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Message: [QUOTE="Iluvsuebird, post: 5358687, member: 12567"] I will probably get hammered for this take, but this team reminds me of the 23 team. Hear me out: -- 2023 team had 3 guys who could run the offense. 2025 team does as well. --2023 team had a couple of sharpshooters in Hawk and Alex, along with a killer in Cam. 2025 team has 2 sharpshooters (Solo and Mullins) and a plethora of players who can score in multiple ways. Oh, and we have a better version of Alex. --2023 team had a defensive stopper on the wing. These two exhibition games tell me that Ross is going to be that guy. And did you see how Silas and Malachi defend the ball handler? And we saw Stewart defend the nation's leading scorer last year. Nasty. --2023 team had guys who could create their own shots when the 3 was not working. 2025 team has that too. Solo looks different driving the ball. Objectively speaking, he looks more comfortable driving the lane. Alex looks more assertive driving to the basket. And Mullins is coming back kids. We didn't see Silas do this last night, but watching his Georgia days, he surely has that in his game. ****The biggest difference is the center position. 2023 team had Sanogo and Clingan. Enough said. Not going to argue against them. But if Bear comes back healthy, these last two games showed us that Riebe will be okay playing 15 minutes. And Koroma can play too. We are going to be okay at center. I love this team. I do not think we know the ceiling yet, and that is a good thing. We are, after all, missing our starting center and our starting wing. And despite those injuries, we dominated an ACC team and a top 25 team. And please do not tell me that MSU is not a top 25 team. How many years have we heard that about a Izzo lead team only to see them play in March? Jayden Ross looks different. Forget about his stats, and they are nice. I think he is different between the ears. In both exhibition games he badly missed on the first shots he took, and he did not let that affect him. Point of fact, he kept being aggressive. That is progress. Up until now, we have not seen what Hurley sees in practice. Well, we have seen it now in two exhibition games. My last take is about fouls. I know that we committed dumb fouls, particularly in the second half. But the refs were calling a ridiculous game. A lot of the fouls called on the perimeter were not reach in fouls. They were ticki-tacki fouls that most refs dont call. The eye ball test tells me that this team will guard at a high level. [/QUOTE]

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