February 4th, 2017 at 8:16 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:21 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:16 PM ^
Last made 2-pt bucket: 15:40 remaining in second half.
I am done watching this team.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
Jesus is that real?
February 4th, 2017 at 8:22 PM ^
It's crazy to say, but yeah. They shot halfway-decently from 3 in that second half, but didn't do anything inside the arc.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:58 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 9:19 PM ^
when they are hanging out 25 feet from the basket.
Beilein is not adjusting his system to take advantage of the talent on his roster.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:29 PM ^
Can't even get anything set up inside the arc. Nothing. All we do is circle around and around and around until there's 2 seconds left on the shot clock and shoot a 3 out of desperation.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:38 PM ^
It was distressing to not see Irvin or Walton try to drive toward the net. It also didn't help that Wagner was in foul trouble and limited offensively as a result.
February 5th, 2017 at 12:28 AM ^
tried, he just turned it over like he has so commonly lately.
February 5th, 2017 at 9:15 AM ^
Irvin turning the ball over while driving to the bucket is not a new thing. He's been donig it for four years
February 4th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
Jim Calhoun coaches this team to a W easily. He actually understands the importance of 2 point shots and paint penetration unlike Beilein.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:40 PM ^
Show me the players on this team (other than Walton) who can consistently drive to the lane? Beilein recruited guys like Burke and Stauskas in part because he wants guys who can slash and score off the ball. His best WVU offenses had that element. But until recently Walton couldn't/wouldn't drive to the hoop and create offense, and Irvin has fallen off the map these past couple of games.
I know people act like Beilein doesn't understand basic basketball fundamentals, but this is a still a top-15 offense even with terrible parts at key spots.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
MAAR can. Hell even Wagner shows off his handling skills to penetrate from the elbow.
February 4th, 2017 at 9:23 PM ^
Exactly.
Someone point to a time this season where JB went outside his base offense and took advantage of a mismatch.
The guy is the biggest fraud when it comes to X's and O's. He's a fraud when it comes to recruiting. He's a fraud when he says they focus on defense.
February 4th, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^
MAAR hasn't been able to generate any consistent offense for weeks now. He scored 12 in this game but also had 2 turnovers and generally struggled to get his shot. And Wagner was limited all game and I think people are overrating his handle because sometimes he can get a step on a slower big. Going into this game, he averaged about 3 TOs a game for the past half-dozen games and only foul trouble and a lack of involvement in the offense this game changed that.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:17 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:19 PM ^
Expand it so it can be empty like the rest of Crisler?
Nobody wants to watch this boring brand of basketball.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:23 PM ^
Exactly. Expand the student section so fewer total people can see a hapless, uninspired team chuck up threes and run away from rebounds? Yeah, no thanks...
February 4th, 2017 at 8:20 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 9:29 PM ^
Put a product on the floor that is exciting and interesting to watch, and, at least in my experience at Crisler, the atmosphere "problem" takes care of itself.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:21 PM ^
They should've done it 3 years ago. No point now.
Current students don't even show up themselves. Back my freshman-junior years (2013-2015) you had to get to the game 1.5 hours early to make it into maize rage, an hour early for Section 130.
Now you can show up late and still make it maize rage. Nobody cares anymore.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
those were the days
February 4th, 2017 at 9:25 PM ^
There is no one to blame for the dull atmosphere in Crisler but John Beilein and his MAC level recruiting.
February 4th, 2017 at 10:33 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 9:30 PM ^
What could possibly have been different "back then" to explain the relative lack of interest now.....?
February 4th, 2017 at 8:36 PM ^
Maybe they should fill what they have on a consistent basis first.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:52 PM ^
But decided to give students half-season tickets after they had already paid for a full season. Although they offered a free refund to anyone who chose it, it shows they'd rather have a bunch of old, lame-ass, sit on your hands crowd paying full price than a good atmosphere with less revenue.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:20 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:21 PM ^
Jim Caldwell too. Lets clean house!
February 4th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 10:00 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:52 PM ^
Brother!
February 4th, 2017 at 11:20 PM ^
can we add Wolverine Devotee to the list?
February 4th, 2017 at 8:19 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:22 PM ^
Wanting somebody gone at that point would be incredibly fucking stupid. Read what you just wrote. All the Coach B fans are here saying he should be done. Because now we have enough evidence proving that should be the case.
February 5th, 2017 at 10:12 AM ^
the team is way too reliant on threes, and doesn't have the bigs to defend and rebound on a top team inside (heck, apparently any team), much less someone to take the ball into the paint and score.
Beilien's either boxed in by his own system reputation in recruiting or unwilling to change ... so the situation won't change without a change.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
Wanted him gone the year after the team lost to Kentucky in the Elite 8? Which was the year after playing in the championship game? Yeah, that's pretty fucking crazy.
February 4th, 2017 at 9:43 PM ^
I'll never forget against Lousiville when the game was getting away at the end and Beilein stood there doing his little mouth maneuver not knowing what to do. This is such a stupid offense. I've thought that ever since Burke left. Even Stauskas couldn't do shit in it quite often. You need muscle and big guys that can score and rebound inside. You cant live and die by the three. Duke has been doing that for years with their great recruiting classes. How many titles do they have to show for it? Not many. Beilein has checked out. He knows he's gone. Michigan could have such good players but noooooo, don't want guys that are going to jump to the NBA too soon. Yeah because that is the way the football team does it right? Get him out of there.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
So you wanted to fire him after going 16-16 following a FF and Elite-8 appearances? And he had just pulled in a top-25 recruiting class? Yeah, no wonder people thought you were crazy.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:28 PM ^
By the standard he's setting, we should have fired Harbaugh a month ago.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
He would have had Harbaugh walk home from Iowa.
February 4th, 2017 at 8:30 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 8:48 PM ^
They absolutely missed on some players, but sometimes you have bad classes. What is killing them is they lost a couple of recruits from last class that looks solid now. Winston and Langford on this club, I think we are seeing a better overall performance on the court.
At this point, I'd also hope the team would bench Irvin and bring Simpson off, move Walton to SG, and let Robinson, Wilson, and Wagner give it a shot.
February 4th, 2017 at 10:12 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^
February 4th, 2017 at 10:54 PM ^
Sure, but for the future guys like Winston and Langford are solid. And I'd argue UM at 6-4 in conference is looking quite a bit better.
Guys miss out on good players all the time in recruiting. Even the best coaches in America miss out on the vast majority of guys they go after, and I think we all sort of figured Blueitt would be solid and it sucked to lose out on him. But Michigan recoverd by picking up a higher-rated guy at the same spot in Chatman who just didn't work out. Sumner was a solid PG but (a) the team already had Walton and Spike, and (b) it honestly seemed like Sumner was just hell-bent on going to Xavier since he basically visited and then committed with no other real competition. Sometimes that happens.
Again, we can cycle through every miss for Beilein but I could find you similar misses with any coach. The problem is that the two seniors on this team (until recently with Walton) never played like the players they were expected to be, so now it's a team without an offensive leader and some depth issues because that 2015 class was a huge miss.