we are in good hands
Still insanely frustrated from the game.. but feeling like i need to try and look on the bright side.
Michigan had an awesome run with 5 freshmen in the first half.. Stauskis, Spike, GR3, LeVert and McGary. They have all grown leaps and bounds from the beginning of the season.. and I think it is safe to say we are in good hands going forward.
I am proud of this team for making it as far as they did, and playing as hard as they did. They had heart and fought to the very end. We will be back.
The thing is, we could have the best team in the nation for the next 10 years and it is still not a guarantee to go 5-0 against the best competition in the nation and get back to this game. It's not college football.
Dammit.
Nothing better than paying your players and them still not winning. scUMbags
the Spartan troll.
Unfortunately I had the same thought pretty much right after the game ended. Better teams than this have failed to reach the finals. The tournament format is so exciting but it also makes for more random results than probably any other sport. That's why it hurts so much to get so close but not win, knowing how tough it will be to get back no matter how good future teams will be. This one will sting for a while.
It is SO HARD to go through the NCAA tourney. One off night and you're done. The best team often doesn't win the whole thing because it's just about whoever is on a hot streak. I just wanna stay around the Sweet 16/ Elite 8 level for the next couple of years.
You are going to be back to being dog shit in the B1G next year. Your coach is a vampire and is going back into his coffin after the season
I remember making a comment (that was upvoted!!!) a few years back that said that if Coach Beilein made the NCAA Tournament every year, got a few Sweet 16s and then transitioned to a hot yong coach everybody would be happy. LOL @ that.
Burke is the most over hyped player in college basketball. He is short, slow and makes his teammates worse
Perfect. If I hadn't just noticed your MGoPoints, I'd say you're exactly what this blog needs right now. Good god, man
Hats off to the kids who worked their tails off for several years to get to this point. It was an awesome, unexpected ride that didn't deserve to end like this. One team loses, one team wins, this is true. We lost by 6 points to a damn good basketball team. Just sucks that the "Patino to the HOF the same day he wins Nat'l title" is too good of a story line to allow anything else to happen. Even if calls were missed, obvious calls have that game letting the players on the floor decide who wins. That game had every right to be within 2 points at the finish, and someone on either side deserved to be able to make a play, make a shot, make a defensive stand to win the game.
History will show that this was the most talented team we've ever had. I don't know that we'll have this good a chance at a national title for a long time.
I'm not so sure about ANY of them leaving. THJ is the most likely but he can correct some inconsistency with another year and make a big jump in the draft. The other two can potentially be POTY candidates next year after getting their freshman jitters out. Burke will advise both of them to stay. We have two of the best recruits in the country coming in next year in Walton and Irvin and we all know Beilein can get the best out of his recruits. Kentucky will be scary next year, but we'll push for the Big10 and make a run.
Do you really see them all leaving? I just don't see it. Hardaway didn't show up to the FF, GRIII and Mitch have been way too inconsistent all season to say they are ready for the NBA.
Trey would have been a 1st rounder last year, but I think with the guidance of the coaching staff, he realized he could be so much more with one more year under him. I think the same will happen with our freshmen and THJ, and I see us being back here next April wishing these 3 good luck and talking about our new outstanding freshmen that we hope don't leave.
History will show that you were incorrect.
Burke and McGary will be very good NBA players. Robinson will be a good one. Hardaway and Stauskus will be role players in the NBA. Morgan and Horford could potentially make pro rosters. That has never happened and will probably never happen again at U-M.
I'm old enough. I think we'll look back at upon this team in ten years and realize how incredible it was to have five legit NBAers on the team. Burke, McGary, and Robinson will all be lottery picks if they time it right. Hardaway and Stauskus will have longer, better pro careers than King or Jackson just because of size and niche skill set, respectively.
Um, but they're not all leaving. Plus, you're looking at their potential only and then making the claim that Michigan can't do better. We were the most inexperienced team in the tourney! Michigan could win a title with less talent and more experience.
The Fab Five had a Hall of Famer, a 20-year veteran and Jalen Rose. I'd be shocked if this team comes close to that. Plus, there's no way in hell Stauskus becomes a quality NBA role player. He vanishes far too often.
True. No one has ever improved their game beyond their freshman year.
Jon Deibler is Stauskus's best case scenario and he doesn't play NBA basketball. I just don't see it.
1989
glen rice, loy vaught, terry mills, rumeal robinson, sean higgins....
1992... you know who
2012/13...again, you know who.
there will be others to come.
If you thought the loss was painful, I've got some bad news for you: it is now baseball season.
A caveman that played on the losing team that is...
at getting back here again. We have talent all over the roster with more coming in. If only Trey and Jr go, we could still get back. It's pretty damned hard, for sure, but with the players we have now and we have coming in, why would we give up and assume another lengthy exit from the big stage? Doesn't make sense. We exited before because we screwed up off the court. There are no signs that this will happen again with the leadership we have in the coaching box. It's silly.