We swear.

Boy would I like to be a fly on the ball rack at the next Michigan State practice. Getting worked over at home to the Wildcats of Northwestern has to cause Tom Izzo to get absolutely zero sleep tonight, maybe tomorrow night too.

MSU as a team committed 18 turnovers. Guard Chris Allen had 7 of them, in fact Allen played pretty poorly overall, shooting just 1-11.

As for Northwestern, senior Kevin Coble did his best Larry Bird impersonation, scoring 31 points and making a disgustingly pretty falling away off the glass shot late in the game he had no business in making, or for that matter, taking. Northwestern ended MSU’s 28 game home win streak, beating them for the first time since 1984. Lake The Posts has the rest of the goods on this one.

Wake Falls

Despite shooting 22-37 from the charity stripe, Virginia Tech beat Wake Forest on the road. Sophomore guard Malcolm Delaney scored 22 and A.D. Vassallo chipped in with 16. It was a bona fide slobberknocker.

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Don’t be upset

Not only did lightning quick (tell that to Ty Lawson) sophomore guard Kalin Lucas struggle, virtually no points came from Michigan State’s frontline, and to make matters worse, the Ford Field crowd had the intensity of a mid-August Royals crowd at Kauffman Stadium.

Spartans Weblog author kj was actually at the drubbing,

…the environment at Ford Field didn’t help. The sparse crowd (relative to the size of the arena) never gave the team any kind of emotional lift. At one point in the second half, the crowd gave a Bronx cheer after a made field goal–something I’ve never witnessed in my years of attending MSU basketball games.

So we’ll give the team a gigantic pass on the final twenty minutes of the game.

Watching the Spartans from time to time so far this season, I get the feeling this team is missing one ingredient. I believe that one ingredient is a healthy and explosive Delvon Roe. Once he gets back that extra lift he had prior to the knee surgery, look out. He’s currently averaging 5.5 rebs/gm and 1.2 blk/gm. He’s shown some flashes. He has a high basketball IQ.

Unfortunately for State fans Delvon won’t be back at full strength until next season. Wait, actually that’s a great thing.

Just think about next season …

Jr. Kalin Lucas
Jr. Chris Allen
Jr. Durrell Summers
Sr. Raymar Morgan (iffy)
So. Delvon Roe
So. Korie Lucious
So. Draymond Green

Not even counting the couple solid freshmen coming in.

I know I know, it’s not always about next season. Predictable trap everyone gets sucked into at certain times.

But next season does look good for Sparty.

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Spartans not looking so mighty

Kalin Lucas, Raymar Morgan, Goran Suton, Chris Allen and Delvon Roe might be the most solid starting five in the nation outside of UNC.

Kalin Lucas is so fast that rabid Spartan fans have flooded SpartanTailgate.com with Usain Bolt-Kalin Lucas comparisons.

But as one quick poster pointed out, who would be faster dribbling a ball?

Yeah Usain, try multi-tasking while running your little 100 and 200 meter jogs.

Kalin is maneuvering his way around folks, laying it in around and over guys six or more inches taller, all the while dribbling a basketball at full speed. One man fast break!

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Kalin at the helm