Comments on: Wednesday Links

By: SBell

SBell — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:41:57 +0000

From the 2012 Indiana list, Yogi Ferrell was at U-M’s camp in June. One of the best 15-year-old point guards I’ve seen in the last few years.

By: JBlair52

JBlair52 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:43:32 +0000

I’d heard he’ll be added in the fall…not sure what the deal is. Sounds like he’s still playing from everything I’ve heard.

By: KainKitizen

KainKitizen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:00:14 +0000

“In addition to the six freshmen, Corey Person and Ben Cronin will have
freshman eligibility in 2009-10. Person, a walk-on, elected to redshirt while
Cronin was forced to redshirt after undergoing hip surgery (Jan. 14)”

This is the only writing saying that Corey could still be with the team in the Prospectus. It’s on page 7, I believe. They could have forgotten about Corey by mistake. Unless, He has chosen not to continue his basketball career that we don’t know anything about yet.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:04:11 +0000

Michigan 2009-10 Men’s Basketball Prospectus (pdf)
http://www.mgoblue.com/uploadedFiles/Sports/Basketball_(M)/Articles/2000s/2009-2010/bkm-prospectus-2009-10.pdf

Corey isn’t on here either.
Page 5 (or 6th page down) has some comments from Coach Beilein.

Go Blue!

By: GregGoBlue

GregGoBlue — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:43:59 +0000

Dave, you strike a good point. The backdoor cut, which is a staple of the Beilein offense, many felt was under-employed last year (though I think we can all agree that when it did work… UCLA/Duke… it was amazing). I think with improved guard off-ball skills I think we’ll see a lot more of that next year in Stu/Novak’s second year.

By: Tom Too

Tom Too — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:11:45 +0000

You will see a ton of improvement from those two. Between their Senior Years’ last game, until they stepped on campus, the only instruction they got from JB was over the phone (ie work hard in the weight room, work on your dribble drives, etc.). Ever since the OU loss in KC, they have had specific drills tailored to their weaknesses, and they have been doing these since Mid-March. In short, with JB, you learn how to improve over the summer and you don’t just spend the 4 months playing summer league in Podunk, IN. He is huge at saying you can get more shots off in 20 minutes by yourself than in 4 hours of pickup.

By: Ken in Las Vegas

Ken in Las Vegas — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:03:55 +0000

Agreed, Dave. I think everyone here underestimates the type of improvements that ultra hard working ultra smart guys like Stu and Zack can make. Not many kids make the type of impact that they did as freshman. Even 4 star type kids. I’m really excited to see them develop. We will have them for 4 years.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:49:21 +0000

not only seeing stus and novaks 3pt % go up but everything maybe add a little midrange game, hopefully novak worked on his cutting and pump faking abilities….how many times last year was he wide open after a slash to the basket where the defender recovered and swatted him from behind……….and perhaps maybe a little improvement in being able to drive into the lane and create some stuff for themselves and others…….every part of their game should be improved upon ……..this is just wishful thinking but 3pts and a little more from somewhere else would certainly makes things even more dangerous

By: Nate-Dawg

Nate-Dawg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:25:21 +0000

Seems like Ray McCallum, Casey Prather and Trey Zeigler are the 3 big fish we are going after but we can really only take 1 correct? If you had your pick of these three which would you take? From the little i’ve read I’d take Ziegler.

I’m really excited about how JB has been recruiting and how he hasn’t been afraid to go after some big names. I just hope we don’t get shut out.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:40:38 +0000

I knew the Corperryale story but didn’t know the details of “Peedi”