December 14th, 2013 at 2:27 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:27 PM ^
The yellow snow: team doesn't have an elite defender (couldn't deny Johnson the ball at the end to keep him from going to the line); McGary is limited offensively (lived off Burke's penetration - sets wonderful screens but how many finished with him rolling and getting it at the hoop); Robinson disappears for too long. Also - we really need Walton to develop - needs to take better care of the ball and make smarter decisions on the drive.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:27 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 3:08 PM ^
Anthony kept saying how young Arizona was, and every time he did I yelled back at him that Michigan was all Freshman and Sophmores. Is that old Greg Anthony?
December 14th, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:33 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 5:03 PM ^
reasonably appropriate for this recent stretch in Michigan sports. Although instead of a record, it's a pneumatic paddle and the target is my spirit balls.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
the lack of traveling calls on AZ and some iffy 3 second violations that should have been called as well.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^
Need to find ways to gut out wins in tough games.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
Spike HAS to be the guy at PG. I know his D is lacking at times, but Walton can't facilitate or force teams to respect the outside shot like Spike. Walton will come along, but we gotta have Spike out there to start getting wins in these big games.
December 14th, 2013 at 3:20 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:29 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^
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December 14th, 2013 at 2:32 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:33 PM ^
we GET IT! lulz
December 14th, 2013 at 2:35 PM ^
We got it the first time.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^
Someone should take the muppets videos and reverse the music and invert the colors so they can be nega-Muppets for dong punch losses such as these.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:31 PM ^
Should have used it in the last 5 minutes. Arizona was scoring at the rim every possession and we could not stop it.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:32 PM ^
The truth is, Michigan is one of the youngest teams in the nation, playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation. They're not bad, just inexperienced. Things will get better, and my outlook is still the same as it was at the start of the year. Finish with a 4 seed, sweet sixteeen type team. That's really not a horrible thing to be in college basketball, it's what we were last year and look what happened in the tournament.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:34 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:37 PM ^
They're good losses (minus Charlotte), I think it all gets pulled together by the time conference play rolls around and we show enough in the B1G to get a 4 seed. Admittedly this is mostly based on my eyeball test, but I have a decent enough feeling about it.
Even though it was a loss, I felt like progress was shown this game over where we were in Puerto Rico.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:42 PM ^
There is no chance for a 4-seed with 4 losses and no quality wins in the non-conference. Even with a good conference record the hole is deep and just making the tournament is not going to be easy.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:44 PM ^
Last year's team went undefeated in nonconference play... this one has four losses and counting... Meaning to match what we were last year we would have to do markedly better than 12-6 in Big Ten play. Not gonna happen. A 6-7 seed is attainable with absolutely otherwordly improvement. 8-11 if we play very well in conference and beat MSU/OSU. If they go par from the course they will be NIT bound
December 14th, 2013 at 2:52 PM ^
MSU had 4 OOC losses last year, but I'm clearly wrong and should just pencil us in for the NIT.
December 14th, 2013 at 3:15 PM ^
And I never said to pencil us in for the NIT. I said that NIT is par for the course. The 10-11 and 11-12 bball teams show that Beilein is capable of rallying his teams to an overachieving run in the Big Ten.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:37 PM ^
So you are expecting that this team, which is now 6-4 without a win over a ranked team, is going to be just as good as last year's team with Burke and Hardaway... okay
December 14th, 2013 at 2:45 PM ^
Don't you think that's putting words in my mouth a bit? All I said is I think we can end up with the same seed we had last year, and who knows what happens come tournament time. Compare last years OOC schedule to this year, they're not even close. If we played last years schedule, Michigan would be a 0 or 1 loss team and that four seed wouldn't seem so unrealistic.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:32 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:34 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:51 PM ^
Funny thing, it was more like 16 seconds.
December 14th, 2013 at 3:22 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:34 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:34 PM ^
That phantom foul call with 24 seconds left put us behind the 8 ball and we never recovered.
You're suppose to choke on the whistle at that stage of the game.
Why isn't 3 seconds ever called anymore. Especially when players are camped under there getting offensive rebounds.
It really cheapens the game.
December 14th, 2013 at 2:35 PM ^
December 14th, 2013 at 2:54 PM ^
I seriously mean this as an honest question because I feel completely the opposite. Why would you play Walton instead of Spike? I feel like the drop off from Spike to Walton is just huge right now. Walton actually kind of reminds me of Caris last year. He just seems a step behind, that the game is too fast for him. Just curious if you saw something I didn't.