So much skill on this team! When this beautiful style of play works I appreciate it all the more. The emphasis the author puts on 'center of the ice' control brings to mind the old 'dump and chase' tactics that broke the Datsyuk-era Red Wings.
How does Michigan avoid that counter since the team is so young and potentially undersized against players that may be 22-24 years old in the tournament?
I'm picturing Minnesota State's roster full of BY 2000 and older players against our guys on the boards and I'm getting flashbacks.
Love Craig’s assessment of future real estate values - I’ve been thinking that way for a couple years now. If only MI could facilitate fresh water going from the lakes to houses without poisonous metals.
Still count me in as a northern Michigan speculator
Grant Hill is a legend in Detroit obviously.. but he clearly didn’t watch college basketball last year. I challenge anyone to find one single insight he brought to the games.
Most of what I heard from him was “wow that was an incredible play - you have no idea how hard that actually is and ___ made it look easy”
Last I heard from the mgofam, the defense was miles behind and Cade was tearing up the D.
All Offensive takes needed to be taken with a grain of salt given the D isn’t coming along very quickly.
Where did you hear ‘defense ahead of offense’? That’d be good news to me.
"Faustin's high school coach, who's admittedly not the most unbiased source,"...
Fair point. The high school coach, Kramer, may be biased but he's won multiple state championships and has seen what it takes. I take his word a bit more seriously due to that compared to someone who hasn't won in Florida when he says that this guy has the potential for the NFL. Is that a guarantee of success? Not so much.
There is a strong Arsenal watch club at Conor's during the Premier League season and they show the US games for sure in a great group watching atmosphere
Oh god, around the 6 minute mark, I knew exactly what Brian was going to say when he started reminiscing about the MSU hockey rivalry.. I was a wee lad of maybe seven years of age at that 1-0 loss and came away knowing for sure Ryan Miller was a robot. It felt a little better to see him become the best American goaltender in years for the Olympic teams.
It looks like it comes down to instincts. While all the scouting in the world would tell us that one is more built to play run defense and one is better in coverage... Dymonte Thomas must have better run stopping instincts whereas Delano Hill is more natural playing in the defensive backfield. Who would have guessed that haha?
It reminds me of the Kovacsian ability to be in the right place at the right time despite physical limitations. Both of these guys have been performing exceptionally well in ways they couldn't have possibly been projected to be in this D.
Could have been Hill's assignment - but on the Speight blindside hit Deveon Smith went and 'blocked' one of our own lineman when there were no defenders around. I'd look at him first for making a poor read on the d
Hmm that's a bummer.. For reference I sat section 4 on the south end and didn't have any issues today. There could be some weird acoustics working against your seats though
Will the large number of freshmen getting PT encourage more high level players to come to Ann Arbor? A coach that plays freshmen early is enticing to the next group of top freshmen.
Through another set of lenses, it appears our depth chart is getting filled up with guys that have multiple years of eligibility left.
I hope Harbaugh continues to draw kids who like the former case..... Good question
In fact Just for the mgoblog community I've got a couple pictures that I took as the game expired that I could post. But I hope most people don't buy this guy's crap
I like your thinking.. But it's just a bit optimistic regarding our new players, even with the quotations highlighting how "big"-like they are.
Doyle and Bielfeldt will definitely be getting playing time at the 5. Physical bodies are necessary - thus getting Teske a scholarship may be the most important thing of the next couple years. Beilein has no one to replace Morgan's D so we're kind of looking everywhere for solutions now.
We will be lucky if Wilson or Chatman can play the 4 on the defensive end (thus the need for both Doyle and Bielfeldt). Don't count on it. Irvin (not Irving) is so far from being a 4 defensively we'd be worse off than last year on D (and the offense can't get much better) if he was ticketed for that spot, so not a good outlook there. Donnal is our only hope..
