Defend the Block 111 - Hunter Dickinson
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4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Just days after announcing his return to Michigan for the 2022-23 season, Hunter Dickinson chats with Brian Boesch about the decision to come back to Ann Arbor (3:30), his last 12 months as a player and the “Big Man on Campus” here at Michigan (9:30), and his preparations for the upcoming season (18:30).
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| 0:00.0 | At 6.30 on Sunday, mere hours before the deadline for college players to declare for the NBA draft, Hunter Dickinson took to social media with a simple message. |
| 0:08.6 | The image she shared said, I ain't done yet. |
| 0:11.7 | Less than a year ago, Dickinson was this close to leaving as a one and done, but he elected a return for a number of reasons. |
| 0:18.2 | Because of that close call, it was common to speculate that |
| 0:21.7 | Dickinson was all but gone after his sophomore season. During that sophomore season, |
| 0:27.5 | Dickinson was brilliant. He was Michigan's best player improving in pretty much any statistic |
| 0:31.9 | imaginable. No three-point success as a freshman. He became an outside threat as a sophomore. |
| 0:37.0 | Little use of his right hand offensively as a freshman. Teams became an outside threat as a sophomore. Little use of his right |
| 0:38.0 | hand offensively as a freshman, teams had to respect that right hand as a sophomore. Fieson |
| 0:43.5 | on single teams as a freshman, Dickinson had to consistently contend with double teams, even some |
| 0:49.2 | triple teams as a sophomore. And all of this happened as Dickinson became literally and figuratively big man on |
| 0:56.2 | campus. He was willing and able to embrace the fact that he really is the most recognizable student |
| 1:01.4 | athlete in Ann Arbor, and he was more than willing and able to take on the role of villain in hostile |
| 1:07.1 | road environments. Sure, Michigan did not go undefeated on the road. He had to hear |
| 1:11.1 | plenty of booze and jeers, but he never wavered and ultimately helped Michigan reach the Sweet |
| 1:16.1 | 16, despite an up and down journey to get there. Two other things on that social media post |
| 1:21.9 | from a few days back. Dickinson, of course, where's number one? He is a one-of-a-kind student |
| 1:27.0 | athlete who, by coming back again for a third season, is going He is a one-of-a-kind student athlete who, by coming back again for a third season, |
| 1:30.5 | is going to have a one-of-a-kind journey as a college basketball player. |
| 1:34.0 | The number certainly fits. |
| 1:36.3 | As does the jersey he's wearing in that picture. |
| 1:39.1 | It's that 1989 throwback jersey that Michigan used a few times this past season. That 89 team is the |
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