Tonight's game against Nebraska will be aired on a tape-delay basis. Unless you are a subscriber to ESPN's Full Court package you will have to wait until 8:30 to watch the game that will tip-off in Lincoln at 7 p.m.
I am going to try to avoid hearing or seeing a score until then and after watching the delayed broadcast I will post my thoughts on the Tigers' performance.
On a side note, Ric Bucher named former Tiger Linas Kleiza to his First Galaxy Non-Star Team (this is actually a good thing). Here's what he had to say about Linas:
"He's scored 20-plus seven times, including a 41-point burst against the Utah Jazz. But he's just as capable of committing all his energy (and considerable athleticism) to playing lockdown defense, even if it means bodying up LeBron. No wonder the Kings asked for him as part of any deal for Ron Artest. Equally no wonder the Nuggets said forget it."
Where was that lockdown defense during his tenure in Columbia? I can remember seeing Kleiza getting abused by some relatively average big men in the Big 12.
Linas might have been the most gifted player to ever put on a Tiger uniform but I always thought he saw Mizzou as nothing more than a stepping stone that he could use to advance his own career. He was not a very team-oriented player and often clashed with Quin Snyder (although that's not saying much). Nevertheless, it's good to see a former Tiger having some success in the League.
1 comment:
Yeah, where was Kleiza when we needed him? He could have taken us to the NCAA's
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