MGoPodcast 9.22: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Comment Count

Seth

1 hour and 15 minutes

2018-03-19 mgopodcast 9.22

We are back at the Residence Inn Ann Arbor Downtown where the conference rooms are fortunately safe right now since 1 seeds apparently can lose to Rutgers-level teams now.

We Couldn’t Have One Without the Other

We can do this because people support us. You should support them too so they’ll want to do it again next year! The show is presented by UGP & The Bo Store, and if it wasn’t for Rishi and Ryan there would be VERY long hiatuses between podcasts.

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1. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! the Houston Game

starts at 1:00

Even while not handing out bags John Beilein is among the most successful coaches in the country. Naming a Top 10 without him becomes impossible. Tommy Amaker? Borderline Top 5, obvious Top 10, hard-pressed to find a better tactician. Breaking down The Shot II. The walk-ons are so crafty at post-buzzer beater dogpile tactical moves you wonder if they’ve been coached on that too. The game before that was a #refshow. Other than that: defense continued to be superlative. Want to see Simpson create more—Houston forced drives to the baseline. Weird shots—CM gets his but a lot of great shots rolled out.

2. Unnnnngggghhhhhhh the Montana Game

starts at 30:32

Least fun 14-point victory in tournament history. At one point Montana’s offense was so out of ideas that the tried to post up their 6’8” Big Sky bigs on Teske. In a slugfart game when you need someone to barely scrape the lower reaches of offensive adequacy Charles Matthews is your man. Let’s not get in that situation again. Wagner and MAAR had bad weekends; need better to beat North Carolina Texas A&M. 

3. Gimmicky Top 5: Wild Emotional Swings

starts at 43:59

Doesn’t have to be sports but 9/10 are sports because who are you talking to? Jordan Poole shot is not eligible. Glorious trollface steal, the 2002 Red Wings-Vancouver series. The Shot. UTL1. Also some sad things.

4: Ace’s Hockey Podcast (wsg David Nasternak AND Ace Anbender)

starts at 59:36

It’s the #8 overall seed which means 2 seed, which means you get an ECAC team instead of the #1 overall seat in your part of the bracket. Northeastern: eerily similar to Michigan two years ago. Second-worst at puck possession. They have son of Keith Primeau. (why not MSU or another Michigan team?) and the Hobey leader—Michigan’s awful PK unit means whistles matter a lot. Cornell on the other side: super old players, play a lock system, goalie with super-high SV%. Unless it’s BU, which is super-talented high draft picks but not well-coached.

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MUSIC

  • “Turn My Swag On”—Soulja Boy & Tellum
  • “Hate It Or Love It”—The Game & 50 Cent
  • “Funkin Around”—OutKast
  • “Across 110th Street”

THE USUAL LINKS

Can we talk about fun things because Jordan Poole hit a really awesome shot!

Comments

Indy Pete - Go Blue

March 19th, 2018 at 8:25 AM ^

This man is an elite coach.  Period. 

He excelled at D3, D2, D1 - low/mid/high.  4 Sweet 16s in 6 years.  He has taken 4 different teams to the NCAA tournament.  4 B1G banners in 10 years.  Most wins of all time @ Michigan.  721 wins overall.  He was voted by peers as cleanest coach in America by a dramatic margin; that means a lot in this current climate - cannot understimate what it means to be clean.  He created his own offensive system that is gold in March at every level.  He has turned many 3 star players into 1st round NBA draft picks.  He has been to the elite 8 3 times.  His only national championship appearance was against a blatantly cheating team (i.e. he has the asterisk national title).

Other than that, AHHHHHHH!  And another great podcast!

Leaders And Best

March 19th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^

This was the names I thought of.

Coaches I would put in my top 10:

Mike Krzyzewski

Roy Williams

Bill Self

Tom Izzo

John Calipari

Jay Wright

Mark Few

Tony Bennett

Gregg Marshall



Coaches in the conversation with Beilein for the top 10:

Bob Huggins

Jamie Dixon

Chris Mack

Mick Cronin

Mike Brey



Guys who may have been there a year or two ago:

Jim Boeheim

Sean Miller

Rick Pitino

Thad Matta

Bo Ryan

 

L'Carpetron Do…

March 19th, 2018 at 9:55 AM ^

So Michigan has won two games in this tournament without playing particularly well.  My hat goes off to Houston, those kids played their ass off and I truly believe they deserved to win that game.  

This team needs to get it together quick.  Who knows what they can do if they actually play well?  

This is the drunkest I've been for a Michigan game all year so its a bit hazy.

cbutter

March 19th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^

The Trey Burke steal on appling was when the game was tied and the shot clock was turned off. Michigan State had a last shot for the win, didn't even have to worry about tying it, that is what made it so great for me. Plus you could put the nail in the coffin on the who is better debate. 

Hail-Storm

March 19th, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^

side is way better than the other side.  Looking at you Wisconsin BTT game and you MSU 2015 game that never happened, and you Miami of Ohio Hockey game in NCAA tournament where the stupid ref blew his whistle a fraction of a second before a puck going in went in.