Terrence Shannon 's AAU coach says Hello (ED: Jumped gun--not official yet.)
Yessirrr!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:00 AM ^
this would be excellent news for sure!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:03 AM ^
Michigan Admissions Department.. We can have nice things?
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:05 AM ^
Only for basketball
Apparently time for a Lee Corso “Not so fast…”
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^
NICE!!!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^
This a a nice pickup.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:11 AM ^
Well isn't this a fine howdy do! Great news to make Friday an even better day.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:13 AM ^
yes please. i know we needed shooting and ball handling (huh huh)... but we were missing some depth in athleticism and i think this guy provides that. i hope he's a better shooter than matthews (who some compare him to), but if we can get another shooter in the mix, then lets go. We're light at PG, but this team struggled to score... didnt see the same level of D as before, so lets go get some offense! Bring on the athletes!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:24 AM ^
He's a much better outside shooter but Matthews was much better in the midrange and in iso situations. Matthews probably had a better handle too, though he wasn't great in that regard. Shannon is a left only dribbler and is pretty limited to driving closeouts.
Overall Shannon fits a big need for us - wing defender and outside shooter, but doesn't have everything (secondary ball handling, iso scoring); however, if he did he'd be in the NBA right now, so it's hard to ask for all that.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
I dont mind whatever we pick up - i just would like to have an identity next year. Shooting team, slashing, great defense etc... we kinda just did everything average at best - and had no real identity.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:33 AM ^
I have not looked at the numbers but we were probably a really good post in the paint team (based on HD's efficiency alone).
But I don't think we are going to be a very good shooting team, even if Houstan returns. Howard is a decent shooter but the other guys we are adding (Reed, Glenn, Dug) are all average at best.
Defense might be better, especially if Moussa returns.
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^
i guess. the amount of missed layups may not be in that metric, but it should be... because it was brutal. i hope moussa comes back ready to go. he could be a top 10-15 pick with a year of skill AND physical training.
Yes, this is correct. We absolutely had an identity and that was as a huge team that dominated in the post and rebounded well. We started two centers and ran basically everything through them.
And that made for a very good offense, 19th in the country (per Torvik, 21st per kenpom - I generally define 11-25 as very good and top 10 as elite). Better than many of Beilein's offenses.
Unfortunately, we were also a pretty bad defensive team. Almost no rim protection or help side defense and sub-par perimeter defense by the wings and guards (partially because we played guys out of position, ie played a guy that should have been playing the 4 at the 3).
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:41 PM ^
No, our identity was giving it to Hunter and stifling the offensive flow. I can't be the only one who noticed how much better the offense worked when Hunter was out. That's not a knock on Hunter, it's a knock on Howard. Sure, you need set plays to Hunter, but not every time down the court. Other guys need to be more involved and the shooting will improve.
I don't agree in general that we forced the ball to much to Dickinson, but I think that was the case in the Sweet 16 game against Villanova.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:29 AM ^
I think Chaundee Brown is the better comp than Charles Matthews for the reasons you listed
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:19 AM ^
Original tweet has been deleted because it’s not been made official by Shannon or Michigan.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
Yep, redacted. Hold the phone.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:21 AM ^
Oh, this is like a posbang + hello (and an assumed goodbye to get him a scholarship).
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:22 AM ^
Welcome to Michigan, Terrence!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:26 AM ^
The original tweet was deleted so hold your horses for now
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:30 AM ^
When Sparty starts trashing him....
https://spartanavenue.com/2022/03/26/michigan-state-basketball-terrence-shannon-ideal-transfer-option/
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:33 AM ^
Not sure a tweet from his former AAU coach is enough to earn an official mgoblog "Hello" post. If/when it is reported by him, either school, or an actual journalist then go right ahead. Until then this just feels like someone wanted to be the first one to report something.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:39 AM ^
Once I saw it was deleted…I started to get nervous!!! 🤦🏾♂️
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
A great way to start the weekend!
