Glad we dodged a bullet & didn't get Terrance Shannon.....
....for all those complaining about him being the missing piece...Shannon gets in deep ruts...no points in regulation against Texas and now 3 points all game in loss to power house Penn State.
Not saying, I wouldn't take him as another option on this Michigan roster but he is far from the instant next piece for a conference championship everyone suggested.
December 10th, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
Another lesson from Penn State's beat down of the Illini in Champaign.......every team in the league (but probably Minnesota) can come on your court and beat you by 15.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:16 PM ^
can come on your court and beat you by 15
Talk about adding insult to injury
December 10th, 2022 at 3:38 PM ^
Michael Scott couldn’t have said it better
December 11th, 2022 at 12:26 AM ^
Sometimes the end justifies the mean
December 10th, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
Even if he was having a worse season for us than he’s having for Illinois, he’d still be a huge upgrade because he’d be by far our best defender
December 10th, 2022 at 2:54 PM ^
I don’t agree. He is a great talent with transcendent moments.
December 10th, 2022 at 2:58 PM ^
So you are saying he is a superstar but the Nittany Lions are his kryptonite.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:00 PM ^
That’s not at all what I’m saying - but hats off to penn state for shutting him down today
December 10th, 2022 at 5:44 PM ^
He a good basketball player, but Underwood is a complete worthless POS.
December 10th, 2022 at 7:15 PM ^
BPONE is alive & well for basketball apparently. Way too many fans freaking out, especially after we beatdown Minnesota on their own floor!
December 11th, 2022 at 10:36 AM ^
I haven't been following much college basketball so I don't know how good he is, but this post is about 1 game?
December 10th, 2022 at 2:56 PM ^
ya, definitely couldn't use a guy averaging 19-6-3 per game because of a bad game or two.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:03 PM ^
So far he is a senior averaging 11 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in the BiG (almost as much as our sophmore 2 guard Kobe Bufkin).
I also think you could see some dissonance between him and the Mouth they have as a coach there. Mark my words, his wheels look a little unhinged and some of that pre-season magic may not last over the tough Big Ten schedule.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
Right, and Bufkin looks like our breakout player this year and a critical piece. The guys Shannon would be playing instead of are Dug McDaniel and whatever other guards we can scrape up off the bench
December 10th, 2022 at 5:12 PM ^
The guys Shannon would be playing instead of are Dug McDaniel and whatever other guards
Shannon would be playing in Dug's spot? Shannon is the last guy you want at the point (did you watch any of today's game as he sat there dribbling with the clock ticking to 0)... he was always the 2 guard that would play instead of Kobe or as a 3rd guard on the wing. He is a fantastic athlete but seems to struggle with decision-making and apparently a coach yelling at him (not the best choice to go to Illinois).
December 11th, 2022 at 10:37 AM ^
In big ten play?! Sample size much? Come on dude.
December 10th, 2022 at 2:59 PM ^
Forget to take your Meds today OP?
December 10th, 2022 at 3:02 PM ^
also bashing the guy for no points in regulation against texas. he scored 4 on poor shooting. but fail to mention he dominated the OT by scoring 12 of the team's 17 points. texas scored only 10.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:03 PM ^
I can't even come up with the words to describe the level of inept oozing from this post
December 10th, 2022 at 4:50 PM ^
The oozneptitude is unutterable
December 10th, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
Penn State is 7-3, #33 in Kenpom, and by far the best 3PT shooting team in the B1G. But sure, they’re not very good because of how they’ve played the last few seasons. Good lord what a stupid post.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
So you believe Shannon can't handle the pressure of playing a good 3 point shooting team? I had no choice but to mention the team that beat them today (and I did describe them as good), but I would think the slow-footed, suburban guards playing across from Shannon today would have let him shine if he is the transcendent player worshiped by this board.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:41 PM ^
My man, why do expect a college basketball player to have excellent games every single night. Wtf are you doing?
And Jalen Pickett, the guard for Penn state, is quite literally the best guard in the Big ten so far this year. Have you even been paying attention?
December 10th, 2022 at 3:51 PM ^
I am writing a post about the fact that he has dropped from a guy putting up Playstation numbers pre-season to a guy who completely disappears over large portions of his first two B1G games and the Texas game in-between on the schedule.
