Michigan BBall Season Snowflakes
Okay season, overall. S16 is where the expectation was; that’s where the team went even tho it felt like overachieving.
This team went how Houstan went like Brian wrote in the pre-season.
Everyone should come back. Nobody on the team is NBA ready. The recruiting class was highly overrated (product of COVID?)
3 McDonald’s AAs
Bufkin barely played
Diabate still raw
Houstan sucks.
Dickinson playing beneath the rim as a 7 footer against a short team like Nova was disappointing to see. But he’s had games like this throughout the season.
Hope to see Eli succeed in the GLeague or overseas. The Professor is an Ironman.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:15 PM ^
You got the champagne popped? As much shit you talk about this program I figured you would be celebrating.
"everyone should come back" - this thread should be nuked already.
I vote the mods nuke this thread and keep XM's.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:13 PM ^
Why? That’s absolutely correct. Not a single player on this team is ready for the NBA.
March 25th, 2022 at 12:50 PM ^
I seem to recall the same sentiment when Jordan Poole went to the draft. It took a few years of development, but he is evolving into at star from what I hear (I don't follow the NBA). In my experience with kids in their late teens and early 20s, the most sure fire way to get them to do something is tell them they can't do it, or in this case, they are not ready.
My guess is that a lot of these kids who leave early don't feel like they are at their peak, but have the option to get paid while they work toward developing their maximum potential. This applies more to the players on student visas since they can't make NIL money yet.
Proud of the team. Wish they could’ve made some layups this game, but they exceeded expectations from the way the regular season went. Get the freshmen another year of practice and strength training and next season could be a damn good one.
and you, OP, are a shit fan.
The Cube and AK47 need to hold a battle royale for title of Mgoblogs most negative.
I agree! Looking forward to the future! If we just hit more layups, and if our bigs were quicker to the rim. Also we missed a bunch of free throws. Nova is so clean and pure, it is really impressive. They don’t fuck up, maybe once but not twice. We never supposed to get that far other than preseason ranking. I’m okay with it, and no body smacked anyone. Which is nice. Still hurts though.
Feels so great to win, so shitty to lose.
- Michigan wins this game if they make half their layups and half of their free throws.
- Houston and Diabate are unequivocally not ready for the NBA. NBA players do not Hit the side of the backboard on three point attempts and fumble the ball away in the paint when they have a six inch height adbantage.
3. The non foul call on Dixon with six minutes or so is to be expected if your a Michigan fan and have witnessed the ref shit show we have seen this season. I think we were down six and would have the ball… probably would have missed a layup anyway.
Cheers to the professor, Dj and big dick. Well miss those boys.
Yep. I don't think Nova ever got their lead to 10. I think it maxed at 9. Definitely a winnable game if we'd had an average shooting night
they played hard and had good D on the night but...so...many...missed...shots...at...the....rim!!!
How does anyone function in life always angry and negative. This team grossly outperformed any expectation I had for it midway through the year. They played their asses off, sorry some of them missed your lofty expectations.
Agreed, but they sucked me back into thinking they could make a deep run after the Tennessee win.
100% with you TruBluMich. I'll never understand why someone would start a thread saying one of the players sucks. Really could do without some of the people on this board.
Because some of us still can't break the emotional bond these teams and games create with us. The way the games go have a huge impact on that notion too. Like tonight...wow. I'd rather have seen a 2018 repeat and tip the cap. In reality, in 90% of simulations of this game we are back n forth to the finish or we won because "high percentage" shots were taken and should have fallen.
Instead the opposite happened and it suuuuucks. Cheers go the guys. They battled as you say. Their limitations are easy to call out from the couch from us jackasses but kudos to them. Truly.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:07 PM ^
Preseason expectations, love of our dudes, pride, and we did kinda do okay. I have never understood or cared about criticism of players. We root for Michigan, don’t dump on kids. (That seems patronizing, but they are kids) Especially freshman who are really talented and are learning. We did good to salvage the season. But man, if we could have hit at the rim….
So for everyone that thinks Hunter is gone, can he guard Giannis, Ambiid or Durant? How does he go pro in North America?
Caleb does not suck. He is not NBA ready, but he will be good. It’s obvious that he was promised minutes, he got them, he should know he isn’t developed enough to leave. I trust Howard will let him know that.
