I would read it too, but I pretty much read everything on this blog, so I am not sure how high of a bar that is...

Me too

Agree ... I did not get this either.

So, our coaches are the best in the big ten, but suck at evaluating recruits/transfers as far as shooters, and suck at roster management.  So is this basically saying other Big Ten coaches really, really suck since they are worse than ours?

I think the point is they're still getting good enough athletes/are so good in-game that even with the issues mentioned they still made it the furthest in the tourney of any B1G team.

The 'mis-management' is incidental. No body could have predicted Johns would regress year after year or, hell, that he would go from a NCAA tournament starter to Division II level preformer in less than a year. Diabate was a mouth-watering prospect that no program would refuse. 

The cupboard was left bare with Zeb Jackson not having figured things out and Devin Nunez being just a body. 

The staff made the sweet 16, and had a top 20 offense all season. Yes, it is probably the best coaching staff in the Big Ten. They are damn good, sorry. If you think this says more about how bad the rest of the coaches in the BIG are, then so be it cause yeah, they fucking blow. 

It's a bit armchair quarterbacking to talk about roster mis-management when it's more of a case that some players did not contribute in the way everyone expected them to.

Per the BTN crew it was to avoid providing sideline signals this early in the year and also to give the players time to learn. I’ll buy that for now. 

Oh the game broadcast they said it's because they didn't want to use signals for opposing teams to pick up on

It was basically suggested that it was a gamesmanship thing, not a change in strategy per se

I think Houstan need to reach "passable," "good," and "great" before he can be elite

It’s going to be an interesting off-season for hoops. If we only lose one of Hunter, Diabate and Houstan that gives us one scholarship open. Most likely it will be a post player which makes me wonder if the portal will be used on a big? Maybe someone the size of Johns that can shoot? We don’t have any other open spots for a combo guard. 

Houstan should've been elite the moment he walked through the door, at least for shooting.

The home/away split tells me this is a mental thing; he's easily unsettled.  This isn't a problem you can practice your way out of; the familiarity of the practice facility is part of the problem.  Someone please tell me we have a sports psychologist on campus.

Michigan is certainly losing both Brooks and Jones, they were the #2 and #3 in terms of Michigan's 3PT attempts. Houstan was #1 in that category and HD was #4 in that category. I think it's safe to assume that Houstan is back, but I think HD is likely leaving. That means Michigan has to replace three of the top four players in 3PT shot volume. 

Sure, TWill looked like a guy who could get more 3PT attempts and would likely still shoot a damn good percentage. But he was 5th in terms of 3PT shot volume. 

I don't understand this optimism about Bufkin. He was generally awful this year and made 8 3PT's out of 36(!) attempts. That's really bad. And that's without even mentioning his ghastly defense. 

Also, I think people should slow the roll on Jett Howard coming in and being an instant contributor. I think he will be a very good player, but have fans really not learned anything from heaping excessive expectations on freshman?

If HD leaves, Michigan needs to replace over 52% of its 3PT production. Yes, I think we can expect Houstan to improve. But, for all the inconsistencies and early-season disappointment, the kid still shot roughly 36% from 3PT on the season and over 37% in B1G conference play. He has the stroke of a 40% 3PT shooter, so maybe he gets there. 

Mortgaging the hopes of this team's offense on improvements from Houstan and TWill as well as expecting immediate contributions from Jett Howard is a mistake. 

This roster needs a combo-guard/wing who can defend at a high level and can shoot with accuracy on high volume. 

 But....we had a top 25 offense last year with the "bad" shooting he speaks of.

We were streaky beyond the arc, but very good at shooting inside it (the Villanova game notwithstanding...).

The issue is that a lot of our good 2-point shooting was due to Dickinson.  If he leaves, we're probably just average there, and then our iffy 3-point shooting becomes a bigger issue.  And we're losing Brooks and Jones, two guys who took/made a lot of threes.

I love listening to Brian and Seth talk football and I agree with almost all of their takes.  Definitely excited about some of the young guys and I'm 100% taking the over on the 5-targets for Clemons.  I couldn't find targets from last year in a quick search, but six players had more than 5 CATCHES.  Next year you figure Bell, Johnson, Wilson, Anthony, Henning are five...and then who's the sixth?

As for basketball....I just don't agree with some of the takes.  Brian literally said he'd be fine with Justin Arhens at the TWO??  Well, he's leaving OSU so he's available.  I know we miss the Beilein days of a cast of shooters, but replacing Brooks with a catch-and-shoot wing?  Brooks was a secondary ball handler, a defender, and a shooter.  We can't go into the season with two non-shooting PGs as our only ball handlers so we can play a no-defense, no ball-handling, stand-still shooter?  No thanks.

Also, I realize that Houstan was over-rated and had a rocky first year, but the guys talk about him like he's Kam Chatman!  He was either the 4th or 5th best freshman in the conference and a top-25 freshman in the country who shot 36% on the season and 39% in the league.  He shot 48% in home games.  He also played 32mpg and got better on defense as the season went on.  Next year if he gets strong, improves his home/road splits, shoots 43% on the season, plays solid defense...that's not an NBA pick and a guy who can play 30 minutes at forward?  Add Jett, Williams, and maybe Tschetter (or Barnes) and we want another wing?  

As for the "roster construction" narrative....what were the coaches supposed to do exactly?  I think it is a lazy narrative without presenting a solution.  The REAL problem is that there is no viable Senior or Junior class.  Johns and Nunez....that's it.  You could argue that Juwan could have used Barnes or Tschetter's scholarship on a transfer....but they signed FIRST in the class before we knew we were getting someone else.  You could argue we should have pushed Nunez or Zeb out the door to get s spot...but we don't run the program like that and nor should we.  So where is the roster spot coming from to better manage the roster??  

Ben Brandon feels left out.

Thank you. I came here to yell at Seth for not mentioning Irons.