{"id":15402,"date":"2024-03-03T16:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:32:58","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-im-tired-of-moral-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15402","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: I&#8217;m tired of moral victories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball lost another game and showed some serious fight but I&#8217;m tired of moral victories.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-3-takeaways-loss-to-purdue\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> just suffered its third straight loss, this time to Purdue 80-74. On paper, this isn\u2019t that bad of a loss. Losing to the No. 2 team in the country on the road by six is never a bad loss. Even fighting all the way back after being down by double digits to make it a close game is something to be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m tired of accepting more victories. I miss the days when we didn\u2019t have to accept moral victories because we would win most of these games.<\/p>\n<h3>No more moral victories<\/h3>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, I fell victim to being somewhat happy with the moral victory that was Saturday night\u2019s loss. I fired off this tweet just minutes after the game ended.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MSU proved tonight that they are good enough to hang with the best teams in the country<\/p>\n<p>Get these guys on a neutral court and I think they can beat anyone<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily MSU (@daily_msu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daily_msu\/status\/1764129492421710234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t the only one who took this game as a moral victory either. Tom Izzo had this to share as well during his post-game press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Izzo: &quot;I was pleased that we competed. I think if we&#39;d have done that in the last two weeks, we would&#39;ve won three more games. And that&#39;s my fault, that falls on me.&quot; Adds he thinks MSU is in a better place after a performance like this he thinks will help moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1764136678413721960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t think Michigan State is in a position to celebrate moral victories right now.<\/p>\n<p>If the Spartans only had five or six losses this year then sure, this loss would be a moral victory. But that\u2019s not the position they are in. Michigan State is still fighting for its NCAA Tournament life. An appearance in the Big Dance is not guaranteed yet, but a win against Purdue would\u2019ve solidified their spot in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>So as much good as you can draw from this game, none of that matters right now. Michigan State is in a position where the only thing that matters is winning. If the Spartans can get into the NCAA Tournament, then we can look back at this game, take some positives from it, and learn from it. But now\u2019s not the time for that, and MSU can\u2019t settle for just being competitive in a loss right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more moral victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}