Markus Howard Poised For Breakout Tournament

[naginiF]

I just hope we can protect the ball. If our shots start falling we'll have a chance. Otherwise it will be just like Seton Hall.

I'm all for getting drunk on optimism but you are absolutely correct - just like the Hall if they impose their physicality, and we go a little cold, we'll have a big issue.

Also, it's threads like this where other fans come over and conclude "what a bunch of ungrounded tools".  Some because they don't understand teal or that 75% of responses are mocking the original post, but some because it's a preposterous declaration to make from a 10 seed.

[Babybluejeans]

Markus could have several hot 3 point shooting games in a row and literally carry the team all the way to the final four.

If Markus literally carries the team on his back all the way to Phoenix, Arizona, there's a story much bigger than Marquette basketball!

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

If Markus breaks out, some Proactive will clear it right up.

[Tower913]

SC guards go 6ft 5, 6ft 6 and 6ft 2, 225 in their 3 guard offense.  Will be a matchup issue on defense for Howard and Rowsey.  I look for more JJJ, Cheatham and Reinhardt as the factors.  Howard and Rowsey may be quicker, etc, but need to makes stops and that is a considerable size deficiency.

You would think this would be the case, but as we saw against Seton Hall - it was not.  We went small against Hall with Rowsey and Howard going for 34 and 31 minutes.  Duane 15.  Length bothers all three of those guys, tremendously.

Playing Howard, Rowsey, and Duane together is a fools errand against teams like Hall and South Carolina.  Hopefully Wojo adjusts, yet even after seeing in the first half against Hall the three small lineup was ineffective with Duane really struggling, he still rolled out the same starting lineup in the 2nd half, and not surprisingly, the doors got blown off.

The clear cut best players on the team are: Howard, Rowsey, JJ, Reinhardt, Hauser, Fischer, Heldt.  Max their minutes.

[downtown85]

I love the optimism on this board.  Getting psyched!