Zavier Simpson’s new look
@UMichBBall has been tweeting about this all day.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:45 AM ^
He's had a different look every year. He's had a different name every year.
Say hello to the new and improved Z/X
Glad we have a senior PG to help with this transition. Alot of new coaches don't get that luxury.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
X to tha Z
September 25th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
The Python fan in me would like to have a player whose name had four "M"'s and a silent Q personally.
September 26th, 2019 at 7:43 AM ^
to all of his friends he is X, his legal name is Zavier.
September 26th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
X why? Z!
September 25th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
X the future coach at M.
Have a great year.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:51 AM ^
I do think he could be a great coach. His dad is a coach. He doesn't have a big future pro basketball, either in the NBA or abroad, so he could get started in coaching early.
If he was on a staff in 5-6 years, I would not be surprised at all.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
He’s a future coach for sure but he could absolutely have a big career in Europe first.
Sticking in NBA is tougher especially given point guard is the hardest position to make it at but it’s difficult for me to fully count X out of anything.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
Maybe in one of the smaller leagues, but you don't make much of a living that way. Being a tiny guard who can't really shoot is too much to overcome playing against all grown men. Maybe he will find a shot this year though.
September 25th, 2019 at 4:28 PM ^
"Much of a living" is all relative but there's no shortage of places where a solid college player can make $10-20k/month often with cost of living covered as well.
Even if you don't get the six figures role players usually get in the top leagues (or if they're willing to go to China) making $70k+ with a comp'd villa in Greece or Italy is a pretty cool life for 7-8 months of work in your early 20s.
September 25th, 2019 at 2:13 PM ^
He's gotta find a team that's willing to make him their main PG and run the offense through him. He is one of the best in the country at PnR. But he can't do much else on the offensive end. His defense, as we know, is elite.
I doubt he has a long professional career. I would love to be proven wrong. But he just screams "coach" to me
September 25th, 2019 at 3:18 PM ^
I was advocating for player-coach during the search.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
In the video he says he may not keep it for the season. Anyway my first thought was "Cleopatra."
September 25th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
I was thinking Medusa: one look turns opposing point guards into stone.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
My first thought was Rick James
September 25th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
What did the 5 fingers say to the face?
September 25th, 2019 at 11:10 AM ^
September 25th, 2019 at 3:36 PM ^
Bitch
September 25th, 2019 at 11:03 AM ^
I thought of the early 2000s Williams sisters.
September 25th, 2019 at 2:40 PM ^
X is much more handsome than either Venus or Serena.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:41 PM ^
My first thought was The Predator.
September 25th, 2019 at 4:27 PM ^
Mine was Rick James.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:51 AM ^
I can't wait for b-ball season. no expectations -- just go out there and ball. will be a lot of fun no matter what the record ends up being (and hopefully it ends up being pretty good)!
September 25th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
This is also how I'm treating the football team, post-Wisconsin.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:26 AM ^
This is a healthy way to support college teams (and all relationships - but I digress). If only I could not expect an OSU win........
September 25th, 2019 at 9:54 PM ^
Had we not turned the ball over 4 freaking times, it actually would have been a much closer game, we may had even been in it which we didn't deserve to be.
I saw it as nothing but a flaming mess before the season even started.
I wasn't delusional into thinking we were a playoff team with neither offensive nor defensive lines however.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:05 AM ^
I expect them to win it all.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
I had my fingers crossed for a Coby White look when I saw the thread title
September 25th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
Coby White has a beautiful head of hair
September 25th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
Me no like. But if it enables him to drain more 3's, I love it.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:44 PM ^
Those beads tickling my face and neck would sure as hell distract me from shooting right lol.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:55 AM ^
Whenever our football team has been hot garbage (which is alot) its always the hoops squad that lifts the M on their shoulders. Hopefully the same happens this year
September 25th, 2019 at 11:02 AM ^
Who cares.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
Right, let’s just have another 800 threads of dumbasses posting their quarter baked hot takes about the football team.
September 25th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
Stupid thread + stupid thread does not equal good thread. I enjoy when you post about sports, but posting about a player's appearance is creepy.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
your mom
September 25th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
Zavier x Simpson
September 25th, 2019 at 11:51 AM ^
Have a great year kid, patiently optimistic with this team this year.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
I don't care what his hair looks like, as long as he's in guys' shirts, leading the team, and his shot has improved over last season, it's all good.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
Zaviah
September 25th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
Wish he would just go with the large afro and just drain hook shots all day like he came out of a timewarp.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
As long as the A/TO ratio is great, that hook has turned lethal, and the leadership is where we all expect it to be, I don't care if he's copying the hairstyle of my neighbor's six year old girl.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
Can he play QB?
September 25th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Really curious to see how the team performs this year. I don't have any kind of lofty expectations, but the team has got plenty of guys playing on it who have won more than their fair share of basketball games, so I'd like to think making the tournament is still very much a realistic (dare I even say expected) goal for this team. Got a few experienced leaders on this team who should be able to help the team weather the transition.
Beyond that, all I can really ask for is to see week-to-week improvement, and that by the time they get into the meat of the conference schedule, the team looks like its forming an identity for what it wants to do on both ends of the floor. If they make the tournament, maybe score an upset or two along the way in the regular season, then everything else is just gravy.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Please become a 35% 3pt shooter
Please become a 35% 3pt shooter
Please become a 35% 3pt shooter
September 25th, 2019 at 1:05 PM ^
Looks like Z and DPJ go to the same place
September 25th, 2019 at 1:16 PM ^
I don't think Howard is going to want any player to individually express himself in a manner such as this.
/s
September 25th, 2019 at 1:28 PM ^
There are few things in life I hate more than this hair style but I’m a 40 year old white guy and he is a 20 year old college basketball player so wth do I know.
Love his game though! Go blue!
September 25th, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
I just want him to play well enough for me to be able to say "X gon' give it to ya" a lot.
I mean, I'll say it anyway, but I want it to be deserved.
September 25th, 2019 at 1:50 PM ^
Yeah, let’s create a thread that invites middle-aged white dudes to provide their unsolicited comments on the looks and fashion choices of a 20-year-old black college student.
That’s a good idea.