And wasted possessions? Michigan scored 1.27 points per possession. Spoiler alert: That is really good. Stop complaining just to complain.
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To be fair, that’s padded a bit by our late game free throw shooting. Went from a 4-6 point lead to a 13 point lead because of that and Walton’s last second three. But yeah, we still played well offensively.
Many double digit wins are “padded” by late game free throw shooting. Those points still count. Michigan was in a position, on the road against a hot team, to force them to foul to have a chance. The team shot a cool 20 of 23 from the Free Throw line, including shooting 10 of 10 in the final three minutes. That is huge. You can call it padding, but I call it taking care of business.
Also, Michigan led for the final 37 minutes. It’s not like they got “lucky” and edged this one out. Teams go on runs in Division 1 basketball and Michigan did a good job of taking Nebraska’s best punches. Surely not worth complaining about.
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You guys are taking what I’m saying the wrong way. We know the score was deceiving. It was very close. If shields hits either of those free throw chances we are in trouble.I just want us to clean up wasted possessions and turnovers. You can hit me with points per all day. Those stats were due to our hot starts in both halves then free throws late. I’m talking about when we just gave the ball away on sloppy passes and that them come back from down eighteen. Those are self inflicted wounds which will get us bounced early.That press wasn’t even that great. We just were sloppy with the ball.
I’m talking about cleaning up things we can control. For us to become a contender we need to do these things. Were amazing shooters and we get a lot of easy looks because of this. Our rebounding from what I see is actually pretty good of late. We actually seemed to out work them yesterday and got a lot of tap outs/ o rebounds. I don’t think it’s wrong to expect great things out of these guys. I’ve felt since last year thAt we were sleeper contenders. If we clean up some of the decisions and careless play we could achieve that. A better team pulls off that comeback, so this young team needs to put Nebraska away. A win is a win but I have been hoping in this stretch to win four in a row while solidifying rotation/roles and cleaning some things up for when we play real contenders. It’s in times like this where I say imagine if we had spike. Imagine the offensive out put him Derrick caris and Zach put out. Or him Derrick caris and Duncan. This team is so deep it’s ridiculous. Duncan would be struggling for time. We’d rarely see Aubrey or maar.
I just hope caris is back and ready to play. Probably not gonna happen before Hoosiers. Also props to zach for his play these last two games. He is an example of what I’m talking about. He made the right passes/ didn’t force much and played d and rebounded. Got to the rack. That’s the play we need out of him to go next level.
No I’m not. You can watch any team and nitpick the small things like you are.
I’ll sit back and enjoy the fact that Michigan led the game for 37 minutes on the road and locked the game up by hitting 10 of 10 Free Throws down the stretch.
Keep complaining just to complain, though. I’m sure it’s fun.
I just took a quick peek. Nebraska has played 8 Big Ten games and this loss to Michigan has been their biggest point deficit and it came at home.
Good win. On to the next one.
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You take things personal. Not sure why. I titled thread as what did you think? I stated where I thought they could improve to go next level and contend for big ten title. I was very happy and excited to win. Any win is good. If you felt they played great cool leave it at that. It’s your opinion. I felt they played great and then almost fell apart. So I stated that and I felt that nail biter could be avoided. I really feel they have talent to be a sleeper, so I’d like to see that materialize and see them get better game by game. I’m not sitting here unhappy at all. I’m just looking down the road when we meet bigger foes. Relax.
And apparently it needs to keep being repeated…we did it WITHOUT our best player.
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Yeah, 1.27 points per possession without our scoring and assist leader. Sorry, but don’t talk to me about empty possessions.
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And I’m answering what I think. I think that any team in the conference would be happy with a 13 point road win at Nebraska.
MSU lost to Nebraska at home
7-0 Indiana won by 10 at Nebraska
7-0 Iowa won by 11 at home Nebraska
Michigan won by 13 at Nebraska
All three of those teams would be happy with what Michigan did at Nebraska. Likewise, I’m happy with what Michigan did at Nebraska.
An the “the score is misleading” angle is pretty weak and only used to push an agenda. Michigan locked down on defense at the end and extended their lead by going 10 of 10 for the Free Throws in the final 3 minutes. I’ve seen plenty of teams blow games (even the 2012/2013 Michigan team) blow games down the stretch by not taking care of business at the FT line. Dismissing how great this team shot free throws yesterday by calling the score “padded” is something I’d expect from somebody over at RCMB.
The turnovers can be fixed the poor defense probably not. They were great offensively especially in the 2nd half but defense needs to get a lot better. At one point with 7 minutes left in the game Michigan had an eFG% of 94 yet they had only extended the lead by 4 points. The offense is good but they will need to be better defensively when they face better teams like Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, MSU, Maryland.
I’m agreeing the rest of the game we played amazing. It was the careless turnovers late which got them back in the game that I am worried about. If it doesn’t worry you then great.
Division 1 basketball teams go on runs. Michigan is not the only team that has turned the ball over. Michigan turned the ball over that many times and still won by 13. How did Nebraska beat MSU? How did Nebraska stay within 11 points of Indiana and Iowa?
I felt like it was more sloppy passes then pressure. That’s my beef. Like they’re press didn’t remind me of say west va press. We were just making risky high arching passes which we can fix.or telegraphing stuff. That worries me when we step up to the meat of the schedule. I’m just happy we got a good shot to start 7-2 now. Nothing’s for sure but Nebraska was our toughest test in this four game stretch.
Indiana scares me. We for sure have to out score them. I don’t see us defending them well. I said before their like a better version of us because they have Bryant to donnall. Also I love Derek but yogi is like a better more consistent version of him. Who knows though. He came after meloTrimble and outplayed him. Hopefully he has something to prove again and outplays yogi.
You can look at it negatively and keep repeating that we looked bad against the press, or be positive like a coach needs to and say it’s great we won, this is a learning opportunity for next time. I thought, for my part, that Walton was sometimes too casual about the whole thing, not that we were clutching up.
My very first words were I am happy we won. Still am. Had fun watching, and yes we were casual. Thats what I hope we tighten up by Indiana. Hopefully Derek plays with a chip and wants to prove he should be in the mix for top big ten pg. out shining melo and yogi would be nice for him.
Also I repeated a few times the we can learn from it angle and hopefully tighten up and clean it up for bigger games. I don’t think anyone read what i actually said early on. Maybe my posts were to long.
Winning a road game in the Bigten is impressive against pretty much everyone except Rutgers. Especially for our team since we have been far better at home during the beilein years.
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Thoughts…
Great road win.
Very dangerous tournament team outside the B1G.
Mr. Robinson really opens up the floor for others.
Historically Beilein teams always get better over time.
The turnover numbers will come down.
Mark Donnal has good hands and holds them high to finish…Coaching!
I will take excellent guard play every day…MSU?
Ball movement and the three ball destroyed the best player on earth! LEBRON!
This team is becoming a very GOOD team!
They can beat IOWA at home!
Go BLUE!