Camp Sanderson For The Win - D.J. Wilson is Ripped

Submitted by EastCoast Esq. on

Camp Sanderson does it again.

Now THIS looks like a guy who can play in the B1G:

 

With all credit to @CampSanderson. The offseason is all about progression. From 215 to 238

Ronnie Kaye

May 21st, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^

Very good to see. He's going to need to be able to take a pounding inside as our likely back-up center.

Lanknows

May 21st, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^

Wilson may well pass Donnal - I kind of hope he does - but don't shut the door on Donnal just yet.  The staff letting Bielfeldt walk away while also saying Wilson's future is at the 4 speaks to their confidence in him.

Keep in mind that the red-shirt freshman versions of Morgan and Bielfeldt weren't nearly as good as the senior versions.  Donnal's a bit of a victim of expectations.  If he was a 2-star (instead of a 4-star) I think people would be optimistic that he showed some nice flashes in his first real season. 

Ronnie Kaye

May 21st, 2015 at 5:52 PM ^

I wouldn't shut the door on any big man after one season. But for the record, Jordan Morgan as a redshirt freshman was light years ahead of what Donnal was this year.

BigBlue02

May 21st, 2015 at 7:05 PM ^

For the record, Jordan Morgan also played his redshirt freshman season on a good team. Unless a player is one of the best guys on the team, their stats could suffer on a bad team. Look at Darius Morris for example (yes I know he isn't a big man and I know it was his true freshman year and not a redshirt freshman year, so the example isn't apples to apples). Morris was on a losing team led by Douglas and Novak his freshman year and he averaged 4.4 per game, just under LLP, and looked lost. He was playing on a bad team and probably suffered because there wasn't a lot of talent around him. The next year, the team is much better And he tells MSU to get the fuck off his court and the rest is history. The team from his sophomore year was much better and he probably looked better because of it. It isn't a perfect analogy, but people look at stats in a vacuum and think the others on the team have no effect on them. Getting Walton and LeVert back should help everyone on the team next year, especially any of the bigs we have

orangeda

May 22nd, 2015 at 11:27 AM ^

Sophmore Darius Morris, who was a wiz in the pick and roll game that year, and delivered most of Morgan's points to him on a silver platter.  That said, Morgan was a better pick setter, more aggressive rolling to the hoop, and stronger defensively than Donnal was last year.  Still, I think Donnal showed some nice flashes that he can build on, just needs to continue to find out what he does well at this level and fine tune it, not to mention continue getting stronger(and Bacari's tweets indicate he's back at 240 after losing a lot of weight last season for some reason).  

I sitll think he can be a valuable piece behind Doyle at the '5', and it sounds like he's been putting in the work along with the rest of the team to make it happen.

nerv

May 21st, 2015 at 5:43 PM ^

Not one thing? Really? Some people just seem set to tear this kid down. He did not have a great freshman season. He has ability though. At 6'9/6'10 he has really good form on his jumper. He showed flashes of that last season. Ive seen him display soft hands and a good touch. He has decent skill for a center prospect.

I think Donnal's biggest issues are mental. He seems to get nervous when guys come to contest his shot. It seemed to me that he simply was intimidated by opposing centers in the conference. He didnt respond well to the physical play and as the season crept on you could just see it on him that he was hearing footsteps everytime he got the ball. Camp Sanderson will help there. As will experience. Once he becomes a more confident player I don't have any doubt hell be able to contribute.

Ccapilla

May 21st, 2015 at 8:31 PM ^

No kid is ever any better than that one time someone saw him and he wasn't fully developed. They stop developing at 13. It's just science, get with it. Why do you think coaches offer 7th and 8th graders now? You know exactly what you're going to get from them in 5-8 years. It's a lock.

Do I really even need this /s?...

ThirdVanGundy

May 21st, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^

I remember when I looked similar to that. Now many steaks and cupcakes later it is safe to say that I do not.

LSAClassOf2000

May 21st, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^

I walked away for a bit, leaving this thread up - my wife would now like me to attend Camp Sanderson as well. I told her I would have to rearrange some meetings, but I am sure if I sold this right, I could get the company to consider a "teambuilding offsite" that just happened to involve a little training. 

Franz Schubert

May 21st, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^

We have some seriously outdated weightrooms. Fluorescent lighting, cramped area, old dirty grey carpet squares on the floor, painted walls...reminds me of my high school in the 80s.

FormAFarkingWall

May 21st, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^

Actually pretty sure I recall that Harbaugh eliminated all of the nonsense in the weight room shortly after he was hired. 

Confirmed:  http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/04/jim_harbaugh_pulls_frills_from.html

"It was shiny, like somebody from Chicago came in [from a ] P.R. firm," Harbaugh said. ""This (weight room) isn't a slide show. This is work"

Franz Schubert

May 21st, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^

Is that how you interpreted what I said? Never said anything about it "keeping an athlete from getting stronger." Based on your lack of reading comprehension I'm guessing you are not a Michigan graduate.

MGoBender

May 21st, 2015 at 6:46 PM ^

 

We have some seriously outdated weightrooms. Fluorescent lighting, cramped area, old dirty grey carpet squares on the floor, painted walls...reminds me of my high school in the 80s.

 

I've been in the weightroom as recently as last summer. You're description is totally innaccurate. The hoops weight room is immaculate and up-to-date. Try not to make a sweeping generalization by a couple edges of a picture.