Deivon Smith

[Joebob]

The fire Howland crowd is dumb regardless of whether next year's team will be better or not.

Good lord man, Howland can’t coach! What’s it going to take for you guys to realize this? Have you ever watched a team that’s well coached? Howland’s teams exhibit none of those characteristics. Yes they’re talented, but so what? We’ve been hearing about their talent for five years. They underachieve every year, and guys like you keep sticking your head in the sand about it.

[99jc]

Howland needs to take his sorry ass back to the west coast with Moorhead.

[jdelta02]

Grayson gets the win tonight. They move on to the next round.

Deivon Smith
10 points
9 rebounds
7 assists

[HoopsDawg]

Grayson gets the win tonight. They move on to the next round.

Deivon Smith
10 pts
11 assists

How's he look from 3 point range?

[Pipedream]

Good lord man, Howland can?t coach! What?s it going to take for you guys to realize this? Have you ever watched a team that?s well coached? Howland?s teams exhibit none of those characteristics. Yes they?re talented, but so what? We?ve been hearing about their talent for five years. They underachieve every year, and guys like you keep sticking your head in the sand about it.

I know everyone has stupid fans on the internet, but shit this is on the Mt. Rushmore of stupid takes. State fans in general are dumb as hell about basketball.

[KentuckyDawg13]

Congrats! Dumbass MSU fan of the day!

[jdelta02]

How's he look from 3 point range?

He made 1 shot from out there where he was standing on the 3 point line. Missed another attempt. Was mostly busy distributing to teammates. They have a very well coached team with good shooters throughout the roster, and play an up tempo style. Deivon is one of the fastest guards around with the ball, and plays mostly under control, but attempts very acrobatic layups and dunks at times. Looks as fast as Gary Ervin. Also, looks really good on defense.

Looks like a Bruce Pearl or Nolan Richardson type point guard.

They have a shooting guard named Caleb Murphy (South Florida signee)...looks like the real deal. I see where Murphy had a Miss. State offer as well as other top schools, but ultimately signed with South Florida.

[Joebob]

I know everyone has stupid fans on the internet, but shit this is on the Mt. Rushmore of stupid takes. State fans in general are dumb as hell about basketball.

I’m not even going to try to explain it to you. There’s been a myriad of posts by other people on this board that have detailed all of the coaching shortcomings of this team for the last five years. You can scroll back through them if you want, or not. I don’t really care what you think. I can only tell you that at the end of this season, Howland’s MSU teams will still have the same number of NCAA tournament wins as Rick Ray. Chew on that for a while.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

Good lord man, Howland can?t coach! What?s it going to take for you guys to realize this? Have you ever watched a team that?s well coached? Howland?s teams exhibit none of those characteristics. Yes they?re talented, but so what? We?ve been hearing about their talent for five years. They underachieve every year, and guys like you keep sticking your head in the sand about it.

Yep!!! We have enough talent on this team to be 1st in the SEC this year and here we are f***ing struggling to make the damn tournament

[msstate7]

Yep!!! We have enough talent on this team to be 1st in the SEC this year and here we are f***ing struggling to make the damn tournament

More talented than Kentucky, auburn, LSU, and Florida? Doubt that.

[preachermatt83]

The fire Howland crowd is dumb regardless of whether next year's team will be better or not.

This all day

[Johnson85]

Good lord man, Howland can’t coach! What’s it going to take for you guys to realize this? Have you ever watched a team that’s well coached? Howland’s teams exhibit none of those characteristics. Yes they’re talented, but so what? We’ve been hearing about their talent for five years. They underachieve every year, and guys like you keep sticking your head in the sand about it.

The guy that went to back to three consecutive final fours can't coach? The guy that won the Pac12 four times in ten years? And finished second another two times?

Our team does some things well and other things poorly. Some of that is that the game has changed, some of that is that our natural recruiting area doesn't produce a lot of polished talent, some of that is probably that Howland doesn't have a slate of assistant coaches that are particularly good at the teaching/coaching part.

But even taking your opinion as true, it's still dumb to think firing Howland is a good idea right now. We are not a super desirable job in basketball. Certainly a good job, but not one that a lot of hot up and comers are going to jump at. Anybody that can keep us on the bubble consistently without embarrassing off the court incidents is somebody we shouldn't fire. That's certainly not our ceiling, but it's good enough that we are likely to downgrade if we fire our coach and take a flyer on a new coach.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

More talented than Kentucky, auburn, LSU, and Florida? Doubt that.

We have ENOUGH to be number 1 in the SEC. Meaning we have enough talent to beat any of those teams on any given night.. We can't though because Howland is washed up and done.

Side note: Thanks to the coward who sent me reputation points with "Stupidity".

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

The guy that went to back to three consecutive final fours can't coach? The guy that won the Pac12 four times in ten years? And finished second another two times?

That is exactly what I am saying....that was 12-15 years ago. He is not even close to the same coach.