So FSU...thoughts?
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^
So who knows. Path to the championship game couldn’t have shaped up much better, though. Just have to beat a 9 seed and a 9/11 seed.
Gonna be a tough road for the 15th out of 16 teams left in the tourney...
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:37 AM ^
Go for the low seed that suddenly gets hot over the high seed that's had a strong season. As with A&M, their hot play may be a fluke.
Bring on the Noles.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
imo, their best player was hurt and missed the game, so i would have loved to play them short handed. that said, i really like our chances against fsu.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:30 AM ^
The kind of team Beilein dissects and devours... just like that turkey sandwich.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
My main thought is fuck FSU, let's kick their ass!
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
and game over.
Not a team in the country that could've beat us last night.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
they seem very long and athletic...and on a roll.
gonna be tough, but a 2 day turnaround? I'll pick Beilein et al to have the team locked in and coached up.
its the Elite Eight: everyone is playing well.
but the hope is that teams fall back to who they are, ie the team they were during the course of the year...
on paper, before the start of the tournament, we all would have been thrilled with playing FSU to get into the Final Four
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:44 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:37 AM ^
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:40 AM ^
The Michigan players liked shooting at The Staples Center tonight. Let that momentum continue with Duncan, Rahk and Mo leading the charge. Sprinkle me in some X, Chuck and Poole. Go Blue!! Fuck the Semen-oles.
FSU doesn't even travel well for football, much less basketball.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:44 AM ^
It wasn't gerat, but A&M's was a very aggresive all-or-nothing press. Every time we broke it, we were open for an easy basket but we held the ball to kill off clock.
In a regular game situation, it would give up too many easy points.
A&M had to try it. It worked 2 or 3 times, but it would have given up a bunch of easy points the rest of the time if we were going for the score.
FSU can't trap like that.
Seriously? TAMU was one of the best rebounding teams we've faced all year. They have two 6-10" guys on the post, that stay on the post. And they only took 4 more rebounds than we did. I call that a win for the good guys...
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:44 AM ^
I havent seen a Vegas line yet for UM/FSU. Let me take a stab at it...guessing UM by 7? UM by 6? Certainly no more than 8 and no less than 4.
March 23rd, 2018 at 12:50 AM ^
I love the Mo Wagner barometer - if he delivers an early three then Michigan powers to a victory. But if the referees call anticipation and phantom fouls then the game could bring me some heart burn.
The 7'4" guy could present some issues inside, obviously. Definitely want to keep Wagner on the floor over Teske. We'll want to stretch the floor and get that guy out of the lane.
They look a lot like the team we just eviscerated.
Precisely.
fla st is a worse version of texas a&m which is a worse version of houston. so hit near our normal % on offense and we should cruise to a double digit win.
If Leonard Hamilton manages to beat Chris Mack (who sucked, weirdly), Mark Few, and John Beilein consecutively, this really is the weirdest tournament ever.
FSU football will be all there is to talk about on their campus after the upcoming loss.
If Michigan focuses on playing defense the entire 60 minutes, FSU literally wont find the points necessary to win the game. Beilein's system, even against an athletic team like FSU, will get UM the points that it needs to win. Its all gonna come down to how focused UM is on playing lockdown D every play, from every player.
Last night's win was insane. Beyond all expectations, but our 2nd half D was lousy. Of course, UM has a good excuse for that...UM was up by 28 early in the 2nd half so keeping your focus on D is almost impossible. However, if UM plays FSU with the same defensive intensity it had against A&M in the 2nd half, FSU will defeat UM.
TL;DR Michigan focused on D entire game, Michigan wins.