Michigan vs. Okla St. Postgame Snowflakes Thread
Glad I took the day off to see DW play like the best player in the country and DJ and MAAR to come of age and ZAK to get his stroke and confidence back. Too excited about the tourney to work now anyway. Go Blue !
Wagner. It's frustrating that he's still so inconsistent. But he's only a sophomore I guess. We're going to need him to play much better going forward though.
Not everyone can be great every game. We had four guys who played very, very well, and one guy who was on another planet.
One of the most fun things about this team is that any combination of our top 6 can take over on any given day.
Wagner's come so far this year - the improvement of Wagner and DJ this year is astonishing.
His contributions were low, but the two early fouls (I never got a clear look at the first that was initially thought to be MAAR, and I'm skeptical about its validity) were killer.
Still, don't forget the key gamble by Beilein to put Wagner back on the floor in the 1st half for a couple of minutes when Ok St was starting to get some breathing room and Michigan was still flailing on offense. Moe allowed Michigan to run better sets and things tightened up, setting us up for the second half.
Unbelievable game and FUN! Two great offenses facing off and Evans for OSU is a stud. Either way that game turns out I'm happy and if they just do a little better with rebounds in the next game they are set up to make some noise! especially if Walton keeps playing like this.
Anyone else here who still hasn't remembered to exhale?
guarding the three in the second half. Looked like they said, "Let them keep shooting the 3, they can't keep up that pace."
OSU rebounded more missed OSU shots than Michigan did. How can that happen?
Obviously that's not a good thing, but they are an excellent offensive rebounding team.
Also, many of those were off missed layups when our bigs helped and their guys crashed the boards. The disappointing part for me is that we didn't seem to get run-out opportunities.
I didn't get to see any of it live but holy smokes, Walton's stat line is crazy.
than his stats.
That was as good a game as he's ever played.
Amazing leadership, deadly shooting, clutch FT's, and one highlight-reel play at the most crucial moment where he ran down the entire clock then muscled up a dagger.
BTW, having not seen Evans this year, I gained a lot of respect for him. Not just that he is good (obviously he is, and PGs are key in the tournament) but that when Walton was going off he continued to operate within the scope of the offense rather than make it personal and try to do too much. Ok St depended on his driving, but within a scheme that allowed ORebs and kickouts. Which they got.
I'm hopeful that if Walton gets hot against other teams some guards won't be quite so rational.
I knew he was excellent and I could tell that he could pass the ball up the court lightning quick, but he was just lightning quick overall. Much harder to stay in front of than I realized. Very hard to stay in front of.
Oklahoma State is the better OSU
To step up.Small ball {Moe 14 mins.,Donnal 8) has been good on offense horrendous on def.,especially the boards (Capt.Obvious) 16-29 from 3 (including 4-6 from Zak) only 4 turn overs is hard to sustain.Walton's run is top 3 I've seen in Mich Hoops.
1. how did osu get 10,000 rebounds? what was going on?
2. the gamecast on my phone kept showing osu scoring in about 8 seconds after every michigan basket, what was up with our D?
muppets, joy, etc. what a game for those of you who got to watch it..
1. That's how they play.
2. That's how they play.
Michigan did not significantly impair OSU's game. Michigan's was just a hair better.
Evans is really quick, and our guys have trouble staying in front of normally quick guys. Someone has to rotate, meaning guy he left isn't going to be boxed out, shot goes up and OSU crashes the boards, and we don't do well with boxing out.
They would throw the ball in quick, speed it to the hoop, and our whole team was chasing. In recovery mode, it was impossible to find guys to box out and so if there was a rebound, whoever it bounced toward got it.
1. OK St.'s modus operandi is to crash the boards with vigor. It's their game. Also some laziness in stretches with little boxing out. D.J. Wilson got caught napping on their last put-back offensive rebound. Just watched Evan drive and didn't locate his man - his man conveniently crashed the boards to get an easy o-rebound bucket. I'm OK with him watching Evans IF he's rotating over to block the shot. We survived, and D.J. Wilson had some monster defensive stops with key blocks.
March 17th, 2017 at 10:43 PM ^
I'm now in retrospect glad that I didn't call off work to watch the whole game but instead snuck in snippets while no one was looking. Because otherwise, I'd have suffered fourteen coronaries by now.
if Michigan had lost - all of my students would have had a surprise 20 page term paper to do over the weekend - since Blue won I simply told them to have a nice weekend.
we got outrebounded 40-21 by a team that shot 54.7/43.8/87.5% and we won the game. Amazing. If we have a decent 3PT%, we lose by 10 points. Crazy game.
I only watched the play by play line, i.e. no live action, but this had the feel of the 1990 Loyola Marymount game (for those who can remember). Except in that one LM also hit all the threes. Also LM won by a lot.
I still can't figure out how they scored 149 in regulation.
watched them (LMU) play a couple of times. it was fun to watch, except when they beat us.
That was stressful but a hell of a lot of fun!
It seems that Beilein teams tend to play well against pressure teams. We have the guard play to handle it. There will be so many open shots. Just hit them. We can keep Louisville in the 60's if we don't turn it over.
Though it was back and forth, for some reason, I never thought for a second we would actually lose. Must have having Derek Walton on your team shooting like a sniper.
Awesome game.
GO BLUE!!
BOLD STATEMENT ALERT (I even thought about starting a thread on this):
Derrick Walton Jr is a better college basketball player than Mateen Cleaves ever was.
what you are selling! Cleaves was a hack
GO BLUE
Oklahoma State fans have got to be pissed. I know I would be if Michigan were on the losing end of that one. We were no 7 seed, and they sure as hell were no 10 seed.
If I had no rooting interest, that would have been one of the best tourney games I've ever seen. Just... wow.
Great win. 5 more to go
As stupid as this sounds, them getting all those easy 2 buckets helped in the end.
I felt the defense did a decent job keeping Forte contained. He's one of the best 3pt shooters in the country and could have torched us. Instead, we shut his 3pt shot down, allowed a bunch of easy 2's, and matched them all with 3's.
It doesn't exactly sound like a recipe for success, but it's what happened and I'll take it.
I might be wrong, but it was my understanding they were the no. 1 offense in the country. Their defensive problems were obvious, but they were an extremely difficult team to defend. They seemed to run the entire length of the court in about .08 seconds and their point guard, when able to penetrate and operate from that position on the court, which he's been successful at all year, gives them a very unique look and cuts and passes you don't see often.
As others have said, and not just Michigan fans, that was a great, great game and it did take the best 3 point shooting ever by a M BB team to beat them. I do wonder though, just how in the hell did they lose 3 straight prior to this game?