Michigan vs. Illinois SNOWFLAKES/502 Bad Gateway/POSBANG Thread
I'm not sure we played well enough for POSBANG to get it's own thread. So I've combined.
30 minutes of solid basketball. 10 minutes of s*** the bed. Glad we hung on for the W. Survive and advance.
One note..
Midway through the 2nd half, LeVert played BRILLIANT defense. Probably the best position and footwork you've seen all year. It was certainly his best series of the game.
The Illinois player pushes off, creates space and then jumps out of bounds for the dumpoff under the basket and a dunk. No call. Refs +2.
Last possession. LeVert couldn't have played it any worse. Completely out of position - horrible defense.
Illinois misses the floater.
#Sports.
Let's beat the Gophers first
@ YOST tonight
baby!
I'm not going to say we should have lost.
But I can't say that we deserved to win either.
Either team could've won that game because neither team did anything great or dominated. We came out on top.
ANYTHING.
(you name it -- tank or dominate. Or tank AND dominate -- all in one game.)
And *that's* why I <3 Michigan. Nothin' like 'em, anywhere...
Gorgeously freaky.
Just gorgeous.
<sigh.>
Illinois has been playing pretty good basketball as of late. Interesting stat: Only one team has beaten Illinois in the last month--Michigan twice. And they have played some decent teams (won @Minnesota, Nebraska, @MSU, @Iowa, & Indiana in Indianapolis).
We miss Trey.
But this group is scrappy, and they won.
Well at least we won. But holy cow thank goodness that game is over.
Yessss!!!!!
Ball don't lie?
It just took awhile for us to get those 2 points back. I believe it may have been LeVert and Abrams both times too...not sure on the first one, obviously LeVert was involved in both.
Urgency.
Gotta have urgency.
to it if we have to.
that I didn't get a Bad gateway.
Welp, not as disappointed as Illinois right now!!
Go Blue!
was a frightening experience but a W is a W!
Coaching matters!
I would take our guy over anyone.
I'd take Coach Beilein over Bobby Fischer in End Game situations, any day!
Granted -- one is dead! But...you know what I mean!
Not sure how we pulled that off, but here for the posbang
I'm just glad it's over. My work colleagues were concerned . . .
Yeah, I guy walking by just came in to check on me about the game (he thought we lost based on the look on my face). That win was hardly satisying but we will take it and move on.
And we never did.
Or we will always end up relying on that sense of urgency... creating a crisis if need be to achieve it (an' every once in awhile a game'll slip away...).
It's a pattern.
We can beat it.
who had the breakaway steal and missed it really wishes he had that back!!
Lucky is right. It's that time of year....
I was all...
Live to fight another day. #WeWork #MadeInMarch pic.twitter.com/v7KdzL6euN
— Michigan Basketball (@umichbball) March 14, 2014
We played weird guys and survived. It's a win. On to the next,
I thought we played Illinois?
/Izzo'd
Wow, I think I just aged a few years. That zone was enough to drive me crazy! And I'm just a fan!
What's great about wiggling our way out of this one is, Stauskas could go 10-10 from three tomorrow. Whole new ballgame. Time to re-focus and get it together.
win and move on
On to the next one......
#1 - Beilein...got away with his "weird guys" lineup. Okay, let's go back to the usual rotation
#2 - We played well for 30 minutes, let's not overlook that part completely.
#3 - No one will care about this game if we win the next 2.
#4 - GRIII HAS to stay aggressive. We went south when he stopped driving and attacking.
#5 - Stauskas needs to touch to ball more...when he doesn't touch the ball for 4-5 straight possessions, he ALWAYS jacks up a 3 the next two times he touches the ball. He's a willing passer when he's involved in the offense.
#6 - Horford played awful. Needs to get better.
#7 - Walton and Albrecht need to lead this team better and play more consistent.
#9 - J-Mo can't get into foul trouble like he did today.
#10 - Expect everyone from this point forward to go 2-3 vs. us...we need to learn how to solve it.
would be solved if bball refs could distinguish their asses from their elbows. Game after game, I see Morgan playing sound defense only to get screwed over completely.
Horford was pretty awful today.
Even in foul trouble, we can't be afraid to play defense. We're so foul-averse that we let dudes just charge in. Fuck the NBA for contributing to this style of play.
on the 2-3.
Ohio is the Buckeyes. OHIO is the bobcats.
there are about ten million TV/radio/blog commentators lining up to predict M as upset candidate, no matter who they play.
They will say things like "they're so dependent on the three-pointer" and "the 1-3-1 John Beilein uses is vulnerable" and they will base the sum total of their knowledge on this game, likely one of only two or three they've seen this season.
you are not allowed to shoot these people.
This team has obviously accomplished great things this year, and deserves a ton of respect for that.
However, it is fairly obvious that their chances in the tournament will be based on how they play on the offensive end. One cold game on that end of the floor in the tournament could very well let an inferior team spring the upset. They obviously can't count on the defense to win games in the tournament.
In short, I think their chances in the tournament are highly unpredictable. They are the type of team who could get upset early, or they could go deep like last year's team. I do think they will be a common pick for people predicting upsets.
Team A is really good on defense? If they have a bad game on defense, they could lose in the first round
Team B has a big man inside that all commentators love but doesn't really exist anymore in fact he's like the tooth fairy? If the big man inside like the tooth fairy has a bad game, they could lose in the first round
Team C jumps through rings of fire and rides monkeys on the ceiling fan? If they have a bad game jumping through rings of fire and riding monkeys on the ceiling fan they could lose in the first round