Michigan Bball vs. Wayne St. Live Blog

Good job Coach Alexander for not committing a recruiting violation.  

David Merritt needs to learn the rules. HALOL.

But I am at the shane morris game. He has 3 td passes at the half.

Burke to Hardaway alley oop.  Nice to see the freshman getting some rhythm with the rest of the team.

so I'm sitting by the tunnel got on the big screen like an O.G. although, If u had to toss one from under the basket across court for a tip in I don't see how u wont hit the screen.

so I'm sitting by the tunnel got on the big screen like an O.G. although, If u had to toss one from under the basket across court for a tip in I don't see how u wont hit the screen.

so I'm sitting by the tunnel got on the big screen like an O.G. although, If u had to toss one from under the basket across court for a tip in I don't see how u wont hit the screen.

Please!

ugly game

Ugly game overall, but it appears the Burke hype is legit

scorepleasegoddammit

Michigan won by 8.

Yikes. Is that as frightening as it sounds for the rest of the season?

well at least Michigan didn't lose to GVSU cough cough.

Michigan did as I expected. Good scrimmage. Played different rotations. Don't get hurt and concentrate on the passing game to keep everyone moving so the freshman (Burke) can get use to the system. Burke is very ready to play in the Big Ten. Very good awareness. Same old song, big men don't rebound very well. They don't get very good position. Outside shooting was off but without intensity of a meaningful game this is hard to judge. Big men also need to concentrate on catching the ball. Opportunities under the basket went awry because they fumbled around with the ball. But, I didn't expect much more except I thought basic skills would have improved with the big guys and I don't believe they have. Wait a few more games. Maui will be tough if they don't get better real quick. Just sayin.

Looked like the begining of last season, team had trouble scoring and getting into a flow on the offensive end.  That said, looked like Beilein wanted to make sure the team won but did nothing to find a line-up that would make a run.  Looked like he was testing different pairings.  Burke looked pretty good, has a nice smoothness to his offensive game.  He definetly will need to work on his defense.  Michigan was really trying to work the 1-3-1.  Nobody was hitting the three tonight until Hardway hit a couple in the second half.  Interesting to see what Beilein does with Morgan & Horford.  Morgan looked better but Horford had significantly more minutes. Smotz had an off night, really thought he would be a little more pro-active with his offensive game.  Even Vogrich couldn't hit a couple wide open threes.  Oh well, one more week to get ready for the opener. Brundige did not see many minutes (unless you were looking for his older brother who plays for Wayne State).

5-24 from 3

4-12 from foul line

14 turnovers

Belien thinks team was too hyped with big crowd on hand for exhibition

Belien, Not pleased with performance (obviously), rhythm issues "what's a good shot, what's a bad shot"

New tunnel in the corner.  Leads to practice center I imagine?

New seats with block M are schnazzy.  Cup holders are nice, will probably cut down on sticky floor syndrome.

Sound system needs serious help.  Cannot understand anything announcer is saying.  Quiet and warbled.

Scoreboard is seriously sweet.  Every inch of that baby is flat panel display.

Everyone ice cold to start...well, Zack Novak hit some threes throughout.

Zack went down in a pile and tweaked his ankle, but he never came out of the game.  My sister asked him about it in the autograph line, he said it was fine.

I should add that he went out of his way to talk to my niece who adores him.  Really nice group of guys.

Trey Burke obviously further along than Darius was when Darius was a freshman.  Made some highlight reel passes(and some freshman ones as well).  Saw a lot of 4 guards+Horford or Morgan(Novak at the 4 spot).

No frisbee dogs at halftime*shakes fist at sky*

Wayne State appears to have a nice post player.  And a seriously hideous color scheme. 

Hardaway warmed up in the second half.  Burke and he hooked up for at least one sweet alley oop.

Wayne State beat us to a lot of 50/50 balls.

Overall...not pretty, but there were stretches where they looked like they were putting it together.

I didn't really expect us to be that great for this game.  Shooting 3s in practice is a lot different than shooting 3s in a game, and it's tough for the big men to get up and get ferocious in the paint for an exhibition (but I really hope they do eventually because that was lacking from Morgan last season).

A couple observations on being at the new Crisler that weren't noted above: 

1.  New seats are nice.  Sort of a synthetic material that provides more airy cushion.

2. Cupholders are nice addition.

3. The moved the press to the corner on the upper level.  This provides more space for fans near the court.  I like this move.

4.  There are four or five new "suites" in between the upper and lower levels.  These are interesting, essentially "open air" suites with four or five big seats, a big desk and some space.  For some reason it seems strange to have suites where you are visible to everyone else, but it doesn't matter because I don't think I'll be finding myself in one.

5. The most visible change, to me at least, were the advertisements on the new video boards.  At random times they would show Arby's or other ads.  I don't know if everyone noticed it, but once I did, it became infuriating.  I almost prefer the old boards that showed players' points during the whole game in uninterrupted fashion instead of being distracted by the Arby's logo in the middle of a fast break.  I sincerely hope this isn't what's in store for the Big House.