McCaffrey Post game interview
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Garza's night as well as the team's 3 point performance last night. That's more than just an off night. Dickinson is pretty good and Michigan's perimeter D looked darn effective as well. Also not ruling out that Garza could be showing the effects of a long and tough BIG season with a target painted on his back. He's been off even near the basket with some fairly open attempts.
With the overall BIG talent I could see this team going farther in the NCAA tourney than in the BIG tournament.
Garza's night as well as the team's 3 point performance last night. That's more than just an off night. Dickinson is pretty good and Michigan's perimeter D looked darn effective as well. Also not ruling out that Garza could be showing the effects of a long and tough BIG season with a target painted on his back. He's been off even near the basket with some fairly open attempts.
With the overall BIG talent I could see this team going farther in the NCAA tourney than in the BIG tournament.
There is nothing classy about McCaffery when he loses. He is the most immature head bball coach in the BTen. He's a talented coach -- you don't take 4 different teams from 4 different conferences to the Big Dance if you're not -- but emotionally he's very immature.
ssckelley
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No reason to cry over the officiating, the calls could have been perfect and nothing changes. I saw plenty of non calls against Iowa as well. It certainly wasn’t the worst officiating I’ve ever seen.
InGoodCo
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It was pretty bad and has been pretty bad all season long across the sport. I am not blaming the refs for the loss, that's ridiculous. Iowa lost, to a 1 seed on their home court. It happens. They kicked are can but that first half, with all the stops and not allowing a flow was ridiculous and some of the worst officiating I've witnessed... and yes, it was equally bad for both sides pretty much the entire game. Um, Michigan travels.... like a lot.
InGoodCo
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Right, Iowa was going to lose this game NO MATTER what. The first half clearly showed that. Iowa wilted. Fran got out coached, but I didn't have any issues with letting the bench players get some minutes in a game Iowa wasn't going to win.
1980HAWKFAN
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I don't think Fran got out coached at all. Howard had way many more options player wise than Fran. Howard probably told his guys to be more aggressive to the rim and get out in transition and take the open shots. They did and they hit them. I'm not sure how Fran counters the multiple options that Michigan has. Michigan has experience and talent at almost every position. Some of his bench guys would start on most other BTen teams. If anything, you could argue Fran has failed at recruiting a few players that can slash to rim and create points and make defenses collapse to help stop that.
WinOneThisCentury
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We can agree to disagree about Fran's coaching last night. His objective was to get their bigs in foul trouble...the problem was that Garza was off. Garza doesn't need to bang in the post against a 7'1" dude who is long as hell. Garza can bring Dickenson out of the paint and can score from three or from the perimeter. How many threes did Garza take last night...two. We played one dimensional offense. Post their guard, get their big out of the middle and let Murray and Weiskamp try to take people off the dribble.
You have to attack where there is weakness. Michigan is not vulnerable defending around the perimeter...or down low with their bigs. They are vulnerable when teams can match them up down low against their guards. Smith and Brooks are smaller guards. How many times did Connor, Frederick, or Weiskamp get one on one with Smith or Brooks down low. ZERO. That's ludicrous.
Instead we kept pounding the ball to Garza and he keep missing shots down low. He was off...try something different. He'd hit two shots from the perimeter...let him roam the perimeter and post their guards. I don't get it.
You have to attack where there is weakness. Michigan is not vulnerable defending around the perimeter...or down low with their bigs. They are vulnerable when teams can match them up down low against their guards. Smith and Brooks are smaller guards. How many times did Connor, Frederick, or Weiskamp get one on one with Smith or Brooks down low. ZERO. That's ludicrous.
Instead we kept pounding the ball to Garza and he keep missing shots down low. He was off...try something different. He'd hit two shots from the perimeter...let him roam the perimeter and post their guards. I don't get it.
HuckFinn
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There you go again. Making a bunch of sense and submitting a reasonable critique. You just have to stop.
WindsorHawk
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To the crowd saying we can’t beat MI... down 3 at the half then lost 2 key players. We weren’t going to win. But they aren’t unbeatable...probably take 3 out of 10 on a neutral court.
Press conference...If he says what he wants to say he gets himself in trouble and gets a lot of heat. This way he just got a lot of heat.
Why did Howard wait until 50 seconds to pull his starters when ours sat with over 4 minutes left? Why a full court press with 2 minutes left? Why is the ball going into Dick every trip down in that span?
Press conference...If he says what he wants to say he gets himself in trouble and gets a lot of heat. This way he just got a lot of heat.
Why did Howard wait until 50 seconds to pull his starters when ours sat with over 4 minutes left? Why a full court press with 2 minutes left? Why is the ball going into Dick every trip down in that span?
WindsorHawk
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At least he didn’t get ejected in the last minute. See OSU at MSU. Now I suppose the folks saying officiating is irrelevant will defend OSU coach.
For the record I was fine with his ejection to prove a point. It was a bad night to be the visiting team in the stare of Michigan IMO.
The Big LeHAWKski
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The Refs were not the reason we lost, but they sure as hell didn't call a good game. Only 1 foul on Mich in the entire 1st half?? Give me a fcking break. Has any B1G team ever gone an entire half with only one foul called against them?
WindsorHawk
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Well the talking heads now say Michigan is in the conversation with Baylor and Zags. I’ll go out on a limb and say they win the whole thing if only 1 foul per half is called on them.
smhawk
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The question is, why did michigan still have starters? Does Howard have something against Fran?
Luftgekuehlt67
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That stat is hard to come by. I don't believe it's reported in any systematic way.
I think the closest you would get would be mining play by play logs, but even those are possibly too vague. For example, ESPN's are very clean and uniform but, if you look at the 6:23 mark in the 2nd half, "Technical foul on Iowa".
Michigan 79-57 Iowa (Feb 25, 2021) Play-by-Play - ESPN
Play-by-play action for the Michigan Wolverines vs. Iowa Hawkeyes NCAAM game from February 25, 2021 on ESPN.
I haven't looked to see if it looks different when it's a technical on a specific player. Other PBP feeds may vary.
It does seem, anecdotally, that Fran has made a conscious effort to chill out. He used to get a lot of Ts and engaged in some pretty outrageous behavior (routinely having to be physically restrained by his assistants, etc). This might sound corny and/or old fashioned, but I don't think it's a great example to set for the young men on the team (though, I'm sure in Fran's mind he's doing it on their behalf) nor do I think it's a great way to represent the program, so I am happy that he's cleaned it up a bit. He's clearly an emotional guy though, I don't think it's an act. He's highly invested (understatement) and shit gets to him when it's not going well.
beavdawg8216
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Trust me the refs are reading Frans post game press conference. These refs work every day/every other day. There doing there job now Fran has to do his job. Its a bad look on Fran again but it will have absolutely no effect on the next game and how its officiated.
Right on. Garza had a horrible night and just kept throwing up bad and desperate shots. And our coaches allowed this for the whole of the game. Garza gonna hate this film and how he fell into this trap. Dickinson was really good, played smart and Garza didn't. Out coached and out played. Hope we can learn from it.
By F4 do you mean the Final Four?? More than breaks we could use a reincarnation of Ronnie Lester at the point and a really good shutdown defender of the 6 ft 5 or so variety. Lester with good knees was quick enough to defend. We have a lot of really good shooters when they have time and a little room to get in their rhythm. We have the center and pretty good rebounding. We need the slashing penetrating pt guard and someone to shut the other team down.
