IIRC McGary came alive that game
I was able to find it by going through foxsportsgo.com
No idea why the link was available there and not on the general fox sports website
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Thanks 
Should’ve known the look there, but yeah unimpressed with FS
I think he can do it. It was his strength coming into Michigan and he has a soft touch, he hasn’t shown that at Michigan because he’s too amped up when he does get in but he has the ability if he settles in. Not sure if he will continue to get minutes but if he does he can score down low.
M always has shooters. I’ve never seen the ball movement, cutting, and confidence like what happened against Iowa (maybe Iowa’s D was terrible). I’m going to rewatch. Teske too, being well seasoned and an excellent passer surely adds to mix.
I think we carved up Jimmy Boeheim’s zone and ate it with a nice chianti in the NCAA’s once not too long ago. We have played well against zone Ds in the past. In fact, I was thinking that Teske’s obvious comfort there in the middle derived in part from the fact that he HAD experience handling zones in the past.
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A great effort against the zone, but much of which was aided by Iowa’s complete lack ability to defend.
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We absolutely did not carve up Syracuse in that game. Nice win though. McGary made some beautiful plays in the zone; Caris made a couplae too, but for long stretches M’s O struggled in that game. From what I recall M made a few very long threes. I know Burke hit one; Spike too I think; probably Hardaway as well. Syracuse zone was much better than Iowa’s of course. Spike and Caris combined for 4/5 from 3 in that game; Huge.
Here is box score from Syracuse.
Rewatching Iowa game now. What I really liked was the two high post look against the zone. M looked so, well, professional attacking the zone.
So Michigan and Iowa are in a bit of a tussle until, of all people, Austin Davis took over the game. That was a beautiful thing. You can’t stop Austin Davis when he’s in that mode, that zone, you can only hope to contain him.
Where’s the damn 5 key plays: Austin Davis over segment?!?!?!
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Yeah, it was McGary sitting in the middle I remembered. Facts are tough things to get around, but I think that Boeheim’s zone was causing terror beforehand and that for some dazzling stretches we really handled it. I’m stickin’ to my happy fuzzy memory!
Timmy, Nik and Trey couldn’t hit open shots. Thank God for Mitch and the bench that day.
I think we handled it for exactly enough possessions to win and not any more at all. That was an incredible slog of a game.
I’m not sure you can even call the Syracuse zone that year and whatever the heck Iowa was running the other day the same defense. They may as well have been playing different sports entirely.
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Maybe. But if you get a really smart, tall passer there in the middle, in my probably reductive view, and guys who know how to rotate around it, you can make some hay. I guess it forces you to hit your shots from the outside. . .
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No doubt. That’s a great way to do it. And we did that with McGary vs Syracuse. But Syracuse and any decent zone makes it harder to get into the middle than Iowa. They also don’t really have intimidating length
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That’s why Izzo played Ben Carter against them while sitting Nick Ward and Jaren Jackson most of the game. If that smart, tall passer is a good player like Teske, it’s a better strategy.
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MSU lost and Carter wasn’t much of a zone buster; two points, two assists
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Yea that zone was literally the worst run zone I’ve ever seen in college hoops.
The was the point of the criticism. Jackson was a far better shooter/option than Carter. [and he had actually played more than 5 minutes a game] . Izzo over-thought it and beat himself.
LOL, I understand that. Hence my remark about it being a better strategy if you are using a good player.