Hasheem Thabeet: The Tanzanian Phenom
Hasheem Thabeet: The Tanzanian Phenom
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Nyani Ngabu
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Kwa kweli leo Hasheem kajitahidi...alikuwa ana hustle kichizi yaani!! Dogo anazidi ku improve...
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Ha ha ha LOL! Nyani I was thinking the same thing... about the final game on Monday
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Kwenye bracket yangu nilikuwa nimewapick Huskies kwenda all tha way....hehehehee...dola mia tatu nshazikosa....gademu Spartans...usikute Mwanakijiji kafurahi walivyoshinda....
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Michigan State stuns UConn to reach title game
Posted: Sat, Apr 04, 09 - 10:12:52 PM EDT
Things got testy in the first half between UConn and Michigan State.
Full ArticleBy By Andy Staples, SI.com
Detroit: - The possession that cinched it, fittingly enough, began with a steal. Michigan State guard Travis Walton, the soul of a team that clawed its way to the Final Four with defense, grit and bloodied bodies, stripped Connecticut forward Stanley Robinson. The strip set up a Hail Mary from guard Kalin Lucas to forward Raymar Morgan, who jammed the ball home with a scream with 3:18 remaining Saturday in the national semifinal game.The next sound was a whistle confirming UConn coach Jim Calhoun's timeout call, but no amount of coaching could help the Huskies. The Spartans had bent yet another team to their will. Thirty years after Earvin Johnson led Michigan State to its first national title in a game that changed college basketball forever, Johnson's alma mater has a chance to produce a little more magic. Playing 92 miles from campus in front of a Final Four-record crowd clad mostly in green and white, the Spartans beat Connecticut, 82-73, to advance to the national title game (BOX SCORE).The win provided a brief moment of joy for a state that has suffered more than any other from the nation's recent economic downturn. The week began with news that Detroit-based General Motors, one of the state's largest employers, may have to file for bankruptcy. Thanks to the Spartans, the week ended with much happier news."We are the blue-collar team. This is the blue-collar city," said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, a Michigan native who has led teams to the Final Four five times since taking over the program in 1995. "It was just amazing, amazing to walk out of that tunnel. ... Yes, there were a lot of Michigan State fans in there. I think other people thought it was an incredible setting. I am appreciative for that. I'm appreciative for the people. I hope we were a ray of sunshine, a distraction for them, diversion, anything else we can be."Lucas scored 21 to lead Michigan State, and the Spartans racked up 11 steals. Center Hasheem Thabeet scored 17 to lead the Huskies, who shot 35.3 percent in the second half. Michigan State's bench outscored UConn's bench, 33-7. "We thought we had depth over them," Izzo said. "That's why we had to run and wanted to run."The running seemed to surprise the Huskies, who expected a Big Ten slog based on the Michigan State games they watched in preparation for Saturday."In all honesty, and I truly, truly believe this, they played different," UConn coach Jim Calhoun said. "We played Purdue. We played Michigan. We beat Wisconsin by 20. We've seen teams they played. We saw tapes of the games. And that's a different team. That's a different team. And they were different against Louisville. Special. They were close to a special team tonight."Michigan State also got 18 points and nine rebounds from Morgan, who played just 23 minutes combined against Kansas and Louisville last weekend. A flailing elbow from a Jayhawk broke Morgan's nose early in the second half of the Kansas game. Against Louisville, Morgan struggled with the mask he had to wear to protect his nose. Saturday, Morgan seemed more comfortable with his mask. "Raymar, keep wearing the mask, please," Lucas joked to his teammate after the win.The Spartans will play in the NCAA title game for the first time since 2000, when a team led by Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson beat Florida in Indianapolis to claim the school's second national title. Michigan State will face the winner of Saturday's Villanova-North Carolina semifinal on Monday night.Whoever faces the Spartans had better come prepared for a fight. Much like last week's Midwest Region final win against Louisville, Michigan State kept the score close for 25 minutes. The teams traded baskets for most of the first half. After UConn erased an early