Disagree. I think it’s harder to draw up a play and have HS girls execute it. Nebraska is terrible and I watched Hoiberg draw up a BRILLIANT play last night to get a wide open 3 to tie the game against Indiana and send it to OT. Doesn’t guarantee they make it, but most coaches have specialty plays in the bag. It’s not an offense so you can’t “push the Livers button” every time. But if it’s a play that hasn’t been seen much before, most likely the D hasn’t scouted it and won’t know how to stop it. There are all kinds of screen actions that can be run to get one player, one shot, one time down the court.
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No, it just shows the teams ceiling. When things are clicking. What this squad looks like when all pistons are firing, which is very scary for the rest of the country. Can they consistently get to that? That’s another question.
The problem is that other than Gonzaga, Iowa State and UNC don’t appear to be very good. So do we know how high the ceiling is?
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I couldn’t agree more with you. I am stunned how much of a pass Howard seems to be getting. Our offense in OT was worse than anything I have seen out of a Michigan Basketball team since 2010.
Dylan, I saw this quote from Johns after the game about the final play but are you buying what he is saying? It doesn’t seem like that was the design based on what they did nor would it seem to make sense to design a play for Livers to drive to the basket considering his shaky handle and inability to get to the line.
“We were trying to get Isaiah (Livers) to get to his dominant hand, to get to the basket, maybe draw a foul,” sophomore Brandon Johns Jr. said. “All of us would crash the boards, get an offensive rebound, tip it in or something.”
I assume that he’s talking about getting the ball to Isaiah on the pop, but Oregon switched it so he could never get it. Not really sure, though. Seems odd.
Iowa and creighton are both solid teams as well. I mean to basically crap the bed for the first half and still have a chance to win versus a top ten team says something about potential.
Same thing with the ville loss. Things could not have gone worse on the road versus a top five team and you look up and they were down six in the second half. Not sure how but they were within 6.
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I just watched the last play in your masterful review, Dylan. (How did you assemble that so quickly? My hat is really off!) That was not a crazy angle-of-difficulty shot by X in the first place–it could well have gone in. And the way Johns was corraling rebounds. . . that just didn’t go in, either. Second-guessing the play call doesn’t stack up. And in fact, I’d say that after a few iffy rotations against Illinois, all of which I’d put in the ‘have to learn from your mistakes’ category, Juwan again coached a very strong game.
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If you think Howard is getting a pass for this, then you probably thought Beilein was last year too.
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Let’s move this to the Recap, other threads for post game.