Just my fan opinion, but I’m more worried about Thursday @Nebraska than tonight.
That team is playing hard for Miles and even though Michigan has had A LOT of success in that arena, generally it’s a tougher place to play. Those fans still pack that place.
Always hard to predict, but I think the team will play with a lot of energy and confidence tonight. The crowd should be into it from the beginning. MD is 14-5 and beat UM last year. And it’s not like the team should be so comfortable or is where it wants to be. As Dylan pointed out in the article today, Livers and Simpson weren’t starting a couple weeks ago. I’m with MB10, I’ll be more worried about the @Nebraska game in terms of a letdown (if UM wins tonight, obviously)…
They probably gave that right to us, but man, he shouldn’t have been on the floor to foul, gotta run something to get it to someone else.
Wow, it’s crazy, Turgeon seems to coach better with a worse team. He cut his teeth with teams that were more grit less first class - I feel like he’s done an awful job a lot of these last years but he coached a pretty damn good game tonight.
Just watched there last 3 again - that is such a moving screen - that’s actually awful on the refs’ part to have let that go. He didn’t necessarily have to, but he clearly stuck his leg out to pick off Matthews.
Terrifying game, but it was easy to predict as a letdown game. If we just make easy layups, that’s a comfortable win and that was with us not playing our best.
MAAR get’s a lot of sh*t for not showing enough emotion (bothers me sometimes too). But feel like that also helps him in cases like today…the big late 3 and the FT’s to close.
Backup PG minutes are scaring me. Brooks seems to have hit a wall lately and Simmons doesn’t seem to bring much to the table. Could see that late when Coach B decided to go with MAAR/Poole in the back court.
Poole has some swag. Will take some head scratching shots but I think he’ll be fun to watch for a while.
Need Zavier and Matthews to work on FTs. They are likely to be shooting to close out games and we are going to need them to make them more routinely than they are.