Portal News: Former Tennessee PF Oliver Nkamhoua has a zoom meeting set up with Michigan coaching staff tonight
This is the young man that seemingly single handedly ended Duke’s season with his 2nd half performance in the second round of tournament this year. Would easily slot into the starting lineup next season if he commits. Would make the logjam at the 4 even more crowded than it already is. Have to expect someone is leaving at that position. This pickup would be a good addition and raise the floor for the program next season.
https://twitter.com/davismoseley/status/1645559131347247106?s=46&t=uID3-Iz0K9ZuxUALX6NZRQ
Let's bag him!
April 10th, 2023 at 10:03 PM ^
He is Finnish.
Hope that is ok with you....
Yes please 🙏
Olivier*
Lock him down
Agree that this could mean that someone at the 4 is planning on leaving...
me if he commits:
Is that Hunter S. Thompson or just some old drunk guy?
Same thing
Cmon Mr Leahy
April 10th, 2023 at 10:03 PM ^
Now show us if he doesn't.
I hope he has the cat filter on and can’t figure out how to change it. That’s an easy way to break tension.
Would definitely take him, seems like he's what folks hoped Terrance would develop into. A clear starter if we can bag him.
Interestingly, his 3pt shooting percentage fell by 11% this year with similar attempts to an excellent previous year (44% to 33%). However, both his true shooting percentage and effective field goal percentage actually increased this year as he took on more offense.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:49 PM ^
Clearly he knew he wanted to transfer to UM after the season and just wanted to fit in.
And let's hope he has another chance to donkey punch Duke as a Michigan Wolverine!
The unc student paper spells is Dook, so I’ve been spelling it that way since I graduated.
Someone missed a golden opportunity for an extra troll job with this meme, spell it Dook and it’s perfect.
I don't think I like college basketball much anymore. Everyone is just trading laundry at this point.
We are literally filling with our gaps with random pieces. Not a bad thing and im glad Howard has realized we need a significant change to get the program back on track. Preseason predictions for this team will be complete BS. I can see them winning the Big ten and i can also seeing them ending the season in last place. Cant wait until November!
No, the holes aren't being filled with random pieces even in a figurative sense.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:16 PM ^
(!) REMINDER (!)
14 OF THE SWEET 16 TEAMS HAD AT LEAST ONE TRANSFER.
And of those 14 teams...together they averaged over 4 transfers per team!
For anyone talking about continuity or chemistry, you're making shit up. Stop.
This is where we're at, complain to yourself.
I slightly beg to differ….continuity is a thing but it has morphed into Y2Y - the players are uber talented and equally as court savvy than ever before….the continuity that you speak of is found over the course of the year and much of it is attributed to how the coaches prepare their players and explain to them how to take advantages of things they see on the court over that period of time and it’s up to the coaches to make those pieces fit….offensive schematics crisscross over just about every program…my issue is not with the players but rather how they’re being prepped and used properly.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^
I'll start by saying that I'm not predicting next year's team to be better than this year's (though it's not out of the question, depending on any remaining roster moves).
That said, I'm somewhat encouraged by the effort to reshape the roster (as opposed to merely refilling it, as was necessary due to departures). Hunter was a weird player: really, really good at some things, so good that you would be stupid to turn him down as a recruit or to not take advantage of those things as a player.
But he also came with some weaknesses. His efficacy as an offensive player kind of tied UM to a post-dominant offense. As a result, the offense struggled when lacking knockdown outside shooters, and struggled to cohesively integrate other ball-dominant players. And, of course, Hunter was an okay-to-below average defensive player. He could stand his ground with other traditional big men low on the athletic spectrum, but had trouble otherwise. There were games where it wasn't exploited, but the problem was always there.
I'm appreciative of everything Dickinson accomplished with and for UM basketball, but I'm looking forward to seeing a reshaped roster with more athletic bigs and a stronger focus on guard and wing play, if that is indeed Juwan's design. I don't think next year's roster will be a particularly great example of it, but it might be a template for future rosters.
Or, maybe this is all just reading tea leaves, and the roster moves are just dictated by grabbing the best recruits and transfers you can and trying to design a gameplan around their collective strengths and weaknesses. I don't know.
A bit too long.
Well said regarding Hunter and something that was never articulated on the podcasts.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:10 PM ^
CAN HE PLAY THE 4???
April 10th, 2023 at 10:11 PM ^
We're like the Knicks in the 90s...80% forwards.
That said, this still doesn't guarantee someone is leaving. It could mean Kante isn't coming.
If we really want to play small. This is your starting PF and Jackson and Williams are your second team "bigs."
Not saying it's what's happening or that it's even likely...just saying it's not a lock that someone is leaving.
(although, I still hope we can add a starting calibur C and Reed can get one more year to develop).
What does one more year to develop even mean? He’s going to improve more by not playing than he would from playing? You want him to transfer after watching less talented players play instead of him? You want him to take the Kobe path where he’s gone just as he’s getting good because we wasted a year needlessly shackling him to the bench?
I need you to step away from the deep end and call for help.
What does not starting have to do with shackling him to the bench?
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Lol, reminds me of, "Twitter, the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.
