{"id":1666,"date":"2019-04-07T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:41:25","slug":"another-defensive-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Another defensive battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech&#8217;s defense is smothering &#8211; they are crazy physical and they have completely frustrated Michigan State&#8217;s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State&#8217;s defense is also pretty amazing, as Texas Tech isn&#8217;t getting any open looks either.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to state this is with 7 minutes and 37 second, Cassius Winston made a layup to stop an 8 point run by the Red Raiders and cut their lead to 19-18.  The score at half time is 23-21.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, in the final 7 1\/2 minutes of the first half, Texas Tech had 12 possessions and only scored 4 points (2 free throws and a jumper in the lane from Matt Mooney) and Michigan State had 11 possessions and only scored 3 points off a Cassius Winston three-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Texas Tech Red Raiders had a 1 point lead, only scored twice on the next 12 possessions and somehow expanded their lead to 2 points.<\/p>\n<p>You can not make this stuff up!!!!  This could be the first team to 50 wins &#8211; assuming either team makes it to 50.  But consider the entire Elite 8 and the play so far in the Final 4, you have to figure it will be crazy exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech&#8217;s defense is smothering &#8211; they are crazy physical and they have completely frustrated Michigan State&#8217;s offense. Michigan State&#8217;s defense is also pretty amazing, as Texas Tech isn&#8217;t getting any open looks either. The easiest way to state this is with 7 minutes and 37 second, Cassius Winston made a layup to stop an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}