After a long delay, two lost podcasts and four commitments, the Moving Screen is finally back. Brendan and Dylan finally recorded a podcast about Michigan and Michigan State’s recent recruiting surges. The Spartans landed five-star commitments from Emoni Bates and Max Christie while Michigan is on the verge of landing three pledges in three weeks.
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Among the topics discussed:
– What Emoni Bates means for Michigan State
– Will Emoni Bates ever play at Michigan State
– Why Max Christie is the ideal five-star recruit
– What’s next for MSU recruiting
– Breaking down Isaiah Barnes and Will Tschetter
– A look ahead at Kobe Bufkin’s upcoming announcement
– Juwan Howard’s changing recruiting philosophy
– Future Michigan recruiting targets
Timestamps:
(3:27): Michigan State Recruiting
(37:16): Michigan Recruiting

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umhoops
Better late than never. Apologies for the lack of pods over the last month or so. We actually recorded two of them and managed to mess both up editing.

DeAngeloVickers
Thought it was funny when you were talking about point guard in the 21-22 season and no one mentions Senior Foster Loyer once…
swish109
Great job on the pod as always
adamsmit86
Endless Motor aka MattD posted these tidbits about Akins on MGoBlog:
https://mgoblog.com/content/hoops-hello-kobe-bufkin (in the comment section)
adamsmit86
I think it’s probably more to do with the fact that Christie and Bates are guaranteed to play big minutes and if Watts comes back so is he. So that could be their 1-3 positions all logging heavy minutes with minimal minutes available for anyone else (and those minimal guard minutes could be taken up by Hoggard and Gabe Brown leaving none for Akins). At least with Zeb and Bufkin, they are players that Akins could feel like he can come in and compete/beat them out for spots in the rotation. And neither guy would be guaranteed the kind of minutes that the MSU guys would so he’d have more minutes available off the bench even if he didn’t beat out those guys for starting spots in the backcourt