OT DJ Wilson has Career High Night for Bucks Against Raptors
DJ Wilson, former Wolverine scored a career high last night for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Toronto Raptors of the NBA. 22 minutes 16 points 3-6 3 pointers 5 rebounds 1 assist.
Go Blue! Congratulations!
February 1st, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
Too bad he didn't stay another year. Congratulations anyway.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
He was a 1st-round pick and we went to the national championship game without him, so it seemed to work out.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
True but I think the team would have been more formidable and versatile with him on the roster. A fully weaponized DJ and Mo up front would have been something to see. Not sure if it would have made a difference against Villanova though. That team was loaded. Might have made the game more competitive but I still think Michigan loses that game even with DJ Wilson.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
The thing is, a lot of teams would have been better last year if their underclassmen had stayed in school, not just us. You can't just assume every other team in the country is the same.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:08 PM ^
Imagine if Tatum stayed another year at Duke!
February 1st, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
Logic'd
February 1st, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
I don't think Villanova lost any underclassmen going into last season. That being said, not sure having D.J. Wilson would have stopped DiVincenzo from lighting it up.
February 1st, 2019 at 2:41 PM ^
Michigan and Nova weren't the only national title contenders last season. If there are no underclassmen going pro in 2017, the 17-18 season is very different overall.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
I mean... Sure. And the 2014 team would've won the whole damn thing if Hardaway and Burke stayed. Duke would be pretty damn good right now if they had Brandon Ingram, Luke Kennard, and Jayson Tatum to go along with their three freshmen.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
He was a first round pick. In no way do I blame him for leaving.
Would we have won more games with him on the team? Possibly. But we made it to the national championship game without him, and he wouldn't have been the difference between winning and losing against Villanova. We would've lost anyway.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Good for DeVante Jaylen! He barely flashed his awesome potential at Michigan, but everyone saw it during the 2nd half of his sophomore year. Michigan is an nba talent producing machine.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:08 AM ^
If he was on the team last year they win the title...
February 1st, 2019 at 11:14 AM ^
All we needed was him - or if we had Mike Ditka as a coach. Then that title would have been ours...
February 1st, 2019 at 11:22 AM ^
I like DJ, but I am not sure that he swings 18 points in our direction against Villanova.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:41 AM ^
Not single-handedly, but he would have made our team one player deeper and maybe made some 3's, opening up the floor for his teammates to operate more effectively, and likely gotten us a few more rebounds at each end, cutting back Nova's shot opportunities and increasing ours.
If his presence makes it a game going down to the wire, I like our chances to pull it off.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:36 AM ^
Was DJ Wilson supposed to guard the trademark white guy that lights our team up in national title games via 3 pointers?
I think we lose regardless.
Donte Divicenzo is actually his teammate in Milwaukee
February 1st, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
And Wilson is playing more and more while Divincenzo rides the pine.
February 2nd, 2019 at 8:45 AM ^
Donald Williams wasn’t a white guy, but I get your point.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:38 AM ^
It would have been closer, but we basically needed to break Divincenzo's leg before the game for us to cut down the nets.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:42 AM ^
Do other teams get back guys that went pro in this hypothetical, or just us?
For me the "What if?" game is more for guys actually on the team. Mitch McGary was on our 2014 team that won the Big Ten outright and reached the Elite Eight, but was out after back surgery. If we just could have had him recover from surgery in time, we might really have won it all.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
I got a good chuckle out of this.
We would've been a better team for sure, maybe could've even won the Big Ten. But Nova was in a class all by itself last year. Even with DJ on the team, I still think we lose that game by at least 10 points. DJ being on the team wouldn't have stopped DiVincenzo from going off the way he did. And even if he did, you had four other guys on the floor for Nova, at any given time, who could go off and carry the team. They were the Golden State of college basketball last year.
February 1st, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
Looks like the Bucks picked up his contract for next year at like $2.5mm and have another option the year after for $4.5. If he keeps this up, I wonder if he'll be able to match THJr's deal in size.
February 1st, 2019 at 3:26 PM ^
If he keeps this up, he definitely will. He's shooting lights out from three, is scoring efficiently and playing good defense.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
I see people saying "if he was on our team last year"...
Sure. But teams lose guys early to the NBA all the time. If Duke had Tatum last year, they probably win it all too.
We can't just act like we're the only team that loses guys to the NBA
February 1st, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
Okay okay but imagine if we still had Loy Vaught and Rumeal Robinson and Glen Rice and Tim Hardaway, Jr. and Cazzie Russell and Trey Burke and Mitch McGary.
This team would be unstoppable.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
I don’t know, some of those guys are pretty old. Not sure a 74-year-old Cazzie would stop so many people.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:39 PM ^
This. If we're in a world where people inexplicably don't leave for the draft despite it being in their best interest then Michigan gets knocked off even earlier by one of the several teams full of ridiculous 5 star seniors.
February 1st, 2019 at 12:57 PM ^
I saw DJ play live a couple weeks ago. Giannis was out and DJ got more playing time than I expected. I am no expert, but he seemed a little lost, maybe even disinterested, out there. Maybe this game is evidence that I was wrong.
February 1st, 2019 at 3:18 PM ^
No, your post exactly sums up his career at Michigan - disinterested at times and great other times. If he were a football player, they'd say he has a low motor.
February 1st, 2019 at 1:23 PM ^
He had a double double earlier this year too. And he's played very good defense - at least at times.
February 1st, 2019 at 4:49 PM ^
Well deserved!!