Article on Loyola Preparation
ESPN has an article detailing the in-depth scouting reports the Loyola coaches pulled together and presented to their teams last weekend. This included papering the walls of their locker room with diagrams of the opponents plays and profiles of opposing players.
Based on everything we've discussed on this board about John Belein's offense, is it safe to say there isn't enough wall space in the Alamo Dome to present all the sets and plays the Michigan will run on Saturday?
Seriously, for someone that knows more about the intracacies of Belein's offense, how much more complicated is it than the typical D1 program?
Seems like Beilein and Moser are cut from the same cloth when it comes to preparation and it will be interesting to watch the chess match between the two.
if that's what they call it...
They are going to wish they were Harvard after we are done
Just try and stop C.J. Baird. 100% shooter from 3, kid is unstoppable.
100% in the NCAA tournament, anyway. 50% for his career. ;-)
"There's nothing I can compare to trying to prepare for Beilein's offense. It was the hardest thing we ever had to defend because they truly took advantage of you."
Jim Calhoun, former head coach of UConn and winner of 3 NCAA Titles.
Good luck with your prep, Ramblers...
Wow...What a cool quote. I hadn't seen that before, and it speaks volumes of Beilein's mastery!
UM has gone away from running a ton of Coach B's version of the Shuffle Offense. We ran it some vs. FSU.
I give the Loyola coaching and scouting team credit. Shows the difference between the haves and have-nots. Loyola printed everything out and taped it on the walls. I bet Michigan has all of the same stuff on the players iPads.
We do not say it often, but Michigan may have to win by being the more physically and athletically dominant team.
The X&O's battle could be really fun to watch.
Beilein gave Leonard Hamilton credit during his quick going into the half interview for how they were doing some different things on defense than they expected. We know how that worked out. We'll see if Moser has as deep of a bag of counters as Beilein. No one really has yet.
We are certainly a "have" and they are probably a "have-not" but I don't think they printed the plays because they can't afford computers. It was an in-your-face motivational thing. It's easy to ignore a bunch of files on a tablet. It's harder to ignore the various plays pasted to the wall in front of you. I find it somewhat comical that you think they wouldn't have computers. I guess the good news is that Loyola is probably still using dot matrix printers so they can print out a continuous sheet of paper. As a bonus, they probably use the perforatted edges as confetti.
A college student having a computer and a basketball player being handed an iPad by the coaching staff on day one to watch film cut-ups and review game plans are two different things.
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-basketball/a-look-inside-michigan-bas…
From the above linked article:
"The lounge is adjacent to the Michigan locker room, a circular high-technology facility featuring individual iPads for each player. Players have the ability to watch game film and go over other team material from their individual iPads, and coaches have the opportunity to cue up film from a large flat screen monitor inside the locker room itself."
Loyola, may have the same tools. Maybe not.
I, for one, am really impressed at the way Loyola has put together their team. That being said your cinderella story ends Saturday. Great run fwiw!
He just needs to read MGoBlog.
Duh.
its almost like NO OTHER TEAM in the Finl Four is preparing..Just Loyola..
Writers are building the hype, because what else would they do? I just don't see the fighting sister jean's bettering us.
Reverting to the mean..... We haven't shot well in 3 or our 4 wins, its about time to get hot and stay hot for just two more games.
Go Blue!
I actually love the fact that the media is all over Loyola for various stories this week & that Michigan is essentially ignored.
My understanding is that JB said we went to the FF in 2013, a good chunk of his time was pulled away from game prep because he was accompanying events with Burke & the POY award stuff & associated media events.
Maybe this time around the Loyola staff will be distracted/hounded by media requests and let JB & Co prepare in peace.
Not to mention any "insider" type stories as to HOW Loyola prepares in-and-of-itself might be useful (albeit just a small amount on the margins).
"Hey world, this is what Loyola's game prep & war room strategies look like....." isn't something that's bad to know if I'm on the Michigan coaching staff.
I doubt these pieces are going to reveal anything noteworthy from a coaching perspective. Still, it's not a surprise that Michigan is going to be a bit of the forgotten team in terms of coverage. Kansas is Kansas, Villanova is gunning for its second title in three years, and Loyola is the Cinderella.
Have to beat the first team in front of you.
This is one reason why I believe we have such an advantage. It may be difficult enough to take 1-2 weeks to prep against our offense sets. Now try and do it in 1 day.......
I'm sure that you correct in that interns and analysts are looking ahead at film and tendencies etc. But in my experience as a player in high school & college, there is not a single second spent in actual practice time on anything other than the opponent at hand.
prepare for games ahead of opponents but I think there has been ongoing pre- tournament prep for future opponents, which can be done in the interim or after brackets are announced, at least prep regarding team tendencies and player breakdowns.
But judging from the comments of the coaching staff during this run, it seems like the real strategy work gets done almost as soon as one game ends and intervening time permits. Clearly there is more time now to get ready than there was between bracket announcement and first game scheduling for this tournament.
But Beilein made it clear Saturday that he watches all opponents virtually, on film not even when he might have the chance to watch them play live.
Given this staff's attention to detail, as Beilein demands, all aspects of the opposition's game are studied. And the head coach's prep is now slightly reduced since Yaklich has taken over the scouting and defensive coordinator role for the team.