MBB v the Hall Open Thread

Made a free throw he was trying to miss. Incredible.

Tonight’s play is indicative of a long season.  Put the NC talk on ice.  This team has holes and it was exposed today.  

Refs stole that game from Michigan. 

Pathetic finish.....

Two weak possessions to end the game

Welp 

Failed early season test.

Goddamn fucking bullshit!!! Incompetent ass fucking referees!

I love eli brooks, if eli brooks is the guy with the ball in his hands the shot clock running down this team isn’t going to be winning a championship this year 

Yikes. Lost at home to a team that was awful last year and mostly transfers this year. We might be good later this year, but we aren't there yet.

It was 8 on 5 all night

We don't have a point guard

I don't understand why they switched the way they defend ball screens. They should have stuck with the drop coverage, because they clearly don't know how to hard hedge effectively. leaving so many shooters wide the fuck open.

This is probably with trying to win with athletes and rebounding. You need to be able to shoot effectively. Williams is still a bad shooter, Johns is a bad shooter, Jones is a scared shooter, Houstan is a drastically under performing shooter. 

Blowing an 11 point lead in the 2nd half. Classic. 

Hey at least we lose, we lose early and maybe they grow from it. 
 

Jinx from all the crap threads talking about other teams losing to unranked teams before we’ve played half a dozen games. 

Michigan has to learn to beat not only their opponent, but the refs as well. Until they figure this out, they will never win a championship in basketball or football. 

I don’t know about any of you, but that team didn’t appear to have any of the juice flowing that last years team did. Not yet at least.

Our spacing seems bad.  We don't have shooting threats.  Jones is not Mike Smith...a dude who can pull up or catch and shoot at a 40% clip.  We're gonna miss having a pg who can do that.  Work in progress.  Lotta young "talented"/athletic wings albeit a batch of jumbled skills.

Rather get this out the way early 

This team needs some growing up to do. Made too many mistakes that cost them the game.

Johns is lost on both ends, Houstan is a major defensive liability and doesn’t provide much without his shooting, the refs were one sided as usual smelling the ol upset(that got every close call), and who would’ve ever thought we would lose on free throws. 

That sucked...

I didnt catch much of that but wow, they looked awfully handsy and were allowed to do so. Was it this bad all game? 

Johns needs to get behind Moussa and Twill for minutes. He is scared and plays below the rim. Until he shows confidence I will take the other two. We are going to have a lot of bumps this year. Jones trying to up his steal count and Houstan not staying with anyone was a killer tonight. 

First test of the season and it was a miserable failure. That happens in basketball and the good news is it may not mean much if you can learn and grow and I have plenty of faith coach will make sure that happens. 

onward and upward. I still have hope for Jones but John’s is like a lost puppy out there. I mean it almost looks like something is wrong with him how confused he looks. 

A lot to learn from this game.  So early in season.  Tough one.  Bottom line though is several guys have to play better.

Stop bitching about the refs.  Look right at two senior players: Johns and Jones.  They lost that game.  You can expect freshmen to struggle, but you can't have two 4+ year players, starters, play like they did.

Too many turnovers, no shooting today and no penetration to the basket that wasn’t met with nasty blocks. Horrible matchup but this team has a lot to work on 

All of the weaknesses came to bear tonight.  No 3 shooters, no one to go to at the end to take the big shot, lots of fouls as a result of not moving, and a team clearly that hasn't yet gelled.  Some of that will be fixed over the early going, I hope.  Would love to see someone step up as a go-to 3 shooter.  Good message for a young talented team and lots of stuff to get coached up on.

Michigan lost because they're not good enough yet and I don't know this for sure, but if these refs are from the B1G, once again, fuck this conference.

Man, this website crashes anytime anything of note happens in the Michigan sports world.

Not a great game. Learn and GROW from it. This is a young team that needs multiple guys to figure things out in a hurry. With that being said, I don’t see a National Championship contender unless a lot of things improve offensively. Houstan and Johns were liabilities on that end of the floor tonight. Jones was…okay at best. Diabate is incredibly raw on offense. Dickinson and Brooks are the only guys playing with confidence on that end of the floor.

Hyper aggressive team like they are and on the road and we got six more fouls called than them. Yeah,ok!!!

I'm OK if we are a football school this year.... let's win the next few games in that sport

Make some 3's, force some guys to be more assertive offensively (Johns and Jones), and avoid Jeff Anderson calling any of our games. We need to improve, and Seton Hall is a very good team