Michigan Basketball Snowflakes Thread

When you're down 20 in the first ten minutes of a game, it's hard as hell not to just give up.  Michigan didn't.  And they gave one hell of a fight.  If Michigan can get calmed down within the first couple of minutes, they can beat anyone in the nation.

I don't know what the hell this has to do with anything, but I'm angry and have photoshop.

 

2 things hurt us the most:

1) Most of the team seemed not as intense as Ohio. I like the opening stuff w/ BA every game and the nutcracker thing was funny, but you have prepare that team for the intensity you know Ohio will bring in the 1st 5.

2) Burke and THJ (in the 2H) tried to do too much. I think you have to hype up the team, while taking Trey and THJ aside and tell them, a) not to do too much and play within the offense- b) trust your teamates to make shots, it's not all on them.

 

Also, that last play where Trey had the 3 rim out, I thought they'd draw up something different than Trey 1 on 1. Some kind of double screen that leaves an option for a drive/dish. disappointing coming out of a timeout.

 

Tough to win on the road. Combination of Ohio playing great defense and us getting off to a horrible start. If we don't get down 28-8, we may win. We will probably lose road games vs. MSU, Minnesota, and Indiana too. A long season. Hate losing to Ohio again, but we are better than them at home and a neutral site IMO.

Craft has owned Burke. Period. Burke can't go off offensively against that kind of quality D. That's the difference in the game. That and the whole damn team being asleep the first half.

for some reason we have a curse or something against us playing in Columbus idk why either and I'm getting fucking sick of it. Bottom like is you can't be down as the #2 team in the nation by double digits and fight back at 75% and hope to win. That first half was appaling. No excuse at all for losing the way we did. Complete bull shit from the start to the finish. Have to sink your shots from the field. if Burke and THJ hit those buckets then its a whole different ball game but we simply like in football laid a fucking egg. Seeing that fucker Meyer pissed me the fuck off. Can't wait till we shut him up this year. We need to start getting back to fucking despising Ohio St again. I was sitting at EMUs eatery watching the game and this tweaker in front of me is wearing an Ohio St shirt 8 miles away from the University of Michigan and nobody said a thing. I was STUNNED. I thought we hated these fuckers?! Now we're accepting them?! I know this sounds like a dick move but I couldn't stand for it and started being annoying till he finally moved and walked away. I'm sick of these assholes. Fuck class and fuck being a good sport these fuckers are our rivals. Its time to start treating them like shit again. They do it to us for fuck sake we should do it right back. It's like a persom at work who takes shit from somebody he hates and doesn't stick up for himself. I'm tired of this "be the bigger man than them." When I'm at the game in a few weeks I'm going to treat any OSU fan the same way they treat us. With no respect. It's time to be the bully again.

I saw four things today. 1) a very young team playing their first true tough road test was clearly overwhelmed (not much a coach can do until you find out, well he found out) 2) I love Beilein, but he has some ownership on this too. That team was not prepared. He made some very good adjustments, but some of his defensive schemes were very questionable. 3) this has been going on all year, but Burke is consistently late rotating on his defensive assignments and it is hurting this team. Stauskas is not helping on D either, but it is not due to lack of effort he's still learning. The Burke thing really bugs me though because it is purely an effort thing. 4) the personality of this team seems to think their efficiency on offense will overcome every other team so they don't worry too much if they give up a score. In a game like this, you have to be pissed when you give up a layup or open jumper. I didn't see that today. I can't believe both LeVert and Hardway didn't even run down OSU after a turnover.

Pretty much every one on the team played poorly and we still almost won. Hopefully they all learn from this experience and play better at Minny. My only complaint was that I thought JB should have replaced Stauskus with McGary for most of the 2nd half. Nick was out of control on offense and a liability on D.

 

Did anyone else notice the announcers kept saying Michigan didn't have depth? We played 8 players (9 if you count Horford's 2 min) and they played 7 (8 if you count Laquinin ross' 3 min). so whats the big deal???

The Ohio trolls on the ESPN boards right now are so pathetic it's hilarious.

FUCK. That's my snowflake.

Now that the adrenaline has faded some, I feel like this: it's great news that we can spot a decent team 20 points and still come within a basket of winning on their court. I'm not even remotely worried about the rest of the season; I (and everyone else who isn't an Ohio homer) would be shocked to see us lose to that team when they come to Ann Arbor in a few weeks.

Losing to Ohio boils my blood in any sport, though. My sports-conscious lifetime didn't begin until 2006, and those God damned bastards haven't lost much since then.

Rewatched the game and counted 15 OSU moving screens, 3 missed charging calls 2 went for 3 point plays and 1 for a dunk. Finally 2 missed continuation on what could have been both 3 point plays. For OSU maybe 1 missed charge that Thomas drew, but Morgan only made 1 free throw for a total of 9 for sure points we were screwed out of and potential of up to 11 depending if Burke made the foul shots.

It was tough start. But I give alot credit to guys and coaches for the heart to have a chance under 20 seconds to steal a game on the road against a top 15 team.  A lot teams down 20 early would have folded and got smoked on the road.  This tells me that team has the heart and will to fight at any point just have to learn to finish on the road in hostile environments over time.  This team will be ready to play thursday night at Barn for sure.  Since it's the first loss of the year, I think I may quit the predictions thread day before every game unless people want me to still do the threads? 

 

 

Minnesota is actually a more important game in the sense that if we win we get the tiebraker against them. If I had to choose between winning today and winning Thursday I would pick Thursday since I'd rather get that tiebreaker and have a better shot at a Big Ten championship. I do think this could be a very good learning experience for the team.

It inspired me to unfollow burgeoning wolverine star, so I think I'm better for that.

Terrible start to the game and hats off to OHIO for taking it to us. They earned the win and deserve the spoils. Michigan made me very proud today by fighting back and coming within an inch from winning the damn game. That tells me that this team is never out of a game. There are no moral victories...but this game was a really tough out for us. This is B1G ball where it is extremely hard to win on the road against the upper half of this conference. Michigan will be in similar position @Indiana....@ Msu......@Minny.....@wisky....@ Illinois. I'd they can win the majority of those road games and hold serve at home with maybe only one loss....your looking at at approximately a 13-4 B1G record and a no.1 seed.....probably a B!G title pending on the Indiana results. Let's not fret. We lost to a damn good team that simply plays great ball in their building. This was a lesson to the freshman. Upperclassmen struggled from the floor as did Robinson....Staukus was invincible. Mcgary is a bright spot and if Hoford can get back healthy it will make a huge impact. If we beat Minny on Wed....this loss will not hurt us badly and we will string the rest of the games until the IU showdown. go blue!

We blow them out when they visit A^2!  We'll probably lose a few more games on the road. Stay tough at home!