hippesthippo wrote:The real issue isn't that he's a really good college PG [he is], it's the fact that he'd just suffered an extremely painful injury that was bad enough that he was questionable to return at best until some idiot on State decided he needed to talk some jive with him and get his adrenaline going just enough that he could manage the pain and get back into the game and steal Sparty's soul.
His name is Mateen Cleaves.
Before throwing the lob, the senior point guard reportedly turned to the Michigan State cheering section and said, “Watch this,” part of a game-long feud with 2000s-era MSU star Mateen Cleaves, who was sitting with Isiah Thomas in the first row of the stands. Nowell acknowledged the war of words after the game … but seemed not to know who Cleaves was. ”I was talking to Isiah Thomas because I think he had a friend over there, and he was rooting for them,” Nowell said after the game. “I’m like, y’all not going to win today, and I just kept looking at him for some added motivation.”
https://www.theringer.com/march-madness/2023/3/24/23655054/markquis-nowell-19-assists-ncaa-tournament-record-kansas-state
