This week's episode of Defend the Block will serve as a bit of a reset following several weeks of introductions to Dusty May's five assistant coaches, all of whom are new to the program.

Those are recorded pretty close to one another all around the official announcement on the staff hirings back on April 18th.

At that point, Michigan had exactly zero players committed to the program who were not already under

scholarship from last season. One day later, Justin Pippen committed to the program as an

incoming freshman and things have been rolling from there. So much so that while talking with

our friend Zach Linfield during a timeout of the football spring game on April 20th, Dusty May said,

quote, expect more good news coming soon, end quote, with regards to the roster.

That good news has certainly come out in recent weeks, with Michigan revamping the roster

while also keeping some important carryover players like Will Cheddar, who we've heard from

already this offseason, and Namari Burneddar, who we've heard from already this

offseason, and Namari Burnett, who we will get at some point this spring.

We'll break down some of those new players here in a bit, but one of my foremost takeaways to

the rebuild, and let's face it, it's basically a build of this roster, and to Dusty May's

first seven and a half weeks as the head coach for Michigan

men's basketball can be summed up in one word intentional. Dusty May is intentional about a ton of

things. He wants to surround himself with great teachers on his staff. He wants competitive players

who find ways to win. He has a pretty clear picture of what style he wants to play

with the goal of having everyone on the floor involved. In his press conference last week,

which you'll hear some key snippets from here in this episode, you can hear how that

intentional approach seems to permeate everything he and in turn his program does.

No, actually, I shy away from goals every single day.

I have no idea what our goals are other than be really, really good this next

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