Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Wolverine Wednesday: It was Ugly

Michigan Basketball took the floor at Little Caesars last night against Wake Forest.  Michigan controlled much of the 1st half but started to miss shots in the 2nd and had to struggle to get the game to OT.  The 7'3 Mara is really the difference in this talented team right now.   He is a huge rim protector and adds some nice offense.  Michigan won the game by 1 point in OT. 


Michigan still needs to be better in many areas against good teams. 

1. Hit free throws.  The game would have been easily handled if the free throws were made. 
2. Too many bad turnovers 
3. Better point guard play 
4. Don't settle for 3 pointers 

Many of these issues are the guys not playing much with each other.  It will get better and it's a big win, when they are playing so poorly.  They also need to hustle, Wake came back in the 2nd by just playing harder.  They have a ton of talent on the team and that talent won't win games alone if they don't play hard. 

A win is a win and the team is 2-0. 

It's flip season as the early signing period will be here before we know it and Michigan flipped another LB yesterday from USF in 3 star athlete Kaden Catching.  Kaden is 6'2 220 from Mississippi and had offers from the likes of Memphis, Ole Miss, Liberty, and other smaller programs.  Michigan is hoping they found a diamond in the rough here.  Welcome Kaden! 

Michigan has now flipped prospects from Wisconsin, Miami of Ohio, and USF in the last week. 




1 comment:

Mastermind said...

There was a good discussion in yesterday's comments that I posted late on. So I will re-post my comments today-

I agree with the author. Seems like most of these problems come from bad coaching. Nothing is being corrected. Nothing is even trying to be corrected. Same plays, same players dropping passes, no threat on returns, no TEs being used. Can guarantee you the gameplan against N.W. is to run Marshall 45 times. We will probably score 16 points.