Do We All Need To Relax About NJIT Game?

Horrible and embarrassing loss, but this is basketball and it's just a blip and will have no bearing in the quality of our season.

Walton needs to play better and become a leader.

I think it showed Michigan's vulnerability off the dribble. NJIT was quick. Then again, they were also smoking hot in the second half. Hard to fault your defense completely for that result.

that team was loaded with future NBA players (and were probably paid for with Ed Martin money)

 

This team has young talent who are starting to lower the standard.  Defense liabilities.

We should of blew that game open in the first half hell they turned it over the first six times they had the ball.

completely unacceptable and embarassing...

Good thing we are a football school

Beilein will learn from this and use it as a teaching tool. Sh!t happens. NJIT shot the lights out. We have to do a better job defending the perimeter when Spike and DW2* are in the game together.

*I'm not trying to be cool, I just can't remember how to spell his first name. Derek or Dereck or Derick?

Well at least we're a football sch....oh, never mind.

Michigan just can't have nice things. I don't know what this school did to piss off the sporting gods, but they are exacting their retribution upon us with a fiery vengeance. And they're enjoying it too.

This school needs Harbaugh in the worst way. We have absolutely nothing to be excited about right now.

Everyone needs just step back from the cliff and relax.

Just posted this in the other thread, but...Basketball losses mean so much less and hurt so much less than in football. For many reasons, more games, each one means less, teaching moments are real things that can actually come from losses to bad teams without ruining the year. Most importantly, beacuase I know we have a very, very competent coaching staff.

ahead except as a good learning lesson. This team outplayed Michigan on both ends of the floor and deserved the win. In the process, Michigan exposed itself as a team without any interior presence that gives up the baseline and rarely forced dribble-drivers to pass off before going all the way to the rim for easy layups.

Michigan rarely got any transition baskets and found nothing easy in the second half. The only reason it stayed in the game is because of LeVert's heroic performance. Irvin must score for thie team to win because LeVert won't be stopped and Walton and Spike usually provide balancing offense.

The freshmen got to give a better account of themselves or this team will be killed down low in the conference season.

season hasnt even started yet. all we need to do is with the big ten tournament and we're in.

Does everyone remember when number 1 Kentucky lost to an atrocious Indiana (2011)? It was a huge thing for Indiana, but Kentucky let it slide off their back and went on to be great. It happens. Move on.

All the sky is falling fans around here.  Yes this loss sucks, but it doesn't mean that the season is over.  Not much you can do when a team shoots that high of a percentage on some contested threes.  Young team coming off a big win, let's see how they do next week against Arizona and just accept this is not a final four team.

Old man KenPom. Get your act together KenPom. You told me we were going to win.

Shooting like they did today, NJIT would have beat a lot of teams. They just could not miss down the stretch.

Those engineers from New Jersey are tall.

Yes

I'm just getting tired of embarrassingly bad athletics.

Rabble Rabble Rabble

At least we aren't UCONN
They won the national championship last year and just lost to Yale. Their football team lost to winless SMU and their women's basketball team is losing.

# 13 Miami is losing by 6 to Green Bay right now.

YES. EVERYONE RELAX. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT MICHIGAN WANTS YOU TO DO.

 

No but seriously, relax. We will be okay down the stretch. Losses like these tend to refocus a team. Now Spike knows he can't foul out. And Irvin knows he can't disappear for a game. And the Freshman have seen back door cuts.

We have to give this team time to grow. A blip along the way is just a learning moment at this stage. You don't win conference titles in early December. And you can't lose them either.

Beilein got it guys.

I'm just disappointed that they played so lackadaisacal and ran no offensive sets and made no effort to stay in front of their man on defense.  They thought they could sleepwalk through this game and win easily, which is what disappoints me the most.  This is a horrible loss that they'll have to live with on their resume this year.

Wolverineoptimist is just looking for clicks. haha

And a loss like that will at best cost us a couple seeds in the tournament and at worst could put us on the bubble if conference play becomes a struggle.

Oh wow just saw this - been distracted (follow Butler more during bball season).  This is like App State, but the difference is this is basketball.  It was effort not talent based.  This might be just what Belien needs to get the most out of this team for the remainder of the season.  Or, it could be the start of a dumpster fire season.  

My recommendation is drink and drink often.  Maybe Santa puts a Harbaugh under the tree and we can just forget 2014 ever happened.