Puerto Rican Snowflakes

It doesn't snow in Puerto Rico

I need a break from Michigan sports. Sigh. Go Blue

There's just nowhere to turn for relief.

Robinson and Stuaskas hurt.  Thus the rotation is shot all to hell.

Also: the shooting was all shot to hell.

Tough weekend for Michigan athletics. At least we still have footba... Nevermind

Just get rid of Borges and all of these bad things will come to an...



Oh, just forget about it and go to bed.

Guess switching to the finale of boardwalk empire paid off. I can't drink again, have to be up early.

Dilithium Wings to Bolivia. That is all.

Weeeaaak.

Seriously... Defense was pitiful... I thought we learned that taking the ball to the basket was good... Apparently not.

but do easy to score on M inside, and rebound. I don't see that getting fixed this year, nor recruiting in future years

Thats it. Nothing much else to learn

I guess I'll go spend time with my family or something.

It can't take much more of these punches... Better put it on ice and prepare for next weekend.

Also, say what you want about the football team, at least they didn't lose the game to Akron.  This is an embarrassing loss

at some point but I am really happy that he benched GRIII. If Glen doesn't want to be there, let somebody else play. If he continues to play soft and passive, leave his ass on the bench. We need him to be aggressive to be a good team.

another dissapointing weekend in Michigan sports. Oh and the Lions losing in Lions  fashion was great too. 

Go the U of Chicago route and focus on academics instead of athletics.  Eh, I need a break from sports for awhile.

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This team fought, but man this weekend was terrible. Football team, basketball team, the Lions all losing and I got cockblocked last night fuck this month.

You think you have it bad, I'm also an Astros fan.

We really need to work on boxing out in practice.  

Why do I even do this to myself? Not even worth my health.

The game just doesn't matter except what the coach and this still, very young team can learn about each other. For everyone whose tender little egos can't handle having them lose and want to write them off: you're pitiful.

Coach B will have them primed for the NCAA's

To be fair, Stauskas and Robinson were hurt, and McGary and Levert were in foul trouble.  Still, most of the players did not look like they wanted to be there.  I hate Dakich but he was right when he said there was no effort besides Stauskas.

I LIKE the team with less GR3... Huge 3 by Irvin late!
But when that 49er stepped on Nik's foot, causing him to roll his ankle, the writing was on the wall!
Still & all, nice composure in the comebacks, congrats to Charlotte

I agree with everything John Belein is about. But when your team is shooting so poorly, would it hurt to get Mitch some touches in the post?? I think he need's to see a lot more of the ball than he has, especially inside the paint and not hovering around the 3 point line. 

How much more can we take?

Despite every that went wrong, we hit a few more FT's and we win.  That wasn't real fun to watch, but experience for the freshmen will pay off when it counts later in B1G play.

for "one of those years"

People are acting like a game in which GRIII played less than 10 minutes (ESPN box score didn't have mins played tracked) are symptomatic of the program.  "JB can't teach rebounding", we have tempo-free stats that show otherwise historically (at least on the defensive glass).  We have been underwhelmed by GRIII thus far this season but a bone bruise (my best non-medical guess at what is going on) will impact his play.

Couldn't score.  Couldn't play defense.

Stauskas looks great.  Irvin looked so bad I can't begin to describe it.  Terrible shooting and even worse defense.  

Spike looks good on offense and terrible on defense.

We don't have a scoring threat outside of Stauskas.

The B1G will not be fun.  

Still came back despite terrible shooting. Beat a good fsu team. Burn the tape of that last game and move on.

things will be ok - the team is adjusting to life without the National POY/1st rd pick, 2 key guys were hurting, McGary is still coming back and the freshmen will get better.  Look at the college b-ball landscape, lots of big name teams losing/being severely challenged at home early this year.  I think the team will start hitting their stride heading into the B1G schedule.

Irvin needs to stop shooting. He made a big basket at the end but the kid was horrible the rest of the game. Where is Robinson? This team misses Burke which was to be expected, but I hate it when the game plan is just to shoot 3's. Go to the rim! What a great Michigan sports weekend this was.

Basketball has a long season. In everyone of Belein's seasons besides last year, we start out slow and get better as the year goes on.

so if our outside shots are not falling, we probably won't win. This game is about as cold as any team could shoot the ball. I haven't checked the stats, but it seemed like we missed a lot of free throws too.

It's a bad loss, but we'll get better.

This may be an odd question, but why haven't we spread the floor and run high ball screens like last year?  Granted we don't have Burke, but we still have capable guards who can drive/dish/attack the rim, and we have at least one shooter.  

Our offense looked really crappy tonight, poor shooting aside.  I saw LeVert run a couple nice pick and rolls for easy lay-ups.  More of that please.  Less of Irvin taking one dribble inside the arc and going up with an ugly, low-percentage shot.  

This weekend can blow me. Literally, just unzip my pants and gurgle. 

Wow. Started off so promising. And then football just ruined it.

This is the second time we've been upset by these fuckers. They ruined the 1977 NCAA Tournament run also. 

But hey, women's soccer! Good for the ladies, they're dominating out there. Could win it all. 

we have no interior defense. McGary was winded the whole game. Levert (our #2 scoring option) was in foul trouble. turrible shooting in the 1st half.

I didn't miss GRIII at all, but Irvin is clearly not ready for the big time.

Honestly, we looked like Duke- they have similar problems.

I see a lot of people playing blame on JB? I mean the only thing he can be criticized for IMO is we don't EVER throw it down low to McGary. Other than that he drew up three plays down the stretch that kept us in the game. Not his fault we couldn't hit a shot.

Not overly important, but hate to see the guys lack competitive fire in any game. The schedule gets a tad harder than Charlotte.

I refuse to be delusional. FSU is not that good and we needed a comeback to win and Charlotte is not that good and we lost. We are a fringe top 25 team and had NO business in the top 10 in the first place. Those of you (like myself) that were looking for those GRIII improvements coming into this yr please stop and let's hope the freshmen can get it together before we go to Cameron and get dump trucked.

Monkey Rodeo. What a shitshow of a weekend.

Here's to Stauskus & GRIII being healthy.

Too many missed free throws. I hope the hockey team can keep playing well. I don't have much left. I am actually starting to look forward to baseball season. That has never happened before. What a joke.

Hey we got Women's Soccer though

The stat of the game probably has to be the effective FG% of 35.23% from Michigan, which is still a bit short of Charlotte's also somewhat unimpressive 43.94%. Nobody was really shooting that well, but we were shooting worse. Beyond that, some of the other major stats for the game were reasonably comparable. 

Go to bed now. You'll feel better in the morning.

Ya Mon, da happy weed...Glad the boys could have some fun in the sun. All three of the games were good preparation for the big10 season and beyond. Tonight's loss would have been no big deal except it follow Hoke's follies and the Same old Lions. At least the hoops team has no coaching issues.

After being down 0-24, he has led an incredible comeback. Pats up 28-24

Also, Jack Del Rio has out vaseline on his face and looks like he's sweating when it's 22 degrees out

Come on Tom. Please have one more drive. I really hate Peyton.

Tom Brady deserves a big win after getting robbed last game.

4 yard route? Is Lloyd there?

Out of conference losses don't bug me as much in basketball. Let's at least go 1-1 against Duke and Arizona and then handle business in Big Ten play.

Lots of holding by Denver.

We need much more from GR3. Wow. I have other gripes, but let's start there

Taking the wind??!!!! Are you fucking kidding me?

New England D is a joke.

New England got screwed again. Totally awful no call.

All the ticky tack foul calls are going to kill college basketball.