Battle for Atlantis: Michigan vs Iowa State Open Thread

ya, that haliburton is pretty damn good.

Davis giving us some great minutes. Need to get Teske and Livers going in the second half

Livers forced shot last poss

Nice cut there and pass by Z...thats best action we've seen agaisnt this defense

41 points up 4 with ELEVEN TURNOVERS at halftime... what?

Austin gets drilled and no foul!? And then another weak moving screen call. 

Went too quickly there trying to get the 2-for-1. Not enough time to do that.

Simpson said something that made the woman behind Michigan’s bench chuckle.

Fuck me a 3rd moving screen

If it weren't for all the turnovers and moving screen calls, this game would be great!

I thought we played a decent first half 

clean up the sloppiness and michigan should win comfortably 

sloppy first half but up four is very good considering teske only played about 5 min.

My main halftime takeaways:

Iowa St likes to flop around legal screens and their star point guard is doing his best Jordan Poole impersonation and falling down after ever 3 point attempt. 

The only difference is this guy then complains and begs the refs to call a foul when he flops after shooting.

These announcers are horrible.  Its obvious that they don't know shit about anyone other than Haliburton.  

simpson: 8 pts, 5 reb, 6 assists, 4 TOs.  going for the quadruple double.

Score at halftime according to the scoreboard: UM 41 ISU 37.

Score at halftime according to the announcers: UM 4 ISU 100.

Not even Cheney loved Haliburton that much.

Halliburton is the new Zion 

Up 4 at half with lots of sloppiness. Ball needs to be in Z’s hands, I hate the turnovers like most on here, but he makes 5 great passes to 1 bad. I don’t trust others with ball. Teske played very little. Overall up 4 isn’t bad, especially with this many turnovers. I get the sense Howard’s approach is attack, we will take the good with the bad. I just hope they reel in guys not Z, Livers, DD, or Brooks dribbling much. Z needs to control the ball most of the time unless they try to take him away. 

Passing is so much worse this year.  We were always spoiled with great passing under Beilein, but this looks bad. 
 

also, looks like Johns, Nunez, and Castleton are all not prepared to be a great option this year. At best role players.  We need someone who can take somebody one on one besides Simpson. 

i wonder if howard's philosophy is to take greater risks with passes to get easy shots.  that's my only explanation for these TOs, especially for Z.  high risk high reward vs JB's emphasis on taking care of the ball.

Michigan has to stop their penetration into the lane, that's how they are scoring their points.

Teske is horrible ! Can’t even switch and play d

Davis playing man ball..... I had a feeling that Juwan was going to get more out of AD that anyone was expecting.   He played HUGE in the first half.  That's going to give C4 a year to bulk up and grow into the role.

14 points off turnovers is awful. 

According to Jimmy Dykes, it’s concerning that Michigan is making a high percentage of their shots.

Halliburton is phenomenal 

Wagner may be a different player than his brother, but his ”I didn’t foul” face is the same.

damn wagner for fouling that guy with his face

raining 3s!!!!

Let’s Goooooooooooo

In the first 1:30 of the second half the announcers said "Haliburton" 7 times...thank god I have a mute button.

TESKE WITH THE FRESH 3BALL LEGS!!!

That may have been the most confident 3 Teske has ever taken. What a beauty