Is this a mere blip or signs of bigger problems, seems like one could have an intelligent conversation about it rather than mocking the poster.
As for Jalen Pickett, he has done well as a distributor but he is a 29% outside shooter and struggles playing guys quicker than T-Will. Not sure what I should know about Pickett that excuses Shannon's complete no-show for a second straight regular time game. In fact, Shannon was rarely on Pickett as he was chasing their 2 guard and wing as he does most nights.
This is me responding to your argument and remain one of the few in this discussion debating he merits of Shannon walks on water or not...and not attacking the person/poster.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:08 PM ^
Nebraska, Northwestern and Penn State basketball --- they're a combined 1-3 in NCAA tourney games in the last 20 years, the same combined record as the Directional Michigans --- all with road wins over ranked teams in just the past week.
You could have gotten some crazy long odds on that bet. Deep conference this year.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:11 PM ^
i told people to bet on penn st today. loved the matchup. penn st big experienced guards against an IL team that doesn't score much inside. i think the line was minus 11.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:09 PM ^
I dodged a bullet back in the day when I told Halle Berry to stop begging me for a date.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:32 PM ^
Happened to you too?!?
December 11th, 2022 at 10:38 AM ^
Same but Jessica Alba. Wonder whatever happened to that poor girl that never got to marry me.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:09 PM ^
Lol worst thread ever.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:20 PM ^
Sorry for this poorly received post by me. I am still learning the board etiquette particularly that this board considers nobody, with the possible exception of Cade McNamara, in higher regard than the great Terrance Shannon, Just look at the open hostility of my raising the possibility that he was not the magic piece for Michigan and may be no greater a 2 guard than our own Kobe Bufkin.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:47 PM ^
Much more to do with how you have responded.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:01 PM ^
You mean using evidence-based arguments for why Shannon may not have been the obvious superior choice to Bufkin as our 2 guard?
December 10th, 2022 at 6:26 PM ^
You're doing it wrong.
December 10th, 2022 at 7:03 PM ^
Evidence-based arguments
damn I didn’t know cherry picking a player’s last two performances (and omitting the OT period of one of those performances) counted as “evidence-based arguments”. STFU
December 10th, 2022 at 8:47 PM ^
As someone who had the luxury of coming to this thread a bit late - my two cents after reading through the thread is its really that you're coming off like a bit of a pompous asshole
December 10th, 2022 at 11:38 PM ^
So your suggesting inserting more "dude" in my posts and trying to belittle the opposing poster rather than focusing on the content of whether we should be crying over having Bufkin instead of Shannon as our 2 guard.
December 12th, 2022 at 4:41 PM ^
The whole:
"So what you're saying is ... (condescending/leading question)"
thing makes you come off like an asshole. I'm not suggesting it, I'm telling you.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:01 PM ^
I am still learning the board etiquette particularly that this board considers nobody, with the possible exception of Cade McNamara, to have the ability to walk on water farther than the great Terrance Shannon
Dude what? I don't think anyone has brought up Shannon in weeks besides maybe a post about "Wow, Terrance Shannon is playing well and would've been a nice piece on this team given it's flaws!"
December 10th, 2022 at 4:05 PM ^
Dude what? I don't think anyone has brought up Shannon......
So you are predicting bored shrugs to my suggestion Bufkin may have been not less a choice for our 2 guard than Shannon? Nobody is going to turn to attacking the messenger in this string of comments?
December 10th, 2022 at 4:19 PM ^
Wtf are you saying
December 10th, 2022 at 4:58 PM ^
December 10th, 2022 at 4:14 PM ^
Stop being whiny. You're not a victim.
December 11th, 2022 at 10:39 AM ^
It's cancel culture when people downvote my stupid opinions.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:28 PM ^
I don't think you've violated any etiquette, people just really think you're wrong.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:30 PM ^
I don’t know, I think we could probably use another guard.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:50 PM ^
Also, remember that our opinions about players we might have had can never get a complete sense of how an individual might thrive or not in different environments.
Those infinite variables include meshing with coaches, meshing with fellow players, development, different systems, comfort in that school generally, including friends, dates, classes.
December 10th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
Absolutely agree, that is probably the best comment to this post.