MGoPodcast 13.22: Nobody Gets Gold Pants
1 hour and 8 minutes
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1. Ohio State
starts at 1:00
Punch the ticket! DeVante' Jones put the team on his back. Michigan comes into this game as one of the worst defenses in the country in terms of generating turnovers - they had 11, almost one in five of Ohio State's possessions. Despite no Juwan Howard, Hunter Dickinson, adverse whistles, and Caleb Houston in "road mode", they pull a win out. Brian knows a surprising amount about Joey Brunk. Encouraging play from the freshmen off the bench, especially Bufkin's dagger three.
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2. Iowa
starts at 21:55
Iowa shot 58% from three ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Keegan Murray and Kris Murray account for 42 of Iowa's points, Michigan can cover one of them but not both. Diabete had 28 points in the first Iowa game, only four in this one.
3. Reflecting on the Regular Season
starts at 32:45
Michigan was a pre-season top five team and ended up on the bubble all season until now. What happened? Michigan had the #3 toughest schedule in America. Michigan finishes #31 in Kenpom, Big Ten Champion Wisconsin finishes #30. DeVante' Jones needed time to adjust to the Big Ten. Frankie Collins didn't shoot as well as expected most of the season. Caleb Houston was supposed to be a wing but ended up being a forward. Moussa Diabete exceeded expectations on offense but wasn't there on defense. Brandon Johns seemed to disappear this season. There are no real wings on this roster.
4. Hockey vs Michigan State
starts at 54:02
What does Michigan have to do to get hockey muppets?? Brian showed up to the second game five minutes late and it was already 2-0. Is there anything else to say other than "Michigan State is bad"? Some guys got their first goals which was a nice thing to have. Children of Yost didn't even do the chant after the 8th goal in the second game. Michigan gets Notre Dame next - the team that has been Michigan kryptonite all season. Michigan could possibly pass Minnesota State for the #1 overall seed. Ohio State might not make the tournament at all now. Your podcast editor con confirm: Colorado is gorgeous in March.
MUSIC:
- "Oh I"--Nathaniel Rateliff
- "Selfish"--Slum Village
- "Help is on the Way"--Wavves
- “Across 110th Street”
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- What's with the theme music?
"We have a strategic reserve of Muppets, so we gotta be careful."
We need to break in to the strategic reserve for the WOMEN'S teams, my dudes. There is a war on.
Muppets are an American resource. We need to stop relying on foreign Muppet sources and generate domestic Muppets.
Colorado in March is either gorgeous or snowing, there is no in between. It’s the snowiest month of the year along the front range!
Sometimes both in the same 4 hours!
I went to a late March conference once at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. We woke up at 7am, there was 4 inches of snow on the ground and it's below freezing. Drove to the conference, parked on a non-paved auxiliary parking lot, by the time we left in the afternoon, it was 60 deg, the snow had melted, and the parking lot had turned into the equivalent of the Eastern Front with multiple cars getting stuck in the mud.
COLORADO IN MARCH! IT'S A HELL OF A DRUG!
You will please forgive us here in AZ, we love it when it snows up in Colorado!
So, is there a decent chance Michigan ends up in the Loveland regional? If so, as a Denver resident, I'll definitely make the trip up to support the team.
Given the small-ish size of the Budweiser Center, there's definitely enough of us in the front range to turn this into a virtual home game!
From the hockey column it sounds like this can only happen if DU bombs out of a 1 seed. So... go Colorado College?
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Brian mentioned 11 TOs forced on 17% of possessions against OSU but everything I'm seeing says 13 TOs on 20% of possessions.
They had 11 steals which is a really high for them (in only one other game have they had more than 7: SDSU they had 9). Steals are the best kind of turnover because unlike a deadball turnover, they send you into transition. So they not only end an opponent possession, they make for a high expected value offensive possession on the other end.
Thanks for another entertaining podcast! Perfect timing since I had a long commute to an 8-hour meeting today. I don't always align with your basketball observations like I do football, but I do enjoy listening to you. A few follow-up thoughts....
- I don't think we're as comfortably in the tournament as you make it seem. I think we need to beat IU to feel secure and if we lose we will be sweating out Sunday and the most likely outcome is probably the play-in game. Sucks given our SOS.
- Good recap on the missed expectations. I think Kobe should have been part of that mix also since he really struggled all year except for very isolated plays. As for Frankie, I'm glad you're able to squint and see hope because it is hard to see most of the time. I think his biggest issue is that on offense he's only capable of iso plays. Yes, he's a brutal shooter, but he also doesn't do well yet with any sort of ball screens so that's an area he needs to get a lot better.
- I disagree with Seth about Diabate a bit. While he did guard some wings, it wasn't often and it didn't matter because he was equally bad at defending the post. His defense was the biggest miss on preseason expectations of all. We knew Houstan wasn't a good athlete and might not be more than a shooter, we knew Kobe was young, we knew Frankie was a bad shooter....we didn't know Diabate would struggle to defend all types of players all year. I want to see him back after a full off-season, but I do wonder if he's always going to be a tweener.
- Brian made a statement about roster construction and wanting the next Chaundee in the offseason. Here's the issue....until someone leaves early we have no scholarships. If one of player leaves then I think we need a lead/combo guard badly before anything else (Chaundee was a 3-and-D). If two people leave then we're going to need a big. I don't know that a wing is in the cards except Jett and Barnes.
Seth drops the sick burn at the end.
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