Director of Personnel & Development Jay Smith, Projecting Chaundee Brown's Impact, Franz Wagner's Breakout, and more - Michigan Basketball Insider
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Sam Webb and Tim McCormick chat with Michigan Director of Personnel & Development Jay Smith about his early impressions from practice, Juwan Howard's evolution as coach, the program's recruiting philosophy, and more. Sam and Tim also share thoughts Chaundee Brown's likely impact, Franz Wagner's improvement, U-M's projected lineup and the significance of Michigan landing five-star wing Caleb Houstan.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're back, folks, for another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider. |
| 0:03.1 | Always a pleasure to be joined by one of the best to ever do it here in the state of Michigan. |
| 0:08.3 | One of the all-time greats out of Clarkston and went on to be a standout at the University of Michigan |
| 0:14.3 | before playing in the NBA for a number of years and then going on to a broadcast career after that. |
| 0:21.3 | And now doing that very strong and then also working with the NBA Players Association |
| 0:26.5 | with its Top 100 camp. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm talking about my good friend Tim McCormick, Tim, another week. |
| 0:33.1 | And while I know we're going to get heavy into, because Michigan basketball, because that's what we do, |
| 0:39.4 | I obviously got to get your take. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, you're a Michigan guy, a state of Michigan guy, |
| 0:44.0 | and we just watch Michigan take a hell to Michigan State, man. |
| 0:47.8 | I hate to have to start out that way, but that's where we are. |
| 0:51.3 | My wife said on Sunday, she says, |
| 0:53.9 | why do you look so grumpy? You're just not yourself. |
| 0:56.3 | I said, there's a pandemic. And it's a lecashen. I'm tired of it already. And Michigan, Michigan State made me really sad. |
| 1:04.3 | And look, I can't offer any deep analysis that you haven't already heard. I'm a basic football fan. I focus on big picture |
| 1:13.1 | stuff. But I don't know what the A gap is. I don't know what a pin and pull is. I'm not sure about a |
| 1:18.2 | counter trap. But I do know that that game was really damaging. And one of the things that I watch |
| 1:26.3 | is emotion and body language. And I'm also big on |
| 1:31.9 | adjustments. And when I see an opponent is doing something, I know you've got to change if it's |
| 1:39.6 | working. And I always remember as a kid, my dad would say to me, son, don't worry, Bo Schembeckler makes great adjustments at halftime. I'll never forget him saying that. And so here's what I saw. I didn't see any adjustments as the game progressed. And my football career ended in sixth grade. Okay. |
| 2:03.8 | I was a defensive end and I was a tight end. And I remember like it was yesterday, my coach always saying the first guy off the line on the snap wins. |
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