Center Court: Ben Ball (Mississippi State) Scouting Open Thread
by Nestor on Dec 10, 2009 3:37 PM PST
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PrintWell even though no on really called out for an open thread around the Bulldogs game tonight. The game just tipped off minutes ago on ESPN2. You can track it on WWL here. I think we might as well use the occasion to check out Jarvis Varnado and his Bulldogs team-mates take on DePaul Blue Demons before they make their way to Anaheim on Sat.
As of right now you can find our current notes on Bulldogs to date over here. If you are watching the game tonight, please use this thread to share your observations and quick commentary. Fire away.
GO BRUINS.
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Just got home and got the game one
Let’s see what we’ve got on tap.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 3:59 PM PST reply actions
At first glance
they’re not a very strong team. They don’t look particularly strong, which is good because we’re not either.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:02 PM PST reply actions
Yeah
They’re not super explosive off the dribble, but move the ball well and can really shoot the ball. In case anyone was wondering, this is not the team we show zone against.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
When I was doing the podcast last night
I was looking up some numbers are Mississippi St. was in the top 20 in the country from 3, I believe, and this game will make it go up even more. Dee Bost was over 50% on the year before tonight.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
Bost can also pressure high defensively
It will be a good test for JA/ML and whether they can effectively initiate the offense with pressure.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
On ESPN
They have the College Football Awards Show. Troy Aikman is presenting the Davey O’Brien Award right now.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:06 PM PST reply actions
Aikman gives the award to Colt McCoy
Can’t Aikman just take home the trophy? I’m going to keep an eye on this awards show and see if Kai can win the Lou Groza. He should win it.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions
Wooooooo!
We found a team worse than us from the line! DePaul is 54% from the line. We’re all the way up at 56% What now?!?!?
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:13 PM PST reply actions
Not a clue
They look as bad this year as they were last year and they were god awful last season.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:17 PM PST up reply actions
Toby Gerhart beats our Ingram and Spiller for the Doak Walker Award
Best running back in the country
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:17 PM PST reply actions
Kai's award may be coming up after this commercial
It will be either best kicker or best punter.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:21 PM PST reply actions
Kai gets to the Lous Groza!
Love hearing that fight song.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:27 PM PST reply actions
One of these days
we’ll be able to hear the fight song for awards other than kicking or tight end play.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
They're doing the Jim Thorpe Award now
and Eric Berry is a candidate. He is the best defensive player I’ve ever seen in person. The guy is so good.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:30 PM PST reply actions
2nd half has started
DePaul is still inept
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 10, 2009 4:37 PM PST reply actions
This is unbelievable blowout so far, just turned it on
and I’m upset i missed the college football awards, finals week going here as well…i’d love to see the little blurb Kai gave if Tele or anyone can get their hands on it
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
I've got three left (music, anthropology, and stats)
and pretty much by process of elimination I’m currently an econ. major but I really don’t care for it : (…can’t wait to get home, I think I may have a shot at making it to both Rose Bowl games this year!
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Looking forward to this game.
The Bulldogs look just as scrappy as the Bruins, just with a lot more talent and athleticism. They know Varnado is their bread and butter and they were able to get the ball to him with ease. The Bulldogs perimeter players look like solid shooters and don’t hesitate to shoot at all.
I expect a hard fought game with the Bruins losing by 7. This game looks winnable but only if someone steps up and shoots out of their mind (Roll, Lee and even…Nik) and the Bruins play perfect Ben Ball. A modified zone anyone? Go Bruins.
Side note: I’m thinking the Pac-10 sends only 3 teams at the most to the big dance this season. 1 or 2 seems like a more reasonable number.
33 Wins. Yeah, I said it.
Bulldogs get 40% of their scoring from behind the Arc
that puts them in the top-10 among all D-1 teams in reliance on 3-point shots (27% is the current D-1 average). Last year, with the same starting 5, MSU got 1/3 of its scoring off of 3’s. Varnado can certainly put forth a dominant performance, but I am far more concerned with their guards shooting us out of this game. Even moreso than Kansas, this is not the game to unleash the zone.
formerly bruinhoo
Well, now I'm worried
about MSU and Ollie. Or anyone else who doesn’t really care for his major, for that matter. Listen to Nestor. Also worried about the idea of zoning a team loaded with 3-point shooters. But not all that worried about CBH coming up with the correct plan for meeting this challenge. In fact, normal Ben Ball is perfect, seems to me. DePaul had something similar in mind, but not the horses to execute it. If we can handle their guard pressure and make a few shots (not a certainty, I know), we’ll be there at the end.
Old Time Geezer Rant
..for you young whippersnappers (he said, affecting his best Gabby Hayes drawl) who might not realize it, MSU was one of the whistle-stops for former SUC head coach, Bob Boyd. (A.K.A., Boobus Boydus) who rolled up some pretty respectable performances as a coach and, arguably the best SUC roundball squad of all time at 24-2 in 1971, the only two losses being to the Wizard. He is also credited with the first two defeats of UCLA in Pauley, one of them being a full-on stall special.
Boobus got tired of producing good teams only to be prevented from going to the big dance because of the one-team-per-conference rule at the time, so he moved on to MSU, then to Riverside CC, Chapman University, and a couple of odd assistant coaching jobs before ending up in his current position as head of the paint department in the Rancho Cucamonga Home Depot.
God, it's great to be a Bruin!
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