In the lead up to Michigan's first exhibition against Oakland down in Detroit at Little

Caesar's Arena, Dusty May and Greg Campy had a press conference, and during that,

Dusty was asked about the strengths and weaknesses of his team at that point, the middle of

October, and here's part of his answer.

As far as the things that are concerning, you never know how well you're going to rebound the ball and take care of it until you see someone else.

So I think those are probably the two things that keep a lot of us coaches up a night, just wondering until you've done it, you don't know.

But overall, we've just been pleased with how well our group has worked together.

Heading into Friday's matchup with TCU the fifth time we would get to see Michigan in public

against another opponent, two exhibitions, two regular season games.

Certainly those two facts, those two trends, how you rebound the basketball, how you take

care of the basketball, was of concern

from the fan base's perspective. So I asked Dusty in the pregame, where is this team right now

in that regard? Well, I hate to say, but what we forecasted, what we were worried about has come to

fruition. We haven't taken care of the basketball, we haven't rebounded it well. Almost every other

statistical category, we've held our own. I think we're top five or six in the country and e-field goal

percentage, which is quality shots making them and then offensive rebounding. We're top 60

out of 360, which we still think we have some room for growth there. And so turnovers negate both

of them. So we have to do a better job of making earlier decisions

we are playing faster than our guys have played before this this is probably part of the growth

process you'd like to be winning as you're growing and learning and so obviously it hurt us to

take a step back against wake and you know the the turnovers that we had down the stretch were

pivotal and then on the other side for us to be in the top 10 against Wake and, you know, the turnovers that we had down the stretch were pivotal.

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