Comments on: Season Over

By: Ky Fox

Ky Fox — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:31:56 +0000

EXACTLY BL! And once JB gets another year and whole summer with these guys who knows what kind of improvements we will see out of Wright, Gibby, and heck, the whole team for that matter. Perfect example is look at Joe Alexander! Does anyone know what star all the recruiting databases had set for Joe Alexander?? anyone…anyone at all?? A friggin 2 star!! So I think that goes to show you how well JB can extract talent and potential out of these guys! BL is right! When Jb gets these new guys in here who all are a threat to score, then you will see Wright, and Gibby come in and be very very productve. They will give us a nice little bench to go to! Something we did not have this past season. And you will also see how much having more offensive threats on this team is going to help guys like Manny, Deshawn, and even Grady! They wont have to play so many minutes and they will not have to carry the load and will not have to play out of position as they sometimes did! Its called having a good supporting cast! Thats all Jb is lacking is a supporting cast. And I think he took a few steps in the right direction by landing the three guys that he did!

By: BL

BL — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:16:17 +0000

It’s good to know that I am not the only one defending gibsons…and others…rights to finish out their scholarships. I think it is funny how people always want to run people off and say we need their scholly…bafoon must not have watched the bt tourney when gibson was a MAJOR asset to this team or the games when wright provided a bigtime spark with his shooting….

People need to realize that some of…if not most of….these players were playing positions/minutes that probably aren’t what they should be. Once Beilein gets a full scholarship team of players at the positions he wants them to play the minutes will all fall in place and maybe gibson and wright will be playing 10-12 minutes where they can have impacts instead of 20-25 minutes where some of their flaws are exposed. Role players are what they are….but they are still needed. The problem is our role players started at times this year.

By: ky fox

ky fox — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:47:22 +0000

Very good point Bluebufoon! Gibby could really come in and give us some quality bench production! Hes not going to WOW anyone but if he can come in and knock down some key shots, and grab some rebounds, he will be a big help! And we need DEPTH anyways!

By: ky fox

ky fox — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:44:05 +0000

Lets hope we can land andy brown! He could be our next joe alexander….maybe better!

By: ky fox

ky fox — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:43:01 +0000

I think a lot of our players from amakers recruiting that are on this team now(wright, sims, udoh)Seem like they are not real comfortable with the ball in their hands. They are not real adversed in taking the ball and getting to the baskett! We need those guys to be a triple threat to be any good!

By: ky fox

ky fox — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:38:39 +0000

You are very right hat! Manny needs some sort of scoring input around him! He is just about the only threat to score on this team…other than wright, and deshawn, and even they are few and far between! Lets hope Novak, Perry, Douglass, Cronin will all be a pleasant surprise!

By: hat

hat — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:32:59 +0000

Bluebufoon, do you realize that, on a per-minute basis, Gibson outscored and outrebounded Udoh? Should Udoh be booted, too? Gibson needs to bulk up some more, become more physical, and avoid touch fouls, but by the end of this season he had developed into a decent backup center. If he can consistently knock down the three, he could become a real asset.

By: hat

hat — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:15:37 +0000

Manny’s a very talented player who is currently a true freshman and, like almost everyone else in his class, has some holes in his game. He is not a very good ballhandler, doesn’t always know a good shot from a bad one, and doesn’t finish that well around the basket. He also probably could use some time in the weightroom. But those are all things he can, and probably will, get better at over time. The problem this year was that we absolutely needed Manny to be at his best every game if we were to have a chance. He wasn’t ready to shoulder the load by himself.

By: Bluebufoon

Bluebufoon — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:48:25 +0000

Controversial thoughts but two keys for the short-term future of Michigan basketball is Coach Beilein needs to encourage Anthony Wright and
Zach Gibson to finish their careers some-where
else or as team managers. Either way they aren’t goood enough to play big-time college basketball
at a BCS school, due to their lack of athleticism
and each players various skill deficiencies.

Bottom line U-M needs the scholarships and if these players want to play they need to go down a level or two.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:02:47 +0000

I’m planning on going player by player analysis of each player.

The way I see Manny is that he was honestly the only player on this team. Yes he took a lot of shots and yes he had a lot of turn overs. No one in their right mind would say that Manny was “efficient” though. He definetely has things to work on but I wouldn’t say he is as bad as Brian’s post leads to believe. He has definetely had his moments and not so good moments. Got to protect that ball.