Defend the Block 56 - Danielle Rauch & Adrien Nuñez
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode begins with a reaction to Hunter Dickinson's decision to return to Michigan for his sophomore season, including a few of the most important clips from his media availability on Tuesday. Then, Brian checks in with newly-named captain Danielle Rauch of Michigan women's basketball, who discusses the honor and requirements of that captain position (10:00), the incredible journey she and the team had last March (13:15), and her early thoughts on next season's team (20:10). We conclude with senior-to-be Adrien Nuñez, who talks about the early days of men's basketball summer practices (27:45), the importance of the new Name Image Likeness era for social media influencers like him (33:45), and some of the projects he is working on with NIL in place (41:30).
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| 0:00.0 | We have a couple of great guests for you here today, newly named women's basketball, |
| 0:04.2 | Captain Danielle Rauch, senior men's basketball guard, and social media influencer Adrian |
| 0:09.7 | Nunez. |
| 0:10.5 | But we begin with the story of the week for Michigan basketball. |
| 0:14.3 | Of course, Hunter Dickinson's decision to return for his sophomore season. |
| 0:18.7 | Now, Hunter's ultimate decision was what most people, myself included, predicted when this |
| 0:23.9 | began, when he entered the draft process. |
| 0:26.8 | But as you'll hear from Hunter here on the show, it was far from that simple. |
| 0:31.0 | Hunter said it was a decision he flip-flopped on several times. |
| 0:34.6 | As you'll hear, when he entered, his instinct was that he would stay in the NBA |
| 0:39.3 | draft. And again, just like he did with entering the process at all, he waited till the very |
| 0:45.9 | last moments to officially do it. Then he was barking upon that May 31st deadline to enter |
| 0:53.5 | into the NBA draft while maintaining eligibility. |
| 0:56.9 | And the deadline to remove yourself and go back to college was the day that this podcast |
| 1:01.5 | is coming out on Wednesday. |
| 1:03.9 | So now what? |
| 1:04.9 | Well, Michigan should be a top 10 team nationally when preseason polls come out. |
| 1:09.6 | We've already seen plenty from national |
| 1:11.8 | prognosticators. And Hunter Dickinson will be a preseason All-American and a favorite, if not |
| 1:18.1 | the favorite, to win the Big Ten's player of the year. So that's the macro look. In terms of the micro, |
| 1:24.9 | here's what I love about this. We talked about this when Hunter entered the draft in the first place. |
| 1:30.9 | He is an excellent student of the game. |
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