[Oskee] Wow, that .... sucked

[John Livengood]

I think Ohio St and Purdue are the best 2 teams in the league, followed by MSU and Wisconsin. We're in that second group when we're playing well, but not consistent enough to be challenging for the title.

Back to reality, beat Michigan and Minnesota. If we can steal another win as well, great, but as long as we don't stumble we're in good shape.

JL





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From: Robert Mingee <mingee at swbell.net>
To: oskee at heins.net
Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 9:06:35 AM
Subject: [Oskee] Wow, that .... sucked


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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