Lucious, Allen break bones Talk about a game going as badly as it possibly could have. On a positive note, my sense is that a broken bone doesn’t involve major rehab. (Hat tip: MooTheKow.) Spartans can find motivation in loss to Tar Heels Draymond Green: Leader. (Hat tip: Jason.) 2009-10 Insanely Too Early Rankings Consensus: [...]
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Post-Tournament Links
Posted in links, tagged chris allen, injuries, korie lucious on April 9, 2009 | 10 Comments »
UConn Game Recap (4/4/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged connecticut, final four, kalin lucas, korie lucious, ncaa tournament, raymar morgan on April 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The Spartans run, not walk, past the Huskies 82-73 in a 74-possession game. StatSheet box score. At this point, it’s hard to find more words to describe how well this team is playing. This game was almost a carbon copy of the Louisville game in terms of scoring flow: It was back and forth in [...]
Coffee Talk: Who Plays on the Wing?
Posted in coffee talk, stats analysis, tagged chris allen, durrell summers, korie lucious on March 19, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Going into NCAA Tournament play, our starting lineup looks like it may finally be completely healthy. Kalin Lucas, Travis Walton, Raymar Morgan, Delvon Roe, and Goran Suton should all be able to play 25-30 minutes per game at near 100%. (Roe is perhaps the exception to this statement, but he’s certainly as ready to contribute [...]
Ohio State Game Recap (3/14/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged korie lucious, ohio state on March 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Spartans bow out to the Buckeyes 82-70 in a 69-possession game. StatSheet box score. Your bar graph: NCAA Basketball Stats Your bullets: The difference in 2-point shooting percentages was fairly narrow, so the big differential in the eFG% bar was driven almost entirely by 3-point shooting. They hit 9 of 16 from beyond the [...]
Iowa Game Recap
Posted in game recap, tagged delvon roe, iowa, korie lucious on February 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
MSU scoots by Iowa 62-54 in a 59-possession game. StatSheet box score. The reflexive thing to say after you’ve beat a vastly inferior team by just 8 points at home is to say the team “lost focus” or “didn’t keep their foot on the pedal.” I’m going to resist that temptation and say MSU did [...]
Minnesota Game Recap (2/4/09)
Posted in game recap, tagged delvon roe, durrell summers, korie lucious, minnesota on February 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Spartans bury the Gophers 76-47 in a 65-possession game. StatSheet box score. A very impressive start to the new home-court winning streak, to say the least. MSU did everything we thought they needed to do, and they did it in abundance: Knocked down perimeters shots (7-12 on 3-pointers). Controlled both the offensive and defensive [...]
Alcorn State Game Recap (12/13/08)
Posted in game recap, tagged alcorn state, chris allen, draymond green, kalin lucas, korie lucious, trey zeigler on December 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
MSU streaks by Alcorn State 118-60 in an 81-possession game. Official box score. When your back-up point guard has 11 assists, you know it’s been a very long night for your opponent. Michigan State dominated this game in every way possible: Stats by StatSheet.com Most indicative of the way this game was played, though, are [...]
Who's turning the ball over?
Posted in stats analysis, tagged delvon roe, kalin lucas, korie lucious, raymar morgan, turnovers on December 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Coming into this season, we thought MSU might have finally beaten the turnover bug. They had ended the 2007-08 season by posting sub-20% turnover percentages in nine of their final 11 games. To date, though, turnovers continue to be the team’s weak point on offense this season. Their turnover percentage of 21.0% ranks 163rd in [...]
MSU at the Old Spice Classic: A Statistical Review
Posted in stats analysis, tagged austin thornton, chris allen, delvon roe, draymond green, durrell summers, kalin lucas, korie lucious, marquise gray, old spice classic, raymar morgan, travis walton on December 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Going into this weekend, I said a 2-1 record in the Old Spice Classic would be a “solid outcome.” But that was contingent on winning the opening game against Maryland–which we didn’t. Nevertheless, I don’t think we should get too despondent about MSU’s Old Spice Classic results (although yours truly was pretty despondent late Thursday [...]
