MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
skip75 - 12-13-2025
Stanford goes to San Jose for their first true road game of the season (the two Acrisure games were neutral court games). Stanford is favored by 8.5, with an over/under of 147.5 - implied score is 78-69.5. The Spartans are 5-5, with all of their results lining up with expectations - no particularly good wins nor unexpected losses.. In the Mountain West pre-season poll, they were picked to finish 10th of 12. This is a game where Stanford needs to shake off any finals week rust quickly and get a solid bounce-back win after the disappointing UNLV loss.
Expected starters for San Jose are:
#0 Colby Garland (6'0/190 Jr G) Leads the Spartans with 18.8 ppg and 4.1 apg (and also with 2.6 turnovers/game);
#32 Yaphet Moundi (6'8/237 Sr F) From France, leads with 8.5 rpg and chips in 12.3 ppg;
#13 Jermaine Washington (6'1/180 So G) 12.2 ppg, including a team-leading 2.4 3s/game, shooting 41% on 3s;
#99 Sadraque Nganga (6'8/260 RJr F) From Angola;
#4 Melvin Bell Jr. (6'4/ 195 Fr G)
Injuries to some key players, including Ja Vaughn Hannah, Marcus Overstreet, Christian Wise, and Ben Roseborough have left the Spartans with a short bench in the last couple games.
Hopefully Stanford can take advantage of better depth & size (& athleticism??) to make this a routine win. And I'm going to continue to channel my inner Christopher Walken with the demand: "I gotta have more Giltay!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
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old spanish trail - 12-13-2025
(12-13-2025, 03:36 PM)skip75 Wrote: Stanford goes to San Jose for their first true road game of the season (the two Acrisure games were neutral court games). Stanford is favored by 8.5, with an over/under of 147.5 - implied score is 78-69.5. The Spartans are 5-5, with all of their results lining up with expectations - no particularly good wins nor unexpected losses.. In the Mountain West pre-season poll, they were picked to finish 10th of 12. This is a game where Stanford needs to shake off any finals week rust quickly and get a solid bounce-back win after the disappointing UNLV loss.
Expected starters for San Jose are:
#0 Colby Garland (6'0/190 Jr G) Leads the Spartans with 18.8 ppg and 4.1 apg (and also with 2.6 turnovers/game);
#32 Yaphet Moundi (6'8/237 Sr F) From France, leads with 8.5 rpg and chips in 12.3 ppg;
#13 Jermaine Washington (6'1/180 So G) 12.2 ppg, including a team-leading 2.4 3s/game, shooting 41% on 3s;
#99 Sadraque Nganga (6'8/260 RJr F) From Angola;
#4 Melvin Bell Jr. (6'4/ 195 Fr G)
Injuries to some key players, including Ja Vaughn Hannah, Marcus Overstreet, Christian Wise, and Ben Roseborough have left the Spartans with a short bench in the last couple games.
Hopefully Stanford can take advantage of better depth & size (& athleticism??) to make this a routine win. And I'm going to continue to channel my inner Christopher Walken with the demand: "I gotta have more Giltay!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
Thanks, Skip, with you on Giltay, and does anyone know when Donovan Young will return?
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
JJJ - 12-13-2025
Ebuka Okorie is out today! :(
76lsjumb -
76lsjumb - 12-13-2025
At game. Okorie not dressed.
RE: 76lsjumb -
JJJ - 12-13-2025
(12-13-2025, 05:04 PM)76lsjumb Wrote: At game. Okorie not dressed.
TV showed “lower body” as the issue
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
skip75 - 12-13-2025
Okorie out today - I guess his first finals week was a bit rough?? Benny, Jeremy, Ryan, & ??? will have to step up.
Stanford up 22-12 eight minutes in. Jeremy is 3-4 from 3 and Benny & Ryan are each 1-1. Giltay seeing early action.
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
76lsjumb - 12-13-2025
Another game that may end up being decided by the refs. Extremely physical and the calls are totally random…
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
BostonCard - 12-13-2025
44-36 going into the second half. Stanford started strong, but SJS cut it to single digits.
BC
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
JJJ - 12-13-2025
4pt lead quickly grows to 11pts. Keep getting stops, guys!
76lsjumb -
76lsjumb - 12-13-2025
The last two offensive possessions were works of art! This Kyle Smith guy can coach!
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
needle - 12-13-2025
Stanford up by only two with 28.4 seconds left. Pretty bad choke job, to be honest: so many turnovers.
One more turnover by Stanford gives SJS the ball down only two, but Camman slaps the ball out of a Spartan post player, Gealer gets his hands on it and then knocks down two from the charity stripe to seal the win.
Whew!
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
PalmTree - 12-13-2025
Well - that wasn't very fun - 20 TOs, with ~ 4 in the last 3-4 minutes or so. OK, at least we won + overall our shooting wasn't bad and I was surprised at our rebounding advantage. Did not expect that Rohosy and Okpara would be our leading scorers.
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
JJJ - 12-13-2025
I hate to say this but Rohosy’s FTs are worse than Shaq’s. I hope Rev can do something about it.
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
needle - 12-13-2025
Rohosy says "now that he's out..." when asked what the team need to do to improve given a missing Okorie -- not what I wanted to hear as a fan.
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
JJJ - 12-13-2025
(12-13-2025, 07:21 PM)needle Wrote: Rohosy says "now that he's out..." when asked what the team need to do to improve given a missing Okorie -- not what I wanted to hear as a fan.
I caught that too. But the announcers also said he was rebounding for his teammates at shootaround. I’m hoping it’s not that bad.
SkiBum80 -
SkiBum80 - 12-13-2025
Missed the game due to an event I needed attend
Catching up now w highlights and more
I gotta believe Coach Smith happy w the win
However I’m guessing not happy w the game not particularly being his hallmark emphasis on ball control & tight defense
I’m sure missing Okorie hurt but it can’t be a one man offense or we will struggle to duplicate last years moderate succes
RE: MBB: Stanford at San Jose State, 4PM, CBS Sports Network -
burger - 12-13-2025
I missed this game, too. But looking at the advanced stats, the absence of Okorie was clearly felt: we had our highest offensive turnover rate of the season and our lowest rate of turnovers forced on defense.
Fingers crossed for a quick recovery before the conference games start.