He's definitely not stubborn. As you said, one of the more adaptable, flexible coaches I've seen at any level.
Actions with 1-2 set plays to calm down a rattled team baby.
This is what happens when you have no idea who your 9th man is. You have to play two different 9th men.
Here's a mind teaser. If Mirk, Drej and Z aren't back before tomorrow, who's our 9th man? (We know Mirk won't be).
disagree. if we lose competitive, close games against highly ranked opponents, our ranking won’t suffer that much
If the #3 team loses to the #20 team, we could drop to #10. And then Duke and UConn losses depending on what happens around us could drop us 2-3 places each. That starts our B1G conference with us a 4 seed trying to lead frog potentially 12 teams to re-earn a 1 seed across the conference season. And if any of those top 4 ranked teams simply maintain a better overall record than us we may never climb back there. Only highly ranked teams in the B1G will be MSU and Michigan potentially the LA teams. Thats only 4 chances really to make meaningful ranking jumps. We could just stay hovering in the top 15 to top 5 range.
In the analytics, sure, but if you stroll into December 5 without a signature win and a 5-3 record, you’re ranked outside the top 15 in the AP poll.
This is my fear without Mirkovic. Frankly if we don't have him for the first couple months our title hopes are probably close to dead. We could still win the conference and possibly have a good march run but usually national champions are dominant from the beginning of the season.
Seems like the hits keep coming
assuming uncomplicated (non-perforated) appendicitis and standard recovery, i wouldn’t expect this to impact his return too much assuming he was still 3-4 weeks away
Realistically, it doesn't change much. It's 2-3 weeks to return to "normal" activities. His foot is probably along that same timeframe. The staff won't have to worry about him staying off his foot.