You can say, "I like pancakes" and somebody will say, "so you hate waffles?"
No bitch. That's a whole new sentence. WTF are you talking about?!"
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You got worked up over something I never said or even implied, lol.
Anyway, you realize Hunter Dickinson didn't start right away, right? He still played plenty of minutes and he was never shackled to the bench.
Reed can play 18 mpg and not be counted on as a starter.
What does it mean? It means the same thing it does an any other sport...I want the best players to play and I think Reed is still a year away from being ready to carry the load at the C position. I means I think Reed as a starter is a B- but Reed as a backup is an A+.
It's the same thing for Terrance Williams. As a starter? D. As a backup forward? B.
That is how you build a roster and how your team gets better.
So unless you think Tarris is an A already, stop overreacting.
You're that guy who wanted Corum to leave so Edwards could start, or Keegan to leave so El-Hadi didn't transfer...aren't you?
...oh and guys can develop while on the bench, ask Kobe Bufkin. Who went from ZERO starts and 10 mpg to a potential lottery pick in a year. And I never suggested Reed play 10mpg, I just said, not be the starter.
Calm down, no one mentioned anything about waffles.
Jace could also move to NIL/off scholarship, so we probably can comfortably add two more players from the portal.
No he can’t.
He signed a national letter of intent with Michigan so he is not eligible to now become a walk on. People love to say this, but it’s not reality. He could if he was a graduate student though. But he’s not.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:25 PM ^
This guy is a quality player, but Michigan still needs another center and probably another small forward. I don't think you want Jackson at center very much. Just eyeballing it, I think he's probably much closer to 6'8" than 6'10".
Reed and Jackson cam handle the so caled center position. you don't need a huge guy at center anymore. That's big 10 basketball which doesn't translate as well to other teams out of conference unless you have an absolute stud lineup.
Except Jackson was atrocious at center and probably transferred here so he wouldnt have to play center again.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
T Will gone if he comes here ? I think Tschetter is 4 year program guy and t will be bye bye
I think Tschetter believes he is better than what most fans believe and that he will end up transferring eventually.
It is kind of wild to see how this fanbase turned on Tschetter. Just a year ago he was one of the most talked about guys on the team...a sleeper. You would've thought he was the second coming of Dirk.
Now you can't find a nice thing about him. It reminds me of John O'Korn.
He was better than Shea, up until the point he wasn't.
I guess I just realized it most because I thought Tschetter looked like a D3 player out of high school who could develop into an average player in the MAC at best.
It was the one talent evaluation that I never saw or agreed with. He was unathletic and dominating HS kids who looked like 6th graders (no exaggeration).
I still have patience for him because my hope (once he got to UM) was always that he'd develop into a plausible backup stretch 4 by his junior year and Evan Smotrycz (Michigan version) by his senior year.
The thing about Tschetter that people were excited about was his 3pt shooting. Everyone knew he was not going to be fantastic athletically, but coming in and hitting clutch 3s seemed like a great roster piece.
Instead he was deployed as a starter and hit 25% from three and was a poor 59% from the FT line
He was not a starting quality 4 in the B1G.
it 'felt' like Howard was sending a message to TWil and the team - 'you hustle, you will play more'...but it wasn't a short experiment..
Not Tschetter's fault he got tabbed with starter minutes, but he certainly didn't seize the opportunity as well as people had hoped based information during his recruitment.
April 11th, 2023 at 11:01 AM ^
It’s still too early for Tschetter. He should be getting minutes in year 4. Not year 2.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:33 PM ^
Sounds like a good possibility.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:36 PM ^
Unless we have other players leaving, the portal additions of Jackson and the pursuit here seem redundant. Rumors are Kante isn’t going to qualify and we lost Hunter, so not sure why we are stacking up 4’s? The guard additions made sense because we lost Kobe and Jett. Seems like we would have gotten those two, an athletic 5 and a stretch 4 and been done. I’m intrigued to see how it plays out though.
April 10th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
We just picked up 2 guards... how many more do we need?
I didn’t say we need more guards. I said the ones we picked up make sense considering we lost Jett and Kobe. I would have thought we would have went after a 5, the 2 guards and a stretch 4.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:39 PM ^
Please don’t let our out of touch admissions staff muck this off season momentum up.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:45 PM ^
Is it an official or unofficial zoom meeting?
April 10th, 2023 at 10:50 PM ^
This would be massive
April 10th, 2023 at 11:26 PM ^
Basketball, both college and pro, lost me a few years ago. But for the actual fans here, is it really fun to follow a team that turns over 50-75% of its most significant players every year? It must make it harder to really care.
I'm generally the type of fan that roots for the name on the front of the jersey, not the back. So yes, it's still fun to root for the team when they're not blowing late leads.
Happened before - starters always only played 1-2 years. Difference is, you don’t know who will take the chairs when the music stops.
Once you realize you have to learn a new team — does it really matter that they come as free agents or draft picks?
Michigan has been heavily reliant on transfers for 4/5 years now (remember Duncan Robinson?) They are just getting better transfers now than recruits. Tho, I will say that getting 4 of 5 starters in the portal is a bit insane.