Hello: Moritz Wagner
Great day for Michigan athletics!
Great Weekend!
It's pretty common for overseas basketball players but I don't get it at all either. My only thought is that guys who think they want to play American college just refuse their checks?
10,000% he does not redshirt.. (even if one can only be 100 %)
Definitely... From what I've seen, he looks so much better than what we've seen from Wilson so far
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as if they know it for a fact. Might work in poker.
And the German language.
Proud that I gonna be a Wolverine and a part of 〽️ichigan next year. Damn grateful for what Alba did for me! This is my club &always will be
— Moe Wagner (@moritz_weasley) April 5, 2015
EDIT: eligibility q asked above, I'm an idiot. Sorry. Delete.
I was not expecting to be sideswiped by a basketball commit when we were told to buckle up.
This is fun and really awesome.
How are we going to make a recognizable German flag in Maize and Blue?
Just change the red to blue?
This presents quite an important challenge.
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Maybe we should focus on the flag of Berlin, his hometown:
Change the red to maize and make the bear blue, and we're good.
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Keep the flag and sew a blue M on top.
I hope he gets the Hagelin-Stauskas-Chris Brown treatment where we wave his home country / region flag when he does cool stuff, play German songs for fun, and then play his national anthem on senior day (assuming Beilein does Beilein him and he's in the NBA in 2 years)
awesome!
that bottom line into blue AND maize.
I think he and Robinson are taking all the minutes at the four this season. I personally think these are the guys JB has wanted at the four for years now, specifically guys who aren't overbearing presences underneath the basket, but guys who can stretch the floor with their outside shooting ability and grab some rebounds here and there. GR3 was solid at this, but he definitely wasn't a 3 point specialist. Robinson and Wagner look to be solid guys from beyond the arch and could definitely be huge difference makers.
On the other hand, this gives JB plenty of reason to bump Chatman and Irvin back to the three slots as guards, and depending on whether Caris returns, I think JB goes back to playing two PG's at once with Spike, MAAR, and Walton rotating between the one and two. Doing this allows JB to spread his talent out all over the floor.
My only concern at this point is the power forward position. Donnal and Doyle really need to show some growth for me to feel confident about the position. We aren't going to have Max to give us the scoring and rebounding bumps he gave us at some points this past season, so these two are going to need to grow tremendously in the offseason.
As long as the power forward position continues to show growth, I think this team should be top four in the conference with OSU, MSU, and Maryland surrounding them. I really think this season was flukey, and not to mention, we showed enormous growth without Caris and Walton for the majority of the season. I am confident that we would have closed out games with those guys and snuck into the tourney as an 11 seed. I think we have the full capability to surprise a bunch of people next season and be scary good. Hell, we might even find ourselves in the Sweet 16 or Elite 8 again.
He's a 2 or 3.
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The big question: will he definitely qualify academically? Remember that Robin Benzing fell just short a few years back. Taking the SAT or ACT in your second language has got to be pretty stressful.
I thought the issue was him playing semi-professionally
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought he just didn't qualify.
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I don't think the team you listed is quite Final Four good (caveat that anything can happen in single elimination tournament). MSU, Indiana, OSU and Maryland will all have more talent than the personnel you've listed out. But I do think we will be back to an efficient offense and quality team next season even if Caris departs. Team looks top 25 to me, but not top 15.