Defend the Block 198 - Howard Eisley
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Michigan men's basketball assistant coach Howard Eisley is our guest on this week's episode! After discussing Head Coach Juwan Howard's absence from the team at the beginning of the conversation, Eisley shares his thoughts on the team at this stage of the offseason (8:00) and discusses the paths of Kobe Bufkin and Jett Howard from Ann Arbor to the NBA (20:00).
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| 0:00.0 | I've talked about this several times here on Defend the Block and many more times on other platforms. |
| 0:04.2 | I thought the way that Joanne Howard created his assistant coaching trio when he got the job here at Michigan was really smart. |
| 0:11.8 | One carryover from the previous staff in Saudi Washington, one college basketball mastermind with plenty of head coaching experience in Phil Martelli, |
| 0:22.8 | and one person who possesses a tremendous understanding of and foundation with himself, with Juan Howard, and that's today's |
| 0:28.8 | guest, Howard Isley, trust, delegation, knowledge, all that's so critical when a staff is at full |
| 0:35.6 | capacity with everyone there and ready to roll. |
| 0:38.7 | But it's even more the case in the unique scenario that Michigan men's basketball is facing |
| 0:42.9 | with just five weeks to go until the start of the season. |
| 0:46.3 | As head coach, Juan Howard, not with the program as he focuses on his health after heart |
| 0:50.6 | surgery last month. And of course, that health is the most important aspect in all of this. |
| 0:55.2 | He's not going to return to the program until he gets the okays from his outstanding doctors at |
| 0:59.4 | University of Michigan Health and by Athletics Director Ward Manual. But on the basketball side, |
| 1:04.8 | this is a program that already was coming into the season with a ton of new elements to it. |
| 1:09.8 | The Wolverines are replacing a ton, and they've added a lot of new faces to it. The Wolverines are replacing a ton and they've added a lot of |
| 1:13.4 | new faces. Throw in coach Howard's absence and yeah, there's a ton of mystery of unknown around here. |
| 1:20.8 | That's why I believe that the stability, leadership, and direction that Michigan's coaching staff |
| 1:25.6 | can provide this season, and especially here in the |
| 1:28.9 | coming weeks, will go a long, long way in determining how this season plays out. |
| 1:33.9 | As mentioned last week during the beginning of the episode, Michigan is thrown right into the |
| 1:38.1 | fire with some challenging non-conference tests, most of which are away from Ann Arbor. |
| 1:43.6 | It is a huge boost then that Michigan |
| 1:45.6 | staff has been together for four, now going on five seasons. And that's not just the assistant |
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