WTKA Roundtable 4/11/2019: Mindset Matters
Things discussed:
- Chalky tournament ends on chalk, with a lot of UVA luck—how do you allow a three at that moment?
- Ty Jerome or Jarret Culver?
- Remedies for the dumb review rule
- Craig calls Ed "Tom Izzo" for being contrarian about that rule
- Other rule changes: when is the last time they called a three-second violation?
- Don in Ann Arbor: development vs. NBA?
- Iggy—would his draft stock improve if he stuck around? When talking about second rounders or late first round, NBA teams feel like they can develop players the younger they are.
- Charles: not invited to the combine last year, but there's no reason to come back unless he wants to get a Master's.
- Iggy: Should have come in a year earlier. All the fan arguments come down to we don't want them to leave.
- Poole: Guys want to get paid for their development, focus on basketball. Poole is taking a step-back three with his career.
- Tempering expectations on the freshmen—nobody 's going to be as close to a finished product as Iggy was.
- How do you finish out the class: Franz Wagner is still an option, would be the equivalent of a five-star, getting straight-up lied to by his Euro team.
- Sam: Wagner has a very high basketball IQ.
- Who's starting next year? These are all academic—all our conversations are academic, even the Ian Blum discussion.
- Jack Hughes:NHL::Zion Williamson:NBA? No. He's not even guaranteed to be the #1 pick. Michigan—talk that Norris is coming back, Lockwood is coming back, replacing Hughes with York, but cavalry doesn't arrive for another year. College hockey is set up to advantage small schools who grab 20 and 21-year-olds.
You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream on Podbean.
Segment two is here. Segment three is here.
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- What's with the theme music?
It's a rule that seems designed to make you stare at a ref's ass for seven minutes
When can we start covering football again?
April 12th, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
Brian and I are both furiously writing football articles today.
Thank you!
Something I have wondered since Michigan-Purdue last year:
Everyone long assumed (or at least agreed) that when a defender knocked a ball away from the offense that the ball was last touched by the defender. However, with the new reviews, we have discovered that's not always the case. Yet, referees continue to make the same assumption in live action as they always have. Shouldn't the refs start making the opposite assumption? How often does the ball actually go off the defender last? I bet it's rare.
All of this could, of course, be made moot with a rule change or elimination of review. I'm in favor of at least one and would happily take both.
April 12th, 2019 at 12:12 PM ^
I miss the days when kids going to a school were actually planning to stay in school.
First, I apologize for (apparently) mis-pronouncing Cole Bajema's name. Posters on this board have said the "j" is pronounced as a "y." My brother---docwhoblocked---ripped me for this.
Second, if I said "Ian Blum" that was both wrong and unintentional. I meant Leon Blum, of course, who made the error (my opinion) of directing French neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. He ended up in Buchenwald, anyway, once again proving that no "good deed" goes unpunished.
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