Welcome back to another episode of the Wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Aunt Wright, former college basketball player at Michigan and On Three's basketball analyst, of course.

So he's joining us. Again, we're going to talk about Michigan losing to Ohio State last Saturday,

but now we're on to a couple big road games against Iowa tonight, Thursday. We're recording

Thursday afternoon, and then Sunday afternoon against Wisconsin. Can they steal one of those two games

or both heading into a stretch of four straight home games, which will be a big topic of discussion

later on in the show here.

But we'll start a little bit with that Ohio State game because Michigan had a great

opportunity.

I thought Saturday night, and we talked about it on the podcast last week, to kind of, you

know, really get through that week.

And just that's the week that saved your season. It helped. It kept you right there. It moved you up, you know, closer to the right side of the bubble. But without that win against Ohio State, I thought they're still, you know, kind of teetering there. They're still staying afloat. One of the things we talked about with that game last week was you were saying you can't have a letdown where you feel good about the peru

game um and then we also talked about some of that though is going to be physical and natural because

it's your fourth game in eight days nobody was about to make any excuses after the game i asked

eli brooks that that was the first question that you know hey you guys played a bunch of games in in eight days, nobody was about to make any excuses after the game. I asked Eli Brooks that.

That was the first question that, you know, hey, you guys played a bunch of games in the last eight days. Do you feel like the legs weren't there? Because they were not shooting well. They were 8 to 35 on shots that weren't dunks or layups. And he said, no, no excuses. At the same time, it's got to be natural. So I wanted to get your thoughts on that from watching that game and having the

experience as a player and playing with some short turnarounds.

I guess what were your thoughts on, you know, how they looked in terms of if their

legs were there or why the offense just wasn't quite there on Saturday night?

Yeah, so I thought execution-wise, they were okay.

I felt defensively they were good.

And I kind of hinted this one with my article a few days ago where I talked about,

like sometimes the starters need someone from the bench or two guys from the bench to just come out and just put the team on their

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