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I've seen enough of Filpula tonight.

For computing power. MacBook Air/iPad if you travel a lot. iMovie has great movie editing/creating features.

Work, Tigers, Masters, praying our underclassmen return next year.

Until Timmy threw down that thunderdunk, I was clamoring for Nik to replace him, just so we could get an outside look.

I thought Coach B. played Spike a little too much down the stretch, especially when we needed some size for rebounding, but hey if you can catch lightning in a bottle twice, I guess you gotta take it.

The most telling play for Nik was when he pump-faked on a 3, drove the lane, saw Dieng coming over and decided to contort his body and throw an ill-advised pass out to the backcourt that got intercepted by Siva. After that, Nik was benched for the remainder of the game.

1. Goaltending right off the bat...kinda set the tone for how things were going to play out.

2. The blatant "kicked ball" possession- the refs miss this call and don't stop play. Leads to a scramble on the baseline where Caris ties up the Louisville player who is laying on the baseline. Somehow Louisville is granted a timeout, and then Hancock immediately hits a 3 to start his run late in the 1st half.

3. Trey's block. All ball, obviously. This was a pre-judged call. That ref was going to call a foul no matter what happened because he figured Trey wasn't going to give an easy layup. Easily the most egregious error of the night.

4. Hancock's "4th". They call a foul on a guy who's not even in the play, which bails Hancock out. He then proceeds to pick up the 4th foul on McGary moments later. Then, hits a 3 late in the game after picking up what would have been his 5th foul.

5. A hodge-podge: McGary blatantly undercut, leads to a jumpball possession. Back to back possessions early in the 2nd half we hit jumpers (GR3 and Burke) where there was contact on the arms of the shooters- no calls. (both of which Steve Kerr said should have been fouls). The Burke non-shooting foul on Stauskas' outlet pass from his back.

Proud of our boys nonetheless. The more the game progressed, the more I felt Pitino's influence of "Creaning" the refs was gonna pay out for them.

Goaltend. Block call. Hancock should be fouled out.

PLEASE

Morgan and McGary interchangeable.

And When did it get so dusty in here?



Come on boys! Leave it all out there tonight.

On The Zone's Chin!!

QUIT BITCHING AND PLAY

Just no.

Come on now defense!!!!

Let em hang, Spike!

They're playing awfully high up. Would also like to see Nik in the corner.

As Stauskas can be from the perimeter, is there anyone else who thinks he could have a field day as the one in the high post? He can knock down that shot, has a pretty good handle, and can pass well. I feel that if THJ starts there and misses a couple of shots or has a turnover it could lead to him having an off night, which would significantly hurt our chances. Same with GRIII. Let em hang and Go Blue!

You mean the same Brandon Triche who averages 10 points per game for his career, and plays for a team who is too pussy/stupid to play man to man defense. Hope Stauskas trolls him several times Monday. Yet another reason to hate anything affiliated with Jim Boeheim.

I would go for Brian Wilson. Poo Poo Turde was pitiful at the end of last season. The guy had major whiplash watching Cano rip balls past his head back up the middle. He couldn't even get outs in non pressure situations during the World Series. Another bad Dombrowski move.

Still gave up waaaay too good of a look.

When Will Sheehey is your best player on the night.

Dude is a ghost when the B1G refs aren't coddling him with calls. Laughable.

We should take care of our own business. We've had ample chances to "control our own destiny" and we've wet the bed every time.

At the feet of the coaching staff. When a team beats you 13 of 14 or whatever and scores on 13 out of 15 possessions, you need to make drastic adjustments. Beilein simply doesn't and it costs his teams.



Also, pick a lineup and stick to it. Play McGary and Horford more. At least they have upside. Jordan Morgan offers nothing at this point. 0 pts and 4 boards? Any intramural baller could achieve that.



Time to preach defense and rebounding. When the chips are on the table Michigan usually becomes all style and no substance.

Full of shooters, we sure like to make that aspect of the game look difficult.

To the game on the radio. Shepard making it seem like Wisconsin can do whatever they want in the 2nd half. Lack of defensive effort. It's making my blood pressure creep upward.

To see some hint of improvement from our bigs. Whether it be touch around the rim, or low post moves. All our bigs do is set screens and rebound.

Paul's shot was sweet...especially after almost gagging a solid first half performance away.

We could have gotten Stauskas more involved in the 2nd half. He seemed to be confident this afternoon.

