Basketball snowflakes

Submitted by rob6reid on

Hey on the bright side, I dont think we have to worry about anyone leaving for the NBA this year, so we'll have the whole team back next year. Also Harbaugh.

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freejs

December 20th, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^

and a Calipari program? 

Why do people site fucking Kentucky as some sort of relevant example? It's totally irrelevant. 

Do you even understand where those kids live while they're "on campus"?

They ain't playing school. 

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Moonlight Graham

December 20th, 2014 at 2:16 PM ^

2015 looks a little scary and Teske should help in '16. I know we have Robinson coming next year. Dawkins and MAAR should round into shape a bit more next year as well. But they're not big men. Is there anyone in the '15 class that could make an impact down low? 

Shooting has nowhere to go but up, and Robinson hopefully helps there. So we need bigs. 

'16 recruiting looks more fruitful, but that's a long way off. 

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umchicago

December 20th, 2014 at 2:58 PM ^

appears at lot like morgan to me.  remember morgan redshirted.  morgan couldn't finish at the rim his first two years but became a stud down the stretch his senior year.

i think doyle will have a more complete game on offense than morgan.  but i doubt he gets to the level of defender that morgan was.

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Moleskyn

December 20th, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^

This stretch of rough games is helping me realize a couple things: 1. Just how special the teams from the past couple years have been. 2. How incredible (and not to be expected) it was for Burke, Stauskas, GR3, and McGary to complete as well as they did as freshmen and sophomores.

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alum96

December 20th, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^

You are thinking about the players in their 2nd year in some ways and projecting to their freshman year.

Burke was special nearly right off the bat.  GR3 was pretty darrn good right away.  Mitch was pretty bad right away and was out of shape apparently and not ready.  He didnt surge until the last 8-10 games of the year (we are talking late Feb!).  Nik was a nice outside shooter who had some nice games and some not so nice games in the 1st half of his freshman year. 

Again Kam needed to be a special player early.  He is not.  There are 3 guys in the Big 10 all ranked pretty much like him at OSU, Indiana, and Maryland and they are all leading their team as true freshman.  Kam is simply being asked to be a 4th option and can not handle it.

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AlwaysBlue

December 20th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^

calls for big men? When has that been JB's mode in Ann Arbor? What's missing is experience. I don't know how much that inexperience is disrupting the system Walton and Caris are trying to run but they, along with Irvin, are just not playing at expected level.

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SDCran

December 20th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^

Nobody ever likes the way JB's teams look. His preferred style is often called soft. They thrive on mismatches at the 4, low turnovers, and good shooting across the board.

With little production at the 4, sloppy turnovers, and unbelievably poor shooting, they are going to struggle. The last 2 items can change quickly. Hope?

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freejs

December 20th, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^

just brutal. 

It was right around the point that we took the lead - and there was Max on the court, and he had a simply brutal run that he capped off with a missed three. During a point in that sequence, I would have called timeout just to get him off the court. 

Really don't understand how they could allow him to be out there during those pivotal moments - why not Doyle there?

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AC1997

December 20th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^

What frustrates me so much is that we have six freshmen on this team and none of them are ready to play meaningful minutes in college. Donnal and Doyle are okay, but they should be role players off the bench. I realize that we are forced to play them because of the NBA departures, but that's sort of my point. We are coming off an era where six guys got drafted early, records were set with a fun offense, awards were won, and we were the talk of the conference. Yet we can't recruit one player who is college ready? The guys just are too raw, small, and slow. We are getting zip from the 4, were are barely scraping by at center, our pick and roll game has vanished, and we have turned into a long jump shot team.....which suddenly can't hit them. We took like 40 threes today!!

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mddubbs

December 20th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^

We have got a couple of good 3rd option scorers in the offense...need a 1 and 2.  We're playing in a hurry, not fast.  Everyone but Walton is playing a new role and this is going to be a project.  At least we do have a coaching staff that can develop talent and put the pieces together. 

This team needs a win badly! 

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reanimator

December 20th, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^

Its not Irvin/Levert/Walton that is an issue

 

We lack depth and finishers. Teams just face guard our big 3 cause no one else is competent.

 

We miss GR3 and Morgan, not Stauskas. 

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maizedNblued

December 20th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^

Morgan - senior leadership, excellent pick and roll Big - played above rim Stauskus - penetrator, created his own shot - knock down threat, spread the floor for everyone else GR3 - tough, competitor, rebounded in traffic, excellent finisher Horford - rugged, tough, rim protector, defensive anchor, hard nosed McGary - Mr. Everything from 15 feet in. There isn't one guy on this year team you could fill in with the above descriptions. We miss them all and it's a combination of LeVert is more suited a Robin instead of a Batman, Irvin can't create and is one dimensional, Walton is either too hurt or just not aggressive enough. Everyone else lacks experience or is more suited as role players. Hopefully they can piece it together - GO BLUE!

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mtzlblk

December 20th, 2014 at 3:21 PM ^

This is not the same team that played Villanova tough and then beat Syracuse. What happened? Did they just get scouted after the first few games and are now that easy to figure out and stop?

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