Yaxel Lendeborg dominated on Sunday night, finishing with 27 points as Michigan capped its historic regular season with a second win over Michigan State. Dylan and Eric react to Michigan’s 29-2 finish and historic dominance, discuss Roddy Gale’s resurgence and the foul trouble risks with Mara, then (39:00) preview Michigan’s path through the Big Ten Tournament as the No. 1 seed.
The UM Hoops Podcast · Episode 241 · 1:03:32
Show notes
Dylan Burkhardt and Eric Shapiro react to Michigan's 90-80 win over Michigan State, which finished a 29-2 regular season and a sweep of the rivalry. Yaxel Lendeborg's 27 points, five threes and Roddy Gayle's bench play lead the discussion.
They also debate sitting Aday Mara and Morez Johnson Jr. with two fouls, Michigan's transition defense, Jaxon Kohler's post game, Elliot Cadeau's value and Morez's All-Big Ten case. The back half previews the Big Ten Tournament path, sleepers like Purdue and a long tangent on matchup analysis.
- lendeborg
- foul trouble
- big ten tournament
- transition defense
- rotation
- all-big ten
- michigan state
- matchup analysis
Worth hearing
21:27 · A 29-2 season in perspective
“I would say this team has basically broke any scale I had for measuring how good a team was. They’re better than any team I can really remember covering, and not by a little bit.”
Dylan Burkhardt
39:29 · Morez Johnson's All-Big Ten case
“I think if you offered every Big Ten coach a chance to draft one player off any Big Ten team to build a team around, he would be in the top 3 picks.”
Dylan Burkhardt
36:32 · Elliot Cadeau's value
“I think he has the biggest disparity between what like the casual or like average fan thinks of him and like how good he actually is.”
Eric Shapiro
12:50 · Mara and Morez foul trouble
“Aday Mara can’t commit an offensive foul and push someone over on a made basket in the first 8 minutes of a game that matters because you’re playing with borrowed time if you keep doing that.”
Dylan Burkhardt
17:53 · Mara and Morez foul trouble
“I just don’t think it’s smart to foul out your own players when they’re 3 fouls away from fouling out.”
Eric Shapiro
23:00 · A 29-2 season in perspective
“I think their transition defense was as bad as it’s been all year.”
Dylan Burkhardt
12:24 · Mara and Morez foul trouble
“He just holds everything together defensively. I think Michigan is better on the glass, better around the rim.”
Dylan Burkhardt
Prediction51:23 · Tournament sleepers and odds
“So for me, I think the next month of Purdue basketball is going to fall somewhere on extremes.”
Dylan Burkhardt
Chapters
- Michigan finishes the sweep of Michigan State
- Yaxel Lendeborg's masterclass
- Roddy Gayle's resurgence
- Mara and Morez foul trouble
- A 29-2 season in perspective
- Transition defense and Jaxon Kohler
- Trey McKenney, Nimari Burnett and wing roles
- Elliot Cadeau's value
- Morez Johnson's All-Big Ten case
- Wisconsin and the Big Ten Tournament path
- Tournament sleepers and odds
- How to do matchup analysis
Games discussed
- Michigan State at Michigan W 90-80
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32 repliesJoin the discussionDavis104
I am going to listen to this podcast as many times as Tom Izzo pretends to discipline Jeremy Fears
MichiganMan2424
Alright we’ll tell you what they said in this podcast then
Maize_achusetts
Gotta reread that my man! He’s gonna listen a lot!
MichiganMan2424
Disagree! Did you hear Izzo during the TV interview after Fears’ donkey kick? He’s so far beyond pretending to discipline him. He’s all in on yelling at Dusty now
Maize_achusetts
Nah…he’s all over the place. He “doesn’t condone it”, but he’s not sure what “it” is, because “what about all those other plays they made”, and he didn’t actually see the nut-kick, just the foul that obviously prompted it, because blindness set in immediately, including not being able to see the replay on the jumbo-tron. Dude is defensive, disingenuous, and contradictory. Dude lives in a narcissistic fantasy world and can’t accept defeat gracefully. Ever.