Kam Chatman Reportedly Transferring

Now this, i.e the lack of development, and relatively quick transfer of a guy with a lot of potential, is something that one can criticize Beilein for.  But no, this still has nothing to do with Spike.

1- Walton / Simpson 20/20 2- MAAR / Walton 30/10 3- Robinson / Irvin 30/10 4- Irvin / Wilson 25/15 5- Wagner/ Donnal 20/20 Throw in a couple other fr for spot minutes. 8 man rotation which is perfect IMO. So the downside here is that Michigan may need to rely on a rs So. That is 6'9" and was a top 100 recruit? I think I'm ok with that.

So who is still on the team at this point?

Everyone, calm down.  The basketball team has to be bad in order for the football team to be good, so everything is just fine in my book.

As a fan only, this is a good thing.  He was a below average player in the Big Ten with two years experience, maybe the light would go on, but it always appeared the game was too fast for him.

He seems like a great kid and wish him well.  But this helps the program.

I'm in the wait and see approach to basketball. I'm not in the fire his ass group or Beilen is just wonderful at everything group. With the Spike move, Beilein is either insane or stubborn after Bielfeldt. We're not going to have much depth with only 11 scholarship players. We need to beat MSU, go to the sweet 16, or win the big ten next year for me to go from the fence to supporting Beilein fully.

Well thanks for the Indians shot

I hear this guy is on the short list:

Recruits see this. They see a top 50 recruit transfering OUT of Michigan. It doesn't even matter the circumstances. Along with Doyle, Dawkins, and Spike that makes FOUR in one off-season! There's something in the water in AA.

that he brought in a too many players who could not compete well at the Power 5 level.  That is half the battle.  The other half is now finding better players and getting them on campus.  That latter part has been a bit of a bugaboo lately.  

The reason this hurts is because our team lacks talent.

Look at our final four roster:

PG: Burke, Spike, Akunne/Vogrich/Bartelstein

SG: THJ, Stauskas, Vogrich, Akunne/Person

SF: Stauskas, LeVert, GR3

PF: GR3, Bielfeldt, crickets

C: McGary, Morgan, Horford, Bielfeldt, McLimans

The equivalent to our transfer losses this year would be like losing Vogrich (broken spike), Doyle (ehhh Bielfeldt if I'm being generous, McLimans if I'm being a dick), Chatman (there's no good equivalent here as there was zero depth at the 4 on this squad, and he's not as much of a contributor as Horford was).

The point is that if we had a good team, we wouldn't be sweating the loss of these bench players. Now that we have no bench, our already mediocre starting line-up is going to be stretched even thinner

because I was curious to watch Kam continue to develop (or not develop, perhaps.)  He just had one of those somewhat unique skill sets for his size that could have been problematic for opposing teams.  But I am also not going to pretend like he was all of the sudden going to go beast mode.  In fact, I think the likely scenario is that his passiveness would continue to hamper him.  So, assuming he leaves, put me in Camp Optimism that counts all 3 transfers as potential addition by subtraction.  I think Wagner's progression is such that Doyle's departure is a complete non-event.  I think there is no way Watson is a worse defender than Dawkins, and so that could help us.  I kind of liked Chatman defending and rebounding at the 4 because I am not a huge Irvin fan, and we lose that unless some combination of Wilson/Donnal/Wagner can also absorb that workload.  If you count Irvin for 20 min at the 4, then Wilson/Donnal/Wagner need to play 60 min of 4/5 time.  Clearly doable, but injuries or foul trouble could force Teske into more action than we want. 

Who the heck is even left on the team/coaching staff?

Beilein will have to be very creative.

no doubt

In any sport, talent alone doesn't make you a good player. It has to be used properly to be productive. Beilien has miscasted and misused a host of players. if I'm a pg, beilien gives you freedom which is why he can recruit them. These 6'6 types like Irvin and Chapman he just assumes can play the 4 and its just not smart. Nothing in their skill set shows they are stretch 4 types except the shooting. They can't defend that position or rebound that position and I don't think he factors that in when deciding who plays there.

as Michigan fan I must admit, there are a lot of stupid Michigan fans out there. smh

MOAR snake OIL!!!! Turdly Turdue must be at it again!!!!

Joe Tiller is that you???

Just a few years back Beilein changed assistant coaches and we had three players transfer. Two were former 4* recruits. I can't remember what happened the year after...

He gone