Dylan and Eric recap Michigan’s 96-92 win over Toledo on Friday night in the final exhibition tune-up of the season. They discuss LJ Cason, finishing issues, offensive identity and how concerning giving up 92 points to Toledo should be.
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The UM Hoops Podcast · Episode 184 · 1:05:36
Show notes
Michigan beat Toledo 96-92 in its final exhibition, and the game was closer than the talent gap suggested. Dylan Burkhardt and Eric Shapiro say the offense generated good looks, mostly in transition and early in possessions, but missed dunks and turnovers let Toledo back in.
The defense drew more concern. Constant switching led to miscommunications, and Toledo shot well on mid-range twos. They also cover Danny Wolf's role, rotation oddities caused by foul trouble, Rubin Jones's offensive fit, and how quickly freshman LJ Cason could pass Nimari Burnett in the rotation.
- offense
- defense
- switching
- rotation
- finishing
- freshmen
- exhibition
Worth hearing
Prediction49:57 · LJ Cason's breakout half
“I don’t really see a reason that he’s not playing more minutes than Nimari Burnett by December, by Big Ten play, right?”
Dylan Burkhardt
12:57 · Danny Wolf's role and turnovers
“I think Gayle’s probably the most talented offensive player from what I’ve seen like so far.”
Eric Shapiro
28:05 · Switching defense and miscommunication
“Those are all things that people said about FAU last year a lot.”
Dylan Burkhardt
25:43 · Switching defense and miscommunication
“He plays defense like he’s an 18-year-old in October of his freshman year.”
Dylan Burkhardt
57:31 · Rubin Jones's offensive fit
“I think he’s like pretty clearly like the 4th or 5th offensive option no matter when he’s on the floor and probably 5th with the starters.”
Eric Shapiro
Chapters
- Intro and the Toledo result
- Offensive takeaways and lack of identity
- Danny Wolf's role and turnovers
- Switching defense and miscommunication
- Big-man combinations and rotations
- Donaldson, Goldin and finishing
- LJ Cason's breakout half
- Rubin Jones's offensive fit
- Donaldson's misses and wrap-up
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20 repliesJoin the discussiontelekinetic
Dylan, I just gotta say, all this content is like water in the desert. you keep putting up more and more stuff! you must be keeping some very late hours, but your enthusiasm to be covering an exciting team is palpable, noted, and very much appreciated.
umhoops
Interesting to look at the cumulative stats through two games (shoutout to Michigan for providing):
Through two exhibition games, eight Michigan players have taken between 14 and 18 shots, and five have at least five assists.
umhoops
Thought this said “water for dessert” when I first saw it and was like “damn…”
kturnup
This is my attempted guess at the rotation we may be looking at for the first games
DMB_Dad
It would be interesting to compare these stats to end of the year stats. I bet there are alot of similarities. I wouldn’t expect LJ to be our second leading scorer, but I think you will see about 5-6 guys averaging between 9 and 14 points (with Roddy being the 14). Tre will lead the team in assists but it will probably be around 5-6 but Wolf and Roddy will probably each be around 3 per game.
Feels like production is going to be really spread out across the board this year.