*** Official Michigan VS IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

jctisu

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Offense is erratic, but points
I think the subtle remark in being surrounded by shooters in the NBA gave some indication.
This. It's hard to space the floor when you don't have anyone to space the floor that the other team has to fear. We are so bad at shooting from the outside, they can sag off of it. If this team ever starts hitting at even a 5-7% clip better overall from three, you will see things open up a lot more.
 

HandSanitizer

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I think the subtle remark in being surrounded by shooters in the NBA gave some indication.

I know what he meant :) But i guess I was more talking about getting open looks. Maybe its more about our shooters not finding spots and moving without the ball? just something I have noticed so far. pretty easy to predict if we keep shooting contested shots we are not going to beat many teams.
 

I-stateTheTruth

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Half time fact that I suspected and had to double-check. Franz Wagner is Mo's brother, as noted. He came up through ALBA Berlin's youth system and mostly played in 3rd division games. But last year, he got some minutes with their first team, which ended up in the EuroCup finals. Which played Valencia in said finals, which was Matt Thomas' team. So Franz Wagner actually played against Matty Ice last year (scored 8 points in limited minutes in the EuroCup series of 3 games). I knew I'd seen that name before.

He must have maintained his amateur status with an eye on following his brother to NCAA hoops or he wouldn't be eligible.

He can shoot; I can see that.
 

CoKane

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Half time fact that I suspected and had to double-check. Franz Wagner is Mo's brother, as noted. He came up through ALBA Berlin's youth system and mostly played in 3rd division games. But last year, he got some minutes with their first team, which ended up in the EuroCup finals. Which played Valencia in said finals, which was Matt Thomas' team. So Franz Wagner actually played against Matty Ice last year (scored 8 points in limited minutes in the EuroCup series of 3 games). I knew I'd seen that name before.

He must have maintained his amateur status with an eye on following his brother to NCAA hoops or he wouldn't be eligible.

He can shoot; I can see that.
He also keeps up the trend of an injured/suspended player coming back just in time to play Iowa State. We're at player number 4394242 in a row