Five takeaways from Michigan’s smooth-sailing win over Washington

A layup with 17:55 to go in the first half gave the Michigan men’s basketball team a 6-5 lead over Washington, and from there, the Wolverines never looked back.

With the only drama in the contest from then on being the point spread, Michigan cruised to an effective 91-75 win over the Huskies at home on Sunday. Amid an elite shooting day for graduate guard Nimari Burnett, and an introduction to Ann Arbor for redshirt freshman forward Oscar Goodman, here are five takeaways from an almost nonchalant Michigan win.

Offense hits yet another gear

The number of positive offensive anecdotes to name for the Wolverine offense has increasingly become a laundry list. Michigan has won its last five consecutive games, scored 80 or more in its last seven, and even graduate center Vlad Goldin sits at an improbable five for seven from three-point range.

Dizzying metrics to anyone except coach Dusty May.

“No, not even close, not even close. Absolutely not,” May said of being a finished offensive product postgame. “We’re improving — our ball fakes, our eye fakes, our spacing, when to cut, when not to cut. It’s getting better. But no, we’re not functioning on an elite level offensively yet, and we’re not crashing with aggression.

“We need to be at a championship level. We have a long ways to go.”