Expectations for BBall record next season?
If Manny stays? If he goes?
We need to have a winning record, for starters. 18-14 would be good. NIT bound, hopefully. But I'm starting to feel that a roadmap might be in order to provide guidance as to whether we might need to move on.
To where? No idea. But by year 4, shouldn't we be competing to be in the upper half of the B10?
The body is still warm.
Goes where ?
lol, yeah his draft stock isn't nearly as high as people seem to think...it is going to UofM next year or the D League.
Manny has obviously not fully invested in the system. He has been benched, he has started fights in practice... I think this year has been his attempt to showcase his skills to get into the league and it has backfired on him. My opinion, could be completely off-base.
I have mentioned this other times this season that it appears Manny is out for Manny and no others. With him being s starter that is a huge blow for the underclassmen, that came here to learn the system and move forward.
Wait two months before you ask this question.
After this season, very low expectations... Please, please surprise me in a positive way Beilein
I think after this season its a no brainer for manny to come back,even so ide say 5th in the big 10 would be a huge accomplishment.
assuming manny is gone we lose over 60% of our scoring from this year. and we enter next season without a single big man that has played a minute of ball at the college level. i'll root as hard as any other fan, but i'm also a realist. the fact that beilein hasn't more aggressively pursued another big man in this recruiting class is completely baffling. most of the big ten ate us alive up front this year, and i don't see a reason for it being different next season.
I heard John Beilein is afraid of heights and this is the reason he doesn't like tall people on the team. I am sure he prefers to not have big men.
Keep in mind that Beilein went into this season fully expecting to have Cronin, Morgan and McLimans available for 2010-11, in addition to anyone we'd sign in 2010. In the fall he then signed Smotrycz who, while more comfortable on the wing, is tall enough to play some 4. He is also likely to sign another post in this class.
played D and rebounded before shooting the 3, I would say something different.
Without knowing how the freshmen will play and how Morris will evolve, my guess is that this team will finish in the middle of the pack in the Big 10, maybe challenge for a NCAA spot but probably winding up in the NIT. Losing Sims will be big, much more than Harris possibly leaving. But as others have noted, this is very premature.
Surely Manny Harris knows this. He def. needs another year because what he did out there this year is not NBA ready. And I SWEAR TO GOD if I have to watch Stu Douglas miss wide open 3 after wide open 3 next year and turn the ball over and not play defense Im gonna kill myself. Well maybe not but I will throw stuff around the room and say cuss words.
This year Manny is a 2nd round pick at best according to almost every respected mock-draft site. Scouts were looking for Manny to improve his perimeter shot and he didn't accomplish that this season. Manny is an NBA-caliber athlete, but until that outside shot starts falling he will have to deal with defenders sagging off waiting for his drives. He certainly would have been helped greatly if his fellow perimeter shooters could finish open looks he got them, or if he had a big man capable of rolling to the basket for dump offs.
I think Manny will be back, and I hope that we can get one more solid 4/5 in this year's recruiting class to help out. Hearing about Morgan's injury just makes matters worse, considering our only real bigs on the roster next year are Morgan/McLimans/Smotrycz.
Too early to predict next season, but I do think Manny will be back and we will bring in a solid recruiting class.
around .400.
In what is obviously the first of 49,763 threads that will ask this question, I'll say 7-23.
But hey--congrats on being the first to do it! Did you have it written this morning and were just waiting to hit "Save" the minute the game ended so no one would beat you to the punch?
with a motivated manny and (dear god please) the emergence of somewhat of a post presence, then 18-19 wins and maybe .500 in the conference
EDIT: very optimistic
Like I've said before Beilein won an NIT championship, when he lost his top 6 scorers. People are lowering expectations for next year way to much.
7-5, anything less and he needs to be fired.
Oh crap, wrong thread.
The combined bball, FB "Off-season" has begun and I needed a laugh on a dreadful Mon. morning...+1
i would be happy if i didn't have to sit through a sloppy pickup game every time i go to crisler.
We have one of the lowest turnover rates in the country.