Big Game for M Hoops

Submitted by ijohnb on

For those of you stuck in Football-Land (an admittedly fun place to be), your 2015-16 Michigan Basketball Wolverines travel to West Lafeyette tonight for a matchup with the Boilermakers.  Painter will do his absolute best to keep us in this game as he always does with all opponents, but this team needs to bring it tonight.  Just a couple of ranked(ish) road wins does so much for a tourney resume and seeding.  Any thoughts on the matchup and the team welcome, or a Beat the Boilers pos-bang would be fine.  Thought there should be a hoops thread this morning.

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Dunkin' Robinson

January 7th, 2016 at 9:36 AM ^

This is arguably our worth matchup in the Big Ten as we really have no answer defensively for their 3-headed monster at PF/C. Hopefully Caris plays and we continue our hot shooting from 3 even though we have struggled w/ shooting on the road.

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AdW124

January 7th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^

3 skyscrapers on their team! At least Caleb Swanigan choose to go there instead of Sharty. If Levert is playing I think we will pull out a surprising W, if not, it could be a LONG night. Also, I personally love Michigan basketball as well. Obviously football is religion here but I can enjoy BBall season just as much generally. Especially March Madness.

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WolverineHistorian

January 7th, 2016 at 9:44 AM ^

My fear is, since this is a much better team, that the 3's will not be falling as well as they have been lately. But I suppose most people have this fear.

I'm also a little worried about facing a Boiler team that's going to be angry coming off a game where they crapped the bed at home against Iowa. But we'll see what happens.

And also a complaint. I know this speaks to the schedule quirks of having 14 teams in your conference but since Purdue did NOT come to Crisler last year, we should NOT be going to Mackey this year. This same situation happens with Maryland and OSU (for the second time in 3 years).



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GoBLUE_SemperFi

January 7th, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^

If Donnal can carry over his improvement against a better team with good inside play. I also hope that Levert is ready to go. GoBLUE!

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DMill2782

January 7th, 2016 at 10:00 AM ^

All of their strengths are our glaring weaknesses. We need LeVert, but if he does play Davis will force him into an ineffecient game. Davis does it to everyone. 

We have to get hot shooting tonight or we don't stand a chance. I'm worried tonight will look very similar to the second half of our game against Purdue last year. Getting Haas in foul trouble would help immensely, but we still don't have anyone who can match up with Swanigan or Hammons if that happens. Swanigan deciding he is a jump shooter would be beneficial for us. He has done that from time to time this year. 

If every man does not box out, we are going to get killed on the boards just like last year. PU is not as good on the offensive glass as SMU or Xavier, but they will clean up all of our misses. 

We have been sloppy with the ball the past two games and we will have to cut that out to win tonight. Hot shooting, low turnovers, and an all out effort fighting for boards is the way we win tonight. 

I'm not optimistic we win at Mackey, but I'll be in the crowd cheering for the win. GO BLUE!

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Wolvie3758

January 7th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^

of winning this game...Purdue has ALWAYS been a House of Horrors for us so its a auto L when I look thru the schedule. It seems we always play our worst performance of the year when we play there..One of these years Ill be surprised

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WolverineHistorian

January 7th, 2016 at 10:29 AM ^

Before last year, we had won 3 straight close games at Purdue. A 66-64 win in 2012, an 80-75 win in 2013, and thanks to Robinson's last second shot: a 77-76 win two years ago.

Last year at Mackey was ugly but historically, we don't struggle there as often as other B1G venues.



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brewandbluesaturdays

January 7th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^

Unfortunately -
As much as I like the emergence of Donnal, I don't think we can hang with their bigs and it'll be a looong night -especially if Levert doesn't play. I'll be watching and cheering on the squad as hard as anyone I just don't see a win coming from tonight.



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amaizenblue402

January 7th, 2016 at 10:32 AM ^

This will be an extremely tough game.  We do not matchup well in this one.  Purdue plays lights out defense and we can't afford to go on a long drought without scoring.  If that happens, we get blown out.

I will always remember this.  Win The Game!

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Coach Carr Camp

January 7th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^

2 years ago I did not even bother watching us play on the road against a ranked Wisconsin in our first real test of B10 play. After a weak OOC performance I assumed we would get crushed. Decided to at least check score in second half to see we were...up by 10?? Hey, it could happen again. But probably not. 

 

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Padog

January 7th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^

I hate watching games where there a ton of fouls called, but I think that we win if that happens tonight, as long as it is called both ways. If one or two of their big men get in foul trouble then they can't play two at the same time. I am really worried about them just grabbing every offensive rebound.

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AC1997

January 7th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^

There's no way Michigan plays two bigs unless they dust off Chatman from the end of the bench.  Their offense doesn't work if two of their three current centers play (Donnal, Doyle, Wagner).  Likewise, those guys are going to use just about all of their fouls so we will be rotating them constantly.  

 

This is where the lack of development from Chatman (and Wilson too) hurts us.  Chatman is a 6'8" guy with long arms that would be a good matchup at PF.  But he's still broken as an offensive player to the point that I only expect a cameo out of him.  I'm guessing you might see him get a couple of shifts in the first half and if he does okay then they give it a shot.

 

The best chance of us winning this game is to move the ball around and force their big guys to switch and rotate, thus finding a mismatch somewhere.  

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skurnie

January 7th, 2016 at 10:51 AM ^

Purdue is always one (or five) blown ACL away from the NIT...they're healthy right now and this will be a tough matchup on the road. 

I'm a bit annoyed this game is on ESPNU, while ESPN has Cinci/SMU and ESPN2 has Louisville/NC State. 

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ThatGuyCeci

January 7th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^

This three game stretch reminds me of the three game stretch from 2 years ago when we played Wisconsin msu and Iowa (all ranked) and won all three games. That was like a coming out party for the team on the road to winning the big ten outright. This three game stretch for this team is very similar in that they have the opportunity to get a quality win(s) and announce that they are going to be a contender for the big ten. Really hope we get the W tonight as we enter this three game gauntlet!

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AdW124

January 7th, 2016 at 11:28 AM ^

Michigan Basketball Win/Loss chart: Can Michigan shoot the 3 that game? Yes. No. Does the other team have big men? Yes. No. Results: Yes and Yes- The game will be close Yes and No- Michigan should win No and Yes- Michigan loses big No and No- Low scoring, scrappy game My guess is Michigan vs. Purdue will rely heavily on how Michigan is beyond the arc. If they aren't shooting hot, this will be a long night.

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ijohnb

January 7th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

we won some big ball games last year without Caris and competed close in many others and I think we have a better all around team this year.  I was also impressed with the rotation and ball movement against Penn State(who just beat Minnesota by 10) without Caris.  Of course you want him to go but I don't think Caris not playing means we have no shot.

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MGoBender

January 7th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^

Side note:  Our game against #3 Maryland this upcoming Tuesday has tickets on Stubhub for as low as $11 (!!!).  Yes, 9pm start, yes, nosebleeds, but yeesh.  

I've been watching them and those cheapies seem to be on the auto-decrease mode, but if we win tonight, the owners might jump on and bump those prices back up to $20 or more.

 

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