Welcome on into the wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Chris Ballas and Aunt Wright,

our new analyst, not as new anymore, but about a month with us. He's doing video breakdowns on

the YouTube channel there, some written stuff on the site as well. Former Michigan basketball

player, content creator, you've seen him on Twitter, of course.

We will talk a little bit about Rutgers, which we'll start with, and then we'll get into that

Michigan State matchup. But let's start with that game on Tuesday, short-handed Michigan team,

not able to get it done. But man, when you think about the impact of those bench guys and what

they, you know, what it was, it's like, it's one thing to think that, you know, they would have those bench guys and what they you know what it was it's like it's

one thing to think that you know they would have helped and I think they would have but at the same time

that team was down 11 when before they even subbed and I know they brought in you know Kobe buff

kid who was playing a little more over the last couple games jace howard played a big role in the

first half at least tough Tough one all together,

but I think it was really kind of some of the similar problems we're seeing. It's not necessarily

because they were short-handed. So I guess I'll just throw it to both you guys on what you saw

Tuesday. What were the problems? I want to ask, 14 points in the first four and a half minutes,

man, that they gave up again. This team's defense, is that the major problem of this team, this team? Because right now,

these guys seem a little bit lost on that end. That's one of the major problems. I think there

is a severe lack of attention to detail as one. I also didn't see a lot of sense of urgency.

Like this is a very important game that you just can't lose.

At the time, it was a quad three, now it was a quad two.

But at the same time, like, you, if you want to accomplish the goals that you set coming

into the season, you can go on the road and lose that game, especially if you're

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