Michigan Illinois game thread
This game on a Friday night feels so different than last year. Has football beating OSU lessoned our interest in the BBall team this year? Lessoned the pain? Hunter is out, Brandon is out. How are you feeling? And what are you drinking tonight? Go Blue! Pama liquor...a quality mixer. Go Blue!!
January 14th, 2022 at 11:13 PM ^
No spots open. We will have even less at the 5 Better hope Diabate comes back or it’s just Reed down low.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:18 PM ^
Need to give some handshakes on this team. The roster is not constructed very well. Not enough true wings. Lots of PF’s that lack shooting and dribbling capabilities. You can find a spot or two if you need it.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:42 PM ^
For those downvoters, look at the scholarship situation and tell me what you see different? Well, next year down low we would have Diabate and Reed. We currently are one over on scholarships with the expectation of Hunter opening that up. I’m ok with being downvoted when I say something off but explain where I’m wrong here?
January 15th, 2022 at 1:40 AM ^
If the teams continues to be mediocre, I’m sure there will be some attrition on the roster none of us see. So if Reed is the only big they will hit the transfer portal hard to at least find a capable backup. I honestly think both Diabate and Houstan will be back next season.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^
They actually played way better in this one. It looks to me like this team doesn't know how to play through a center. When they played with Dickinson, they were such a discombobulated mess on both ends. If they can figure that out and shoot the ball from three somehow, maybe there's hope.
Edit: and there's a strength issue. This team has missed enough point-blank shots to fill two seasons for most teams. A lot of them just kind of weakly flutter off the rim. Strength can be grown. This is a 'just wait until next season' team.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
You don’t suddenly become a competent 3-point shooting team. This team Is horrific at shooting, and will stay that way. It is what it is.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:14 PM ^
Howard's rotations have been bad since he got here, and they're still bad. Whether it's the amount of minutes people are playing or who is playing on the floor together, it's always been weird.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
This year is a learning year for everyone but Eli & Hunter. Lots of hustle out there, but I agree the substitution patterns are still baffling. DJ looks better and better, Eli trying to do too much, Moussa should be iso on offense, get TWill moving downhill with lots of physicality, Kobe & Frankie need more run, Caleb needs less pressure & play the 4 (defenders are slower). Great effort, Go Blue.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
I said NIT at beginning of December and I still stand by it.
January 14th, 2022 at 11:19 PM ^
You think they're going 9-7 the rest of the way to have a winning record the qualify for the NIT.
Have you seen the schedule?
January 14th, 2022 at 11:31 PM ^
I’ve seen it. But shit … got to have some faith or why watch the rest of the season?
January 15th, 2022 at 10:48 PM ^
Optimism is good. But they have 14 games left. Who do they beat?
January 14th, 2022 at 11:41 PM ^
Football has nothing to do with pleasure watching this sad excuse of a basketball team.
January 15th, 2022 at 5:10 AM ^
’Confusing, your post is’
-Yoda
January 15th, 2022 at 12:00 AM ^
There are some really shitty takes in this thread.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:23 AM ^
Since I don't pay much attention to who's saying what I don't know if the same people who love coaches/teams pivot to having contempt for them or if the takes are coming from people who are always hateful but bite their tongues until the first opportunity arises.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:37 AM ^
Make OPEN threes. Shoot the god damned like you have for your entire lives. The end.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
I'm guessing the latter.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:30 AM ^
Who would have though that the issues with the University of Michigan's men's basketball team boil down to nothing more than the patches on their jerseys & how they affect the lives (or more accurately increasingly fragile feelings) of those watching lol. There's no cure for brain worms I guess.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:38 AM ^
Some people have higher values than spectator sports… some of those people don’t like organizations that enabled hundreds of riots.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:50 AM ^
You're going to spam the riot take, huh? Is that your finishing move? How shockingly racial & in character for you. I'll paste this from a previous comment scumbag:
The team & the university is clearly alright with the BLM patch, exactly how it is, regardless of your personal opinion.
The players on the team are humans too, with the right to have opinions too, even if they don't match up with yours or mine. Grow a pair & move on *SNOWFLAKE*.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:08 AM ^
It takes a real genius to point out that basketball players are human too. And that they are allowed to have opinions…
They do have the right to put the BLM on their jersey. The university is of course within their rights to endorse Marxist causes, which is not new.
However, the university doesn’t have a right to my money. The team doesn’t have a right to my cheering or clapping. And they don’t have a right to stop me from voicing my displeasure with any of it. I have emotionally already moved on from the team. They stink at basketball and politics. I’m looking forward to the day when they take those patches off.
January 15th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
Saying that black lives matter too is Marxist? What a fucking shit take. Go yell at clouds somewhere. It's great that you've moved on from the team, they truly do not need you. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a couple days I'm sure you'll share a quote of his taken out of context along with some tone deaf version of '"why can't we all get along", the complete irony being you'd be 100% opposed to him, the rabble-rouser he was and all.
While you're taking a break from the team you can use your newly found free time to learn what communism is and not ignorantly throw the word around like a fucking moron and stop posting some variation of "everything I disagree with is communism".
January 15th, 2022 at 12:55 AM ^
Also, if you have "a higher value than spectator sports", then maybe stop spectating? And especially stop commenting on said spectation & your specific concerns with the politics of the participants?...
January 15th, 2022 at 1:32 AM ^
I largely have. Thanks for asking. I would like to go back to watching a team that doesn’t try to manipulate me into clapping for their political causes.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:25 PM ^
You should find a different team. Maybe Alabama or Ole Miss is more your style?
January 15th, 2022 at 8:59 AM ^
Clearly the invermectin didnt cure his brain worms...hopefully the lysol injections, drinking his own piss, and uv light he stuck up his ass help him out tho...the poorly educated need love too.
January 15th, 2022 at 12:45 AM ^
Didn’t watch a minute of the game. See the result I expected. I’m diasspointed in this team but happy I’m not spending any time watching them.
January 15th, 2022 at 5:41 AM ^
the season is OVER no toruney no Nothing...what a DEBACLE
January 15th, 2022 at 9:02 AM ^
After watching this game on replay with my morn coffee, my biggest take away is that I'd rather see Johns out there instead of Houstan, that's how bad he is.
January 15th, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
Seems simplistic, but there is a gaping hole at the 3/4 spot...(caveat - Diabate seems like a 5 to me). This offense goes nowhere without someone being able to shoot the ball from the forward position
I get people being down on Houstan - kid was supposed to be a 5* all world shooter that has been spoon fed playing time and has looked totally out of his element. Missing on open 3s at this point of the season is alarming imo.
That said, guys like Jace, TWill, BJJ have been really, really underwhelming if not outright bad...These are upperclassmen and should be carrying the team more.
Not sure where the team goes now, but the NCAA tournament is pretty much gone barring a massive upset or two..
January 15th, 2022 at 12:32 PM ^
The only tournament this team is making is the Big Ten Tournament. If they win a few there, they might even make the fabled CBI tournament.
Still amazed at how horrible this team is. Easily the worst team I’ve seen since Beilein’s first year - and maybe even worse.