Juwan's Tweet About Jace's First Basket
Love this. Showed his pride and gave his son a little gentle trolling over the FT. I can only imagine how cool this moment was for Juwan.
This was also the first game that families were allowed inside Crisler, so I have to believe Mama Howard was there, too.
And sue me, I don't know how to embed tweets, so here's a screenshot of it. Somebody smarter than me, please embed.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
Loved the reaction of the players. Shows this team has the same L.E.O values of Allen at Indiana.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:36 PM ^
This guy feels too good to be true.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:41 PM ^
Was an awesome moment and a tremendous tweet. Football may be frustrating as fuck but we damn lucky to have gone from Beilein to Howard. Snagged a future NBA coach.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:48 PM ^
Football has a future NFL coach.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:08 PM ^
Snagged a future NBA coach.
Hopefully not.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:02 PM ^
You think he would tear up at a press conference for the Washington Blizzards? Also doesn't the NBA coach of the year usually have to look for other employment within 24 months of earning said award? Build that legacy and work with kids. You get to build your own powerhouse through recruiting instead of salary cap luck/manipulation.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:08 PM ^
Pretty much every year around this time, the stark contrast between the football program and the basketball program becomes apparent as the former is stumbling through some embarrassment (usually it's a shit-the-bed performance in The Game or a bowl, but in this case it's the situation around Harbaugh's contract) while the latter picks us up off the mat with one or more dominating performances.
January 5th, 2021 at 7:35 AM ^
It was a shit the bed season.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:12 PM ^
Wooaaa!! Slow down!
Coach Howard isn't going anywhere soon---he'll be sticking around AT LEAST long enough to see Jace and (we all hope) Jett thru their Michigan careers.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:42 PM ^
Never been into basketball but I like Juwan Howard. Have two boys of my own and I loved this tweet. Saw how fired up the team was when his son made the basket. Interested enough to watch some games before March.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^
With what we're going thru with football, MBB is a ray of sunshine....get on board and enjoy!!
January 4th, 2021 at 7:42 PM ^
Here’s hoping Juwan never ever has any interest in being an NBA head coach!
January 4th, 2021 at 8:15 PM ^
Of course he does... recruiting is a drag... but it'll be a good four years... the upside is that he won't coach another college...maybe after the pros.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:32 PM ^
What an uninformed take. I loved recruiting and I'll bet Juwan does too-and he surely is damn good at it...he's a natural.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:39 PM ^
agree, and basketball he literally has to recruit a few kids every year..
If Juwan thinks meeting and talking to a few kids families every year is a drag then he needs to get the fuck out of coaching.. clearly your post makes no sense as juwan loves it and it shows in how the players play for him
January 5th, 2021 at 6:36 AM ^
I feel like basketball recruiting has got to be easier than football. Just a lot less bodies and roster management to deal with
January 5th, 2021 at 10:52 AM ^
Plus, unlike football, we are in a talent-rich region for basketball. In basketball, we are like the SEC is in football.
We don't have to try to pull the core of our team from out-of-region areas with a warmer climate.
We even have a brand name in oddball regions that have some excellent talent that is under-mined, like Canada and Germany.
And we have a very strong legacy of tournament success, some great rivalries, and the everlasting cool factor of the Fab Five.
And now we have a player-development pipeline to the NBA
Who in our region that now stretches to NY/NJ and DC/MD/VA wouldn't want to come play for Michigan?
Recruiting for Michigan basketball is not a hard sell.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:46 PM ^
Wonderful
January 4th, 2021 at 9:47 PM ^
I almost jumped off my couch watching the kids on “the bench” leap off of their socially distant chairs! That was pure love for the coaches kid.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:57 PM ^
I was shocked they didn’t show Juwan’s reaction after the bucket. Wonder if he had some waterworks building up.
January 4th, 2021 at 7:58 PM ^
That's a great tweet! And you know Jace is taking some ribbing for it, so that makes it even better...
January 4th, 2021 at 8:00 PM ^
Wholesome af... I want Juwan to be my father and I'm in my 40s
January 4th, 2021 at 8:09 PM ^
That is creepy
January 5th, 2021 at 6:05 AM ^
Well, I was gonna say that I'd like Beate Wagner to be my mom, but if you're gonna get all judgy ...
January 4th, 2021 at 8:00 PM ^
"...make the free throw."
Thanks, Dad.
January 4th, 2021 at 8:08 PM ^
Juwan Howard is the JH we thought that Jim Harbaugh would be.
<3
January 4th, 2021 at 8:37 PM ^
Terrific and heartwarming. Thanks for sharing.
January 4th, 2021 at 9:02 PM ^
Juwan has far exceeded by expectations so far. I was a little worried going from the sure thing in Beilein but he is the real deal.
January 4th, 2021 at 10:19 PM ^
Is the sure thing in Beilein related to Fire Beilein?
January 4th, 2021 at 9:47 PM ^
That's awesome.
If there had been Twitter, I am sure if it were me, my father would.....no, he would have been scolding the person next to him for being on their phone during a game, telling them it was bad for their eyes, that sort of thing.
January 4th, 2021 at 10:01 PM ^
Screenshots are always better than embeds for those still going to work. :)
January 4th, 2021 at 10:49 PM ^
Juwan is what I thought Jim would be.
January 6th, 2021 at 5:15 PM ^
Congrats Jace.....now go talk your dads' ear off about more playing time.
January 6th, 2021 at 5:16 PM ^
Tell him, you were once in my shoes.....