Michigan vs. Syracuse NCAA Tournament Game 5 Open Thread
Concur. Awesome how many fans are in ATL!
Spike fucking Albrecht.
20 minutes away from playing for it all.
...so you can see "The McGary / Robinson Effect" in offensive rebounding:
FG% | 3FG% | FT% | Eff. FG% | Off. Reb. % | |
MICHIGAN | 44.83% | 35.29% | 57.14% | 55.17% | 41.18% |
SYRACUSE | 40.74% | 28.57% | 33.33% | 44.44% | 18.75% |
Mitch McGary and THJ have four assists each and the awesome stat of the half - 16 of those 36 points are off the bench. Great all around effort here!
someone unexpected has stepped up. Today so far it's been Spike and Caris making some big plays for us. If we can get those guys on track Syracuse will cave and begin to cry.
Cuse is gonna get uncomfortable of they have to extend the zone or come out of it. We burn clock and score a few buckets and we play Monday.
LET EM HANG! GO BLUE!
Need to give credit to our efforts on D.
It's clear that we will not be completely shut down by the zone. This puts a lot of pressure on their O, which they are not used to dealing with.
They aren't going to abandon the 2-3, it's all they do. It's what they count on; if the 2-3 fails, Syracuse fails, they aren't going to out offense us all of the sudden.
Hopefully.
If we can keep up this defense in the second half, we win. Go Blue!!
pacing the living room. Family in bed, so I have to shout quietly.
Beautiful basketball being played. We look fantastic, and that's with Trey and Nik being stone cold. Let's keep our composure and stay patient offensively, and we should be playing on Monday.
/sparty'd
Gottlieb is dying inside being forced to talk positively about Michigan.
Who's RG3?
Obvs, but keep playing D and hitting 3's and we got this.
lol all of the talking heads are in a daze due to the vaunted zone failing.
We need strong defense in second half. No points in the paint. Make them hit jump shots.
make them miss jump shots
It's for moments like this, when "winning the right way" has meaning, that makes puting up with the shananigens at OSU, ALA, Yes That Miami, etc. more bearable.
Regardless of the outcome tonight, I'm proud to be a Michigan fan and a Michigan Man.
Go Blue!!