Basketball thread, for those of us out of range of the Sklars
February 29th, 2024 at 10:05 PM ^
One plus: I don’t have to plan my week around blocking out time to watch M hoops anymore
February 29th, 2024 at 10:06 PM ^
This looks likely for another year at least
February 29th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
Sadly, I believe you are correct
February 29th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
On a side note does the fact that their crowd is still standing and this into the game not an embarrassment? It would be like standing up and screaming in the fourth quarter of the Indiana football game this year.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:47 PM ^
I don't think Michigan basketball fans should be bringing up anything related to embarrassment right now.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:08 PM ^
I’m guessing we aren’t playing the young guys because there is still a chance we can get to 50 points?
February 29th, 2024 at 10:10 PM ^
Help me out here. Is being down by 26 points, shooting 30% from 2 and from three point, and 13 turnovers, bad?
February 29th, 2024 at 10:10 PM ^
The new normal.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:10 PM ^
I think my happy hangover from the football championships has allowed me to settle for an apathetic view of M hoops. I just don’t care anymore. Any other year and I’d be ballistic with the state of hoops.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:12 PM ^
The announcers taking about Purdue making it over the hump to the final four. Try just the first weekend.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:12 PM ^
Maybe Warde is hoping Juwan will blow his lid and punch someone so he doesn’t have to pay the contract.
Can we get the mel tugger girl over to AA to flirt with Juwan pls?
Seriously the buyout is nothing for him. its a fucking joke. He destroyed 10+ years of JB.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:13 PM ^
I’ve deliberately refrained from posting from from the beginning of this game to see what this staff could possibly do to right this ship. My observation is that Rutgers, yes Rutgers, is punking us from the opening tip. Juwan has no answers, and constructed a terrible assortment of pieces. Rutgers is punking us, let that settle in people. More than Warde needs to go. This is beyond embarrassing.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:15 PM ^
C'mon Juwan.
Empty the damn bench already.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:21 PM ^
Pikiell still has his starters out there 3:36 to go with 24 point lead. Bush league stuff
LOL this is pathetic. We are complaining about RuTGerS playing starters vs a team that was in 2 NC games in past 10 years. LOOOL
Rutgers is so bush league guys! They are pushing our faces into their shit oh no....ssss
February 29th, 2024 at 10:15 PM ^
Feels like the Ellerbe era - those were dark times, and this feels like that.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:16 PM ^
Jeebus. Just.... Jeebus.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:18 PM ^
Burnett’s confident backpedal before the three is missed is a hallmark of this team.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:22 PM ^
The lack of minutes for the young guys has reached the level of criminal negligence.
Yes with the young guys we lose by 19 instead of 30. The young guys suck. Do you think the coaches dont see them in practice every day??
February 29th, 2024 at 10:23 PM ^
My grandmother moved in with me three years ago and I converted her from OSU to Michigan fandom. We watched every football and basketball game together. She died in October. Thankfully the football championship through watching games provided a sort therapeutic experience in getting back into enjoying sports because this basketball season has just been unwatchable.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:25 PM ^
Very sorry for your loss.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:38 PM ^
My condolences to you.
Remember forever the joy that you and your grandma shared the last 3 seasons, while watching Michigan Football.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:24 PM ^
This would be okay if everything about it were different.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:25 PM ^
Taking Dug on the road shockingly made this historically bad road team notably worse. Wow.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:28 PM ^
Down by 30 to Rutgers.....this is despicable. I don't give a sh*t if he's 70 or not.....beg Beilein to come back.....no decent coach will touch this program/roster right now. The man loves UM and actually can coach.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:41 PM ^
Beilein ain't comin' back. Everything he hated about college basketball has only gotten worse.
hell no he did his job and put in years to resurrect a broken program. He deserves peace. You sound like a guy who wants Dantonio back at his old age at MSU. JB deserves a statue not being asked at his age to kill himself. He left CBB due to all his players leaving at first chance they could and transfers and all that.
Let him live in peace. I wouldnt wish this shit on such a nice man.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:29 PM ^
The Rutgers bench is laughing as if they were at a comedy club, watching the Sklars
February 29th, 2024 at 10:35 PM ^
They weren’t the only ones laughing
February 29th, 2024 at 10:31 PM ^
Somehow having Dug out there produced the worst offensive performance by this team in a season of awful offensive performances.
Honestly, at some point I'm almost impressed that the universe has coordinated so thoroughly to shit on this team. It's amazing.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:43 PM ^
I think we sacrificed at least one season of basketball at the altar of football in order to win the natty.
And if that is indeed the case, then honestly, I'm okay with that decision.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:32 PM ^
Football and men’s basketball still have the same amount of wins in 2024.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:33 PM ^
I am embarrassed for this team.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:35 PM ^
This must be similar to how Ryan day feels on Thanksgiving Saturdays.
Let's hope he shrugs his shoulders and feels just fine. He's a tough guy with a tough team, after all.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:35 PM ^
I’m not mad. I’m impressed.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:02 PM ^
"You pooped in the RAC? And you ate a whole 40 minutes of ass?"
February 29th, 2024 at 10:37 PM ^
Can we please wake up and fire this entire coaching staff….
February 29th, 2024 at 10:45 PM ^
The lows of this season historically are that currently there are only 4 seasons that were worse by %. That’s the good news. The bad news is if they lose out it will be the 2nd worse season by win % in Michigan basketball history. Only the 1959-1960 team would be worse with their .167 percentage.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:46 PM ^
Give Nate Oats a blank check, this is embarrassingly bad.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:51 PM ^
Well, one fun thing to take away from the game is that each team scored the exact same number of points in each half. I've never seen that before.
The rest is garbage, though, and everyone here has pretty much said what needs to be said..
February 29th, 2024 at 10:58 PM ^
Fascinating observation - not anything I recall ever seeing, either.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:17 PM ^
Warde you think crisler was empty with Michigan fans this year and opponents fans taking over the arena. Wait til next year if u keep that awful coach Juwan around
February 29th, 2024 at 11:21 PM ^
I think warde is too dumb to fire Juwan. Our only hope is Juwan loses his shit and goes after a coach, player ,ref etc
February 29th, 2024 at 11:36 PM ^
The Wolverines are now guaranteed to finish in last place in the Big Ten for the first time since 1966-67 season, when they won only 2 of 14 conference games. This was the year before Rudy Tomjonovich was a freshman.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:40 PM ^
Unfortunately, I don’t see any Rudy T / future hall of famer in next year’s recruiting class.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:55 PM ^
god bless any of you who watch this pathetic product. you are true believers and when one day Michigan returns to any sort of ability to you know be .500 in the B10 you deserve it. Juwan has destroyed the program. But he is Chicago strong.
Watching our elite recruiting class (/sarcasm) getting destroyed by nobodies from Nebraska next year and losing by 35 in AA to everyone is going to be great. But we are Chicago tough boys!
Just by statistics we will win 3-4 B10 games next year. Look at talent on the roster and let us know how we win more than 4 next year. Its a total implosion. Ellerbe is impressed with how it has been destroyed.
As an aside, are there any people in America who feel the need to constantly point out where they're from more than Chicagoans? And they do it in contexts where it makes no sense whatsoever. Example: "Godfather 2 was better than Godfather 1. Trust me, I'm from Chicago."
(all due respect to any Chicagoans on here)