MBB Second Half Production is Amazing
No context really needed. Knew the team was bad, but this is really bad. 
February 7th, 2024 at 9:51 AM ^
It's as if they're not getting proper strength and conditioning.
February 7th, 2024 at 11:09 AM ^
February 7th, 2024 at 11:24 AM ^
It's as of they're not getting proper coaching.
February 7th, 2024 at 11:42 AM ^
If that's the case, then the off-season conditioning program comes into play. Whether it's the coaching or the conditioning, this season was lost before November.
February 7th, 2024 at 11:45 AM ^
Not enough prayers and vitamins brother.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:10 AM ^
Sir, please familiarize yourself with this policy:
February 7th, 2024 at 12:05 PM ^
You and I have very a different understanding of "sexy bits".
February 7th, 2024 at 12:08 PM ^
Wait, we can't post naked chicks anymore?
February 7th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
Correct, sir!
I find naked chick posts such as yours extremely offensive to many of my sensibilities!
February 7th, 2024 at 2:22 PM ^
that's good technique
February 7th, 2024 at 9:57 AM ^
We would be 9-2 in the Big Ten or something like that if the games ended at the 1st half score. We have the talent to play with teams.
Depth, toughness, leadership, coaching?
February 7th, 2024 at 10:19 AM ^
All of the above.. and halftime adjustments - which arguably falls under the definition of coaching…
February 7th, 2024 at 11:40 AM ^
I think either Brian or Seth covered that their defensive metrics are abysmal, especially for a P5 team. I also think Juwan has been doing some weird player rotations at avoidable moments in games that leave you scratching your head.
Granted his roster isn’t deep and playing without your starting PG for 6 road games won’t help much but I have to believe many other coaches could at least duplicate his recent lack of success without making snarky comments about your starting upperclassman players.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:00 AM ^
It's not bad luck. It's not because of players who aren't good enough. Not because a string of elite teams dominated us.
It's the piss poor coaching. Period.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:02 AM ^
Disagree. Talent isn’t there either but that’s on Juwan too. The lack of guards is strange. Having to rely on Will Tschetter won’t get it done in the B1G. Having to start and rely on TWill won’t either. If bother were 7 and 8 men in a rotation would help a ton. Reed ain’t it. Has feet for hands
February 7th, 2024 at 10:11 AM ^
OT, I'd like to see what Reed could do on the football field. (No, I don't think he's too tall.)
February 7th, 2024 at 10:13 AM ^
Talent isn't great but the decision was made that players like GWIII and Khayat aren't playable. There are some that would disagree with that.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:59 AM ^
Neither should of been takes imo
February 7th, 2024 at 1:06 PM ^
There have been unfortunately quite a few "unplayable" scholarship players of the Howard-era. For whatever reason, Bajema was deemed unplayable in 2019-20 despite us struggling a bit shooting from the outside in the second half of the year. Isaiah Barnes was deemed "unplayable" as well (and after seeing him as a sophomore it made sense). Now YoYo is in his second year and he's not playable. Tschetter really doesn't provide anything. Oh and the elephant in the room: the one "Unplayable" player who has played quite a bit is Jace Howard.
Don't get me wrong, there were some letdowns/duds Beilein recruited, but it wasn't to this extent.
February 7th, 2024 at 1:08 PM ^
It might not be Final Four talent, but they’re talented enough to have a winning record.
February 7th, 2024 at 1:15 PM ^
Yes but the goal has to be much higher. I loved Stu Douglas and Novak but we still needed better than them to take next step
February 7th, 2024 at 10:02 AM ^
Is that entire season or is that just Big Ten?
February 7th, 2024 at 10:03 AM ^
Just B1G I believe.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:24 AM ^
I don't understand how only one team in the big ten has a negative second half scoring margin. Seems like the plusses and minuses should even put to zero right?
Are these actually the worst 4 teams, or did they just pick these 4 teams to create a narrative?
February 7th, 2024 at 11:01 AM ^
Yeah, I'm no math whizz, but the conference's collective +/- for the second half of in-conference contests should be zero (just as the Big Ten's in-conference record is always .500).
