Michigan xavier open thread

That is truly shameful.

They just look clueless in general. Haven't seen very many (if any) decent picks. Doyle is decent when he gets the ball posted up one on one. Wagner is good on the perimeter. Wilson is a good outside shooter. Donnal looks like he understands the offense the best in terms of setting picks (still not very good). None of these guys can do two things well. 

LOL guy killing us from Xavier is from Detroit.  The irony of it all.

It's just becoming a meme by now.  We were fortunate with McGary coming here but otherwise we have to wait for our 5s to be rs seniors (Morgan) to really have any impact - so we will have 4 years of hell inside in every 5 year cycle I guess because we need our 5s to be able to shoot from 23' out and restrict them from being able to jump more than 18 inches off the ground.

I'm exaggerating but it's so predictable it's become old.  If you cant recruit that kind of 5 because 5s wont come here because they know they are a 5th wheel in the offense go get the guy who gets 5 pts a game with 12 rbs and blocks 3 a night and scares the living crap out of 6'3 guards from driving the lane.   Those arent top 50 guys in ranking - they are poor shooting athletes who need development.  Go get 2 of them.

You don't want to be in a weak conference. Leaves no margin for error. I think there are 5-6 good teams with maybe more that emerge. MSU, Maryland, Indiana, Purdue, and Iowa look good. I think Michigan can get there but we'll see. Have got to get the puzzle pieces to fit and figure out who are big men are.

Rider was blown out in their other 2 games. Maryland is probably the most overrated team in the country (it was Wisconsin who lost so many good to great players and yet were ranked for some reason). I hate to say it but Sparty and the Hoosiers look like the class of the B1G, at least in these first 2 weeks.

That was a legit foul and totally on caris for biting the pump fake

Its not so much 1 dimensional with 1 player. ... its 1 dimensional in that the team has no way to beat good teams other than shooting the lights out.  And tonight we are shooting 50% in 1st half and 40% from 3 and still down big because we don't do anything else well.

Our best rebounders are friggin guards, we dont have a rim protector, and we are soft as hell inside.  We wont out physical teams our be able to win on a poor shooting night vs a competent opponent because we have no inside offense - we just all stand around in a big circle and take 3s or ask Caris to drive the lane.  Its going to be another year of giving up 2nd (and 3rd chances) all night to opponents while we are mostly limited to our 1 shot.  Yee Haw.

People are cherry picking. Without him, we would be dead in the water. We are not out yet. We will make a come back. Nobody else have been scorning. We will be there in the second half.

He dribbles a lot and made some bad defensive plays. He's easy to not love but I think he's super fun to watch and sadly we need his hero ball

Because I think the degree of difficulty for some of those shots was way too high. And doing that doesn't allow other players to be as involved. Luckily he made some of them but you can't rely on that consistently

you ever see Shaq play?  that was his entire career.

missed alley oop (not his fault) then missed breakaway layup.  4 big points there.