2018-2019 B1G Basketball Thread

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the dead rims you mentioned are playing a noticeable role, also. Also true about the transition game, though that's not surprising in this one.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh man an ugly 3 against you is crushing in this one. (re: the no-look turnaround banked high off the glass at the buzzer)

[Anonymous Coward]

This is probably true. 

https://twitter.com/mgoblog/status/1111459109558202370
In which case, just keep shooting and trust the law of averages.

[Anonymous Coward]

Has there ever been a modern game where a team literally made zero jump shots? 🤢

[Anonymous Coward]

Has there ever been a modern game where a team literally made zero jump shots? 🤢

Phew! They made one. It was even outside the paint.

[Anonymous Coward]

Silver lining - it may have been inevitable after this season but certainly after this game: Beilein is going to rebuild the offense this offseason. They went to one NC game as an offense-only team. And then one as defense-only. And I wonder if they rested too much on being good enough in the offseason. I'm probably making too much of that, but am hoping we'll revert to a real Beilein offense now and can't imagine why that wouldn't be priorities one through nine.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Quite the battle between Virginia and Oregon.

[ELA]

Quite the battle between Virginia and Oregon.

Louisville certainly won out over Anaheim as the better ticket tonight.

[MichiFan87]

It was an offensive shitshow tonight, and there are no excuses for it. The defense let up in the second half, too.

As I've said even before the BigTen Tournament and even before the MSU matchups, this was a great team that just wasn't good enough to win the biggest games. 30 wins is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

Next year, everyone but Matthews should return and Michigan could/should be the favorite to win the BigTen. Hopefully the offense will be back to being dominant, because while the team held up well without Matthews at Maryland, I admit that was probably somewhat of a fluke, but Livers in particular has a whole off-season to be prepared to take over his minutes.

[Anonymous Coward]

It was an offensive shitshow tonight, and there are no excuses for it. The defense let up in the second half, too.

As I've said even before the BigTen Tournament and even before the MSU matchups, this was a great team that just wasn't good enough to win the biggest games. 30 wins is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

Next year, everyone but Matthews should return and Michigan could/should be the favorite to win the BigTen. Hopefully the offense will be back to being dominant, because while the team held up well without Matthews at Maryland, I admit that was probably somewhat of a fluke, but Livers in particular has a whole off-season to be prepared to take over his minutes.

The offense needs more pure shooters. Mathews isn't one. Livers is. But nobody is an on-ball defender like Mathews. For this and other reasons, I am guessing the D will drop some and the O will rise. Hopefully the drop is less than the rise. (Is Yaklich about to be poached?)

[MaximumSam]

I'm in Paris and woke up at 4 am and saw the halftime score and then went back to bed.

[ELA]

Silver lining - it may have been inevitable after this season but certainly after this game: Beilein is going to rebuild the offense this offseason. They went to one NC game as an offense-only team. And then one as defense-only. And I wonder if they rested too much on being good enough in the offseason. I'm probably making too much of that, but am hoping we'll revert to a real Beilein offense now and can't imagine why that wouldn't be priorities one through nine.

Eh, they were still solid offensively, they just disappeared at times.  Obviously better offense is always better, but I think there's always some overreaction, both positive and negative to a single elimination tournament going forward.  I don't think it's a coincidence that some of Izzo's most overrated teams (based on preseason ranking) were ones coming off long tourney runs, that may have been a tad fluky based on seed (specifically the '03 Elite 8, '05 Final 4, '10 Final 4, and '15 Final 4 leading to being overrated going into the following season).  I still think this year's Michigan team is slightly better than last year, and at worse, on par.  This year's team just drew a really good 3 seed Texas Tech, on a night their shots weren't falling.  Texas Tech plays great defense, but Michigan was also missing open looks, and Texas Tech made 2-3 lucky ones.  Last year's team didn't play a team seeded higher than #6 until the championship, and they needed a miracle shot to win that.  So yeah, NC appearance > Sweet 16, but a lot of the circumstances surrounding that is beyond the team's control.  I think next year's team should be Beilein's best since 2014, and I don't necessarily think one game in a single elimination tournament changes anything.

[847badgerfan]

Someone kidnapped the Wolverines and put UW players in their uniforms.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Chris Beard is a hell of a coach.