The Valenti Show with Rico - Michigan State blew their chance at the Final Four

[@markheidema3699]

When KState's PG got hurt, I told my wife..."Attack him now!" It never happened. Too many players thinking and not reacting. I was waiting for that Spartan defense, it never happened. I was waiting for MSU to increase the Offensive tempo and it never happened. That last play was too cerebral and was a microcosm of the entire game. Sad ending that should've never occurred. Credit to K State, they played well to win.

[@jeffyj9998]

Keep on pumping Mr. March as he gets older and sadder and turns into Jim Boeheim before you know it

[@smsv2806]

Immediately Rico chimes in… man this guy just doesn’t get it

[@adamchika8330]

Nononononononoono I hate when he starts like that to make a corny joke or an unnecessary comment. Does Mike not get it?

[@jaymewhilden1457]

People don't like Rico because he replaced a very popular terry foster

[@BABWearing]

​@@jaymewhilden1457 Terry knew when to let Mike cook

[@coreypatterson1007]

Mike talks too much too sometimes! 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@Be_Honest_Not_Afraid]

@@jaymewhilden1457 He didn’t replace Terry…. Terry had a stroke (probably due to the stress) on air. Tried coming back and it couldn’t work (plus some personal issues with the show members). Valenti went like what? 2 years without him? Then had Rico come in….

[@edwardrichardson9543]

The yearly review Michigan choked against TCU Michigan St choked against Kansas St

[@gagebyers1057]

Maybe the big 12 is a lot better than you big 10 dick riders want to believe

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

State of Michigan stinks period pro college

[@SR-hf3hx]

Respect for that comment...too many people way too sensitive on here

[@collegefootballwithsam]

The ego check was needed for both fanbases.

[@ericspicer5132]

There will always be Michigan fans who act like Valenti is a homer but he shits on his team more than anyone else. Michigan State's program is 100% above doing a moral victory parade and they choked away a chance to play for a Final Four. I don't care if they were supposed to be there or not. They were there and they blew it

[@MaximumOutdoor]

Mike you hit the nail on the head. We over helped on Nowell all game. I kept begging izzo to let him try and shoot over our players!!!

[@andrewsielski]

Why do I hear an echo of Mike?

[@Dylan-qy5tc]

Still a solid season, there's a lot to build off of next season with all the recruits and seniors hopefully coming back. Could be worse, we could be the other school down the road.

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Build off of lol what a joke sounds like a usual Detroit sports theme you know what the rebuild is get a better coach

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Solid season ??? Lol they did nothing

[@Dylan-qy5tc]

@@ericaallispn-xm1mv Why would I replace a coach who has 15 sweet sixteens, 8 final fours, and the #3 class coming in? Lmao

[@Dylan-qy5tc]

@@ericaallispn-xm1mv Sweet Sixteen? Best B10 team? Uhhhh

[@Dylan-qy5tc]

@Monkey Monkey Izzo has a winning record against Juwan, We celebrate final fours, UM finished bottom of the B10. NIT NIT NIT LITTLE BRO

[@tgray8593]

No one likes Rico because he begins everything with, " Here's the thing"....lmao

[@Illside]

I'm just happy the Malik Hall era is finally over. Thank you lord.

[@noah.conley]

Shame on you, dude gets a foot injury and isn’t the same player when he returns. He was electric before the injury and he never got hurt. He would have been a lot better in March

[@msufan1041]

@@noah.conley too bad, people get hurt. Fall in love with him or move on

[@CarsonClaws]

Nowell was outstanding. If your PG has 19 assists, you should win the game

[@AdamLovesHorror]

Most of those assists are what Mike is talking about here. Excellent game by Nowell, poorly coached defense by Izzo.

[@soarinskies1105]

Uh if Izzos brain had actually been functioning in that game he would have schemed his defense so that his team would stop releasing from the guy on the low block to double team no well. The reason nowell got 19 assists was because the defender on the block kept releasing his guy and going out to double team nowell whenever he started driving towards the basket, nowell would then easily see this and feed the big man down on the low post for an easy 2 points. When MSU’s players had just single covered nowell KSU scored a lot less points because nowell would then attempt to play hero ball and shoot it himself because the guy on the low post would still be covered. Bottom line is MSU should have won that game but they didn’t because IZZO had an unbelievably horrible gameplan on defense and failed to recognize that he had to adjust his defense to not double team nowell.

[@HotspurFC-cu6ny]

A 15 minute valenti video after one of his teams lose oh boy this’ll be good lol

[@jasonrhodes7047]

When you don't play defense you can expect to win.

[@stevekov6740]

Oh hey, so should I wear a Kansas State shirt to the Michigan spring football game on Saturday? Or how about other UM fans doing so while watching Michigan hockey play in the Frozen Four next Thursday??? That's how ridiculous those spartan fans looked at the UM-Msu basketball game wearing TCU shirts.

[@googleface5]

They had plenty of opportunities to win the game. Make some free throws, make even just a couple of stops, make the open shots. Oh well, but I don't agree with wanting Izzo to keep his mouth shut. He's been here almost 30 years, that buzzer beater Nowell shot on one leg just chucking it up was LUCKY, and other contested shots can be argued but I think they were also LUCKY. He's a Hall of Famer, let him tell it how it is. Izzo still gave them far more credit than the "lucky" statement, and acknowledged that they failed to respond to even the lucky plays.

