Aday Mara at Michigan Media Day

During practice, I hate it. But after, I'm just like super grateful to have him, to get like a big man that I have to play against every day, uh, that he's like tall, strong, he's physical. So that helps me a lot to, to keep playing more physical every day, uh, and just be used to when the games come and just like we have like a play against a physical big man, it's like normal for me. Yeah, yeah, so I would say like it's really good to have him.

I would say toughness, just as I said, like playing with Malick. Quickness. He's been asking me to rim run every day. So I would say like I'm getting better.

It's one of the things that you were asking in preseason, like the last day, about like conditioning and running. So I would say like that's one of the things. Are there any big differences between what they're having you do here versus what you did at UCLA last year in terms of your role in offense and defense and stuff? Well, the style of game is different, so I would say yes.

Yeah, I would say, I would say like Elliot Cadeau for sure. We have like a good chemistry. Yaxel Lendeborg has been playing good, like playing really good in the ball screen. So, so yeah, but like almost all the, like all the guards can play pick-and-roll, find us and do a lot of things.

How often have you, Morez Johnson, and Yaxel Lendeborg been sharing the floor together in practice, and what does that look like? Well, we play a couple of practices together, and I think it's been good. He was good. So I don't know.

I think he's just changing a lot during the days, you know. So we are not playing like the same 5 guys every day, so we are just changing a lot. So, so I would say like pretty good. I didn't, I mean, I didn't, I was, I wasn't thinking about it while practicing.