On February 3 / Michigan The main coach, Dusty May, held his typical weekly news conference inside the Cristler Center, a building in which Wolverines is still ranked twenty, not defeated before the confrontation on Tuesday with No. 7 Purdue.
At that moment, it was exactly the month of May through the first impressive year that has already seen its reform on the list, embracing a profitable culture and completing each of these fans that fans buy tickets at invisible rates from an early age, free of unpleasant smell. Days of former coach Joan Howard, long before everything collapsed and Michigan decreased towards the Big Ten. The intended durability of the intended reconstruction in May means that Wolfirin was chosen to occupy the ninth position in the league poll-confined between Ohio and Maryland, and four sites behind the Michigan competition-however, Michigan sat in early February with an impressive record of 16-5 in a way Year and 9-2 in the league, tied with boilemakers for the second most loss losses in the conference behind the unprecedented Spartans. The fans’ base, which has seen a depressed time from outside the NCAA championship bubble every two years of the past two years, began to house new national related dreams, as Wolverines was flowing inside and came out of the AP survey every week.
Thus, May was asked a somewhat influential question at the end of its media session last Monday: I talked earlier about being in [Big Ten] Blessed. I think, when you look around the league and what is waiting for you, comrades, what do you think of the keys to a couple because you are the team that wins in the battle?
May with a sarcastic smile and laughing “transformations, transformations, transformations.” We will see them [on film] Today, we will repeat these situations, and I will continue to try to know what we are doing better to eliminate some of these things. It is a partnership among us all. “
With one month remaining in the normal season, and before the Titanic match against Bordeaux in the first place in Ann Arbour on Tuesday night, Wolfirines continues to find success through the forbidden brand of basketball that qualifies them as one of the most efficient offensive teams in the country (23 in Kinbum as of It appeared on Monday) and also one of the most parties (332 on Kinbum), with Colorado being the only program in the worst conference in that particular category. It started only twice in the previous ten seasons that Wolverines started the Big Ten menu with 10 wins through the first 12 games – in 2021 under Haward and in 2019 under his predecessor John Bilin – but unprecedented in the Kinbum era, which dates back to 1997 , Michigan has moved a full campaign with a kind of MAI’s current problems. Only six teams were classified in Michigan outside the highest 200 rotation rate during that period, none of them than 286 in general. This is still nearly 50 sites above as the May group is currently while converting the ball to 20.5 % of amazing property.
Michigan is still ranked among the best 20 years at the national level in offensive efficiency in most of this season, which confirms the deadly May when his players can keep the ball. Wolverines ranks second in Big Ten and Seventh in the country to obtain the percentage of effective field goals (57.3 %), a scale that focuses on increasing the focus on three successful snapshots, and they have more players at the top 50 in the league for the Baysi offensive performance rating (six From any other school at the conference: Tri Donaldson’s point goalkeeper (13), Vladislav Golden Center (19), Small striker Sam Walters (25), power striker Danny Wolf (29), shooting goalkeeper Neymari Burnett (40) and Power Forward Will Tsiatter (47), only one of them started his career in Michigan. The question facing Mayo and his players from now to the end of the season – whenever that is – whether it is possible to treat the most obvious Achilles heel before it is too late.
“There is no other team in my database, which had the 20 best crimes and a rotational rate outside the top of 300 since you followed this,” Kenpom.com, Kenpom.com, told Fox SPORTS last week. .
Historical comparisons are amazing given the amount of what the Michigan team seems to be this year, even when Wolverines slipped a few sites to No. 23 in the amended offensive efficiency after beating Indiana on Saturday. There was no team limited to the completion of the 20 best crimes in the country while ranking 300 or worse in its rate – the paradox that Michigan occupied the minute of most of the season – but nearly 90 % of these elite crimes fell safely among the best 150 percent The lower percentage, including three seasons when there was no one of the best 20 years of that threshold in 2002, 2011 and 2017.
