gotohail

March 21st, 2014 at 11:38 PM ^

Really happy for him.. He's come so far in just a year. Can you imagine what this michigan team would be like had both him and Burke had stayed?

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MGoDC

March 21st, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^

The only losses I could see so far are the @Duke, Home vs. Wisc, and BTT game. Probably lose at least 1 maybe 2 of those games. No way do we lose to Charlote, @Indiana, or @Iowa. I don't think we would have lost @Iowa State either considering much of the reason we lost that was due to figuring ourselves out still.

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Mr. Elbel

March 22nd, 2014 at 8:38 AM ^

Honestly, while Mitch might not have gotten hurt and we would have posted a better record, Nik and Caris might not have had the opportunity to really step it up this year. While it would have been awesome to see those two stay, we had a dang good year and have a great shot at at least an elite eight birth. This year would have been sick with those two... but for the future it could have ended up for the better.

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ShadowStorm33

March 22nd, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^

Look a couple years back, we were shocked when Morris left for the NBA. Freshman Burke comes in, plays well enough to almost bolt after one year, and the next year he wins the Naismith and is a lottery pick. If Morris comes back, Morris starts in 2011-12, then probably leaves after that year. Burke takes over last year, is almost certainly better than he turned out to be as a freshman (as a year older and 2nd year in JB's system), but also is almost certainly not as good as he was last year since he didn't have that freshman year starting at the point under his belt. Based on him almost leaving his freshman year, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have left after last year anyway.

TLDR: Morris comes back for his junior year, and we're probably better in 2011-12 but don't make the run we did last year. It can be so hard to tell the what ifs, and a lot depends on the talent you have in reserve. We lost Burke and TJr, but Stauskas and Levert made huge leaps, and Walton came in and is playing well, especially for a freshman. What scares me is what happens after Stauskas, Mitch and GRIII leave, since I'm just not seeing the same level of talent behind them. Hopefully JB will prove me wrong...

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