Comments on: Game 22: Michigan at Northwestern Preview

By: alf

alf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:37:10 +0000

The person who mentioned JB’s not taking timeouts has a good point. He sometimes seems so calm on the sidelines when other coaches (and not just that evil Martin guy from Kansas State) would be utterly fuming.

But what’s the point in complaining. Either we get better or we don’t, and the world keeps turning either way — even if PSU wins at Crisler.

By: Junderground

Junderground — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:41:47 +0000

As for next year, if we don’t get any more recruits, it will be brutal with Harris gone, and hard to predict with him here. I get the sense we’ll sign at least one more guy, and maybe he’ll be Horford or someone of similar stature. So it’s a bit early to start speculating–we don’t know the personnel. Someone above gave Morris Stu Zack Smotry and Morgan as the starting lineup. That WOULD be brutal, because even if Morgan really steps up, you’d still be looking at just him and Smotrycz and three essentially ineffectual players. But I don’t think it’s going to be that lineup for much of the year, even if Manny goes to the NBDL. In any event, we should be able to expect a lot of inconsistency with a very young lineup, and hopefully ’11-12 will see the team gelling and looking sharp.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:36:59 +0000

Give Beilein some more time. This season is a dissapointment but he did lead us to the NCAAs last year. Besides I think we are starting to get some nice classes and we have a coach that actually developes his players.

By: fresh

fresh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:16:49 +0000

we are not good

By: fresh

fresh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:13:33 +0000

the only thing we can say is that beilein still doesnt have a true 4 or 5 man “playing” on this team yet and i suppose we are young but if in 2-3 years from now we are good then its on to the next coach

By: Tweeter

Tweeter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:03:01 +0000

Wouldnt make a difference if the field was 337 or 2, this team has just been disappointing. So much potential, just no leaders. This team has no identity. You cant force players to be leaders when they just arent that type of guy. Its just unfortunate that none of the guys who were in position to be a leader, had that ability.

One thing I found interesting during this game, was that Beilein did not take timeouts during NWs run in the second half. At first I was like what are you doing, then I was like, ok I like it, a little bit of Coach K there, but then I kinda felt like he had just resigned himself to the fact that this team did not have it tonight and no number of talkings to was going to do any good.

When you watched last years team, and maybe this was due to the fact that we had not had a team to really get behind in some time, but you always got a little bit of an energy feeling. You felt like they would do everything that they possibly could to win. This year, its just not there. It seems like more teams are out hustling us. There is no bounce in the step. Everyone just kinda plays the game and seems disconnected from all the other players.

Ugh I need to sleep. At least we got signing day tomorrow to take our minds off the disaster that was tonights game.

By: alf

alf — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:45:22 +0000

Anybody feeling better about that 96-team NCAA field yet?

By: chitownblue

chitownblue — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:10:24 +0000

It’s too bad that this site gets trolled now. Kevinth – I don’t think you’re what anyone here wants to deal with.

By: Tweeter

Tweeter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:42:05 +0000

Well Im real glad I dvr’d that. It was nice to be able to fast forward most of the second half. On Manny – who cares? I like the guys talent but I am so sick of him being a head case. If he goes pro, then good. If he stays, then good. Either way I am not going to lose sleep over it.

What happened to DEshawn? I know he struggled a lot in this game and seemed out of it especially on D, but was still surprised to see such little playing time.

Well I guess its on to 7-1.

By: other steve

other steve — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:36:36 +0000

on the free press and detroit news websites they just ran articles saying that manny said he wanted to come back. what does his status say and why the change?