WHY IS THERE NO ONE ON THE LANE FOR REBOUDS?!

Execute

If we got 20% more calls.

Has been the Achilles heel today. Selfish bail out defense.

Barkley commercial. Lowered the rage vs the refs for a minute.

Soft as bread dough. Toughen up!

WTF?

All Hulls can do is shoot 3s. Don't leave him.

Is quite possibly the worst jump shooting team I've seen in a long time. How the fuck did they drain a half courter at the buzzer against us?

Foul this time.

Weakest hands in the country.

On defense.

Beilein rip this team a new ass hole in the time out. Effort is laughable and the shot selection is worse.

Weren't referring to the possession where Morgan was slow to rotate and got faked by a no look pass.

Payback for Oladipo's bullshit dunk at the buzzer is imminent. Go Blue!

Will the Phantom Flagrant make its appearance for IU?

Take a note from Thad and have our bigs beat the piss out of Zeller. Dude cannot handle being physical in the paint.

Given that this is truly hypothetical- If these were the brackets it would be interesting to see us match up with UNC in the 2nd round. James Michael McAdoo would be a very tough matchup for Michigan. The uptempo style may also be somewhat troublesome for us.

Honestly, I'd hate to play either Ohio State or Gonzaga on the other side if we were to make it past VCU/New Mexico. Craft has a way of challenging Burke, and DeShawn Thomas seems to perform very well against our defense. I wouldn't sleep on the combination of Pangos/Olynyk from Gonzaga either. Pangos is a very good guard and Olynyk is better than any of our bigs. Mark Few is also an awesome coach, probably COTY at this point in the season...and he's had a pretty impressive tournament resume. 

The overall quality of our hypothetical region is probably a step below at least 2 of the others, but I don't think I'd want to play out in LA for the regional semis/finals.

I'd be happy with a 2 seed nonetheless.

The ticket's daytime shows are pretty Spartan biased, I'd rather stream it from 10-5 than listen to anything that the West Side of Michigan has to offer. The national programs (Cowturd, Rome, Dan Patrick) are the same every single day. At least 97.1 will focus solely on Detroit Teams/Detroit issues. The local shows for the West Side blow as well. 

Huge "Self/Prodcut Promotion" Simonson  on 107.3 is the worst. The dude slobbers all over Izzo/Dantonio and is a talking commercial break, even when commercials aren't on. Any caller who says anything remotely intelligent or challenges his "Huge" opinion is either hung up on, or has the subject changed immediately to Brann's or Miller Lite.

Don't even get me started on Sean "Stuttering" Baligian. The guy's voice is simply intolerable. He's another admitted Sparty slap whose only great contribution is when he has "Jim Leyland" or "Dr. Lou Holtz" impersonators on. His cronie, producer Drew is about as useful as a poopy flavored lollypop. The show was better when Terp (Michigan fan) was on, and when Killer Kowalski was alive.

Follow Through, Mitch.

Don't switch. Fight through every pick.

It'll be Harris or Payne

Wow. Officials giving it to MSU

Izzo giving the refs a hand job in the huddle down the stretch.

Spike not shooting any more 3's.

Get an easy basket here out of the time out.

Defensive effort.

Find the shooters in transition.

Needs to attack Payne.

Got the money.

That Pavel has to play with the two most inept forwards on the team in Abdelkader and Cleary

So is Eso Akunne.

The Problem is it's become apparent that Michigan really hasn't "learned quickly" from any of their losses. They played in a hostile environment in Columbus...which should have translated to success at Bloomington...which should have translated into success in East Lansing...but didn't. They really haven't responded well to adversity in the past month, at all.

As the B1G season has progressed, the team's flaws have been not only exposed, but targeted repeatedly and our team hasn't responded well or made necessary adjustments. A few things that come to mind:

1. Michigan's defensive philosophy is hurting them. Michigan, to a man, consistently gets beat off the dribble. Teams are able to drive the lane at will and kick to open shooters, or coast in for relatively uncontested shots. The defensive rotations are virtually non-existent, as shown by Coach B's Brian Kellyism on Stauskas last night (perpetual offender). With no true shot blocker in the lane, teams will continue to ram this down our throat...let's be honest, no one is scared of Jordan Morgan in the paint. Michigan has the length and athleticism to play more zone, whether it be 1-3-1 or a 2-3 matchup, and I think this can help alleviate some of the weak links in the defense, mainly Stauskas and GR3 (who is like Zack Novak, guarding players who are bigger than him).

