Michigan basketball is no longer on fire. Now what?
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In a near polar-opposite of last week's podcast, we break down a rough week for the Michigan basketball team, looking at what went wrong against Ohio State and Wisconsin and what's next for the Wolverines.
Guided by listener questions, we first look at two potential starting lineup changes that involve getting Brandon Johns Jr. more minutes, and what the pros and cons of each of them are. We then look at the Wolverines' rapid decline in performance, and discuss just what went wrong and how it can change.
We take a brief look at how Michigan's NCAA Tournament prospects change, zero in on perimeter shooting and break down why this is such a critical week for the Wolverines in the scope of the season, even if the stakes in this week's games might not be as high.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all |
| 0:03.9 | from Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting solo show today. I'm Zach Shaw covering some |
| 0:09.2 | basketball. You can read all of our stories from our trip to Columbus over at the |
| 0:13.1 | Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 sports.com. You're going to tackle a bunch of questions. |
| 0:18.5 | If there's any topics that don't get covered, then I will |
| 0:22.9 | touch on those two. But we actually got a good amount of questions. You can always tweet me |
| 0:26.9 | questions underscore Zach Shaw. Try to do it. Yeah, I try to record on Tuesdays. So obviously the closer |
| 0:32.8 | to that is the more likely it is that it'll get on the show. But anyway, first, we'll start with May's |
| 0:38.3 | craze, who says, Johns makes more sense at the five over Teske at this point, much better |
| 0:44.0 | offensive player and much better rebounder only downside as he's not as tall. So start now swinging, |
| 0:49.9 | changing the starting lineup, what, 20, 30 games, 3rd 29 games into the season. |
| 0:56.0 | But I do think, I do think that game against Wisconsin showed that maybe, first it comes |
| 1:04.3 | down to what Johns wants to do, but I don't think it's the worst idea. |
| 1:08.8 | I don't think, you know, Johns, he's 6-7, or maybe 6-8, |
| 1:13.2 | depending on who's measuring, but he's 6-7, around 230-ish, 235 pounds. But he's really strong |
| 1:21.2 | for his weight. Whatever his weight is, add 5 or 10. That's effectively what he is. And then |
| 1:26.2 | his leaping ability, he can get up there. |
| 1:30.0 | And so if you are looking for a rebounder, someone who can defend, get to the perimeter just a little bit faster. |
| 1:35.6 | I think, I think Teske's faster than most 7 foot 1, 260 pound centers. |
| 1:41.2 | But he is a 7 foot 1, 260 pound center. So I don't think he, I don't, I think he still start Teske. |
| 1:49.1 | But I do, I don't know if I were Michigan against, not every team, not against your |
| 1:54.8 | Coffi Coburns, not against your Daniel O'Too, not against your, you know, your other big |
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