Well, not a whole lot to say about this one. Pretty darn ugly all around. Absolutely horrible on the offensive end with too many turnovers (21) and pathetic shooting (31% FGs and 3-16 3PTs).
Surprisingly, IU was able to hang around in the first half even with a ton of turnovers and Dumes only playing 3 minutes due to 3 early fouls. Speaking of Dumes, talk about laying an egg after his stellar performance on Wednesday. In 19 minutes, he had 5 points, 5 turnovers, 0-3 from the arc, 3 thrown elbows, and an ejection.
Dumes has kind of been a dirty player all year and today he got caught. The first elbow was pretty weak as he was just moving the ball and barely caught the defender in the face who flopped. However, the next one looked like an intentional elbow to Sutan's nuts as they were running down the floor. The refs reviewed and good ole Ed Hightower gave Dumes the benefit of the doubt that it was his natural running motion. But Dumes was not so lucky on the third one where he clearly intentionally threw an elbow under the basket. Once again, the officials reviewed and Dumes was ejected. It's kind of weird but I have seen this out of Dumes all year. It's almost like his natural reaction any time he is in traffic is to just start throwing elbows. It doesn't look pre-meditated, it just seems to be his reaction when he's in traffic and getting bumped.
Anyway, back to the game, it was definitely ugly. I guess you would expect it when you go into the Breslin Center with MSU leading the Big Ten and ranked #14 in the country. However, besides being overmatched and inexperienced, IU played horribly in the second half. Michigan State was without Raymar Morgan and Kalin Lucas went just 4-15. So, MSU pretty much got nothing out of their two best players and they still blew us out in the second half.
Hard to find many positives in this one. Oh well, I'm just going to forget that they played today and continue to enjoy Wednesday's win.
Go Hoosiers!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
IU 47 MSU 75
Well, not a whole lot to say about this one. Pretty darn ugly all around. Absolutely horrible on the offensive end with too many turnovers (21) and pathetic shooting (31% FGs and 3-16 3PTs).
Surprisingly, IU was able to hang around in the first half even with a ton of turnovers and Dumes only playing 3 minutes due to 3 early fouls. Speaking of Dumes, talk about laying an egg after his stellar performance on Wednesday. In 19 minutes, he had 5 points, 5 turnovers, 0-3 from the arc, 3 thrown elbows, and an ejection.
Dumes has kind of been a dirty player all year and today he got caught. The first elbow was pretty weak as he was just moving the ball and barely caught the defender in the face who flopped. However, the next one looked like an intentional elbow to Sutan's nuts as they were running down the floor. The refs reviewed and good ole Ed Hightower gave Dumes the benefit of the doubt that it was his natural running motion. But Dumes was not so lucky on the third one where he clearly intentionally threw an elbow under the basket. Once again, the officials reviewed and Dumes was ejected. It's kind of weird but I have seen this out of Dumes all year. It's almost like his natural reaction any time he is in traffic is to just start throwing elbows. It doesn't look pre-meditated, it just seems to be his reaction when he's in traffic and getting bumped.
Anyway, back to the game, it was definitely ugly. I guess you would expect it when you go into the Breslin Center with MSU leading the Big Ten and ranked #14 in the country. However, besides being overmatched and inexperienced, IU played horribly in the second half. Michigan State was without Raymar Morgan and Kalin Lucas went just 4-15. So, MSU pretty much got nothing out of their two best players and they still blew us out in the second half.
Hard to find many positives in this one. Oh well, I'm just going to forget that they played today and continue to enjoy Wednesday's win.
Go Hoosiers!
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Forgot to mention that I got a report from Matt Lindley who went to see Tipton play Northwestern. He said Elston looked really good -- had a nice looking outside jumper and also threw down a monster dunk. The game itself was ugly with Tipton winning 42-30. Elston only had 11 points in such a low-scoring game, but Matt was impressed.
cook:
i missed the last and most important elbow. how serious is this? in this state of IU bball is he not representing us well? is it to the point that he's not worth the bad image?
My guess is Dumes gets suspended for one game. The idea of him not representing us well and that he's not worth the bad image had not entered my mind. I think these were more "in the heat of battle" plays. What makes this situation interesting is that he threw a total of 3 elbows in a single game. I would throw out the first one, but the last two were intentional, so that's why I think there will be a suspension.
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