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By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:10:19 +0000

@Chitownblue, so when in doubt just blame it on Amaker huh?

By: JayRich

JayRich — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:01:24 +0000

Keep the sanity guys. We are a team that relies on young players. Manny and Sims are our only upperclassmen that make any real contributions. Hopefully Manny stays but even if he doesn’t we will be fine going forward. Novak is going to be one helluva college player once he is playing the 3 instead of the 4. We will have lots of back court depth next year and some depth upfront. We will still be young but at least Novak, stu, llp, Darius, Vogrich,will all have another year in the system and players like Morgan, McLimans,and maybe Cronin know the system.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:11:33 +0000

For all you state fans on this blog, I hope you realize how severely Beilein outcoached Izzo tonight. Not even close. More thoughts later once I collect my thoughts, that is if I make it to tomorrow evening.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:31:43 +0000

I actually think the 1-3-1 was a mistake. Hindsight being 20/20 and all. However, if you watch the tape M used the 1-3-1 twice in the last five minutes and both times MSU his a pull up jumper from fifteen. In the Purdue game they came out and played 1-3-1 and gave up rebounds and points galore. You don’t win with tricks. You win by playing solid basketball. Beilein is a good coach, but even good coaches outsmart themselves at times. The 1-3-1 has been ineffective all year, and it was not wise to employ it at that point, or any point in the game. It’s just not a good defensive set for those guys. Oh well.

By: jim-e-p

jim-e-p — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:56:34 +0000

As the season has worn on the effort and defense have largely improved. We continue to lose these games due to abysmal shooting,just appallingly bad game after game after game. It is almost inconceivable how B10 scholarship players can continue to miss so many so badly. If we make even 11-29 tonight ( and many were quite wide open) we win this game easily. The Beilein bashers are way off and have forgotten all too quickly the despair of the hopeless Amaker years. We are not far from being pretty good. State is a solid club but let’s not give them too much credit. There is not a clear cut pro on the roster, save perhaps Lucas as a backup. A team with four turnovers loses one way – by missing everything. In an answer to some earlier discussion, both Loy Vaught and Eric Riley were redshirts at Michigan and they had pretty good careers. Having decent redshirts is the sign of a functioning program, something that UM has not fully had since ’84-’89.

By: Tweeter

Tweeter — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:40:04 +0000

Not going to bash the officials for missing that call at the end. For one, there were only two of them left, but also, its tough to make that kind of call on the last play of a game. I thought as a whole the officiating was pretty awful all game, but it was equally awful to both teams.

This game was all about us making open shots. I was shocked at how many open looks State gave us. I really thought that after seeing Purdue take us out of any offense with their pressure D, State would try and replicate that. Instead it looked like they went with the Wisky option of sagging off perimeter players and taking away Sims inside and penetration off the dribble. These guys just have to make more shots than that. Even if we shot our average percentage we win.

The other thing that bothered me in this game was the number of times that guys penetrated and passed up shots in the lane for open jumpers. Some of them would have been difficult, but other times it looked like we had layups and instead kicked it out. Even Manny passed up a shot in the paint. Dont know if guys confidence was shaken by the poor layup shooting at Wisky or what, but you gotta take some of those. The big one was our second to last possession when it looked like Douglass had a great look and instead kicked it out to Peedi.

As bad as this team has been at times this year, its amazing how close they have been to having a great season. If they could just close out games.

By: Giddings

Giddings — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:21:24 +0000

1) Please make someone else take the final shot besides Kalin Lucas. Has he ever missed in the clutch? Ever? I don’t care if Raymar Morgan gets a wide open look on the baseline from 12 feet, I’d rather have him shoot that than an off-balance contested 20 footer from Lucas. When he got that shot off, did anybody think it wouldn’t go in?

2) It did look like an obvious grab on Peedi at the end, but no way are we going to get that call, especially with Izzo barking at the refs all night.

3) This game certainly felt like a “make or break” for the season, but at least there’s plenty of games left (there just aren’t many other golden opportunities to get a TRUE signature win).

I know Junderground and crew will jump all over me for this but we could get hot, hold serve at home (hardest game is Wisconsin, who we should have beat at their place), and go 3-2 on the road (win at NW, Iowa, and Minny, lose at OSU and MSU), win two games in the BTT, and guess what, we’re 20-13 (11-7) and probably on the right side of the bubble considering our late season run.

I know, “there’s no way we go 8-2 with this team”, but I’m just saying. Let’s keep rooting hard for these guys and see what happens. I’d say going 8-2 is more likely than winning the BTT. Winning at Minny twice in a row is no easy task but I’d say we at least have a “realistic shot”.

By: chitownblue

chitownblue — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:11:10 +0000

I mean, Kendric Price, K’Len Morris, Reed Baker, Anthony Wright, Jevohn Shepard, Jerret Smith, Ronald Coleman…these are the guys that Beilein inherited other than Manny, Sims, and Udoh. Combine that with having 3 weeks to assemble his first class…this roster is THIN.

By: AG2

AG2 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:08:49 +0000

This team can go in one of two directions, and I mean not just the players, the fans, too.

We can either give up and let Iowa beat us at home, or we can come out and repeat our 30pt beatdown from the Big Ten Tournament.