Hopefully our backcourt can carry the front court until next year when we have some depth - the lineup until then though is:
Walton/Spike
Caris/Irvin/Dawkins
Irvin/Chatman/Wilson(backups can slide to the 4 when we go small)
Donnal/bielfeldt
Bielfeldt/Doyle
With Walton and Caris averaging 35 a game at a minimum
Did a lot have to go right for Portugal after? Yes. Their passing was on point. But that's the same thing as American football. Good teams are opportunistic.
That screenshot was well after the turnover obviously - based off where the turnover occurred, enough time for the ball to travel about 45 yards.
Brian even mentioned how out of place a certain member of our defense was, " When Bradley loses the ball he is literally at the halfway stripe!" So his defenders weren't in the right spot and they shoulder some blame. Poor awareness on everyone's part.
But how many of those occur with your team compressed up the field and result in a huge run where a guy goes ten strides without coming close to a defender? That is rare.
We were so far upfield I made an audible oh noes at the bar where we were watching. This was not a typical turnover like you are implying
We absolutely track points off turnovers in American football. No matter the number of plays that had to go poorly on defense after - it is still a stat every announcer and analyst touts as important.
So yes. Bradley messed up. And the ensuing result was a point off the turnover.
A quarter of the way through the Big Ten season and I'm 23/27 on my predictions! Michigan winning @ Minnesota, Minnesota winning @ Penn State, Iowa winning @ OSU, and Purdue winning @ Illinois are the only incorrect guesses I made so far.
Honestly, I was optimistic. In reality, I suppose I have UM on a similar plane as Iowa - just an imaginary half-tier below MSU/OSU/Wisconsin. But chaos happens in a deep conference. My first go through the schedule I had MSU and OSU with 17 and 16 wins...then I adjusted for entropy in a way I rationalized.
As you can see I adjusted Michigan's best-case scenario up from the initial expectation and predicted they would hit that expectation after they beat Minnesota on the road(just because it worked for me last year? haha crossing my fingers).
I also wrote about the McGary loss earlier if you do some poking around on the site.
Maybe unjustifiably, because I felt I needed to give Michigan and Indiana a few more wins.. Wisconsin has been able to get out and beat teams with high scores this year while still being able to go back to "old-school Wisconsin-ing" successfully against good teams like Virginia and Florida.
My first glance over the schedule I had a huge divide between the teams at the top and the teams at the bottom, but as past Big Ten standings verify, chaos always happens - and I pegged Wisconsin as the victim of it this year, to provide extra wins for teams like Minnesota or Illinois.
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1977 Jim Harbaugh with Ricky Leach
The opening music slaps
97 huh ;)
Well guess we’re f’d cuz he’s prolly wrong again
So much skill on this team! When this beautiful style of play works I appreciate it all the more. The emphasis the author puts on 'center of the ice' control brings to mind the old 'dump and chase' tactics that broke the Datsyuk-era Red Wings.
How does Michigan avoid that counter since the team is so young and potentially undersized against players that may be 22-24 years old in the tournament?
I'm picturing Minnesota State's roster full of BY 2000 and older players against our guys on the boards and I'm getting flashbacks.
Thank you for the breakdown!
Anyone that says 'no' but also wants to beat the Buckeyes more than once in two decades...yikes..
Priorities man..
Any chance he gets a medical redshirt? Would he take it?
Love Craig’s assessment of future real estate values - I’ve been thinking that way for a couple years now. If only MI could facilitate fresh water going from the lakes to houses without poisonous metals.
Still count me in as a northern Michigan speculator
He travelled for sure on that last bucket
Grant Hill is a legend in Detroit obviously.. but he clearly didn’t watch college basketball last year. I challenge anyone to find one single insight he brought to the games.
Most of what I heard from him was “wow that was an incredible play - you have no idea how hard that actually is and ___ made it look easy”
Last I heard from the mgofam, the defense was miles behind and Cade was tearing up the D.
All Offensive takes needed to be taken with a grain of salt given the D isn’t coming along very quickly.
Where did you hear ‘defense ahead of offense’? That’d be good news to me.
This might be the peak of advertising for my favorite frequenter of homes brewery
Shouldn't be bad news for the groups pumping out Joe Milton buzz going back to his first camp.