seven-point deficit, neither team trailed by more than five for the remainder of the half, and Michigan State went into the break up 38-36. They also nearly came to blows; with 1:55 remaining, Spartans Travis Walton and Marquise Gray squared off with Huskies Hasheem Thabeet and Jeff Adrien after Walton committed a hard foul on Adrien. Both coaches took the floor as officials separated the players. Officials spent several minutes watching a replay of the fracas on a courtside video monitor, but they elected not to charge anyone with a technical foul.As time dwindled, the Spartans' constant harassment ground down the Huskies. A pair of fast-break baskets - one set up by a steal - seven minutes into the second half gave the Spartans a lead they never would relinquish. With 5:55 remaining, Michigan State guard Durrell Summers, a Detroit native, blasted down the court on a fast break, elevated and threw down a vicious one-handed slam in the face of UConn's Stanley Robinson. The dunk gave the Spartans a 10-point lead, and it seemed to crush the Huskies' spirits. "We saw their heads kind of drop a little bit," Summers said.UConn would cut Michigan State's lead to 73-69 on an unusual four-point possession with 1:26 remaining that included a Thabeet layup, a loose-ball foul that knocked Thabeet from the game briefly and a pair of free throws by substitute Craig Austrie, but Summers converted a three-point play 26 seconds later.After the clock struck zero, Michigan State players circled the court, saluting a crowd that never stopped roaring from tip-off to buzzer. For a suffering state in dire need of any kind of hope, the Spartans provided a reason to cheer.
Posted: Sat, Apr 04, 09 - 10:12:52 PM EDT
Things got testy in the first half between UConn and Michigan State.
Full ArticleBy By Andy Staples, SI.com
Detroit: - The possession that cinched it, fittingly enough, began with a steal. Michigan State guard Travis Walton, the soul of a team that clawed its way to the Final Four with defense, grit and bloodied bodies, stripped Connecticut forward Stanley Robinson. The strip set up a Hail Mary from guard Kalin Lucas to forward Raymar Morgan, who jammed the ball home with a scream with 3:18 remaining Saturday in the national semifinal game.The next sound was a whistle confirming UConn coach Jim Calhoun's timeout call, but no amount of coaching could help the Huskies. The Spartans had bent yet another team to their will. Thirty years after Earvin Johnson led Michigan State to its first national title in a game that changed college basketball forever, Johnson's alma mater has a chance to produce a little more magic. Playing 92 miles from campus in front of a Final Four-record crowd clad mostly in green and white, the Spartans beat Connecticut, 82-73, to advance to the national title game (BOX SCORE).The win provided a brief moment of joy for a state that has suffered more than any other from the nation's recent economic downturn. The week began with news that Detroit-based General Motors, one of the state's largest employers, may have to file for bankruptcy. Thanks to the Spartans, the week ended with much happier news."We are the blue-collar team. This is the blue-collar city," said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, a Michigan native who has led teams to the Final Four five times since taking over the program in 1995. "It was just amazing, amazing to walk out of that tunnel. ... Yes, there were a lot of Michigan State fans in there. I think other people thought it was an incredible setting. I am appreciative for that. I'm appreciative for the people. I hope we were a ray of sunshine, a distraction for them, diversion, anything else we can be."Lucas scored 21 to lead Michigan State, and the Spartans racked up 11 steals. Center Hasheem Thabeet scored 17 to lead the Huskies, who shot 35.3 percent in the second half. Michigan State's bench outscored UConn's bench, 33-7. "We thought we had depth over them," Izzo said. "That's why we had to run and wanted to run."The running seemed to surprise the Huskies, who expected a Big Ten slog based on the Michigan State games they watched in preparation for Saturday."In all honesty, and I truly, truly believe this, they played different," UConn coach Jim Calhoun said. "We played Purdue. We played Michigan. We beat Wisconsin by 20. We've seen teams they played. We saw tapes of the games. And that's a different team. That's a different team. And they were different against Louisville. Special. They were close to a special team tonight."Michigan State also got 18 points and nine rebounds from Morgan, who played just 23 minutes combined against Kansas and Louisville last weekend. A