MSU-Butler 1st Half

These teams are very good defensive teams, but this half we're seeing quite a bit of bad offense. Lots of missed shots, a few turnovers.

Draymond Green is one of the strangest basketball players I've seen. I've seen big football-player looking b-ball players before, but they're centers or power forwards. Green is a wing player, and twice in that half I saw him put the ball on the floor and beat his man off the dribble. That's odd considering he looks like Robert (Tractor) Traylor.

Michigan State's offense really stagnated at the end of the first half, but Butler got 0 field goals from everyone on their team not named Mack or Hayward. Like I said earlier, the offense did not impress overall.

I didn't like the timeout Butler's 12-year-old looking coach called with 2.5 seconds left, for 2 reasons. First, they need to change the rule and force the player with the ball to call the timeout. Letting the coach do it from the sideline totally changes the game, and at least twice this tournament the time out has been granted even though the player didn't have possession of the ball when the time out was called. Second, what are the odds of a successful play with 2.5 seconds left when you have to inbound the ball 92 feet from the basket? I'd estimate 0.8%. He might want that 4th timeout in the last couple of minutes.

Edge to Butler after the first half. None of their players have 3 fouls, only 2 players actually hit a field goal, and they are tied with Michigan State.