The MGoBlog message boards are full of people who are such big basketball fans they can’t even spell the player’s names correctly in addition to thinking Hunter is tracking to be a top 5 pick after this year in a 2021 version of the NBA.
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I’ve read Matt’s pieces at Mgoblog for a while and heard him on the podcast a handful of times. I get the sense that he might be the kind of guy to wear a velour track suit to AAU tournaments or at least stand next to someone in a velour track suit…
This is not psychoanalysis, just fashion critiques…
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I see everyone stopped talking about MattD 
. Seems like this exact same conversation happens once every couple of weeks.
Anyway about Eli… I can see where super high level plays/players would beat him given his size, but I feel like especially in college that’s not a common enough occurrence where it’s a huge problem. I’m sure in the NBA it would be a bigger issue, and some elite guards/wings in college would most likely give him problems, but defenders as good as him aren’t easy to come by and they will help a team win lots of games. Not to mention Eli seems to have gotten somewhat more athletic this year, unless I’m misremembering.
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This is really interesting to me, mainly because I think it shows something important about statistically-minded analysis. I think certain people complain about there being too much reliance on number crunching, and I generally think that argument is just kind of annoying. Partly because statistics can tell a lot about teams, but also because it misses the point that people who are good at reading stats actually know the limits of certain metrics and can help contextualize them. (I hope that makes sense.)
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I definitely think that’s true and a lot of people who are “against statistics” just don’t have a deep enough understanding of statistics or are presented them in the wrong way.
For example, if you take a report to your boss, you have to be able to put it in a way that a) provides proper context and b) is in a language they understand. This is a big problem in sports analytics where things are often framed in an incredibly simplistic way “THREES ARE GOOD TWOS ARE BAD” and that is presented to someone bluntly… they say “well no, obviously twos are good in x, y, z circumstance”.
The person doing the analysis absolutely understands that but it wasn’t presented with enough nuance which then discredits any of the analyst’s work.
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Any insinuation that mgoblog’s basketball coverage or community is at a higher level in any way shape or form than the ones at UMhoops is as misguided as the following totally random, not at all related takes:
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That Booker one is fantastic cause I’d never seen it before, it has nothing to do with Duncan Robinson, and was hilariously wrong
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Condescending platitudes can make even the most accurate in-depth scouting and analysis less impressive, IMO. I’m glad the author found a new home for his legitimately very high quality recruiting analysis, after he vacated UMhoops and was never seen again after Beilein made his second National Championship game in 6 seasons. His style is better suited for the folks on that board.
Anyways, sorry for engaging in that dialogue, I couldn’t help myself after seeing the tweets. Let’s beat the Wildcats.
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I’ve never stopped by that other site/forum, but there’s just no way it’s as good as this one. If it were even close, I’d be impressed.
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Is this Matt?
It frustrates me that two of the best websites devoted to Michigan have to bicker in the comments forums or on twitter over silly differences of approach or opinion. I respect Dylan even more for staying out of it. I would rather visit both blogs to talk about our teams and maybe make fun of opponents rather than fight among ourselves.
Go Blue, Beat Northwestern.
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Show me a guard who doesn’t get beat off the dribble at times. The question is how often and by whom. I think that you’re undervaluing his athleticism to begin with. Knowing tendencies is another factor.
When we were kids, Aunt Sarah used to buy us velour shirts for Hannukah.
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Did you ever have the audacity to wear them to a public event?
My mom forced us to wear them to family events, but only if she knew Aunt Sarah would be there.
Broadly speaking, I think you could do velour in a few different ways, which explains the appeal to both Aunt Sarah and to MattD.
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So you’ve been to a Final Four. 
Holding back shade here, but why does MattD have a non-EM basketball twitter presence? Does the EM account like all the LAbound tweets and vice versa? Asking here to delay my inevitable block from both accounts.
EM is exclusively high school recruiting content for his site. LABound2 is his long-time personal account and he’s engaged with people on Twitter (including me) for years. Since becoming a bigger fixture on MGoBlog, he has started doing film videos on there for that audience.
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