[Oskee] Wow, that .... sucked

[Robert Mingee]

It would appear the concerns about facing OSU were valid.  I gotta say, though, I think the announcers gave a little too much credit to their defense for our absolutely miserable shooting.  No doubt the zone had us out of sync, and they definitely denied a lot of inside passes, but we also missed a number of WIDE open shots, as well as point-blank putbacks.  They shot 11-22 from 3 and we shot 4-24 -- I'm sorry, but their perimeter D is not THAT much better than ours.  We gave them a lot of wide-open looks, though.  Based solely on the last 3 games they sure look like the best team in the conference right now (not fair as MSU was without Lucas), but if we hadn't been so stone-cold shooting and they hadn't been so hot, it would have at least been a competitive game.  I just don't see us beating them at their place, so I'm going to go ahead and mark that one down as a loss.  I would dearly love to beat Purdue at their place, but we don't necessarily *have*
 to have that one either.  But if we lose that one we have to beat Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, or make a heck of a run in the BTT.  If we take a sound beating at Purdue, that's going to be a tall order, as our confidence will be right back down to earth again.  So maybe we'd better go ahead and beat Purdue :-).

-- robert
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