agree. Dawkins is a Mac / Horizon league guy.
Mgo. I think you really need to take your fan glasses off. Donnal though playing better shouldnāt be at Michigan.
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JB needs to reconsider his recruiting strategy.
I donāt get why people hate Dawkins he can shoot well and has athletic ability. He is a projected NBA prospect by some people (not by me http://www.nbadraft.net/2017mock_draft 38 to the Bucks
I donāt understand why you think I am crazy. I think Zak Irvin would start on almost all teams in the country with the exception of a few and Donnal is good enough to be a BACKUP big for most teams.
You are nuts on Donnal! Unless you think he backs up at places like Northwestern Rutgers and PSU who routinely recruit mid major talent
Iāve always like Irvin. His biggest issues are shot selection and ability to get off the ground around the rim
Heās not a starter Iām not going to pretend he is because he should not be. You need to give credit to him with the way he is playing NOW he is a decent D1 backup big. With the way he played last year he deserved to be D2.
mgo, you are in la la land my friend. I actually envy you and your naivety. Youāre clearly in a better spot than I am in regards to Michiganās basketball program. Bless your soul.
Dawkins would thrive at a MAC school. Duncan Robinson too.
If Dawkins is playing well over his ranking there are probably hundred of 3 star recruits performing over their ranking. Irvin is not playing at a 5 star level either.
We need to look at the total picture with all these players just not offense the team is absolutely awful defensively do Dawkins and Irvinās poor defense not get included in that?
Derrick Walton shooting 34% inside the arc is this good for a PG who has the ball in his constantly? Out of all the past prior point guards I would put Burke and Darius Morris both ahead of Walton.
We are talking recruiting a bit but all of this has to change if they want to make the tournament.
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Last I am going to say and I am going to move on and watch the superbowl is offensively we have B1G talent. Defensively we are clearly not there. Duncan had two bad games and now he is not B1G talent according to you guys. Every analysis for ESPN Bleacherreport CBS Sports seem to think heās the real deal. Praise has also been said about Aubrey by several people. I am not going on with this any more.
Considering the fact that we are 1-6 against ranked teams, all of the losses have been by double digits, and Melo had maybe his worst performance of the season against us, it does seem like the Maryland win was a bit of a fluke. I hate that, but I think itās true. I would like to see our guys put up a fight against another ranked team before we call it anything else.
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Yeah luckily UM was making shots against Maryland and they didnāt play their best game.
Chances of tourney though I would say maybe can lose another 2 or 3 games maybeā¦but have to be a āgood lossā if that can even happen. Not these blowouts that have been happening.
Honestly can say the way they are playing now, they can get 2 wins.(minny and maybe the cats since its a home game.)
Looking at the remaining schedule they could lose all the other games. Depends what ohio st and wisky teams that show up and maybe pull one of if not both of the home games of purdue/iowa.
So chances are very slim just by current level of play.
Robinson has thrived here. I think Dawkins is a B1G level player as well. The problem is that we are depending on Robinson to be a primary scorer. He has not diversified his game enough to be that in the B1G (though I do think he has added to his game while here and will continue to do so). Robinson would be scoring 20+ a game easily in the MAC. Not in the B1G, nor should he be asked to.
Back to the subjectā¦
9 seed in Lunardiās update today
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology/_/iteration/223
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Donnal/Doyle/Wagner/Wilson vs Johnson/Meeks/Hicks/James
Iād rather be a 12 seed
Weāre still a ways from bubble watch but it doesnāt take long to find it. Glad weāre still hanging in there and plenty of opportunities left to prove one way or the other.
You basically made a case for my post. Thank you.
Before these two games I was laughing at you guys about making tourney, but after how badly we got beat by both teams at home Iām actually a bit scared. I thought weād post done upsets coming up but now Iām not sure if we have it in us. We could really lose a lot of games coming up. I could see us losing to Wisconsin and Ohio st which I didnāt before. Maybe Caris comes back and we can figure this out but damn we are running out of time, and thatās looking less and less likely.