2018-19 florida

Things discussed, Montana:

• Over at the tip.
• Pridget always looks like he's angry
• Yaklich gave Poole a 0.28 which is good and means ???

Things discussed, Florida:

1 hour and 31 minutes

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1. Montana

starts at 1:00

Most whatever first round ever. Montana: not like Montana last time. People forget Jaaron Simmons but he saved that game. Oh right THIS game, where Montana has a 6’2” guy contesting the tip. Thank you Brooks for catch and shooting and being a functional bench piece. Return of Tournament Matthews—good to see him stop settling for “his shot". David’s Matthews theory: get him a layup or a dunk early. Poole also stood out in a good way. Only problem with Iggy’s shot selection is he’s a black hole. Tim Falls needs a Soundcloud. Teske on their 6’5” post guy.

2. Florida Man

starts at 25:08

Have we seen them before? A little worried that their 6/11 from three was a lot of open shots. Once that was fixed Michigan goes on an 11-0 run and keeps Florida to 5 points in 11 minutes. Z Three Theory: he’s hitting an acceptable number of uncontested trips but it’s not happening when there’s any kind of contest. Teske too, and that’s a secret reason Matthews doesn’t get easy lanes to the rim. M close to their offensive ceiling for this year. Not Tourney Matthews: drive drive drive, drivey drive drive. Working on switching, still not good at it. Florida can’t d-reb, started a lot of possessions in zone. Why is Reggie Miller paid to talk? The Spike cross-court pass is the Darko Milicic of Michigan basketball.

3. Tournament Potpourri wsg Alex Cook

starts at 45:04

Almost the chalkiest possible Sweet 16: only Wisconsin losing to Oregon (who’s 3rd in the country on Torvik since changing their lineup) was a Kenpom upset. Favorite tourney moments so far: someone getting the Brad Davison experience for the first time. Purdue-Tennessee: Renaissance Haarms is a difference. Most surreal thing is watching LSU play and knowing this game is going to be vacated. Poor Aubrey Dawkins—what are the odds that shove gets called against anyone but Duke—we thought it was a foul on Tacko after an offensive foul? If anyone in the country can slow Zion it’s Teske, except they’ll get the Duke whistle. M-TTU is going to be a grinder where every basket feels like three—X to the hook please. Prefer FSU to Gonzaga. All the regional finals set up as classics.

4. Gimmicky Top Five Hottest Commercials Takes

Starts at 1:09:41

I’ll let theirs be a surprise. Here’s Seth’s: 5) They ruined the good anti-perspirant commercial: “Nobody leaves until this guy sweats.” 4) Color commentary on colors is correct on a Purdue game because the only commentary is “Carsen Edwards is shooting again.” 3) I don’t remember what half of these commercials are selling. 2) The NCAA’s commercials are just about trolling the players they won’t pay. 1) My takes are better than theirs and this is why I can never go out of town again.

MUSIC

• "Off the Hook"—Rolling Stones
• "Amarillo Highway"—Robert Earl Keen
• "Zero Dark Thirty”—Aesop Rock
• “Across 110th Street”

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3/23/2019 – Michigan 64, Florida 49 – 30-6, Sweet 16

I got a half-season ticket for Beilein's first year. This was the immediate aftermath of Amaker and the roster was… uh… thin. Ron Coleman and Kelvin Grady were starters; a freshman Manny Harris was a 30% usage guy with a 95 ORTG because what else was Michigan going to do.

There was some talent there. Michigan wasn't appalling. They were very bad, though, and it felt like almost every game there was a brief period of unrecoverable buffoonery. I particularly remember a game against Boston College during which I was pleasantly surprised Michigan was giving it the old college try until a cursed 4 minutes after which they were down 10, and then it was over. Boston College was also bad!

Most games that year followed that script. Every outing Michigan tried and failed to get out of the quicksand.

Now they are the quicksand. This year's team has implemented the exact opposite pattern for much of the year. At some point they're going to get it together on offense for a brief burst, and then they're up ten, and good luck sledding uphill against that unless you've got Xavier Tillman. During the game they showed a weird but telling stat: Michigan's been up 10 or more for 42% of their minutes this year, which was close to tops in the country. Once you fall in, moving only makes it worse.

And so when Michigan came out of the locker room with an 11-0 run to go up 15, good night. All over but the shouting after Zavier Simpson and Isaiah Livers star in a shot for shot remake of Spike and GRIII against VCU:

The jersey wasn't ripped in this one, admittedly. The slightly frustrating context is that this outlandish basketball occurrence was immediately preceded and followed by similar exclamation-point takes to the bucket that had the temerity to rim out. Michigan was very close to ending the game with a nuclear series of exclamation points that would have left Des Moines a flat, glassy plain. Instead a 15-point win over Kenpom's #25 team. It'll do.

The two games. Florida was able to wriggle free from Michigan's three point D early. They hit some questionable shots and all of their good ones, but the sheer number of threes they took and the quality of those threes was unusual.

This abruptly stopped. After starting out 6/11 from deep Florida finished 3/15.

That still averages out to 35% on high volume and is thus fairly efficient, but once Michigan was able to track Florida's actions from deep and force them inside the line it was emphatically over. The last ten minutes featured countless Florida drives into Mount Doom. For the game the Gators shot 35% from two and drew a grand total of two free throws.

There was the bit where Florida scorched the nets from three and the bit where they averaged 0.6 PPP. The first bit was not long enough to put the Gators in position to win.

The stretch. To be more specific: UF got a bucket to pull within 7 at around the 13 minute mark and then scored 5 points over the next 11 minutes.

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