flailing elbow from a Jayhawk broke Morgan's nose early in the second half of the Kansas game. Against Louisville, Morgan struggled with the mask he had to wear to protect his nose. Saturday, Morgan seemed more comfortable with his mask. "Raymar, keep wearing the mask, please," Lucas joked to his teammate after the win.The Spartans will play in the NCAA title game for the first time since 2000, when a team led by Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson beat Florida in Indianapolis to claim the school's second national title. Michigan State will face the winner of Saturday's Villanova-North Carolina semifinal on Monday night.Whoever faces the Spartans had better come prepared for a fight. Much like last week's Midwest Region final win against Louisville, Michigan State kept the score close for 25 minutes. The teams traded baskets for most of the first half. After UConn erased an early seven-point deficit, neither team trailed by more than five for the remainder of the half, and Michigan State went into the break up 38-36. They also nearly came to blows; with 1:55 remaining, Spartans Travis Walton and Marquise Gray squared off with Huskies Hasheem Thabeet and Jeff Adrien after Walton committed a hard foul on Adrien. Both coaches took the floor as officials separated the players. Officials spent several minutes watching a replay of the fracas on a courtside video monitor, but they elected not to charge anyone with a technical foul.As time dwindled, the Spartans' constant harassment ground down the Huskies. A pair of fast-break baskets - one set up by a steal - seven minutes into the second half gave the Spartans a lead they never would relinquish. With 5:55 remaining, Michigan State guard Durrell Summers, a Detroit native, blasted down the court on a fast break, elevated and threw down a vicious one-handed slam in the face of UConn's Stanley Robinson. The dunk gave the Spartans a 10-point lead, and it seemed to crush the Huskies' spirits. "We saw their heads kind of drop a little bit," Summers said.UConn would cut Michigan State's lead to 73-69 on an unusual four-point possession with 1:26 remaining that included a Thabeet layup, a loose-ball foul that knocked Thabeet from the game briefly and a pair of free throws by substitute Craig Austrie, but Summers converted a three-point play 26 seconds later.After the clock struck zero, Michigan State players circled the court, saluting a crowd that never stopped roaring from tip-off to buzzer. For a suffering state in dire need of any kind of hope, the Spartans provided a reason to cheer.
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For M'Kijiji na wengine hapa MI, hii ilikua win-win situation.
Maana akipigwa U-conn sisi ndani na akipigwa MI basi mbongo ndani!
Thats whats up!..mtakula jeuri yenu hohoho!!!!!!!
Leo nacheka tu nikipima ngano either way..una swali?..isshhhhhh!!!
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Acha zako Saikosisi,
Soma makala...
By NANCY ARMOUR,
AP National Writer 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
DETROIT (AP)-As his Michigan State teammates hustled downcourt, Kalin Lucas looked around at a stadium ablaze in green and white, turned on his megawatt smile and raised both his arms.
No worries, he seemed to be saying, we've got you.
Carrying an entire state knocked down by the economic crisis is a lot to ask of a group of college kids, but the Spartans are proving they're more than up to the task.
"It means so much, so much," said Magic Johnson, who sat just a few rows behind the Michigan State bench Saturday night. "It's been all bad news the last couple of years."
It's nothing but good news now. Lucas scored 21 points, Raymar Morgan broke out of his late-season slump with 18 and nine rebounds, and the smaller Spartans ran roughshod over Hasheem Thabeet and Connecticut in an 82-73 upset in the Final Four on Saturday night.
The Spartans (31-6) now will play North Carolina for the NCAA title Monday night, giving the city and state at least two more days to forget all the bad news and revel in their Spartans' success.
It's Michigan State's first appearance in the title game since 2000, when the Spartans won their second title.
"One thing we talked about is bringing hope to the city for a whole weekend," said Travis Walton, who dished out eight assists. "People forgetting about their problems, forgetting about what they're going through, just focusing on us and focusing on Michigan State.
"From the moment we were on that court and we won that game, people didn't think about what they was going through outside of this. They was just happy that we won and they can continue to cheer for us on Monday."
