Game Thread - Beat IU

Well this has been a beautiful sequence.

Definitely not looking as smooth today

Even when Livers is off he makes this team better. Great hustle 

Block that!

Wow.  What a dime.

Great pass MIKE SMITH!

How good is Mike Smith?

How good is Franz Wagner? 

Livers? Hunter? Brooks?

How good are they individually because as good as they get credit for, I think they are all even better. Amazing.

Livers may not be getting his way on the offensive end, but he already has 6 boards. 6!!! 

Dr. Pepper and Cream Soda is going to kill me.

Hunter with a great example of why you go up with two hands. 

Expectations aside, complete slop so far defensively losing men on cuts. Indiana has missed some bunnies, too.

Brandon Johns...could be so good but is not. 

Offense has been careless with the ball but up 6, possibly 7? Sure, why not

this team is so fucking great. What fun to watch. It's effort, selflessness, focus, but it's so much talent as well. Just relentless excellence. 

Indiana strategy to body up and grind out a physical game out will not work.  Double bonus coming soon and foul trouble will kill Hoosier chances in 2nd half. 

If we could play our starting 5 entire game, we could destroy IU. Brown with 1 bad pass, but does his thing. We need Johns and Davis to be better. Not sure how else to say it. Johns last 2 games looks lost. Hopefully we can get up 15+ and give him some solid minutes in 2nd half to gain confidence. We need him off the bench to play his role well to make this a finish to season we all want to see.

I'm actually pretty impressed with IU's bigs. TJD and Thompson are both really good for guys that have no ability to score from beyond 5 feet. Thompson's defense has been very good down low on Livers

Dickinson is a beast.

Michigan has won 7 in a row vs. Indiana, let's make it 8!

(2 in a row in Bloomington, 4 in Ann Arbor, 1 in the 2016 BTT when IU was a 1 seed and we won on a buzzer beater). 

Just to reiterate about Johns, his defensive effort, or lack thereof was the reason Hunter got a foul called on him.

Also, when he gets the ball, he wants too shoot to often, even if it's not there.

I’d rather not see any more of the Johns and Davis combo together. They can’t coexist on the floor because both of them are offensive liabilities and Davis is gonna be a defensive liability against their undersized bigs. 

So far, Michigan has been a little bit choppy.

That said, it was the same thing with Iowa in the 1st half... Hoping for the same type of second half this game

HD got to make the 1 footers at the rim. 

Man, if the bunnies were falling M would be up 15 already.

Livers has been atrocious offensively. Too much dribbling and can't finish.

But he is the straw that stirs the drink

Hunter's shot is off today. I'd rather see Franz as the first option for now.

Obviously the answer is no but doesn't the big ten want any sort of game to game consistency from their refs?

I have a feeling the refs are going to blowing the whistle on Michigan a lot these final 6 minutes.

Livers passed up a wide open three there 

Pretty shaky today. A little big game hangover and the short turnaround, I suppose.

Good plan at this point Smith driving and going to the line

We should be up 20 but whatever. We will be soon

Juwan’s hoodie is sweet, I don’t see it on mden.com, anyone know a place you can buy it?

It’s nice to have a PG that makes FTs and open 3s. 

I like that coach is going to the bench with only a 36 hr layover since Iowa

Michigan needs a good contested physical game (or two) before they play msu. 

Franz playin fast. 

Brooks is good at moving the floor.  Really like him in the tournament run. 

Brooks gives the freshman a little bit of schooling.

A great shake, and nice catch and go from Franz. For the easy deuce. M up 34-26 with 4 minutes left in H1.

Man Dickinson is not athletic at all