Michigan Basketball vs. Furman Open Thread (BTN)

50 against UCLA in the first half, and then come back and potentially score a total of 60 against Furman.

Going to be a long Big Ten season.

22-16.  i don't think furman plays a guy over 6'7".

Too bad the same offense didn't show up tonight that we had against UCLA. 

This is more like the South Caroline game, which is, not great, bob. 

great play by DRob.  i didn't think there was a chance he makes that drive.

the ball and left the shooter wide open.

donnal can't box out and outrebound a guy 3 inches shorter than him and it leads to a 3.

of phantom nba foul calls on us on guys driving to the hoop.

Good time to start a run.

at passing, especially to the other bigs.

catch that ball and go up and dunk.  he waited for the D.  thankfully the defender was only about 6 ft tall.

Keep it going.

UM just shot a mediocre 35% from 3 tonite, we would be up by 15.  3 for 17 is bad.

not enough passing.

deep under the basket.

don't we crash the offensive glass against these guys?  everyone is running back on D when a shot goes up.  we should not be playing like its a BIG team.  crash the fucking boards.

Got to finish strong and close this out.

UM is a great foul shooting team

from maar again.  dude has zero confidence anymore.

finally with a huge play.  however, i can't believe JB didn't call a TO there with 15 sec on the shot clock to set something up.  you can't bank those TOs for the next game.

instead of forcing it and we get a wide open shot.  Walton knocks it down.

i thought a 10 pt win would be solid.  i will settle for 6.  hopefully no more 4-20 three pt shooting nites.

2 seconds.

Stay with it.

Thank God.

was right, this game posed the danger of overconfidence / relaxing too much.

Glad they ground it out.

Now to gear up for the real show.

A lot of malaise on offense tonight.  Still, Furman played well, and it's a lot better to avoid the upset and try to improve than to take the big resume hit.  If we come out the next game and play well, no one is going to care for long that a lot of this game was ugly.  That wouldn't be the case if we'd lost.

This team is inconsistent.. That's been clear for a while.  We're probably going to stink it up in a couple of Big 10 games, and also pick up a couple of big wins along the way.  Still have the chance to have a good season -- Had we lost tonight, that window would have shrunk.

was about as unimpressive a win as one can get...But I know many will say a win is a win

Was at the game; there was an amazing play call by Beilein with around 4-8 miinutes to go (I'd guess around 5).  I think Walton had the ball, he ran off two ball screens and then there was a weakside downscreen on DRob's guy to get a wide-open 3, which he hit.  Robinson's player was stuck helping on the second ball screen and the Furman player that was guarding DRob's screener was late to help because he was caught up in the ball screen.

Stuff like that is why coaches praise Beilein's offense so profusely.  If anyone is good at GIFing things, it'd be great to see again.

The atmosphere at the game was actually pretty good.  The upper bowl was probably 75-80% full and it was as loud as its been all season when Walton hit his And-1.  Too bad the student section looked like crap.  Are they not selling student section-break games to alums any more?