[@SR-hf3hx]

It always comes back to Harbaugh lol even during a basketball tournament that michigan didn't participate in...that's obsession

[@coreypatterson1007]

Bye bye state no shit talking today huh! 😂😂

[@stevebayoffjr7221]

“Blew their chance at a final four.” Lol, msu was 19-11 during the season. Just be happy you made it out of the first weekend of the tournament.

[@ericspicer5132]

That doesnt mean they didnt blow their chance at a final four

[@soarinskies1105]

If they won that game barring a total and utter collapse against FAU, they would have at least made the final four and had a pretty decent shot at beating San Diego state in the final four. They would have definitely lost to UCONN in the title game because Sunoco was too unstoppable, and UCONNS guard play, their offensive flow, and their ball movement was some of the best in the tournament.

[@YTSparty]

Yeah I hated that game. All along I thought MSU should be favored because our defense matched up well against a single point guard who has a lot of assists. We shut down Jalen Picket, Boogie Ellis and Tyler Kolek, all with comparable stats to Nowell. When you see Nowell just fire pass after pass to open guys under the basket, I wanted to vomit. The turnovers were bad enough, but easy baskets is exactly the last thing I expected to see. And I have no clue what the point of the lineups Izzo was running with in the 1st half. It reminded me of the OSU game where it just felt like Izzo didn't care and the players had to carry the team. Maybe Izzo thought we could run with KState, start making 3s and win a track meet. Defense be damned. It almost worked. Next year. No one expected this team to get to the S16.

[@johnnyblockchain4238]

Nowell sees plays 3 seconds before they happen.

[@YTSparty]

Valenti doesn't know who Meadowlark Lemon is? Er. ok. Oh yeah I forgot, Valenti is 25 years old.... **rolls eyes**

[@Brotherken1234]

Quit nitpicking. When Rico said "Harlem Globetrotters". Mike immediately remembered. Stop being so damned petty. 👎

[@nickmatthewsmusicstudio]

Tom Izzo is done. Hope MSU has a plan to replace him, he's not making it back to the Final Four

[@jwpetr]

Simply said... Isso was out-couched

[@jwpetr]

EMAW !!!

[@coltrxne2154]

I thought we had a terrible game compared to what was possible. All night I was yelling about lackadaisical defense, guys standing around with their head in the clouds. Something was off. Nowell is good but not that good. We gave him easy passes all night. The offensive gameplan was confusing. There’s no reason one guy should beat you. If they had played just squared up man on man defense and not helped so much we would have been fine on that end. Terrible awareness of Massoud all night long. The last play was a joke and that’s on Tom. It’s almost like the broadcast was mocking the Mr. March trope

[@HokageFlete]

Natty next year. That’s the floor. Natty next year 100%. Izzo is itching for that 2nd natty.

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Izzo is done

[@HokageFlete]

@@ericaallispn-xm1mv lol

[@goodfella8143]

Jus could they of at least got a shot up in that last few seconds IT wouldn't of looked like we blew it

[@TommyB1]

hahahahahahah same old sparty

[@cookingwithkyandlani4124]

I’ve said it all year Malik Hall has been a bum. He hurt MSU all year and people claimed he makes them better. That last 45 secs proved what I’ve been saying all year. Please don’t come back next year Malik.

[@SR-hf3hx]

There was 1 play that proves valenti right and I never agree with him...that alley oop lob while pretending to argue with tang cannot happen

[@tomwanner5786]

I think there doing a disservice to Noel due to his size. I watched every dribble of there game vs Kentucky before State, he did it to them too although more with his scoring. He had 27 and 9 assists. The kid can play. Period.

[@HeizKrea]

Im sure he dont mean he cant play because of his size....just was saying give him a tough match up

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Michigan state proved again that they're a failure under Izzo the big ten is an embarrassment even their first two opponents usc Marquette whoopty do they lost to a team that basically half of the teams in the lower conferences could beat Michigan state proved they're a failure in ncaa play sweet sixteen so what gsr rid of izzo

[@jasperdriver8546]

Markquis Nowell look like Oscar Robertson last night. Tom Izzo could draw up every Defense in the book to try and stop him. It wasn’t gonna work. I’m going to give kids a State their flowers and say they wanted it more than Michigan State that night.

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

Not impressed by msu they showed what. a lousy team they were this season never should have been in tournament

[@ericaallispn-xm1mv]

People are idiots calling it great game yeah if your Kansas state it was

[@mattnorcia5593]

I’m a big ten guy and was rooting for MSU but I had to admit it was exciting and fun to watch. But I get it if your an MSU fan, the defense getting schooled by Nowell had to be hard to watch.

[@mgoboski]

It's okay Sparty, a glorious 6-6 football season and more of Tuck not comin awaits 😂

[@goodwi11]

Honestly I feel like Juwan’s gonna turn it around next year and run the table in the NIT.

[@mgoboski]

@@goodwi11 Nobody cares about college basketball. I'll take football supremacy any day. It's 20x as popular as college basketball for a reason.

[@goodwi11]

@@mgoboski clearly you don’t care

[@YTSparty]

@@goodwi11 Or at least make the finals and lose to Vanderbilt then.

[@YTSparty]

@@mgoboski If only you had the option to take football supremacy. But then again, you'd take bowling supremacy so we know where you're coming from. Tuck 2 Hardballs 1 - is that supremacy?

[@fredleinweber2819]

Valenti is so ridiculously salty. You can be a little bitter at the loss while also recognizing that it was a phenominal tourney game. Dismissing it is pretty disingenuous.