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Daily Bullets (Dec. 15): Likekele’s Two Way Talents, OSU Lost to an NBA Team in 2017

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As Chuba finished eighth (!) in the Heisman voting, SI pointed to his season as they named him their first-team running back: he quietly had one of the best seasons in college football. 


Bullets Rundown

• Likekele – a two-trick (two-way) pony
• OSU lost to an all-time Michigan team
• Tony Allen one-liner


OSU Bullets

• As the Pokes take on Houston today and Isaac Likekele still appears to be scheduled out for the game (illness), there are two things that Likekele provides that OSU’s is missing.

Likekele is a strong 6-foot-4, 215-pound sophomore who welcomes physicality and is OSU’s best on-ball defender. Boynton said Likekele’s play is better the more competitive the environment. That was best put on display in Brooklyn when Likekele scored a career-high 26 points to go with eight assists, five steals and five rebounds against Syracuse.

Likekele was leading OSU at 13.7 points per game and nearly three steals per game before he got sick. Yor Anei is OSU’s best shot-blocker, but the defensive intensity starts with Likekele. Likekele brings a confident presence that is contagious to the rest of the team. [TulsaWorld]

1) Defensive prowess highlighted by an added level intensity and superb on-ball defense and

2) Nearly 14 points a game good for the team lead in an egalitarian approach set up to spread the ball where an alpha scorer is missing.

• In a fun (and sort of disheartening) piece by Berry Tramel looking at OSU’s tournament games since Travis Ford’s first year playing Pitt, the Michigan team OSU took to the wire stands out.

Point guard Jawun Evans had 23 points and 12 assists. Jeffrey Carroll made six of eight shots and scored 19 points. OSU got 12 points each from Phil Forte III and Davon Dillard, and 10 points from Leyton Hammonds.

But Michigan played even better offense. The Wolverines shot 51.8 percent from the field and made 16 of 29 3-point shots.

And there’s a reason why Michigan was so good that day. The Wolverines had big-time players.

Four Wolverines off that team are in the NBA. [NewsOK]

Four pros on that Wolverine team! And a pro coach too with John Beilein taking over the Cleveland Caveliers this year. Brad Underwood and Travis Ford’s players were a perfect fit.

Cowboy great Tony Allen gets name-dropped in Adam Sandler’s new movie “Uncut Gems” – particularly an informal question about who they would take in a fight about two of the toughest guys who have been in the NBA.

When (Adam) Sandler’s character first meets (Kevin) Garnett, he peppers Garnett with random NBA questions. One of them: Who would win in a fight between Ben Wallace and Tony Allen? Garnett’s answer: “TA, all day!” [ESPN]

• ESPN has the Texas Bowl as one of the top 15 best matchups this year

• LSU’s Heisman winner Joe Burrow has had a pretty wild development but this post outlines it well

• This was a boss move – an Iowa player left his signed shoes on the floor after silencing Iowa State.

Fun recruiting idea – have every assistant pick the best kick returner in their area (OSU divides coaches up into regions historically) and use your last offer on that guy.


Non-OSU Bullets

• Good read on the variability of “accomplishments”
• Liked this faith-based read on the subjectivity (yet validity) of trials
• Finished this fun fiction read about a fixed national lottery
• It could just be the Heat looking for leverage for a CP3 trade but it sounds like they’re souring on a move for him

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