Data surrounding the NCAA Championship teams during the Kinbum era is more realistic, with only 12 schools from the last 108 schools that reached the quarter -finals to do so while ranked 150th or worse in the rotation rate. This includes only six ranked in 200 or worse: 2023 Uconn (236), 2018 Loyola Chicago (227), 2012 Louisville (215TH), 2010 Michigan State (219th), 2007 Georgetown (211th) and 2006 UCLA (225), Nevertheless, the strong structures went to win the national championship. When Michigan reached the fourth final under Pelin in 2013 and 2018, where she picked up to 20 years, Wolverines ranked first and fourth in the country in her rotation rate, respectively.
“It is clear that it is very difficult to obtain the crime of the elite [and keep] “The field of transformations is an interesting and unexplored study area, I feel, because if I am very obsessed with rotation, it may be bad as well. Some transformations are not bad. Let’s put it in this way. Michigan appears to be really good. Some of this is due to the fact that they may try more dangerous passes in the end, when they are successful, they are good.
“I always tell the coaches, you can imagine a position in which you run a play, which is a selection process or something, and you throw a lubble, if you completed it, this is similar to the guaranteed points, right? So? This traffic is like 30 % of time, if it succeeds 70 % of the time [then] It will be a very good crime. It is clear that Michigan has some preventive transformations that can be prevented, I’m sure. But it is clear that there are some transformations from that [not-so-bad] diverse. Things like the interior pass, when they are successful, end in very good clips. This appears to be at least part of Michigan in this case. “
This feeling would seem to be hesitant last week after winning 80-76 over Oregon, where Michigan turned the ball more than 15 times-three more than ducks but in line with its average season. May said when he was asked about his team’s mistakes that night: “The transformations that lead to the throwing of the ball and diving.
Some of them seemed to have been the product of an offensive scheme working in the fourth fastest pace in The Big Ten, a basic principle of how to play after arriving from Florida Atlantic last spring. Wolverines also depends on a point goalkeeper in Donaldson (2.3 rotation per game) whose gifts have increased in each season of his career and manages many groups that feature a great passage between the wolf (3.4 rotation per game) and Goldin (2.1 transformations per game), pair of Seven feet are routinely moved by the ball defenders. However, the distribution of a healthy snapshot includes 33.4 % of attempts that arose at the edge (success rate of 67.9 %) and 44.2 % of attempts that arise beyond the arc (success rate of 36.3 %) this season reflects the commitment of the general team to shock.
“I believed that our men played heavily and greatly,” May said after beating Oregon. “It was not beautiful. It was not anywhere in which we should win the championships we were trying to win. But I think we were competing and fought at the championship level tonight.”
This is why ridiculous errors and moments of decisions that cannot be explained by his players continue to enter the last month of the normal season. It was not difficult to find examples against Oregon: Walters was standing on the sidelines when a pass in the corner caught. Burnett pulled his pivotal foot on the routine jump stopped, and Donaldson fell an internal pass without a defender nearby; The shooting goalkeeper, Rudi Jail Junior, was called to travel not once, not twice but three times in a quick sequence in the second half. The list seems to continue. In its five defeats this season, the average rate of transformations reached 15.6 transformations per game, which is more than the average season of 14.7 per game, which ranks 337 in general.
Some of this was expected to be expected due to the flow of new faces on both the list of the list and training alike, as Mayo built this team mainly from scratch – and in a short period – as soon as the sports director Ward Manuel made a decision to move from Howard. After all, the first team in May in Florida Atlantic 303 occupied its rotational rate by giving the ball by 20.6 % of the property, the tenth highest than the current number in Michigan. It was not the fourth May season, when the album finally broke the best 100, when he moved them to the four final.
“If you cancel half of these 17 and 18 properties that you arise,” May said last week, “Now your defense is much better, and men have more touches, and there is more flow. Thus, I think all parts of the game will work better then if We removed this thing.
Michael Cohen covers university football and basketball for Fox SPORTS with a focus on Big Ten. Follow it on Twitter @michael_cohen13.
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