Well sure, if you assume every outcome of that crosscourt pass is a turnover. Still a really risky play but you can’t just assume every outcome when they don’t make that pass off the inbounds is a clean entry pass.
I’m not assuming every outcome of that pass is a turnover. I’m saying that a risky pass for a team that is prone to turning the ball over, and when they had time to make a safer inbounds pass and still get the ball to Naz, is a bad play. And when the outcome of that crosscourt pass was a TO, well that’s not too surprising.
Lebron noticed… Pretty cool
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Despite the two week layoff, Naz continues to get recognition from national writers. Chantel Jennings has her as a top 4 candidate for NPOTY. Elissa Cunane to Naz Hillmon: Race for Player of the Year – The Athletic
I won’t copy and paste all of it because it’s behind a paywall, but here’s a quote from an anonymous Big Ten assistant:
“I think the major thing is … she just understands positioning really, really well. And there’s no possession where she’s not playing at 100 percent. She does not take reps off on either end of the floor. … You don’t see that every night. You don’t see somebody approach the game like that, at that age, the way she has. She’s literally constantly just working. If she is in the game, she’s doing something positive.”
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The positioning comment is on the mark. I’m very impressed how effective she is down low because she’s almost never the bigger or taller person in her matchup.
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It’s so impressive because you know what she’s going to do. She’s expanded her midrange game a bit this year, but only out to 10-12 feet. Every team knows what’s coming but she still gets position, still gets the ball, still scores.
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Not Michigan, but 1 v 2 with South Carolina and UConn facing off on FS1
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So the women’s team also had a game scheduled for the 11th. Men’s team had it postponed but the women are playing. Obviously the conspiracy theorists are saying it’s because Purdue’s women’s team stinks and Illinois’ men’s team is good.
I think the real issue is that the women’s team has already had 9 games postponed. They have far less time to make up games. Men have had 5 games postponed.
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Por que no los dos?
I don’t know for sure if she’s eligible to play (I would guess she will be, at some point) but Izabel Varejao is now in Michigan.
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Hopefully they learned their lesson and she’s quarantined for a bit. But glad to have her back! If she’s in close to playing shape, she’ll be a valuable big off the bench.
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For those curious (like myself), she is related to former NBA player Anderson Varejao. UM website says that he’s her uncle.
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But what’s her hair like!?
She isn’t rocking the Sideshow Bob look as far as I can tell.
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Yep. She is.
He was a player I wanted to hate but couldn’t because I have the same hair. Kinda like trying to hate David Luiz. Hard to root against my hair twins.
Score was 2-0 four minutes into the first quarter, so likely Michigan a little wobbly after 21 days off. But up seven at the half over Purdue, 61-54. Fifteen turnovers–their per-game average–at the half, but still comfortably out in front of a lower-division Purdue team.
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Michigan women win their first game back over a bad Purdue team, 62-49.
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