He probably doesn't but unlimited eligibility wouldn't change that.
NIL money might
I meant Hunter can come back for eternity and his draft status isn't changing.
Young collegiate athletes make or are pushed into making poor pro decisions every year. It all comes down to personal decision.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:06 PM ^
So for everyone that thinks Hunter is gone, can he guard Giannis, Ambiid or Durant? How does he go pro in North America?
That's kind of a ridiculous standard considering no one can guard those guys
Regardless, the question isn't 'who can he guard', but rather 'will he get any better staying in college'
He will easily go pro in North America if he wishes
March 24th, 2022 at 10:19 PM ^
I'll agree with you Caleb does not suck and is not NBA ready.... but please tell me 5 players on earth that can guard Kevin Durant. That's just funny.
I would hate to be a student athlete and read this thread that “I suck”.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:04 PM ^
It's the internet so I shouldn't be surprised, but I'll never understand why someone would post something like that.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
It always makes me wonder….what “National Championship Team” did they play for, in college?
March 24th, 2022 at 11:14 PM ^
It always makes me wonder….what “National Championship Team” did they play for, in college?
Limited athleticism at both guard spots, roller coaster at the 3 and super raw 4 mixed with an All-American center. Making it to the Sweet 16 should be a solid accomplishment despite the freshmen massively overrating the team.
All hail Eli Brooks. A treat to watch him grow into the all-time winningest player in program history. That kid has a heart that cannot be questioned.
His jersey should be retired.
What a ride. Thanks to the team and Coach.
Blue Vet wins the snowflakes. Great response!
It's nice of you to say. So many thoughts occurred to me but foremost was thanks.
What does NBA ready have to do with anything?
Never apologize for a sweet 16 appearance. It’s so hard to make elite 8’s and final 4’s. Just ask the rest of the teams in the big ten.
March 25th, 2022 at 11:09 AM ^
Just ask Gonzaga and Arizona what it's like to lose in the Sweet 16. One off night and you're done. Never will not appreciate the work of this team reaching the level of competition that separates the few from the many who play college basketball. Would have been nice to close out Villanova, but the Wildcats played their game better than our guys played their game. Appreciate the effort and the achievement.
You forgot the most obvious thing-that you do not know much about this game.
It must have been a very ugly game-glad we don't have cable.
All your opinions are terrible. Hope you don’t come back. Learn about basketball.
Good season. Look forward to next year.
What's the opposite of Muppets?
This game was that. So bleeping winnable.
Nice run in the tourney to at least make something of the season but overall it was a really not fun season. Something needs to be fixed on the offensive end.
Need a new pg and some shooting.. Lots of shooting. Good God, fucking Houstan today... That brick off the corner... Such a nothing factor out there
We got farther than anyone expected, including any of us, took down the SEC champs and took the Big East champs to the wire (kind of)
It's going to be a weird offseason with a lot of pieces to a difficult puzzle to figure out, but this was a season of hard knocks, you got to be optimistic that there were a bunch of lessons learned by all the young players
This game was not down to the wire.
IIRC we had the ball down 4 with 2 minutes to go, when T-Will jacked up that 3. Regardless, point is it was competitive.
March 24th, 2022 at 10:31 PM ^
I agree. That TWill three was the beginning of the end. How could we not go into the post in that scenario? Also, when Dickinson’s three rolled around and rimmed out the icing was on the cake for the wildcats.
What makes you think if we went to the post the results would of been any different tonight? I disagree with everyone that TWill was a good shot. He was open. And he's been hitting his shots.Nothing else worked all night.
March 25th, 2022 at 11:33 AM ^
I liked the shot. Thought he was going to drain it.
I agree sweet 16 is the expectation and they achieved that.
On one hand there’s no shame losing to a 2 seed as an 11, when Vegas and all the stats showed they were better.
But man that was frustrating as hell to watch. You defended them about as well as you could hope and just could not make anything under the basket. My hope grew as the week went on and I looked at what Purdue and Edey did to them. 21 points on 13 possessions. Dickinson had 15 points on 18 possessions. Just no where near the level of domination you needed to have. And yet they were still in it most of the way. Just couldn’t hit a damn shot.
Really, if ANY of our guys other than Eli had had a standout game, that's a win or a thriller down the stretch.