Welcome to another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider, Sam Webb, with the man himself,

Tim McCormick, and Tim, you know, rolling into the basketball season now in conference play,

you know, the Wolverines, you know, every year is going to have, every season is going to have its adversity.

And now Michigan, this is going to be us talking about them losing, dropping a couple of games in a row in this early season.

Nothing to panic about.

And I know you're big on perspective, but this was always going to be something that the team had to deal with a little bit of adversity here earlier in the season.

Yeah.

And Sam, thanks for bringing that up because I do love the word perspective, especially for Michigan basketball fans and football fans too.

That's important.

If you're upset that Michigan has lost three or four and is struggling with some slow starts and the offense gets a little bit stagnant

times and they're not going to be in the top 10 this week. And it looks like they may not win a

big 10 titles. You're setting yourself up for a frustrating year.

But I think that there's a lot of reason to be realistic and optimistic for the future.

And this is an entertaining team that plays really hard.

And they're going to have an excellent season.

I want to remind everybody of a couple of things.

Michigan started out the year unranked and had so many question marks.

You know, they lost the best coach in school history.

And he left at a horrible time, you know, the worst possible time.

And the team lost their top three players and returned nobody that averaged

double figures. They hired a high potential coach with no D1 experience. And that is huge. So the

learning curve is steep for everybody. And then when you look at the team, everybody's got a new

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