Michigan vs Rutger Open Thread: What’s in your glass, what’s in your pipe?

Jesus effing Christ grab the fucking ball

Losing all types of composure, sheesh.

How can you slide on the floor with the ball. 

Clutch shot by Poole - needed that

It’s really ridiculous refs keep allowing post players to drive their shoulder displacing the defender.  It’s maddening. 

 Poole party tonight.

Rutgers was just throwing themselves into people on that little run of theirs.  Would be nice if they'd call a foul once and a while.

Woah, we got a huge break there. That was Iggy all the way

Our interior defense hasn't been good.

 Officials just got replaced with the Madison and Iowa City crew.

Would be shocked if Illinois doesn’t fuck this up 

Rutgers will be a solid team in a year or two, but right now they're just a bunch of angry squirrels smashing into people out there.

Rutgers floor sweepers need to get their shit together.  We're slipping all over the place.

Matthews been handling the ball way too much the past few min

I'm glad Iggy wasn't called for that since EO does that every time he's in the paint.

Can't really complain about the officiating; we've gotten some calls and stayed out of foul trouble.

Big Sleep nearly drained that.

 That was a very solid half. It is amazing what this offense can do when our most talented players play up to their potential. 

I hope we don't get tired in the second half; that was a pretty torrid pace.

Had a chance to put them away and didnt. Not a good last few minutes. 

Michigan's last shot attempts before half drive me crazy.  Even when they have 25-30 seconds, they'll waste most of it before going into their offense.  Then, with 10 seconds or less, they don't have enough time to work the ball around for a high % shot and often squander the chance.  I wish Beilein would fix that.  

Haha wow Illinois. 

Complacency is the achilles heel of this team. Gotta just be relentless and attack

If Rutgers' big frosh gets his butt in shape he could become a good player. They've got some talent.

How many screens do you think Teske sets in a game? lol. He’s constantly screening people. Entire O possession. He has to be sore after the game. 

Holy fuck, can they please stop playing that goddamn anime League of Legends commercial?  It's the most obnoxious commercial ever and alone is making me not want to watch anymore of this game.

Not the first half I was expecting at all.  I got 30 possessions, meaning Rutgers scored over 1 ppp; I never would have guessed that.  Very few turnovers for either team -- Rutgers with 3 (10%); Michigan with 4 (13.3%).  Michigan actually collecting 27% of their misses vs. 25% for Rutgers.  The difference of the game is obviously shooting; Michigan's shooting 55% from 3 and 63% from 2 for an eFG of 70%; they're also perfect at the line.  Rutgers is shooting 50% from 3 (but only four attempts) and 46% from 2 for an eFG of 50%

I have to think Michigan gets things cleaned up at the half defensively and holds Rutgers under 1 ppp in the second half.  Call it 35 second half possessions and I think 66 is your target.

Go Blue!

I’m a little surprised Beilein used a second timeout at the end there.

Wow, Illinois might just do it!

DESONMU!!!

Dakich: “this won’t end well for Illinois”

illinois: drains 3

me: “suck it dakich!”

Illinois tho.

The Illinois kid that lit us up just hit back to back 3's to put Illinois up 6.

Dakich: “This won’t end well for Illinois” and.... the 3 goes down. Pure idiocy.

Holy fuck. This Dosunmu kid is gonna be a monster. 

Oh my - could have put it away, and instead terrible offensive possession, airball, and stupid foul...

Shout out to Teske for actually dunking.