Fire it up to talk with Matt Aldrin, Michigan Strength and Conditioning Coach,

coming up here momentarily on Defend the Block.

Two things real quick.

One, hope you and yours had a great Memorial Day weekend.

Hope you took a moment to think about, reflect upon why we have Memorial Day.

Can't even fathom the sacrifice that so many have given for our country, for our freedom.

And we think about those loved ones, family members, friends who have lost someone in the line

of battle, thanks to all of them for what they've had to endure to allow us to be able to talk

college basketball and like we do it in the trenches

football or conquering heroes any Michigan sports those things pale in comparison to what

really matters in life and we think about those who mourned loved ones here over the weekend.

Also, just a programming note for you. This will be our final Defend the Block

for a few weeks. This will not be a lengthy timeout, but with the start of the summer workouts

quickly approaching here in just a few weeks now, Michigan will get going later on in June.

We'll take a brief respite from Defend the Block. It'll be either two or three weeks.

It won't be long and we'll come back with some great conversations, start to dig into

some of our player interviews as we've done pretty much every offseason since Defend the Block

was created. We'll have great conversations with pretty much everybody on the roster for 26, 27.

Also, hope to have some women's basketball content for you on Defend the Block as we get into the summer as well.

The last thing, of course, the NBA draft quickly approaching.

We now knew what I think we all probably deep down knew that Michigan was going to have to completely

replace the big three. Yaxel Lendaborg was out of eligibility, at least in terms of how all

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