Nojel Eastern reaction and other hoops questions
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we react to the surprising commitment of Purdue guard Nojel Eastern, and also tackle a few more basketball questions we received from listeners.
We begin by contextualizing the rarity of a commitment happening so quickly, particularly from the transfer portal. We also break down what we think of Michigan adding Eastern, of Eastern's tenure at Purdue, what went wrong and what kind of impact we think he will have in Ann Arbor.
Answering questions from listeners, we tackle comparing Eastern to former Kentucky transfer and Michigan captain Charles Matthews — and caution why that comparison may be unfair — while assessing the fit Eastern provides.
We also discuss Juwan Howard's AAU recruiting prowess, Michigan's point guard future, Isaiah Livers' NBA Draft decision, what can be gleaned from such a hurried transfer process and if Michigan will continue to pursue other transfer options.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. You can read all of our stories over at the Michigan Insider.com, Michigan.24-7 Sports.com. So last episode, I actually just listened to the intro just a moment ago. And I realized I said, there probably won't be any basketball thing |
| 0:21.8 | unless there's news. |
| 0:22.8 | Well, we've got news. |
| 0:23.9 | We have news. |
| 0:25.5 | More news than I thought we were going to get. |
| 0:27.5 | I mean, usually not to, |
| 0:29.7 | this isn't meant to be a flex, |
| 0:30.8 | but like oftentimes we at least have a sense |
| 0:33.7 | that there could be news coming, |
| 0:35.7 | like someone might be committing |
| 0:37.3 | or someone might be transferring. |
| 0:39.8 | Even if we don't hit a hundred, hit a bad a thousand, we at least have a sense. |
| 0:44.3 | This one, I can't think, I mean, I'm sure, Steve, you have good examples, but I can't think of |
| 0:48.9 | the last this far out of left field news. |
| 0:52.4 | And that, of course, if you haven't heard by now perdu starting guard |
| 0:56.5 | no jell eastern uh he was a start of the last two years started 62 games and to the transfer |
| 1:03.2 | portal wednesday i was using the days instead of yesterday and today and all that just just |
| 1:08.0 | in case people listening to this down the road but he entered the transfer portal Wednesday. And by Thursday, less than 24 hours later, he had committed to |
| 1:16.9 | Michigan. So first, we'll start with the context of the rarity of it. I mean, I'm trying to think, |
| 1:24.6 | I'm sure it's happened in recruiting. I'm trying to think of a time that a transfer has happened this quickly. |
| 1:30.9 | And we'll get, we'll get into what that means in just a moment. |
| 1:34.1 | But, Steve, any, any stories that you immediately recall in terms of this, this surprising |
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