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*Official* 2017-2018 B1G In-Season Thread

That’s the spirit!

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Agree to disagree. I think a 40 year old man wearing those candy stripe pants out in public is weird. College age kids and younger wearing them is no big deal IMO. The drum is only a thing at Purdue football games and isn’t comparable to those pants.
Of course you don’t think th big drum is weird, and that’s my point. It’s a Purdue thing. Candy striped pants are an IU thing. You think it’s weird because you’re not a fan of IU. I think tons of shit Purdue fans do is weird that you probably don’t. They’re fans. That’s not different than getting all decked out for whatever team you root for. You think it’s overly weird because you’re a Purdue fan. We get it.
 
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Don’t care really. I wouldn’t wear them after college or at all but if it pisses off Purdue fans then I’m all for it.
Yup. Not really going to care what Purdue fans, of all people, care about candy striped pants. Fans are fans.
 
Everything I have seen on this thread this week I do blame on James Edward Delany.

You must not read this thread very much if you think any of the following is somehow unique to the B1G not playing for a week:

1. The same 4 people quoting all of Giligans posts to argue Iowa players HS stats and make the same tired arguments theyve been having with him for years

2. Indiana and Purdue fans making complete asses out of themselves just to one up troll the other

3. People tripping over themselves to quote and argue my facts with their biased opinions.



Thats essentially this thread in a nutshell.
 
You must not read this thread very much if you think any of the following is somehow unique to the B1G not playing for a week:

1. The same 4 people quoting all of Giligans posts to argue Iowa players HS stats and make the same tired arguments theyve been having with him for years

2. Indiana and Purdue fans making complete asses out of themselves just to one up troll the other

3. People tripping over themselves to quote and argue my facts with their biased opinions.



Thats essentially this thread in a nutshell.

Its going to suck not having you here for a week and than trying to figure out what your new handle is.
 
Its going to suck not having you here for a week and than trying to figure out what your new handle is.

You'll be able to catch me on the main board. When Arizona chokes in the elite 8 again, Im taking that as a sign of god to never post on this board ever again.

Someone argued with me today that assuming a player from Sudan having a Sudanese accent is racist and beung stereotypical. Then, when I opened a different thread, I had found that same poster contradicted himself by assuming people up north talked with a Boston accent.

Then another person argued that their team doesnt care about trying and winning a game they ended up winning.

Trying to wade thru the aids on this board to find a decent basketball convo or two has becoke exhausting.
 
You'll be able to catch me on the main board. When Arizona chokes in the elite 8 again, Im taking that as a sign of god to never post on this board ever again.

Someone argued with me today that assuming a player from Sudan having a Sudanese accent is racist and beung stereotypical. Then, when I opened a different thread, I had found that same poster contradicted himself by assuming people up north talked with a Boston accent.

Then another person argued that their team doesnt care about trying and winning a game they ended up winning.

Trying to wade thru the aids on this board to find a decent basketball convo or two has becoke exhausting.
I have had no problems with you, but stop sucking your own dick. That’s basically what you’ve done in your last few posts. Just being honest.
 
CBS came out with a report that Ward will come off the bench, Miles at the 4 and Jaren at the 5. We’d start McQuaid. Honestly I think that is a great lineup, but that means 100% Ward is gone (as predicted). Also, like, this could be completely false. Idk how CBS would know
 
CBS came out with a report that Ward will come off the bench, Miles at the 4 and Jaren at the 5. We’d start McQuaid. Honestly I think that is a great lineup, but that means 100% Ward is gone (as predicted). Also, like, this could be completely false. Idk how CBS would know

Don’t care if Ward starts or not but Ward needs to play 25 minutes a game in the tourney.
 
Don’t care if Ward starts or not but Ward needs to play 25 minutes a game in the tourney.
Ward is 6’8, not in great shape, can’t space the floor, cant handle double teams, can’t defend anybody except traditional centers, and has a very poor attitude about the game and being at MSU in general. Ward is a great post offensive player, and rebounds well sometimes, but outside of that what does he bring?
 
Ward is 6’8, not in great shape, can’t space the floor, cant handle double teams, can’t defend anybody except traditional centers, and has a very poor attitude about the game and being at MSU in general. Ward is a great post offensive player, and rebounds well sometimes, but outside of that what does he bring?

He can dominate at times. Schilling sucks
 
He can dominate at times. Schilling sucks
Schilling is a great defensive player. He sets the best ball screens and defends the pick and roll better than anyone on our team. Ward is better, but in certain situations Schilling is the play ( like Purdue, Issac Haas). To be honest, I really think Tillman is the way to go. Tillman doesn’t have the post moves Ward has, but is basically better in every other area of basketball. Defends much better, is a better passer, handles the double team better, hustles a lot harder. We have enough offense on our starting lineup.
 
Schilling is a great defensive player. He sets the best ball screens and defends the pick and roll better than anyone on our team. Ward is better, but in certain situations Schilling is the play ( like Purdue, Issac Haas). To be honest, I really think Tillman is the way to go. Tillman doesn’t have the post moves Ward has, but is basically better in every other area of basketball. Defends much better, is a better passer, handles the double team better, hustles a lot harder. We have enough offense on our starting lineup.

Ward runs the court well surprisingly.
 
Not terribly upset with where we ended up, would've been cool getting the 3 to Detroit but that looks like it ended up being a way tougher draw.
 
We will see. But I'm pretty confident it is going to shake out this way:

Virginia
Villanova
Xavier
Kansas

Duke
Cincinnati
North Carolina
Purdue

Tennessee could maybe jump in there with an SEC tournament title but they lost chances for higher profile wins when Arkansas beat Florida and Alabama beat Auburn. Right now, none of their metrics are better than Purdue and the only thing they can hang their hat on is an OT win on a neutral court over the Boilermakers.

Clemson is 4-9 against quad 1 and has only 4 road wins all year. No way they are a 2 seed.

Auburn likely blew their shot with the loss to Bama.

MSU has just 3 quad 1 wins and while the ND loss should show better than it will, it is still a team that lost to Ball State and Indiana when healthy.
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