How's this for some karma? Johnson, Spartan-in-chief since leading Michigan State to its first title in 1979, will present the game ball before Monday's title game along with Larry Bird.
"I hope we were a ray of sunshine, a distraction for them, a diversion, anything else we can be," coach Tom Izzo said. "We're not done yet, so hopefully we can continue to make them feel a little better and us feel a lot better."
The loss is the latest blow for UConn, the best team in the country until Jerome Dyson went down with a knee injury in mid-February. The Huskies (31-5) have been dealing with distractions since last May, when coach Jim Calhoun was diagnosed with his third bout with cancer, and are now facing questions about alleged recruiting violations.
The loss snapped Calhoun and Connecticut's perfect run in the Final Four. They'd made it twice before-1999 and 2004-and went on to win the title each time.
UConn cut an 11-point deficit to 4 in 49 seconds, getting within 3 with a minute to go. But the outcome was never really in doubt. Durrell Summers, a Detroit native who experienced firsthand the hardships his city and state are enduring when both parents were laid off, converted a three-point play to put the game out of reach.
Flashbulbs popped throughout the arena as the final seconds ticked down. After huddling at midcourt, the Spartans walked to the edge of the floor and saluted the Final Four-record crowd of 72,456, about two-thirds of which was pulling for Michigan State.
"It was a memorable game that I won't forget," Izzo said. "Except we've got another one."
The UConn players walked slowly off the court, looking shell-shocked that their season had ended. Thabeet left with a towel draped over his face.
Bracket shows matchups for the Final Four in the 2009 NCAA menace
"I've got a lot of kids in there crying right now," Calhoun said. "But they had a great season. It hasn't been that easy to stay focused the past few weeks. But I give (Izzo) a great deal of credit."
This was supposed to be a battle of big men.
UConn's Thabeet had been a one-man swat team, averaging a double-double and winning defensive player of the year in the burly Big East for a second straight year. Michigan State's Goran Suton led the equally gritty Big Ten in rebounding and had averaged a double-double in the NCAA tournament.
But the matchup never developed.
The Spartans are veterans of the down-and-dirty Big Ten, but they can run some, too, and Izzo made no secret of his plan to use their speed to keep Thabeet out of his comfort zone.
Thabeet led the Huskies with 17 points and six rebounds, but it was the quietest 17 points anyone's ever had. He looked gassed from the opening tipoff, leaning over, tugging on his shorts and gasping for air not even six minutes into the game. Aside from the first few possessions of the second half, he actually looked lost down low.
"This ended up being who made the small plays made the big difference," Calhoun said.
The most aggressive Thabeet got was at the end of the first half, getting in Marquise Gray's face after Jeff Adrien and Walton got tangled up under Connecticut's basket. There was some pushing and shoving, prompting Calhoun to come all the way from the other end of the floor to calm his players. But the dust-up fizzled quickly, and no technicals were even called.
Suton, who had the main job of corralling Thabeet, didn't score his first field goal until early in the second half and finished with four points and seven boards.
Stanley Robinson and A.J. Price had 15 each for Connecticut, and Robinson added 13 rebounds.
"We couldn't get back and they're a good team in transition," Robinson said. "I just give them all the credit. They're a tough team."
Morgan was Michigan State's best player early on, but he's struggled to find his groove since missing three games in February with walking pneumonia. He had just seven points in Michigan State's last three games-that's combined-and was 0-for-2 in the big win over Louisville in the Midwest Regional final. Granted, he's playing with a broken nose and a plastic mask, but Izzo has been all over him to be more aggressive.
Apparently, he finally got the message.
"We needed someone to step up, and he stepped up in a huge way," Izzo said. "Not only rebounding the ball, not only defending, not only being physical down there, but the way he scored and what he did."
Morgan scored 11 in the first half, including a couple of big buckets when UConn was threatening to take off. Little Korie Lucious, the back-up point guard who's never met a shot he didn't like, was a key contributor early on, too, scoring nine points in a 1 1/2 -minute span at the end of the first half.
