

http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2017/05/michigan_state_adds_southfield.html

[Cameron]

He certainly doesn't jump out of the gym, but it looks like he can shoot the 3 and pass it a little bit.

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Brackets, first-round matchups announced for PK80 Invitational

As one of the 16 schools taking part in the event to honor Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his 80th birthday, Michigan State opens with Georgetown on Nov. 23, which is Thanksgiving Day. The participating programs are split into two separate eight-team tournaments. Also in MSU's bracket are UConn, Oregon, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Portland and North Carolina. The Spartans will play either UConn or Oregon in its second game and could play North Carolina in the final.

Michigan State is 1-1 all-time against Georgetown, beating the Hoyas 80-68 in 1986 and more recently falling 64-60 in February 2014

[tGreenWay]

He certainly doesn't jump out of the gym, but it looks like he can shoot the 3 and pass it a little bit.

I'd be happy if he can just play a couple minutes each game without turning the ball over. As you see, the bar is set very high.

[CheesySpartan]

Brackets, first-round matchups announced for PK80 Invitational

As one of the 16 schools taking part in the event to honor Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his 80th birthday, Michigan State opens with Georgetown on Nov. 23, which is Thanksgiving Day. The participating programs are split into two separate eight-team tournaments. Also in MSU's bracket are UConn, Oregon, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Portland and North Carolina. The Spartans will play either UConn or Oregon in its second game and could play North Carolina in the final.

Michigan State is 1-1 all-time against Georgetown, beating the Hoyas 80-68 in 1986 and more recently falling 64-60 in February 2014

I like Thanksgiving hoops. I'll be at my in-laws so it will give me a chance to hide out. BTW, lose to UNC in the final.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

Is Oregon supposed to be anywhere near as good as they were last year?

[tGreenWay]

Brackets, first-round matchups announced for PK80 Invitational

I like Thanksgiving hoops. I'll be at my in-laws so it will give me a chance to hide out. BTW, lose to UNC in the final.

Somewhere, Moose just jizzed in his pants.

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Is Oregon supposed to be anywhere near as good as they were last year?

I doubt it, they lost most of their team.

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Kevin Pauga‏Verified account @KevinPauga 4h4 hours ago
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More @MSU_Basketball scheduling updates: MSU will host Southern Utah (Dec. 9) and Long Beach State (Dec. 21).

[tGreenWay]

Kevin Pauga‏Verified account @KevinPauga 4h4 hours ago
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More @MSU_Basketball scheduling updates: MSU will host Southern Utah (Dec. 9) and Long Beach State (Dec. 21).

There was a time when those two would be the featured teams in the Spartan Cutlass Classic. And crowd enthusiasm levels would reach heights not heard since Sally Farmbottom whooped it up after she got three dryers in a row at the village laundromat.

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Bilas: MSU hoops can ‘make a run at the whole thing’

It’s enough that has Bilas thinking big things are set to happen in East Lansing.

“If everybody is healthy and they get great guard play,” Bilas said. “Winston is coming back and he’s a special player. (Tum Tum) Nairn is a coming back and he’s a great leader. They lost a few things, but to have so many quality players back and have them healthy … Langford is back, too. So you got so many guys coming back that have had experience and have been through it and I think Michigan State has got to be confident that personnel-wise they’re not gonna be short-handed against anybody in numbers and in talent.”

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Cassius Winston

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Tony Paul‏ @TonyPaul1984 1h1 hour ago
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Tom Izzo makes a young cancer patient's day.

[Floyd Robertson]

Justin Rose was posting a bunch of pics earlier.  I don't know who organized the event, but pretty cool to have Lavin and Rafftery there.



Beilein doesn't care about kids with cancer.

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Michigan State's Tom Izzo: We'll probably roll final scholarship into 2018 class

[Herbie Green]

Michigan State's Tom Izzo: We'll probably roll final scholarship into 2018 class

I really don't understand the thinking here where it seems the only potential weakness in a national championship caliber roster is one more quality 2/3.

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Michigan State's Tom Izzo: We'll probably roll final scholarship into 2018 class

I really don't understand the thinking here where it seems the only potential weakness in a national championship caliber roster is one more quality 2/3.

I think they would use the schollie if they felt there was an improvement to be made. They must not feel that player is out there.

Realistically it would seem pretty hard to recruit someone in right now to displace a Jr in the depth chart.

[NigelUno]

Michigan State's Tom Izzo: We'll probably roll final scholarship into 2018 class

I really don't understand the thinking here where it seems the only potential weakness in a national championship caliber roster is one more quality 2/3.

Are there a lot of quality 2/3 players left in the 2017 class?

[Herbie Green]

Izzo said (in the linked article above that I quoted) that he made that decision 3 months ago.

[NigelUno]

Izzo said (in the linked article above that I quoted) that he made that decision 3 months ago.

Were there a lot of quality 2/3 players in the 2017 class available then, that we had a legit shot at getting? I mean, it's easy to say we should have just grabbed a quality 2/3, right?

Do you have some names?

Maybe he was saving that scholarship for Bowen.

[Herbie Green]

Izzo said (in the linked article above that I quoted) that he made that decision 3 months ago.

Were there a lot of quality 2/3 players in the 2017 class available then, that we had a legit shot at getting? I mean, it's easy to say we should have just grabbed a quality 2/3, right?

Do you have some names?

Maybe he was saving that scholarship for Bowen.

Maybe 3 months was the point he wrote off Bowen. Maybe it was 5 months and he held out hope for another 2 months. Tough for me to say. I just know the end result is that he got no one. And yes I think Izzo obviously has the clout to land a quality wing. Saving it for Bowen isn't a valid excuse when Bowen never came here. It is a miscalculation.

[NigelUno]

Were there a lot of quality 2/3 players in the 2017 class available then, that we had a legit shot at getting? I mean, it's easy to say we should have just grabbed a quality 2/3, right?

Do you have some names?

Maybe he was saving that scholarship for Bowen.

Maybe 3 months was the point he wrote off Bowen. Maybe it was 5 months and he held out hope for another 2 months. Tough for me to say. I just know the end result is that he got no one. And yes I think Izzo obviously has the clout to land a quality wing. Saving it for Bowen isn't a valid excuse when Bowen never came here. It is a miscalculation.

I've asked twice. I'll try one more time. Got any names of quality 2/3 guys that were available?

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Spartan Basketball‏Verified account @MSU_Basketball 15m15 minutes ago
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Why did our #SpartanOfTheWeek choose MSU?

Hint: it had something to do with Tum Tum...

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Jeff Goodman‏Verified account @GoodmanESPN 10m10 minutes ago
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Notre Dame will play at Michigan State in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge, source told ESPN. Matchups scheduled to be released later today.

[Herbie Green]

Maybe 3 months was the point he wrote off Bowen.  Maybe it was 5 months and he held out hope for another 2 months.  Tough for me to say.  I just know the end result is that he got no one.  And yes I think Izzo obviously has the clout to land a quality wing.  Saving it for Bowen isn't a valid excuse when Bowen never came here.  It is a miscalculation.

I've asked twice.  I'll try one more time.  Got any names of quality 2/3 guys that were available?

Regardless of the timing, was Izzo under some kind of mandate to only recruit one specific player for that spot?

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Kevin Pauga‏Verified account @KevinPauga 9m9 minutes ago
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Worth noting. @MSU_Basketball will face Duke in Champions Classic, could see North Carolina in PK80, and will see Notre Dame in Big Ten/ACC.

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