Finally an opposing coach was smart enough to not base their entire defense on doubling Dickinson. Scoring in the post is hard. Dickinson is good but he’s not some unstoppable force down there. Make him score one on one consistently. He couldn’t and we kept throwing it down to him time and again.
We had our chances down the stretch and missed all of them. I do think we lacked a go to guy. It didn’t matter most of the year but I don’t know that there was one guy I felt good about saying go get a bucket down the stretch.
He’s not that kind of lottery pick. Just saying “he’s a lottery pick” is pointless when he’s lottery pick as a future defensive wing with some secondary play making abilities. He’s not a Jalen Suggs. Franz did play bad in all our losses, but if anything that speaks to how good he is.
I’ll be joining you with this. Gonna step away for a few days and never look back at this game again. I’ll move onto the offseason stuff and start thinking about next year soon. Great season, extremely disappointing end. Thanks for a great season/career, seniors.
It is a small sample, that’s the definition. I understand there’s a strong mental side but that’s also something that we quite literally can not know. So I hate chalking up every bad performance to “not being locked in” or whatever. Chalking it up to SSS variance is probably equally annoying but I just like to say sometimes people have bad games because they are human and not robots like you said
Right? This has been a period of fantastic sustained success for Michigan. If it weren’t for the 800-lb gorilla — 0-2 on Monday night — we’d be talking about this as the best period of sustained success in Michigan basketball history. (And Michigan basketball history is very good, outside of the Ellerbe / Amaker era).
There are quite a few teams in the country who would happily trade with Michigan. 0-2 on Monday night is a lot better than 0-0.
I hear you. I have a wife and 3 kids and my emotional reaction to sports games has gone down significantly over the past 5 years or so. But man this one crushed me. I’m at a really difficult spot at work and might lose my job, a loved one is getting a lump tested for cancer and a couple other bad things are going on. I know better than to let sports dictate my emotions this badly but I couldn’t help myself tonight. I really needed this one, sad as it is to say
The biggest issue with Dickinson is he has basically one move which limit the post option for him. UCLA was smart to make him work hard for it. If he has post moves like Davis, we would see more doubles IMO.
