Michigan Basketball WON The National Championship! I still find it hard to believe, but I know it happened. Anyone else still in shock, like me?
Let's look at what's next:
Michigan's proposed starting lineup next year:
CadeauMcKinney
McCoy
Estrella
Thiam
Estrella
Thiam
Not too bad coming off a National Championship where 3 of your top players are heading to the Draft. The thought Rez might come back continues to be less likely as the latest mocks have right around the 15th pick range. Damn those mocks!
Does Michigan need a backup point guard? I trust Dusty but he doesn't seem to be looking for one in the portal. True freshmen Hartman and Brown are considered shooting guards over point guards. Maybe one has really good handles.
Speaking of Dusty, fear went through the Michigan fan base yesterday after the Magic fired their head coach on Monday and reports were they are very high on Dusty. Shams and others don't expect him to move from Ann Arbor after winning a National Championship. What a relief! (Hey Warde, if you have any power left in the athletics department, ink the damn extension!)
McCoy was re-ranked by Rivals as the #3 player in the country. He is very disruptive on both sides of the floor and a great defender. He is a good finisher but needs to work on his shot. With the proposed starting lineup above, I do see the possibilities of offensive slumps. Which leads me to the the next portal prospects.
Word on the street is Dusty is looking at 6'8 Cal Poly Forward Hamad Mousa who averaged 20 points per game. Can he be effective in the Big Ten? Hard to say but its worth the risks for scorer/shooter I heard Michigan's best player last season was from UAB.
There seems to be a bit of a conflict for the Duke/Michigan Prime match up on who owns the TV rights as the Big Ten/Fox feel they own the TV rights for that game.
4 comments:
I said it before...I won't blame Dusty if he kicks the tires on the NBA. there's pros and cons going both ways. The NBA is a player's league and the league is FULL of divas. you'd have to get a boat load of money as college coaches generally don't fair very well in the association. Many feel his best place is in AA and that might be true, but repeating in today's college environment has never been harder. There are no contracts in college and other programs can come raiding your players every year. It goes back to a quote that was attributed to Nick Saban. The worst part of his job at the end was having to re-recruit his own players after every game! Every player can be on a one year deal and move on to green pastures next year. At least in the NBA they have contracts!
Chowman: Did not know that. I thought college players signed contracts ..."my bad" .... good info. NIL is crazier than I thought.
they do technically, but they aren't as binding as pro contracts and again, they are only for one year. sure pro sports have 1 year deals, but most high level talent get tied up for multiple years. no such thing in college. every year is a new negotiation.
The problem with pro coaching is that you are caught in a down spiral that needs to be corrected since that's why coaches are fired/retired in the first place. Orlando took a big swing in acquiring Bane for essentially three first round picks- not much to build with there. And Kerr with Golden State is looking at an old team that will need to be completely refurbished. Remember when Beilein took over for a dysfunctional Cleveland team? Why jump into a meat grinder?
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