What’s the college basketball game of the year so far? Bucknell Bison beating on the Syracuse Orangemen? Imagine, the Orangemen losing to lanky engineering nerds?
Or is it triple overtime Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. Michigan State Spartans? Hard play in Maui, teams 8-10 deep with talent? I’m with the Zags—the very talented team in the West Coast Conference vs. Michigan State, the only interesting team in the Big Ten.
I didn’t see Bucknell. So some notes about the Zags/ State game, where neither team could get more than 4 points away from each other in the second half/ overtime:
Paul Davis has grown a heart: four years at Michigan State for Paul Davis has been shooting, has been potential, has been tall; and hasn’t been the superstar he was supposed to be. Maybe it’s conditioning, maybe it’s Tom Izzo’s team-oriented scheme, but I hear it in announcers’ voices, the rumor that passes through me when I watch the 6’11” play. No. Heart. He never seemed to play hard, to hustle for rebounds, to look for his shot, to use his quickness and skill. But tonight? He’s fighting and moving. He threw down a disgusting dunk, one handed, off of a sweet pass from Shannon Brown.
The player of the game was definitely Maurice Ager. He lost his touch in the second overtime, but his touch was silky in the second half, culminating in a shot off a Paul Davis screen, a three to send the game into overtime when Gonzaga thought they had salted it away.
Adam Morrison has a dirty looking TJ Hooker moustache. The man from Spokane looks like Emile Hirsch. And he has so much talent it’s unbelievable. My brother and I agree- he sounds a little bit country but his hair is floppy unwashed rock and roll. He’s developed a three point shot; a 
runner that’s almost Gary Payton-esque; a passable Euro-style dribble (technically sound but he’s not going to cross anyone at the playground); and an excellent interior passing sense. Some of his shots at the end of the second half were hurried hero shots; maybe he should have driven, tried a pump fake. But you and I can’t fault him for taking into his own hands. Hey, 42 points later, he won the game.
That skinny kid with the tattoos, the one you think is just going to talk smack and foul you a lot is Derek Raivio. And he can play. His father apparently played in the league, for the Lakers; and Raivio is a man with no fear of pain or ridicule.
Maybe this is the year Gonzaga gets to the Final Four?
p.s. Apparently U Mass was up 63-54 on Davidson, and then lost 66-63 to Davidson. What happened in those minutes, men?
Or is it triple overtime Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. Michigan State Spartans? Hard play in Maui, teams 8-10 deep with talent? I’m with the Zags—the very talented team in the West Coast Conference vs. Michigan State, the only interesting team in the Big Ten.
I didn’t see Bucknell. So some notes about the Zags/ State game, where neither team could get more than 4 points away from each other in the second half/ overtime:
Paul Davis has grown a heart: four years at Michigan State for Paul Davis has been shooting, has been potential, has been tall; and hasn’t been the superstar he was supposed to be. Maybe it’s conditioning, maybe it’s Tom Izzo’s team-oriented scheme, but I hear it in announcers’ voices, the rumor that passes through me when I watch the 6’11” play. No. Heart. He never seemed to play hard, to hustle for rebounds, to look for his shot, to use his quickness and skill. But tonight? He’s fighting and moving. He threw down a disgusting dunk, one handed, off of a sweet pass from Shannon Brown.
The player of the game was definitely Maurice Ager. He lost his touch in the second overtime, but his touch was silky in the second half, culminating in a shot off a Paul Davis screen, a three to send the game into overtime when Gonzaga thought they had salted it away.
Adam Morrison has a dirty looking TJ Hooker moustache. The man from Spokane looks like Emile Hirsch. And he has so much talent it’s unbelievable. My brother and I agree- he sounds a little bit country but his hair is floppy unwashed rock and roll. He’s developed a three point shot; a runner that’s almost Gary Payton-esque; a passable Euro-style dribble (technically sound but he’s not going to cross anyone at the playground); and an excellent interior passing sense. Some of his shots at the end of the second half were hurried hero shots; maybe he should have driven, tried a pump fake. But you and I can’t fault him for taking into his own hands. Hey, 42 points later, he won the game.That skinny kid with the tattoos, the one you think is just going to talk smack and foul you a lot is Derek Raivio. And he can play. His father apparently played in the league, for the Lakers; and Raivio is a man with no fear of pain or ridicule.
Maybe this is the year Gonzaga gets to the Final Four?
p.s. Apparently U Mass was up 63-54 on Davidson, and then lost 66-63 to Davidson. What happened in those minutes, men?
posted by Norman Rose at 10:08 PM
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I gotta say, with 41 points on the night, there are girls all over that campus who have sexually justified that mustasho!
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