Michigan basketball early offseason questions
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Reacting to the Michigan basketball team’s sudden lack of an offseason, we break down five immediate questions that come to mind regarding the Wolverines.
First, we break down what has typically been the most pressing offseason question, discussing if Michigan will lose any prospects early to the NBA Draft. We make the case for Franz Wagner and Isaiah Livers to go pro, but also break down the reasons why returning for another season might make more sense.
Then, we dissect what to make of Michigan’s potential transfers, why certain players stand out as potential transfers more than others and why transferring is hardly an indictment on the Wolverines or the players.
Working a bit more quickly with our final three questions, we look at the impact Michigan’s heralded 2020 recruiting class will impact what is a rather connected core upon its arrival. We also look at stylistic changes Michigan’s coaching staff may look to change and just exactly where we would rank the Wolverines heading into the summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:03.8 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, |
| 0:08.7 | and we'll be discussing during this pandemic of COVID-19. We'll just be bringing up different topics, |
| 0:16.2 | different things that we're thinking about, things that are on our mind. Of course, we'll have lots of |
| 0:19.4 | stories still. Our workload is unchanged and we're happy about it. |
| 0:24.5 | You can check it all out at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 0:29.5 | And so, Steve, this episode will do basketball. |
| 0:32.6 | Obviously, we will do football and we will do recruiting, you know, either this week or early next week, |
| 0:38.4 | depending on when our schedules align. But basketball, it seems like the most pressing one for, |
| 0:43.0 | well, just because there's a little bit more news with it. Obviously, they had their postseason |
| 0:46.3 | taken away and really just fast forwarded things by a month. Who knows what Michigan's postseason |
| 0:53.3 | would have looked like. |
| 0:54.6 | They could have very well have been eliminated in the first game of the NCAA tournament |
| 1:00.0 | and their offseason wouldn't be that much shorter after all. |
| 1:02.5 | But it did start sooner and there's a few key questions. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm running a story series on our site that's breaking down all of these one by one, trying to do a little bit more in-depth exploration. |
| 1:16.8 | But the first one, this is always the big one, is NBA draft, the flirtation, the declaration, the pursuit, and then whether or not players decide to come back. Michigan from |
| 1:29.3 | the outside seems like they do a lot worse at this than other schools. It seems like they're |
| 1:33.9 | always losing players right before they become all Americans or whatever and they go to the NBA |
| 1:39.2 | draft. But Michigan also has produced more first round draft picks than all but like Kentucky and Duke at |
| 1:46.3 | this point in the last eight years. So it's a testament to Michigan as well. This year, I think |
| 1:51.7 | there's two players that should declare and should look. I'll remind our listeners, |
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