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If Thomas is shooting well, and the rest of the team plays like this...we can go places in the NCAA tournament, I think. Just need to maintain the focus they've had.

We have a NC defense when they play hard. We can bat anyone in the country. Two teams I want to avoid in our bracket are Indiana and Kansas...We do not fare well against elite bigmen. Any team that has elite bigmen need to be on the other side of the bracket or get knocked out of the tourney.

No clue, but thats on Matta. DT is not a 4 and Sully is not a 5 period. We will not win anything till we get back to actually recruiting for real spots on a team. Scott / Craft on the floor are not great together. They are both points and neither can shot for shit. DT will get and has been abused by longer athletic 4's. Rav tries and works hard but if that is our 5 we have no 5.

Hey enjoy the win.....no one is perfect....they beat us by 3 on their floor in January a game we hould have won...we beat them by 8 on our floor...I'll take it! I think we need to lay off Thomas..he is leading the B10 in scoring...everybody in the league is targeting him to stop him.....I'll take the 14 points....this team held MSU to 59 points, then 60 points..i;ll take the win...

So you want Craft/Scott at the 1, Lenzelle/Thompson at the 2, DT at the 3, Ravenel at the 4, and Amir at the 5? Who do you want coming off the bench at the 4 and 5? Do you want Q only coming in to spell DT for 5 minutes a game?

Your goal is to get your 5 best on the court. If that means playing small or playing big, so be it. DT is a matchup nightmare because he can overpower smaller guys and he shoots well enough to make it tough for big guys to guard him and chase him around picks. Unfortunately, tough matchups go both ways. He struggles defending quick guys, and he's undersized against post players.

Even when Matta has two athletic bigs, he rarely plays them together. He prefers smaller, quicker teams that can guard on the perimeter and one shot blocker on the back end. He has produced the best results at OSU since the early 60's playing this style, so don't expect him to change his approach.

Don't like it, don't watch.

And by the way Matta recruited PAYNE hard; PAYNE choose MSU for a variety of reasons. One of which may have been that he wanted out from under Sullinger's shadow (they played together on All Ohio Red). Which would you rather have had? PAYNE or Sullinger?

I have not contradicted anything. Try some reading comprehension again. Matta might be doing whats best for this squad. But this squad is lacking shooters and an inside presence. Who takes the blame for that. MATTA DOES. He built the team. It doesn't matter if he tried to recruit a kid and failed to do so. He didn't get a back up plan or have another kid that could also take that spot.

Matta also doesn't have any National Titles to sit behind either that gives him make up time like coach Cal does with his current Kentucky team.

In your mind you can't complain about a team because the coach missed out on a recruit? Bull shit. Matta either gets the kids or he don't. IF he doesn't he better have a back up plan.

Again, Matta can coach and recruit, I am not discounting that. I am saying the lack bigs on the team and outside scoring threats are his responsibility and are directly on his shoulders for not getting them.