It was Morgan again in the second half, stripping Craig Austrie to start an 8-2 run that caught UConn flat-footed, all but ended the game and threatened to bring down the roof at Ford Field.
Morgan stripped Austrie and dished to Draymond Green, who lumbered down the floor for an easy layup. Austrie missed a shot at the other end. Lucas- generously listed at 6-feet-grabbed the rebound and sprinted upcourt, splitting two Connecticut defenders with a shake-and-shimmy that gave him a wide-open layup. Wide open because those two defenders didn't have any help. Thabeet didn't even bother to run up the court to play defense, gasping for air with his hands on his hips.
After another Huskies miss, Morgan grabbed the rebound and fired it to Allen, who scored on a finger roll to give Michigan State a 53-49 lead.
The ball had barely dropped through the net when Calhoun barked for a timeout, and the Michigan State fans erupted. If Calhoun hoped the break would re-energize his team, he was wrong.
Green made a jumper, Durrell Summers a 3 and Green converted a pair of free throws. After Price missed a jumper, Green made his own from the top of the key to give Michigan State a 72-54 lead with 7:52 to play. He and Lucas slapped hands as the crowd roared.
"We love y'all!" Lucas yelled to the crowd during a postgame interview. "We love Detroit!"
Michigan State defeats UConn 82-73 - College Basketball - Rivals.com
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Hukai nae jirani?
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- I am hustler lakini siiishi karibu na shule ya Connecticut, anakosihi next time ni kutumia common sense, lakini ni mshikaji na ninazo poster zake kibao akiwa na dogo mwignine AJ Price, zimetengenezwa na United Bank, vipi nitafute nikuuzie mkuu Bwa! ha! ah! huu ni ulimwengu wa wajanja bro Bwa! ha! ah!
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Mkulu yoyo, ninaweza kukupatia shamba huku njoo bro!
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Kulaleki!! Spartans wananyukwa kichizi....ngoja mi nikalale tuu maana napoteza muda wangu kuangalia hii
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- Nasikia Dogo safari imeiva ndio maana wazazi wamekuja, kweli au? Mimi jana nilisema yule mzee wa noma mazungu Hansbrou, lazima atashinda tu maana huyu ni the only white who can jump, Bwa! ha! ah! ah!
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Tupashe wewe habari ndugu Field Marshall.
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K anakusalimia ati....
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Hasheem Thabeet gets caught in his girlfriend's sunglasses
By Eamonn Brennan, Yahoo! Sports
Naona kesha pona masikitiko Jumatatu akaenda angalia fainali baada ya kutoa toa machozi Jumamosi walipokung'utwa out of the final four na Michigan State.
Labda angerudi chuoni Jumatatu badala ya kwenda ku pose for the cameras wakati mmeshapigwa kipondo cha kutia aibu on the biggest game of your collegiate career. Una pose na miwani ya demu, uchune kwanza babu fanya kweli kwenye court, ukichemsha kwenye court hutakaa sana na mademu kwenye court side. Vuta subira.
Bling bling na Umarekani-Ghetto mwiiiiingi wakati hata Watangazaji hawaishi kila dakika kuikumbusha dunia kwamba huyu mtu ndugu watazamaji ni Mbongo kutoka Sinza. To them, you will never be an American, never, ever. Hata Shoziniga sio Mmarekani kamili ndio maana hawezi kugombea Urais. You will never be an American. Majuzi Patric Ewing kaenda Springfield, MA kuwa indicted into the Hall of Fame lakini the theme ya kuzawadiwa kwake na maisha yake ilikuwa ni U-Jamaica wake na safari yake, akalia lia pale jinsi anavyokumbuka aliposhuka off the Mayflower into the concrete Jungle. Ukipiga kama mvua kumi hivi kiwanja utaanza kunielewa.
Word to the wise, malizia degree yako ya Saikoloji kama mhamiaji mwenzio Tim Duncan alivyofanya. Rudi chuoni Jumatatu baada ya kipondo, acha kubaki out of town una pati pati na vi gold digger ambavyo naturally huwa vinadharau Waafrika anyway. Na hao nao, ukishawafahamu vizuri utanielewa.
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