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
While I do think that TSJ will be coming to Michigan, I'm pretty sure that the Mac Irvin Fire account jumped the gun on announcing his commitment (hence the deleted tweet). I'm feeling good but I'll wait for TSJ to say something himself before I start the celebration.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:49 AM ^
Premature portal ejection. How embarrassing.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
There are admissions hurdles to jump over first. Not holding breath.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:31 AM ^
His AAU coach also said something about the admissions hurdles being taking 2 or 3 classes in the spring term, and that Shannon was fine with doing that.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:04 AM ^
He will bring talent, toughness and rotation flexibility-this is excellent news.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:05 AM ^
Please don't be version 2.0 of the Nojel Eastern transfer
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:09 AM ^
I like how people ignore that after not ending up at Michigan eastern wound up trying for Howard and then never playing a college basketball game again. Pretty clearly something was up that wasn’t the fault of Michigan admissions being snobby
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
And the fact that with Eastern, we probably don’t get Chaundee
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
I wish that mgoblog would do a little investigative piece about how admissions works, graduate and undergraduate level, put some of the BS to bed. Too many unfounded assertions, time after time.
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
I'll drink to that!
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:10 PM ^
Seth is one of the primary drivers of the unfounded assertions so that seems unlikely. And it’s honestly not worth it because it doesn’t matter. If it is a problem relative to other schools it’s not something fans are going to fix, and if it’s not a problem relative to other schools it doesn’t change the fact that Michigan is doing about the same level of job recruiting transfers as they are kids out of high school, which is well but a step below the top tier.
Does knowing that 70% of schools in the top 50 of the rankings don’t accept transfer credits beyond half of the amount needed to graduate (this is an obvious made up stat) really change anything?
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:05 AM ^
This has now transformed into the Friday Pobang!!! HAIL!!!
Edit: Now that I've read the thread maybe we better hold off on the banging.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:37 AM ^
Someone educate me: If his credits don't transfer, but he doesn't care because he doesn't care about getting the degree (wants to go pro, whether that's NBA or overseas), is there still another problem?
I could imagine for example, it might hurt our overall stats (APR?), but one player doesn't seem like it would skew that much.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:44 AM ^
Yes the additional problem is that if enough credits don't transfer he would not be eligible. The rule is written so that a freshman couldn't fail or drop all his 1st semester classes and then play in March Madness then leave for the NBA. If that happened, the player wouldn't be able to play in any games from January on. So yeah even if a player doesn't care at all about the degree, the credits still matter.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:48 AM ^
I can see how that would be for freshman, but how would that extend to (what sounds like) a Junior? Would they still need a minimum of "1st semester freshman credits", or more "1st semester Junior credits"?
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
Basically it says you have to be on pace to graduate. He's been in college 3 years, I think the NCAA gives you 5 to finish, not sure where the spring/summer terms count, but I'd guess he needs at least 60 credits transferred to remain on pace and eligible. Because he could probably get up to 75 ish over the summer, then have 4 winter/fall semesters and 2 summer semesters to get the remaining.
So say for instance Emoni Bates(THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE, NOT SAYING HES COMING) wanted to transfer here…he would be allowed to come because he is a Freshman and would still be on target to graduate even if a lot of his credits wouldn’t transfer because he technically has 4 more years to graduate according the NCAA?
More like his credits would transfer because he only has a year's worth and theyre presumably all undergrad courses.
I'm not an NCAA compliance officer, but I would guess sort of. If it is literally zero credits then no, because 0/120 is 0% and he should be closer to 20%. If he took enough spring/summer classes then probably.
And also yes to what Jonesy said.
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:47 AM ^
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
That means someone is leaving.. weren’t all scholarships taken
April 22nd, 2022 at 12:10 PM ^
Shannon to Michigan (still an "if" as of this moment) would conceivably mean that Jace will be a walk-on. I don't think anyone has determined that that wouldn't work.