Max Bielfeldt is B1G 6th Man of the Year
Max Bielfeldt of @IndianaMBB named 2015-16 #B1GMBBall Sixth Man of the Year by coaches. pic.twitter.com/Xj11hhw7FM
— Big Ten Men's Hoops (@B1GMBBall) March 7, 2016
It wasn't Beilein's fault guys - there were injuries!
The Beilein hate really needs to stop. Maybe you could just be happy for Bielfeldt. Based on his previous performance at Michigan, ask yourself one question: could Bielfeldt have made enough of a difference to get Michigan that "one more quality win" they supposedly needed during the regular season?
I think it would have been highly unlikely. Michigan's problem this year is that a lot of their players would have made great "sixth men" but there really wasn't anyone the team could rally around every night.
To those who say he wouldn't of made a difference, you are out of your mind. Like Stringer said, his 3 pt shooting ability was great. The other thing is that Max has the one trait no one on this team has, and that is all out hustle. Every time I saw IU play this year, I saw Max everywhere on the court. You can't tell me we couldn't have used Max when our guys played like busters for the last half of the season. Congrats Max, you deserve it.
Why are you responding to me, I didn't say a thing about Levert, but it's obvious that we would already be in the tourney with a healthy Levert. He led the team in almost every category. But Max would have given us at least some fight down low. Besides Donnal's improvement, the rest of the bigs were either soft, or just not good. With Max, Levert and Spike, there would be no question as to making the tourney. Injuries killed us this year, but letting Max go was a mistake, plain and simple.
Our biggest problem this year was defense...not offense. Our big men are not good at defense...period. Max would have helped there a lot. We saw early in the season that Caris did not help on defense one bit.
Caris may have not been an addition on the defensive side of the ball, but he would have provided a jolt to the offense, especially in our 5-10 min periods of offensive ineptitude a game.
Max was one of our most steady players last year, and would have been again. Having him in the game mid-season vs Doyle would have been a huge upgrade, not only in defense and rebounding but also his offensive skillset (making jump shots). Also, Max would have brought some mental toughness to the team to stop some of those long runs that killed us in our blowouts.
I like JB, but in hindsight letting Max go was not a good decision, especially for a team already lacking in upperclassmen.
Some people can benefit from a change of scenery.
Rudock here, Bielfeldt there.
Bielfeldt was our best big man even when he was here.
Right, this surely isn't a hindsight is 20/20 post, huh? I'm sure you saw Horford's transfer a mile away.
Anyway, it seemed pretty well established that Bielfeldt would have stayed had Beilein wanted him.
of Beilein even for cutting the 6th man of the year FOR AN EMPTY SCHOLARSHIP. This Board, y'all.
The 13th Scholarship (Max's) is empty. Letting him go was 100% unnecessary and pointless.
I will agree 100% with this. No reason for Max not to come back. Our team was so soft, we could have used Max's hustle alone, let alone the other reasons he would have helped. He could have played the 4, and Irvin wouldnt have been out of position all season.
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I thought it went to Wagner. My memory is jumbled by him and Brown's decision.
Using the same analogy, Bielfeldt's improvement should also be attributed to one year of Crean vs 4 of Beilein. So either you think Crean is that good or Beilein is that bad...
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Because Beilein is obviously perfect, and all facts must be reverse engineered into a narrative to fit that reality. Sorry.
Dude, some of what you say is valid, but you are such a dick about it that people want to argue with your just because you are such. a. dick. about. it...
Gee, maybe because we're Michigan fans and want to be supportive of our team?
...some Michigan fans are naturally optimistic which distorts their perception of the truth that is readily obvious to a 3rd party observer.
I remember some of the mental gymnastics people used to justify Hoke's incompetence during the 2013 season.
Furthermore, you presented a false dichotomy. Being supportive doesn't preclude someone from offering valid, justified, well-supported criticisms.
nothing supports a team like making every conceivable excuse for a coach that is not getting the job done and doesn't seem to be getting any better.
No. It is no different than all of the sparty and buckeye slappy fans that post on the RCMB and Bucknuts. No. Different. You just think it is.
I remember a post by you a while back when it looked like we were going to start oversigning like Bama. You said something like; "I've been preparing for this, and how to argue in favor of it."
That is pure, complete blind homerism at its finest, with a massive dose of intellectual dishonesty. It's sad when people can't see a truth that is smacking them in the face. Oh well, keep being you, wd. I honestly feel badly for you, but I'm also glad that I can see the forest through the trees.
would be the Beilein apologists' version of the dick. Beilein must be a close relative of his. Either that or he's just a blind fucking idiot. That a-hole jumps more people's shit for even the mildest anti-Beilein comments.
Nice for him. Seems to be a right fit.
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Beilein's fault. How well does he know his team when he let's a guy leave who is tough and gets the most out of his talents when one of the most glaring things about our bigs was lacking the toughness we needed so badly?
Essentially he was let go to make room for Wagner, whom didn't even get used properly and didn't get developed sufficiently.
Also recruiting Wilson and Chatman turned out to be bad recruits scouting that ate up a couple of more spots, very unimpressive decision making that is really hurting the make up of the team. You can throw Doyle in that group too.
he was let go FOR AN EMPTY SCHOLARSHIP. At one point, it looked like he let him go to pursue Jaylen Brown, which may have been defensible, but Max made clear even after we didn't get Brown, up until the day Max left, that he wanted to come back to Michigan but Beilien told him to GTFO. Beilein wanted to give more playing time to ricky doyle so he wouldn't transfer, or something.
LOL
1) Those quotes pretty definitively settle the discussion: It was Beilein that pushed Max out the door, not the other way around.
2) Beilein pushing him out the door in order to get Wilson, Wagner, and Doyle - all who were ineffectual and played extremely limited minutes anyways - is not a good argument for Beilein's coaching ability.
Are you arguing with him or just agreeing in an insulting manner.
you a few posts up. Thanks for making my point!
Or the guy he thought would replace Max and had confidence in turned out to be a stinker when it really mattered, like during the actual game.
time in Ann Arbor he was talked about with the same glowing terms you now have for Doyle, Chatman, Wilson and Wagner.