Rejoice in BBall getting to 11-0/Evening games thread

Submitted by San Diego Mick on

Great win by our boys tonight, our leaders led and our frosh, well, played like frosh, it's all good though, i love watching this team and we're headed for a pretty special season I think.

Hope Horford is not seriously hurt either.

Go Blue and keep those commits coming in two's as well, great day!!!

 

Edit: Congrats to M Hockey beating # 7 WMU 2-0 as well and posbangs all around

beevo

December 15th, 2012 at 10:33 PM ^

...later in the game with ice on the knee.  Having completely blown my ACL, MCL and PCL I am familiar with the pain process.  On first look, I thought he was seriously injured.  Now, we might be looking at something less problematic.  Here is hoping he is okay and the knee is structurally sound.  I still believe he will be key for us in our B1G battles.

beevo

December 15th, 2012 at 10:35 PM ^

Does anyone feel that Trey Burke is the hot girlfriend and the UM fanbase is the guy that knows she is eventually going to leave him for something better.  Enjoy it while it lasts....kid is very, very good.

Michiganguy19

December 15th, 2012 at 10:40 PM ^

When WVU got what appeared to be a foul on Michigan and another break in the same possession. You could hear after the first missed free throw, Hardaway says "Ball Don't Lie, Ball Don't Lie" - which I thought was great.

Raoul

December 15th, 2012 at 10:44 PM ^

Also:

LJ

December 16th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^

Having gone through three dislocated knees (1 playing basketball), I'm amazed that athletes can recover so fast.  It took about 4 weeks for me to get back to full range of motion, and at least another two before I was even thinking of playing sports.

Fhshockey112002

December 15th, 2012 at 10:43 PM ^

Overall great night.  Not to look to far ahead but basketball should be undefeated and a top 3 team entering 2013.  Don't think anyone could have asked for more from these young players.

si_daddy

December 15th, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^

Very glad to hear Horford didn't tear something. He looked like he was in major pain when he came off. I was sitting not far from bacon guy, he was hysterical. There was a loud WVa presence there, also their band! We did not have ours, which is too bad. Not sure if they usually travel to these things, but whatever.

Michigasling

December 16th, 2012 at 12:09 AM ^

Horford:  The way he was slamming his fist on the floor made it seem that it was a re-injury, the kind of combination of pain and frustration of knowing exactly what happened, because it had happened before.  So guess it looked that way because that's what it was.

Band:  The pep band came to MSG back in the Amaker post-season NIT games.  Unfortunatley this year's MSG games (both bball games and the hockey game) were OSU game week, so I wasn' t surprised the band couldn't be there.  I was disappointed the band wasn't there tonight, but isn't it the middle of finals?  They've got to schedule these games when it's good for the school and not when it's good for the venue.  (Yeah, I know.  Good luck with that..)

artds

December 16th, 2012 at 11:17 AM ^

Are there other boards where we CAN discuss these types of rumors during the first 48 hours they're out there? For whatever reason the mods here seem to lose their shit when we talk about them even when we're discussing them AS RUMORS. We should all have a pre-determined, go-to place if we're not able to discuss certain things here.

gobluenyc

December 15th, 2012 at 11:39 PM ^

Tim stepped up. Trey was his usual dreamy self. Nik struggled but we still won by 15. Wishing Horford a speedy recovery.

Anyone watching UF right now? They look scary good against a solid Arizona team.

J.

December 15th, 2012 at 11:41 PM ^

So... WVU throws up one horrible off-balance shot after another; for stretches, they seemingly all go in.  (Bill Raftery mumbles something about playing with confidence).  Michigan can't buy a shot off of an open look; Stauskas is as ice cold as we've ever seen him.  At one point, WVU was hitting over 70% from the field.  The officiating is awful, as evidenced by the number of free throws granted to both sides, phantom traveling violations, etc.  I'm constantly getting frustrated at the TV...

... because Michigan "should have" been winning by 30 and instead were "only" winning by 15.  Against a quality major conference opponent with lots of size playing a press man-to-man defense for much of the game.

I appear to have advanced through the "winning is fun" stage all the way to the football-esque "winning is expected."

So, this is what having a top basketball program is like.  Ed Martin, I hate you.

snarling wolverine

December 15th, 2012 at 11:56 PM ^

I kind of agree about WVU making difficult shots, but I wouldn't exactly we "couldn't buy a shot off an open look."  We shot 56% from the floor.  Stauskas was the only guy who was off tonight.  Burke and Hardaway were on fire.

Also, while Ed Martin was certainly a scumbag, I don't think he had anything to do with us hiring Ellerbe and Amaker and taking forever to upgrade our facilities.  We were content to run a second-rate program for awhile there, and we got second-rate results.  Only in the last five years have we taken this basketball thing seriously again.

 

J.

December 16th, 2012 at 12:02 AM ^

That's the thing.. rationally, I can look at the stats and say, "yes, we made 56%."  Emotionally, I keep seeing Stauskas miss the jam and the first couple of threes (before he got frustrated, when they really were easy shots), Hardaway at the beginning of the game, Robinson -- there were a lot of shots that looked like they should have gone in and didn't.  Obviously my brain turns that into more of a pattern than actually existed. :-) Great problems to have.

I've always felt that the second-tier status of the basketball program was a direct result of the administration's embarrassment -- as if they placed it on some kind of internal (double-secret?) probation in order to make sure that the violations wouldn't be allowed to recur.