Welcome on into the Wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Chris Ballas and Anthony Broome.

Back at it talking some Michigan basketball, some Michigan football. We'll do a little NFL draft

cleanup after five guys picked another six undrafted free agents, so taking their shot at the next level.

But we'll start on the basketball side of things with, you know,

some roster movement over the last week, really since we recorded.

You have Michigan, as we talked about last week, bringing in Princeton guard Jalen Llewellyn.

He was on his visit when we recorded a week ago and was looking like it was trending in that direction.

They closed the deal there. So he commits and he will be a grad transfer guard for the

Wolverines. One day later, Frankie Collins, who was going to be a sophomore point guard transfers

out of the program. And that's basically your one for one transfer portal of Collins now committed to

Arizona State but yeah that that whole thing very interesting Llewellyn is coming in that was some

competition for Frankie Collins and it looks like you wanted to find some greener pastures elsewhere

that's exactly what happened and uh to be honest with you and speaking to some people close to the program, I think they're okay with the trade, to be honest. It's like, and, you know, everybody was panicking and saying, wow, you know, how do we lose Frankie Collins? And my rebuttal to that was if you were looking through the portal and you were looking at guards and you were looking at numbers and forget the names, if you saw a guy in there with Frankie's numbers, you're shooting 16% from 3 and 44% from the free throw line as a point guard, you'd say, no way, right? Wouldn't that be your first impact, your first reaction would be to say, yeah, why would you want a guy like that? Now, granted, he does some other things. He can get to the rim. He could be a great defender, but you need guys around Hunter Dickinson that are going to spread the floor a little bit. And I think Llewellyn is that guy. They are bringing him in to be a point guard and speaking with people close to it. So it'll be him, Doug McDaniel. We'll see how the rest of the roster pans out. But if Musa Diabate and Caleb Houston both come back, and I think that's a big, yeah, if I think Diabate, in my opinion, would probably be leaning towards staying in the draft, then I think your roster is set. Otherwise, you go and say, okay do we go and get a Pete N Nance? He's not coming. You know, I think you all go out. At that point, get another guard slash wing. Terrence Shannon would have been perfect in that role, frankly. But that didn't happen. He's going to Illinois. So that's where we stand today and be very interesting to see how that roster comes together. But the biggest, the biggest piece of the puzzle guys is Hunter Dickinson.

You build around him, get some guys that can shoot, and then you're going to be,

you're going to have a pretty darn good basketball team.

Yeah, with so much focus now on, given that it is, I mean, these are Hunter Dickinson words,

Transfer Portal and NIL has kind of made this the Wild Wild West,

and everything is kind of year to year and sort of free agency like now.

So with Hunter Dickinson coming back,

you look at the one-for-one trade off of, okay, one year of Jailene Nguelen,

measured up against what you could have gotten potentially out of Frankie Collins.

I think you take that trade.

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