The Timberwolves’ summer league team played its first game last night. Neitzel scored 10 points on 4-5 FG shooting (all 2-pointers), including 2-2 on 3-pointers, in 14 minutes. On the downside, he had zero assists and turned the ball over two times. Someone named Pooh Jeter, from St. Vincent College the University of Portland, was [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Billy Packer is out
Posted in links, tagged basketball announcers on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Apparently, the executives at CBS finally got around to reading the Big Ten Wonk’s treatise on how maddening Billy Packer is to us college basketball junkies. The Miami Herald is reporting that Packer is being relieved of his lead announcing duties and will be replaced by Clark Kellogg (hat tip to Spartan Dan, and Awful [...]
Technical Difficulties
Posted in site news on July 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, network maintenance my web hosting service underwent last night caused this site to go haywire for half a day. For a while, I’m sure visitors were shocked to be redirected from this address to a site about a reality TV show being broadcast in the Pacific islands. Anyway, things appear to be back up [...]
Wednesday Quick Hits
Posted in links, tagged kalin lucas, travis walton on July 9, 2008 | Comments Off
Kalin Lucas is at the LeBron James Skills Academy and is reportedly showing a more consistent jumpshot. Everyone agrees that Travis Walton will be MSU’s leader next season. The question, of course, is whether his offensive production can return to a level that justifies 20+ minutes per game on the floor. Jamil Wilson lists Duke [...]
Book Review: Basketball on Paper
Posted in book review, tagged basketball statistics on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I spend part of the long holiday weekend reading Dean Oliver’s Basketball on Paper (aff link). This book was published in 2004, and I had seen a few references to it around the internet, but just now got around to reading it. Oliver is a former basketball player, coach, and scout. He is now a [...]
Post-Holiday Links
Posted in links, tagged tom crean, tom izzo on July 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Travis Walton and Durrell Summers are tearing it up in the Moneyball Pro-Am League, according to a Rivals.com report from last week. They’re the only two current Spartans to have participated in games to date. I don’t have enough context to say exactly how positive an indicator a 42-point performance in a summer league game [...]
Beyond the Arc has impeccable timing
Posted in history, links, tagged msu basketball history on July 2, 2008 | Comments Off
On the heels of our conversation here about the great guards of Spartan seasons past, MSNBC.com’s Beyond the Arc has anointed MSU the 15th greatest college basketball program. He provides a nice overview of Spartan basketball achievements through the years (including a nod to our look at MSU’s rebounding during the Izzo era). Here are [...]
The guys in the new banner
Posted in history, links, tagged drew neitzel, magic johnson, mateen cleaves, msu basketball history, scott skiles, shawn respert, steve smith on July 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There was a little discussion in the comments section of the last post as to whether Neitzel belongs up there on the new banner with Magic, Skiles, Smith, Respert, and Cleaves. The first five guys are no brainers: Magic Johnson was the driving force behind MSU’s first national title. Despite playing only two years at [...]