February 7th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^
If you add all the teams other than Michigan, it's possible that Michigan would have the only negative scoring margin if the total is equal to Michigan's deficit.
February 7th, 2024 at 1:36 PM ^
Sigh, you guys. It's not a just B1G stat because as already noted if it were just B1G then it would have to add to zero. You also know that the unprinted ones can't make up the difference exactly because there are 10 teams that are no worse than +23. It cannot add up.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:22 AM ^
Well, if it's just Big Ten, then the stats are wrong... B/c the situation is even worse.
UM basketball has been outscored by 113 points, just in the second half, just in the 11 games of conference play.
The only conference game in which we've outscored our opponent in the second half was our road win at Iowa.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:59 AM ^
Maybe it’s not then
February 7th, 2024 at 12:18 PM ^
I believe it's all games (conference and non-con) but only BIG teams.
February 7th, 2024 at 2:01 PM ^
That would make sense for why all the other big ten teams are positive
February 7th, 2024 at 10:04 AM ^
Looks to me like a team without any appreciable depth. That once the starters start to fatigue or get into any sort of foul trouble we're cooked.
Not sure if more pride is the solution here although that's what our HC thinks is the answer to our problems.
February 7th, 2024 at 9:18 PM ^
It can’t be just depth because they come out of halftime immediately looking like shit while at the end of the first half they look better. Whatever they’re saying or doing during halftime is counterproductive.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:05 AM ^
These are things that seem fixable. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Is it conditioning? Just seems like we are missing that oomph. The team needs their version of Herbert.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:07 AM ^
I don't think a few extra squats in the gym is going to fix this.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:10 AM ^
Man I hope this is intended as sarcasm.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:13 AM ^
" this shit works *
February 7th, 2024 at 10:29 AM ^
I'm guessing if we went deeper into the second half numbers you would find the majority of those point differentials came in a small portion of second half minutes. My perception is that Michigan has given up a ridiculous number of extended scoring streaks over a short period of time in the second half of most of their games.
I don't think I have ever seen a team which can be playing even with an opponent and suddenly give up a 17 - 3, or 12 - 0, or 37-10 scoring run as consistently as this Michigan team does. For that to happen again and again, that is a total team failure. This program needs a reset.
February 7th, 2024 at 12:57 PM ^
this is why I point to player leadership. yes, all of the above is an issue, but what is #1? Having that guy to pull the team together and execute when things start to get away from them. That is lacking.
February 7th, 2024 at 10:55 AM ^
I love Juwan's intensity and love for Michigan, but I've also never seen a Michigan team that is worse in the second half of games than whatever *this* is, and I go back to Cazzie's day. The most obvious trait seems to be periods of confusion with no touchstone (e.g. let's just focus on defense for the next 2 minutes) to fall back on. In some ways, it looks like the players lose interest, but even if that's true, it still falls back to how they are coached in practice and during the game. I hold no malice for anyone on the team, but the whole deal looks like it needs a fresh start.
February 7th, 2024 at 11:05 AM ^
I miss the kind of execution, coaching, attention to the details.
February 7th, 2024 at 3:48 PM ^
Man the Beilein years were so fun. I wish we could relive it
February 7th, 2024 at 11:12 AM ^
Time to fold up this lemonade stand of a team and go watch cartoons.
February 7th, 2024 at 11:35 AM ^
When I first saw this tweet I thought it was about the football team and I was like "damn, they really were incredible"
February 7th, 2024 at 11:56 AM ^
That’s why I was always confident in Michigan Football because I knew the coaches would always adjust accordingly at halftime. Michigan Basketball…lol.
February 7th, 2024 at 12:32 PM ^
It is because of the admissions and NIL, definitely not on Juwan…
February 7th, 2024 at 12:58 PM ^
here is the table with the entire conference - also from one of Ant's posts
February 7th, 2024 at 1:28 PM ^
4th best team in the conference....in the first half.
Minnesota is pretty incredible in their own right. Wow!
February 7th, 2024 at 1:08 PM ^
That is ... mind bottling.