Defend the Block 133 - Offseason Recap
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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With the season a few weeks away, Brian recaps a busy offseason here on Defend the Block by replaying 10 of the most impactful clips from his various conversations around the men's basketball program, including Hunter Dickinson's return, the leadership within the locker room, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | I can't speak for all college sports fans, but it does feel like the college basketball season can sneak up on you a little bit. |
| 0:06.5 | It doesn't over the summer because there's that pretty lengthy lull in all of college sports from the end of the College World Series until mid or late August. |
| 0:15.2 | During that stretch, it feels like the offseason drags, like college basketball is light years away. |
| 0:21.8 | Then you get into the college football season. |
| 0:24.3 | And seemingly, in a snap of a finger, it's time to start thinking hoops. |
| 0:28.5 | This week, the Big Ten will hold its basketball media days up in Minneapolis midweek. |
| 0:33.5 | And then on Friday, Michigan Men's Basketball will host its local media day exactly three weeks before our first look at this ball club with its exhibition at Chrysler Center against Ferris State. |
| 0:45.5 | If you've been with us here on Defend the Block since the Sweet 16 last year, well, thank you. Welcome back. |
| 0:51.4 | If you're just revving back up into college basketball because it's getting ever so close, well, welcome back. |
| 0:57.4 | This is a great place to start, as we'll try to condense an offseason's worth of coverage, interviews, and insight into a 10 clip countdown, the 10 most noteworthy soundbites here on Defend the Block since the last time Michigan men's basketball |
| 1:12.6 | played a game. |
| 1:14.1 | So let's go through them and add some context to them right here on this week's edition of Defend the Block. |
| 1:22.7 | We're talking Michigan basketball. |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome to Defend the Block, where we'll take you inside the basketball |
| 1:29.5 | programs with interviews, analysis, and so much more. Now, here's your host, Brian Bush. Yeah, |
| 1:36.6 | three weeks away until our first broadcast, three weeks away until Michigan and Fair Estate, |
| 1:40.8 | then three days after that, the Wolverines open up the season for real on a Monday |
| 1:45.5 | night at Chrysler Center. Oh, we're so close at this point. So again, let's go through what has |
| 1:52.6 | been a busy spring summer now into the fall here on Defend the Block. And there is no particular |
| 1:59.9 | order to these clips, except for maybe this one, |
| 2:03.5 | because the number one storyline for Michigan this offseason, the number one thing that has |
| 2:08.9 | bolstered the Wolverines' chances to win a Big Ten championship, to win a national championship, |
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