Episode 13 with New York Knick forward Ignas Brazdeikis
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Tim McCormick interviews New York Knick forward Ignas Brazdeikis about his transition to the NBA, his standout freshman campaign at Michigan last season, his thoughts on this year's team, and more. Plus, Tim and host Sam Webb discuss the offensive struggles in the latest losses to Penn State and Illinois, possible adjustments, and preview the upcoming games versus Nebraska and Rutgers.
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back for another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider, Sam Webb here with a man. |
| 0:06.9 | That is the focal point, the focus of this podcast offering experience and commentary of |
| 0:14.1 | former Michigan basketball standout NBA veteran and now doing broadcast for ESPN on the college |
| 0:20.6 | basketball side and on the pro |
| 0:23.0 | basketball side with the Pistons. And then, of course, he has duties with the NBA Players Association |
| 0:28.9 | running the NBA Players Association Top 100 camps. His name is Tim McCormick. He's my guy, |
| 0:33.5 | my friend. Tim, how are you doing again this week? I'm positive. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm optimistic. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm going to keep focusing on good stuff when in reality the team is struggling. |
| 0:47.0 | It's very, very frustrating. |
| 0:50.0 | But, you know, there are reasons. |
| 0:53.4 | And so we don't want to point the finger at anyone, but I do think it's important to be honest and objective. |
| 1:01.0 | Success and winning is so fragile, you know, and attention to detail and focusing on fundamentals and being flexible. |
| 1:11.5 | Those are all great team traits. |
| 1:15.2 | And, you know, look back on your calendar. |
| 1:17.7 | 50 days ago, Michigan went to Illinois, 8 and 1, top five in college basketball, |
| 1:26.5 | battle for Atlanta's champs, |
| 1:28.2 | and a lot of people thought that Michigan was a serious final four threat. |
| 1:34.2 | And Franz was getting healthy and the team had a swagger. |
| 1:38.3 | And then they got exposed by Illinois for everybody to see. |
| 1:42.7 | And since then they've lost seven of eight to power conference teams. |
| 1:46.0 | And now the schedule is going to be challenging this week, games that you would have thought |
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