And by “fit” I mean “aren’t playing the way they were projected to play”.
Ok guys…going to put on my optimism glasses…here we go…
- Last year Kobe was unplayable and he’s been decent so far in heavy minutes. As the youngest player and someone who has had some good moments I think there’s hope.
- Llewellyn isn’t this bad. He might not be good…but he’s better than this. He should figure it out.
- We won tonight with Hunter not even taking shots. He’s rebounding well and I thought his defensive effort was good.
- Jett is a star and should keep getting better. He’s going to be playing for a first round pick and will light some teams on fire.
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So dis-organized on both ends, and nobody is trying to do anything except Kobe and Dug.
How do you know what will Tschetter brings? He’s played like 5 minutes in his career
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And I said that he obviously had a more accomplished resume. My whole point was to have some patience. We believe Michigan should be in the tourney every year, I get it but this may just be a down year. Howard has mostly recruited well and he’s shown the ability to make a talented team successful. I’m willing to bet there is more for him to learn about roster construction and taking talent and developing it in season. Should that type of developing coach be a coach at a major Big Ten program? Maybe not but he is and I think he’ll figure it out.
Awesome in the non-con is a stretch. It was more that they had one awesome game vs Gonzaga. But yeah overall I think that year was an average ish coaching job and not a bad one
I am a big fan of Will…but not sure how we can start him when he can’t even get into a game like this. Not to mention that TWill is probably our best defender…
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ideally for a defensive specialist, said it for awhile but i’d love to see us shift to a no middle chris beard style defense
I don’t feel like belaboring the point which is that Beilein’s resume was stronger, with the minutiae of Juwan’s season but they were 7-6 in B10 with Livers and 3-4 without
So pretty close to a .500 outfit either way
Again I’m not saying Howard should get fired
On this night before the national day of thanksgiving, I am thankful:
- that we aren’t Louisville, and
- for AC1997
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No one really expected Michigan to be as good as they were that year
I wasn’t arguing Juwan had a better resume. Just merely stating you were understating it. They were going to beat Illinois when livers got hurt, don’t know if you were counting that one
JL playing PG is worse than Stu, literally creates nothing on offense.
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He did manage to keep our season alive going 3-2 without JH but yeah. Fair or not if the season goes the way it’s trending Juwan is going to have to overhaul his coaching staff.
If this season goes bad, and the team stinks, I don’t see a particularly good exit hatch next year. It would mostly be the same guys.
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? They were approximately around my expectations atleast. They returned 2 of the top 3 players from a 3 seed along with Livers and hyped freshman Franz. That’s enough for a ranked quality team. I would guess they were probably in other receiving votes in preseason because of Juwan skepticism.
They were KenPom 16. Preseason unranked. Poole and Iggy left and Jalen Wilson bailed. There were a lot of wondering where the program would be and they slightly exceeded expectations so my original post was probably exaggerated
They were 21 preseason on KenPom, which is pretty damn high considering that coaching history tends to be one of the primary inputs for those preseason numbers
Anyway the bigger point is that Beilein (should have) earned more equity for a bad year at that point than Juwan has now.
If this team fails I think it’s fair to question his roster construction, at the very least.
Yup didn’t say it would work but our starting five doesn’t start games well. Wondering what positions you start to shift to see if you can start with better energy. And it’s not the 3 or 5
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