Michigan Players in the NBA

7 Likes

Didn’t play but Vlad was on the Heat’s roster tonight

5 Likes

2 points in 5 minutes for Hunter

3 Likes

Franz had what I’d call a median Franz game

Moussa 13/9 with a block and staal

4 Likes

12/10/2 for Moussa in a Hornets win last night.

3 Likes

Wolf starting rehab in G League.

1 Like

https://x.com/therealBeede/status/1983553195059089713

4 Likes

Jett is a kid who I really think was poorly served by his coaching/development team for a very long time. I’m not really sure who to ā€œblameā€ for someone who appears at IMG/Michigan with a deeeeep bag of iso on-ball scoring moves and essentially no 2nd or 3rd dimension to his game - defense, passing, rebounding, what have you. To reference back to my favorite Alex Caruso quote (used often, won’t repeat again) - in order for that skillset to be the basis of your NBA career in the absence of nearly any other skill you basically need to be in the 99.5th percentile of on-ball iso guys (like, Shai) otherwise what are we really doing here. Obviously he owns part of that himself.

7 Likes

yeah, it’s a bit like a jimbo fisher QB. he was custom-built in a lab to make the league, and he did that! and then,

1 Like

I blame Allen iverson

1 Like

More than any other guy that I can really remember at Michigan who ended up going to the NBA or something like that, Jett was just so clearly a losing player in the time he spent at Michigan.

If you compared points to winning plays, it felt like he was always on the wrong side of the ledger.

Call it coaching or whatever, but the product was always exceedingly frustrating.

10 Likes

I always got the deep sense that even Juwan and Jenine were at a loss on how to get through to him. I’m going to guess that applied to his bball development.

2 Likes

I don’t know, I remember watching the interview Juwan gave when Jett declared (obviously, it’s public, Juwan is his dad, not just his coach, he’s not impartial) and he basically said that HE suggested to Jett to go pro, because he ā€œclearly was readyā€, and thinking ā€œbut, is he?ā€

1 Like

Yeah, that’s basically what I’m saying. I just would have expected that at some stage someone would have explained to him that he needed to guard and pass sometimes. Maybe they tried and he didn’t care, I don’t know!

1 Like

I don’t know either, but I could see a wise dad thinking that providing some cover was the most loving thing he could do in that situation.

3 Likes

I always liked Jett and will continue to root for him

4 Likes

Jett was always going pro IMO. I remember in the London post-game, Juwan basically had a slip of the tounge about his one year here or something like that.

That year was pretty much a disaster in terms of everything other than showcasing Jett :rofl:

Also, he went in the lottery (and Michigan’s next season was historically bad). He clearly made the right decision.

5 Likes

I think you know, but I’m not trying to criticize him as, like, a guy. Just that his game was always basically 1 thing, and if your game is 1 thing in the NBA, you gotta be one of the absolute best at that thing.

2 Likes

Disaster seems like an overstatement. We finished 44th in KenPom and missed the tourney while our starting PG tore his ACL. That season was more about how bad the support outside of Jett, Kobe, and Hunter were

2 Likes

No interesting in relitigating that year. But it was not good, on multiple levels.

2 Likes