Today’s crew: D.J. Carstensen, Rob Kueneman, Donnie Eppley
Carstensen had his first day off of the season yesterday. He worked 9 straight games at Mohegan Sun before doing Friday’s MSU-Detroit game.
Please Juwan start Hunter today.
Wonder if he is going to call a jersey grab flagrant on X just because…
CJ Walker makes Manny Harris look like he had calf implants.
Same starters for Michigan: Smith, Brooks, Wagner, Livers, Davis.
Benefit of multiple screens.
Austin covering Jamille Reynolds will be interesting. He looks pretty athletic if he decides to crash the offensive glass, not having to worry about Davis in transition.
Would love to see Johns get some actual run today. I think he’s made a pretty good jump but it’s hard to see it when he gets 3-5 min runs at best.
Here’s the hard thing with Johns…
He has so much potential that you are so excited to give him that first 3-4 minute shift but the problem is that he has the tendency to take those initial 3-4 minutes and make enough mistakes that the coaches aren’t excited to play him more.
He’s gotta eliminate some of the mental hiccups if he’s going to get Juwan’s trust IMO.
Terrence Williams rocking a headband is new.
What is Juwan seeing that causes him to continue starting Davis? I can’t imagine he would do something that he thinks is worse for his team, rid? So what could make him think Davis starting is the best move? I just don’t get it.
He’s starting but he’s not playing more than Dickinson. Perhaps he likes Dickinson with the 2nd unit. It’s a very NBA style sub pattern
It’s extremely hard to play sound when you know if you make a mistake you are going back to the bench. He honestly should have let him play stress free in the last game. Play through those mistakes. I don’t know if anyone else on the team has to play like that.
Davis is a captain so it’s possible he feels he brings better leadership? Or likes Dickinson coming off the bench so he doesn’t start off jittery and commit a quick foul or two to get himself autobenched?
Not running the right play is a tough kind of mistake to play through.
Podcast shoutout
Davis finishes in the face of the why is he starting crowd
D not established. No charge.