MGoPodcast 12.0: One Hundred Thirty Bins of Hate
1 hour and 47 minutes
This episode was recorded on a Zoom call with the UM Alumni Association Club of Greater San Francisco. Thank you to Jacqueline Miller and Tyler Tokarsky for having us.
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[Hit THE JUMP for the writeup and the player]
1. It's Over Postponed/What Now?
starts at 1:00
Reaction to the Big Ten canceling fall sports, understanding the decision process (glad it wasn't us). It can be the right decision and they could still have gotten it wrong, if that makes sense.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after The Jump]
2. Basketball
starts at 18:40
Picked up a few top 50 commits. This is a Beilein class, isn't it?
3. Q&A with the UM Club of Greater San Francisco
starts at 38:53
This podcast was actually very visual: we did it on a Zoom call with the San Fran UM Club, who had some excellent questions and pirate question.
4. Hot Takes and Gimmicky Top Five Worst Ideas to Have a Football Season
starts at 1:27:35
Hotter takes than an Iowa parent's letter to the Big Ten office.
MUSIC:
- “It Was Over Before It Even Began”—Stephane Huguenin
- “Sympathy for the Devil”—Rolling Stones
- “It's Not Happening”—The Be Good Tanyas
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS:
Seth if you come to me with an advertiser who sells colloidal silver I'm going to say no.
August 24th, 2020 at 9:07 AM ^
Regarding colloidal silver, my favorite covid ad is for the nanoparticle infused mask, because I want the smallest particles possible to stop the virus. Never underestimate the stupidity of the ‘murican consumer.
August 24th, 2020 at 10:34 AM ^
Was Brian taking a dump during hot takes?
Re: "socially distanced relay". . . they could toss the baton. To make drops more interesting, maybe they can replace the baton with some kind of oblong ball. They could tuck it inside their elbows to carry it. Someone ought to get on inventing such an object.
August 24th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Pandemic by The Ambulance People (Remix featuring BeatsieBoyz)
August 26th, 2020 at 9:04 AM ^
I know I'm a little late to the party here, but I disagreed with two of Brian's takes on basketball during the pod. The first is that I think to call this 2021 recruiting class a "Beilein class" takes away just a bit from what Juwan has accomplished so far. I guess we're splitting hairs, but maybe the class is more Beilein like than we thought when the expectation was that a parade of 5-stars would follow Juwan to AA. Some facts about the recruiting so far under Juwan....
- The average composite rating for the four recruits in this class is 0.9480. Only one class in the Beilein era (2013 - Irvin, Walton, Donnal) exceeds that number.
- From 2014-2019 Beilein recruited four players ranked in the top 75. In his 1.5 classes so far, Howard has recruited three.
- In his 1.5 classes there have been five top-100 players so far. You have to go back five years to match that with Beilein's classes.
- For all the comments about Tshetter being a "Northwestern-4" and matching the perception of a small-town shooter that Beilein would recruit....he's ranked #155 in the composite. That actually compares a lot better to Livers (133), Teske (142), and Hardaway (161) than it does the guys it implies such as Novak (250), McLimans (292), Nunez (305), Douglass (313).
I get that I'm being picky here and that we still want those 5-stars to set us apart in the conference and compensate for not having Beilein's mastery of offense and player development. But what Howard has done so far is still impressive. If we can land another big name at center this will be the best class in a long, long time.
August 26th, 2020 at 9:13 AM ^
The other topic I disagree with is Mike Smith. Maybe Brian is right and he's essentially a version of Spike in that he's an undersized, poor defender who is a great shooter and a good back-up PG who plays 15mpg. My concern is that if that's the case, I think the ceiling for this "season" is much lower.
Why? Well, while I agree that you want your best guys on the court as much as possible, you also want them to play the positions that suit them best. In Brian's scenario, Eli Brooks is playing ~25mpg at PG when he's never shown the ability to be much of a facilitator and is an average ball handler at best. If Eli is playing that much PG, he's only got 10mpg left at SG. That means Franz (on offense at least) is playing a LOT of his minutes at SG. I love Franz, but he's a natural 3 and hasn't yet shown the ability to play the 2 more than a cameo. He also has a mediocre handle....especially as your second ball handler on the court.
Likewise, Livers minutes, while hopefully mixed with Brown's, will shift more toward the 3 than the 4. To fill out the 80 minutes at forward, even with Brown available, you probably need to get Johns some minutes at the 4. Yet we know he'll be needed at the 5 as well.
Bottom line for me is that the ceiling for this team will go up drastically if Mike Smith is an average B10 point guard who can play 25mpg. He's a proven facilitator and scorer at a lower level - if that translates then I think it unlocks the true potential of everyone else. Brooks settles into his natural role as part time PG, secondary ball handler, perimeter defender, and spot-up shooter. Franz can still play some 2, but now doesn't HAVE to play most of his minutes there. Livers plays mostly at the 4 and Brown becomes the swiss-army-knife at three positions.
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