High praise from Matt Painter
Well deserved praise I might add. Classy comments from Coach Painter.
"As a coach, you think you've got them figured out … you don't have them figured out."
https://michigan.rivals.com/news/michigan-basketball-matt-painter-heaps-praise-on-big-ten-champ-u-m
Coach Painter and Purdue. Well coached team, play hard and have lots of seniors. Good luck to them in the tourney. But
Go Blue.
Yesterday definitely felt like we were playing with house money. I wanted us to hang another banner, but if we were going to lose, I wasn't going to be too upset losing to Purdue. I have a lot of respect for Painter and what he's done there. Best of luck to them in a couple of weeks.
game of basketball to watch. Haas is fun to watch, with his power combined with finesse. Hard to be mad when a guy turns and throws in a high bank shot. The guys on the outside all have nice handles with quick release shots. No one on their team stands out as unlikeable. I think they mirror their coach a lot. Very little complaining about fouls (they also don't foul a lot, which I like too). I am definitely rooting for them in the tournament.
Compared to state, who calls out how tough their team is, and how they out tough opponents, and how he complains about every call, you see his players do the same. They complain about every call that goes against them after hacking and bumping like crazy. And then give very little praise to the other team/ coach. I love the Beilein never does or has to stoop to his level. Unless state is in transition, their offense is not very interesting or fun to watch.
Agreed, and for some reason he really seems to get under Izzo's skin. Gotta like him for that.
Izzo is world class
Name another top program that can say that. Have to give Matt some of the credit for that.
is probably one of my favorite opposing B1G coaches. He is funny, smart and I have no reason to suspect he is a dirty recruiter.
Izzo is my least favorite, I have to deal with the cult of Izzo on a daily basis. The rest of Lansing doesn't seem to care that Beilein is 9-7 vs Izzo since he completed a recruiting cycle, and two of those losses were with Walton and LeVert injured. The screen name checks out the cult of Izzo must die. MSU Izzowned by Beilein.
Tom is showing you where it is.
I have zero beef with Purdue this year. Great team, great scheme, full of character and flair. I will be cheering for them to go deep into the tournament.
The beef was with the refs in those games, not Purdue.
Well, their medical treatment of visiting players is pretty bad.
I replied to the wrong post. Meant to respond to the post about the basketball games.
Completely agree that the football team is bush league.
and develop their guys properly...Izzo is lacking in this department. I think State comes out stronger earlier in the season where athleticism is still ahead of scheme and teamwork, but well-coached teams gain on them fast come February and March. To be fair, it seems like a relatively recent thing; maybe all the distractions of recent years, maybe he lost some good assistants, not sure. But Beilein is WAY better at it than he is.
Give them their due, they won 13 straight after we beat them in January. They were playing fine.
As for coaching, the strength of Izzo, K, and others like Miller and Calapari is recruiting and out athleting other teams. Beilein actually schemes and plays different offenses and defenses based on the opponent. It's pretty nuanced. Izzo's idea of scheme is "let's go inside more" or "let's shoot more 3s".
And to be fair, your last paragraph is similar to the football side on our end. Maybe it is mostly a fan base thing, but it seems like every year we expect to play the Spartans and win, and over the last decade or so, it just hasn't been the case. Past successes tend to stick around for too long in rivalries, and as of late, it seems like the school that is supposed to be dominant at their respective sport has been getting out schemed and out worked by the other side.
as I was reading SpartyJon's post, I was thinking, "sounds like M football."
Would succeed following a great coach like Gene Keady. No questions now. Painter has surpassed Keady. And that is a real accomplishment.
Speaking of Gene Keady...the handful of times they showed him on TV at the games the past few days - he looks younger now than when he was coaching
Was going to bring this up in another thread, but didn't. Keady looking good. I blame it directly on finally giving up the dreaded combover.
Combover ever. Then Trump came along.
Wait why would Carson Edwards come back? I assumed he was gone after this year after an All-B1G year.
Carson Edwards - 6'1" 18.7 PPG
6'0" 18.6 PPG
he's not really a point--makes a difference. Plus he's not showing up on any mocks.
pg and does not have the big-time athleticism to make up for it. He could declare, but he is not on draft boards right now.
If you're gonna be "short", you damn well better be able to handle the rock, shoot the 3, distribute, and drive to the hole. I question his ball handling ability and his ability to set up other players. I do think he is very solid in the other two aspects.
Edwards can get his shot off against anybody. It'll be fun to see him on a team where he's the focal point of the offense and they aren't dumping the ball in to a brontosaurus in the lane on every possession.
Speaking of Purdue views on Michigan, here's their blog on the game:
A lot of complimentary comments about Michigan, Beilein and our fans.
Some choice comments:
Michigan is the best coached team in the Big Ten and they have a developing stud in Simpson. They played with a palable swagger all weekend long
Played each other 3x. Michigan looked like they knew where we would be and PU looked clueless, walking aimlessly around on D
Seriously. We kept it close at the half and then, Beilein, shock shock, adjusted and they turned the jets on in the second half. I’m glad AFN turned it off with 10 minutes left.
Was talking to folks – Sounds like there is a huge Michigan Fan base in that area. That or they traveled. There were a LOT of people sporting Michigan colors there this weekend.
it was the same in DC last year. I had to skip it this year. But last year Michigan traveled. Say what you will about them but they show up for games.
sound noticably different than the comments from the losing coach yesterday. Why is that, I wonder?