COVERING BEILIEIN

Reminiscing about the unique experience covering John Beilein as a reporter. Joe took the collegiate approach to beat writing and got a typically Beilein response. The Daily piece mentioned can be found here (https://www.michigandaily.com/section/mens-basketball/former-daily-mens-basketball-writers-remember-beilein). We talk about how different watching a Beilein program was for those of us who came up only knowing Ellerbe and Amaker. Stunningly, we found it much more enjoyable.

A relatively quick Juwan Howard and staff discussion follows that wasn’t lengthy enough to make into its own segment. After the moonshots, he was the obvious choice, and Phil Martelli seems like a home run hire in the category of “find a guy who’s done this before.”

FAVORITE PLAYERS TO COVER FROM THE TEAMS WE ACTUALLY COVERED

This was brutally difficult and I’m sure you’ll be shocked by at least one of my omissions. So you’re not shocked by other omissions, I covered the team from 2012-13 through 2017-18, while Joe covered 2010-11 for the Daily and 2012-14 with UMHoops. This isn’t about picking the best players, but the ones who made the greatest impact on us while we covered them for whatever reason, so there’s feelingsball at play here.

FAVORITE BEILEIN-ERA GAMES WE ACTUALLY COVERED

Same deal here: we had to be covering the game in person to include it on our list. As you may expect, we hit some overlap from the 2013 and 2014 seasons, much of which we spent trying not to get kicked off press row for reacting to GRIII lobs.

SONGS

• They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) — Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
• Thuggin’ (Instrumental) — Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
• Yesterday — J Dilla

THE USUAL LINKS

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• Direct download link (right-click/save-as)

Give me all the Bo Ryan rage so I can drink it in my coffee