U of M MEN'S BASKETBALL 2016-2017

[Kstat]

Makes sense. How is the pay compared to NBA?

Not even close. But it's better than what he gets from the NCAA, which is nothing.

Recent top European prospects have been worth $3-5 million euros, though 90% of them have been for Spanish or Serbian clubs and Wagner being a rare German prospect, I'm not sure there's much of a precedent there.

Dennis Schroder (now with the Atlanta Hawks) was the last hot prospect out of Germany (really the first one since Dirk) but he was more of a later bloomer so I doubt he had as big a contract with Braunschwieg. This would probably be the first time a German club really made a major play for a domestic player.

Germans don't historically love basketball, but they love themselves some Dirk. If a domestic club feels they can sell him as Dirk 2.0, he could have some big money thrown his way.

As a side note, there's a documentary about Dirk's life on Netflix, and I think it's fascinating. His shooting form was essentially engineered by his mentor Holger Geschwinder, who used physics to calculate exactly what type of movements to incorporate. He's got an academy in Germany called the Institute of Applied Nonsense where he comes up with really weird ways to apply science to basketball. He's even got ideal shooting mechanics on various planets in the solar system (taking gravity into account), just for the hell of it.

[Hannibal]

Iowa and OSU stand out. We should be 12-6 and not staring down the barrel of a 1-8 or 1-9 matchup (if we can get there).

[hack]

And, let there be no doubt about the difference in effort. Dakich said so yesterday on twitter, but it's observable too. They were up 30 last night and diving for loose balls on defense.

[hack]

Iowa and OSU stand out. We should be 12-6 and not staring down the barrel of a 1-8 or 1-9 matchup (if we can get there).

The OSU loss is an out-and-out crime. It's really hard to ever demand a win in Iowa City, but it was there for the taking. Illinois isn't good.

[Kstat]

Iowa was way better than anybody thought. They went into Maryland and crushed them.

The OSU game was definitely a turning point. They needed a bit of a wakeup call. Most teams do during the dog days.

[Whitley]

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6 Wisconsin, Minnesota
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10 Michigan State

[hack]

Iowa was way better than anybody thought. They went into Maryland and crushed them.

The OSU game was definitely a turning point. They needed a bit of a wakeup call. Most teams do during the dog days.

Go fight with Dakich, Calhoun and the others who disagree with you, but I'm not gonna bother. IMO it's a from-here-on question. Whether it carries on next year. Walton was the catalyst this year. We'll see what happens next year.

[Detroit Dan]

Our best shot for a top notch year is to win the B1G tournament.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Only if you play Nebraska each round.

[hack]

I would not tire of that.

[Detroit Dan]

We've beaten all the top teams (except Maryland) convincingly (including Minnesota).

[The Oracle]

Hack: If Michigan wins Thursday, will you ne able to swing the Purdue game Friday before you head out of town?

[hack]

Sigh. No. FFS. We head out at 1.

[The Oracle]

Jeezus, fucking family shit.

[hack]

Ridiculous.