Saddi Washington - The Nation's No. 1 Recruiter - Michigan Basketball Insider
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Tim McCormick and Sam Webb discuss Michigan's pause in athletic activities and the advantages and disadvantages of the downtime. The duo then breaks down Michigan's victory over Purdue, the tremendous defensive showing in that game, the significance of Franz Wagner's visible frustration that night, and how the Big 10 stacks up at this point. The podcast finishes with a lengthy chat with Michigan assistant Saddi Washington about the growth of the team defensively, Hunter Dickinson's maturation, the nation's no. 1 recruiting class and the role he played in building it, and more.
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| 0:03.0 | With the UA for Champions League kicking off |
| 0:05.1 | and a brand new format for the new season, |
| 0:07.4 | you've got to wonder, will anything ever be the same? |
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| 0:13.7 | as proud sponsors of the men's and women's champions league, |
| 0:16.5 | will be cheering from the sidelines like never before. |
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| 0:24.8 | We're back, folks, for another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider and a time in the season, |
| 0:32.5 | which just felt inevitable. |
| 0:34.1 | We knew it was going to come with these COVID-impacted times that there is |
| 0:39.6 | likely to be a major interruption to the season, whether it was at a league level or Michigan individually, |
| 0:46.9 | and it turns out to be Michigan individually. Joining me as he does every week to break down all |
| 0:51.3 | aspects of the Michigan basketball program, a guy who wore the uniform. It was a talented player for the Wolverines back in the early 80s before becoming a first |
| 0:59.4 | round draft pick. And now, NBA commentary over on Fox Sports Detroit, covering the Pistons, and, of course, |
| 1:05.3 | college basketball for an array of outlets. His name is Tim McCormick. Tim, how are you? |
| 1:10.4 | Sam, I'm doing really well. |
| 1:12.2 | And I do want to talk about the quarantine, about the pause. But first, I want to start |
| 1:20.5 | off by just saying how immensely proud I am of this Michigan basketball team. I'm not in a bad |
| 1:26.4 | mood that they're not playing for two weeks. As a matter of fact, I'm just, I'm just really excited about the potential and what we've had a chance to watch so far. This Michigan team represents all that's good and special in the sports world. They have so many valuable traits. And I keep thinking, you know, |
| 1:45.6 | the reason that businesses try to recruit and hire athletes is all the things and the qualities |
| 1:52.0 | that this Michigan team stands for. They're hardworking. Think about the fact that they came |
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