Defend the Block 199 - Dylan Burkhardt
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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With the regular season just four weeks away, Brian sits down with Dylan Burkhardt of UMHoops.com. Burkhardt shares some of his overall thoughts on the team (4:00), breaks down a few of the Wolverines' key players (9:00), and offers up some potential ranges of outcomes for Michigan and the rest of the Big Ten (22:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Four weeks from the release of this episode, Tuesday, November 7th, we'll be getting ready for the |
| 0:04.9 | Wolverines season opener at Chrysler Center. What's still a mystery now will still largely be a |
| 0:10.6 | mystery then, but that day will start to unpeel what this 2023, 24 Michigan men's basketball |
| 0:17.2 | season will look like. This week to help try to solve a few aspects of that mystery early, I welcome Dylan |
| 0:23.5 | Burkart of UM Hoops to the podcast, and I've long talked about here and on our radio |
| 0:27.8 | broadcasts about the work that Dylan has done and is continuing to do to cover Michigan |
| 0:33.1 | basketball. |
| 0:33.9 | But what his writing and research has taught me holistically is that even a full season's worth of data is still a pretty small sample all things considered. |
| 0:43.7 | And it's easier to look at things from a likelihood standpoint or a percentile standpoint more so than in a black or white, yes or no, good or bad type of a way. |
| 0:56.2 | Case in point, the Big Ten released its preseason accolades last week. There isn't a Wolverine on that list, and that certainly |
| 1:01.2 | does not mean that a Wolverine cannot be on that list, the important version of that list come |
| 1:06.7 | March, but right now, that's not to those who cover the Big Ten, the most likely outcome. |
| 1:13.1 | Now, when you think about outcomes, the 2021 Big Ten championship team, what Michigan did there |
| 1:17.7 | probably wasn't the most likely outcome. That crew played their tails off, came together |
| 1:22.1 | through a ton of adversity in that bubble season, and was a brilliant basketball team that |
| 1:26.5 | came with an eyelash of the |
| 1:28.0 | final four. Last season's team boasted a ton of talent and much less success on the floor in the |
| 1:34.6 | win-loss column. And that team certainly was not playing out its most likely outcome either. |
| 1:41.0 | It's why Saudi Washington referred to last year as a season of missed opportunities. |
| 1:45.5 | It's why Phil Martelli has told me and others that trying to solve the puzzle that was |
| 1:49.5 | Michigan's late game issues last season was way up there on his summer to-do list. |
| 1:54.8 | Now, don't get me wrong. You can't earn trophies. You don't hang banners on percentiles and ranges or coulda, woulda, shouldas, |
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