Can't expect backups that have pro aspirations to stay if the young gun wins the job
man if rocco spindler is our crown jewel we're in trouble
Putting my vote in for Stauskian or Stauskusian but Stauskus-esque isn't bad
Suggestion for KFaTAotW considering new point scoring:
Bold the names of the players please. It's hard to read through the list quickly now that there are more players to acknowledge.
Love the posts keep it up!
SO to Ace - I believe in the Biodome future too!
Only problem? Our recruiting efforts will suffer if we become the rain team lol
First biodome team by 2050!
agreed :/ Matt Shep is the best guy for the job in my book
Well that could have gone better..
this is exactly why we should have a 100 point minimum to start threads..
"Faustin's high school coach, who's admittedly not the most unbiased source,"...
Fair point. The high school coach, Kramer, may be biased but he's won multiple state championships and has seen what it takes. I take his word a bit more seriously due to that compared to someone who hasn't won in Florida when he says that this guy has the potential for the NFL. Is that a guarantee of success? Not so much.
How bout just kick Rutgers out
Nah you're totally right no one cares about Thad Matta and Aaron Craft around here
Does it make you feel good that you only hate one section of their sports teams?
Whereas this guy just hates Ohio State in general? Does that make you feel bad and bitter?
It looks like it comes down to instincts. While all the scouting in the world would tell us that one is more built to play run defense and one is better in coverage... Dymonte Thomas must have better run stopping instincts whereas Delano Hill is more natural playing in the defensive backfield. Who would have guessed that haha?
It reminds me of the Kovacsian ability to be in the right place at the right time despite physical limitations. Both of these guys have been performing exceptionally well in ways they couldn't have possibly been projected to be in this D.
Will the large number of freshmen getting PT encourage more high level players to come to Ann Arbor? A coach that plays freshmen early is enticing to the next group of top freshmen.
Through another set of lenses, it appears our depth chart is getting filled up with guys that have multiple years of eligibility left.
I hope Harbaugh continues to draw kids who like the former case..... Good question
Matt wile gon wild
Now if only our defense could keep us in the game while the offense sputters, I'd be really really happy.
We will know things are going our way!
Michigan can pull it off if this is Glenn Robinson's day against a weak interior d and we minimize the damagez on our defensive glass.
Go Blue!
http://annarborsports.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/first-quarter-big-ten-co…
A quarter of the way through the Big Ten season and I'm 23/27 on my predictions! Michigan winning @ Minnesota, Minnesota winning @ Penn State, Iowa winning @ OSU, and Purdue winning @ Illinois are the only incorrect guesses I made so far.
My predicted final standings can be found here:
http://annarborsports.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/complete-big-ten-confere…
Honestly, I was optimistic. In reality, I suppose I have UM on a similar plane as Iowa - just an imaginary half-tier below MSU/OSU/Wisconsin. But chaos happens in a deep conference. My first go through the schedule I had MSU and OSU with 17 and 16 wins...then I adjusted for entropy in a way I rationalized.
I used the same idea as Kilgore here (love the Kurt Vonnegut reference, by the way) in my article - talking about the importance of holding home-court in conference play: http://annarborsports.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/michigan-mens-basketball…
As you can see I adjusted Michigan's best-case scenario up from the initial expectation and predicted they would hit that expectation after they beat Minnesota on the road(just because it worked for me last year? haha crossing my fingers).
I also wrote about the McGary loss earlier if you do some poking around on the site.
That's what I was thinking... John Beilein will pave the way somehow. Hopefully just like how Bo Ryan's teams always finish top 4.
Maybe unjustifiably, because I felt I needed to give Michigan and Indiana a few more wins.. Wisconsin has been able to get out and beat teams with high scores this year while still being able to go back to "old-school Wisconsin-ing" successfully against good teams like Virginia and Florida.
My first glance over the schedule I had a huge divide between the teams at the top and the teams at the bottom, but as past Big Ten standings verify, chaos always happens - and I pegged Wisconsin as the victim of it this year, to provide extra wins for teams like Minnesota or Illinois.