Whether Iggy has any interest in playing D or not, he will garner major minutes come regular season.
It’s really not feasible to this team having any success minus him on the court. To limited offensively.
What can you really expect to get consistently from Teske, Livers, and Simpson on a regular basis?
The games in the Bahamas were also played with NCAA not FIBA rules, FWIW.
Well playing without Wagner is going to be a big adjustment for them. He was such a game changer as a 5 who was a threat to shoot from 3 and put the ball on the floor. He changed the way teams defended us and opened up a lot of opportunities for everyone else.
Rahkman was also such a solid and steady player. This is going to be a very new and different team. Really only X and Matthews have played big minutes in college before.
I think we also underestimate how much of a transition it will be for most of the freshmen. Iggy may be the exception while the others take more time to develop. I think some people assume DeJulius can not only be the backup PG right away but also challenge Simpson. I know Brooks really struggled last year but odds are he’s going to be further along than DeJulius at least early in the season and who knows, maybe all year.
There are always lots of questions that we are unsure of going into the season. There certainly were the last 2 years and most of them were answered positively. I would expect this to be a much better team in November than they are right now and then much better in Jan and ultimately in March. Will that be good enough to contend for a Big 10 title or another nice tourney run, I have no idea.
Understood. But we don’t have the kind of roster that can exploit you full court like Kentucky can. Not really news there.
Yep. If Kentucky and Michigan played tomorrow in the Bahamas, Ann Arbor, or Catalonia there’s little doubt who would win.
Everybody already knows it, but without Wagner this is such a different looking team going forward.
He was such a huge asset in spacing the floor.
Irony here is that there’s nothing published about the game at any of the Detroit papers… Shea Patterson is speaking in public so that goes on the backburner.
And that is why this is a ‘niche’ website 
Embarassing
Our young team will get better every week/month from here on out.
Lol wow they are pretty excited about that exhibition win
I see the free throw issues have not improved… the turnovers are sooo uncharacteristic for a Beilein team… wonder if they would’ve had 19 of them if Beilein was on the trip or if you can solely chalk it up to lack of practice and experience
24 second clock probably doesn’t help the turnovers. Shorter shot clock = more possessions and more rushed possessions.
Ahh, the life of a blog owner… One week ago you’re tempering high expectations about the team and now you’ve got to say this in the opposite direction. 
Turnover stats are pretty meaningless. It’s a given M will be one of the better teams in protecting the ball. I will be shocked if they aren’t.
About the only conclusion I’m drawing is the team currently has 3 shot hunters.
It’s August. No Beilein. A million unknowns. There’s zero precedence to take an exhibition game serious. I’d like to find the one person last August who predicted defense would lead us to another Final Four.
Also, shout out to the Duke and Kentucky fans who sold me their Final Four seats so cheap last year. Congrats on your early season exhibition wins.
i will not over read it, but the offense needs work as we all expected.
Thank you. Very well said, Cory.