2. Team psyche: This team really hasn't responded well to adversity. Since we've been number 1 at the end of January, we've lost 4 straight road games in the B1G, and really haven't been impressive in many of our wins. Youth is definitely an issue with this, but so is leadership. Someone hit it on the head last night that somehow Burke became the de facto leader simply because he's our best player. I don't think that's the case. I think the team has a leadership identity crisis, if you will, because no one has stepped to the forefront to get in another's face to step their game up. If anyone, Mitch McGary has the most enthusiasm towards playing intense, but ultimately Coach B. has to be the leader for this team, and I haven't seen that in the last month.

3. Stauskas: His defensive lapses are killing the team, which is exacerbated because his offensive production has slipped. I also think he doesn't respond well to criticism, as he's been accustomed to success in the past. He's a cocky player when he's on, but disappears when he struggles/the competition is raised. His twitter feed constantly thwarts M fans who doubt him. Finally, Coach B. has had talks with him about buying in defensively and what it takes to be an all-around player, but after last night's schadenfreude, I could see him further pulling a Houdini for the rest of the season. He's uber talented and I hope he buys into the system in place. But honestly, I could see him as a player who transfers out at some point, much like Evan Smotrycz, which I hope isn't the case.

4. Offensive flow: In crunch time, it seems our go-to play is let Burke dribble around while everyone stands around. Then we jack a fadeaway or a 3 pointer with 3 seconds left on the clock. I honestly feel this team does not execute set plays very well, and is strictly a motion offense. This will kill us in the tournament, especially when teams lock on to Burke and deny him the ball. It also doesn't help that no one else on offense has the ability to create a shot for themselves. If our post players could find any semblance of a low post move, it would take a ton of pressure off of our shooters. Our big men really only set screens and get rebounds/garbage. The misnomer of Cocah B's teams is that our centers all have the Kevin Pittsnoggle skill sets and can stretch the opposing defense. Sadly, our bigs can't make anything outside of 4 feet.

5. Coaching adjustments: Simply put, we haven't really made any when we are punched in the mouth or are gagging down the stretch. Last night Spike was in the game when we were down 2 with under 3 minutes to play. What happens? He jacks a terrible 3 from the corner. Beilein's substitution patterns are maddening at times, and the fact that we really don't execute plays to score easy baskets kills us when we need a run stopper.

Sorry if it's alot. Just my underlaying thoughts from the past several weeks. And after getting minimal sleep in seeing this epic choke and the Wings gag another one, I felt I needed some form of catharsis today.

Has had an immense struggle in closing out games all season. There were several games early in the season on which we were lucky to escape. It's finally come to fruition tonight and that's on the coaching staff.

Past the first weekend of the tourney.

Attack the rim and draw fouls.

Enough said.

Unforgivable

He's off balance on all of his shots

Rigged again.

These refs control this game. What a ticky tack moving screen after all the molesting we've seen tonight.

Keep slapping the floor. Then allow your guy to blow past you. 3rd time tonight that's happened.

They had a better half than we did.

Is putrid. Do we even have a big man coach? It seems like anyone in the low post is unable to create a scoring opportunity with a quality move.

Throws it away.

UM-24 MSU Points in Paint-24

Sweet offensive sets we've been running. Wtf happened to running a cohesive offensive play?

These substitutions are a joke.

Nothing good happens when he's in.

Would anyone else like to see us throw in some more zone defense? I feel like we used to use it before to mask our athletic deficiencies in years past, now it seems like we use it to change up looks when we get down big. I think this team has the athleticism to wreak havoc and cause some frustration/turnover transition opportunities. Also, we suck at blocking out in man to man situations, so the rebounding dropoff wouldn't be too drastic.

The other team's power forward every night isn't helping. He's a natural wing man and he needs to be utilized for his athleticism. I think that's the reason for his struggles, as well as why guys like Max B. are getting more PT.

Enough said.

beliein cost us this game

Fuck!!!

To wipe the Badger jizzum from his chin.

Dude hates Michigan

But these refs are horrendous.

Lolz

Craft gets away with obscene amounts of contact. Seems fitting.

Is going on?

FUCK

Come on!! Smart plays here...

D Up!

To Get something going to the basket on that last possession.

COME ON!

Finish it!!

Please.

Score a lot. Give up more.

FEED HIM

Rebounding team in the Big 10.

Offense is stagnant. Not good.