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I will say we got better/more favorable officiating than what you’d expect going to Mackey.
I mean so many of the other games were just brutal.
I mean so many of the other games were just brutal.
I stand corrected. I thought Judson played at point mostly after Lanter was hurt.
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I always felt people were sleeping on Lucas Morillo because he isn’t the flashy player. I’m not surprised to hear that he’s doing well!!!
He got pulled from multiple games early last year for defensive mistakes. He was a little in Brad's doghouse and you could see Brad specifically chewing him out on the sidelines.
I'm glad it worked because he improved dramatically from the start to the end of the year. Brad always knew he was capable and kudos to Andrej for being coachable.
MAN are we lucky he didn’t break his shoulder:
Wasn’t even called a flagrant
Wasn’t even called a flagrant
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And so will Vaaks be coachable... if he wants to play big minutes...and be in there at the end of close games. He was rated a poor defender at Providence. a little slow-footed. The freshmen will make him work! Especially Morillo and Q.
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Very mysterious stat for me is that Tomislav's 2pt attempts per game dropped from 5.1 in 2025 to 3.3 in 2026.
This is all while he shot 73% from two, which is a phenomenal percentage.
I understand roles chance; however, that steep of a dropoff while his percentage increased that drastically makes the logic quite strange, IMO
It needs to be AT LEAST 4.0 next year.
This is all while he shot 73% from two, which is a phenomenal percentage.
I understand roles chance; however, that steep of a dropoff while his percentage increased that drastically makes the logic quite strange, IMO
It needs to be AT LEAST 4.0 next year.
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Well, this is a good example of how a.season can turn without proper roster cinstruction and depth. Trying to say that no one will get hurt and iif it does we will be ok. I dont think next years team is in that type of situation but i pray Mirk stays healthy at the 4. He is the only banger we have
Ladies & gentleman… our table is set.
You said it. Role changed. As a team, we were more perimeter oriented. Played through the post even less than last year (which already wasn't much). And when we did play inside out, we played through the 4 more than we did last year. That's why Tomi's assist numbers were down, too.
But I do think that in the very rare instances when we were going through a prolonged drought, a designed Tomi post up could've been implemented more often.
What I find slightly more mystifying though is his rebound numbers. Down 2 rebounds per game vs last year. I suppose this too, could be attributed to Mirk's emergence.
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Probably the biggest news drop of the offseason. Muck Fichigan!!!
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@thefalcon5 's post in the Coaching Carousel thread alluded to this, but Dusty May's departure leaves the door wide open for us to be the runaway favorite for the B1G regular season title. As it currently stands, Michigan was set to be our toughest test on the road this year, and with Dusty out, we should be going into the season favored in every single one of our away games.
If you look at the pre-season Torvik rankings, 5 of the top 6 teams we play in the B1G this year are home only (see next season's schedule vs. pre-season rank below). Even though we had Michigan at home last year, our away schedule was much more challenging on balance. A case can be easily made for us being a 1 or 2 loss team in the B1G this year. If you remove Michigan from the equation, MSU is the other team who can be considered in the top tier, and they have to travel to UCLA, USC, OSU, and Iowa this year (and have a home/away with UM).
hmmm a 6'7 200 pound incoming freshman turning heads? You don't say! Called that one a million miles away.
I hate nitpicking our offense this season. Because, why would I?
But I’d have to agree with that. When we finally got him a few more post touches. His confidence went up as well. Then his perimeter #s went up. I’m nor sure why we we waited so long to make a point to do that.
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Of course, he has. It looks as though BU and staff know what they're doing.
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