There does seem to be very little love from the media/announcers for the Spartans. Hopefully Izzo's team shoves it down their piehole.
So far in the tourney they have looked sloppy, I think the team is still young and needs to find its rhythm, especially on offense. They seem in the general offense to be nervous, then a timeout gets called, Izzo draws up something, and they put together a nice play.
The good thing is I think the games have been getting progressively harder, so I'm hoping these kids got enough sense beat into them by the time they hit Louisville that they clean up their errors (particularly stupid turnovers from sloppy passing).
Also Suton has earned my respect these last two games. He's scratching out stuff from no where and working his ass off, standing out through hustle even if he is not a famous name. I always root for those sort of players.
Kansas would have probably won the game given how sloppy we were out of the gate, if they had more than Collins/Aldrich to work with. Spartans are as good as any team at focusing and shutting out team's key players at crunch time, but I see plenty of depth in the remaining games so we can't come out sloppy.
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