WATCH: Dusty May, New Michigan basketball faces speak to close out summer workouts
ANN ARBOR – Michigan Wolverines head coach Dusty May and four new players – guard Roddy Gayle Jr., centers Vlad Goldin and Danny Wolf and guard Tre Donaldson – spoke to the local media on Thursday to close out summer workouts.
The program is still very much in the evaluation process, but there have been some early takeaways on the type of team that May will bring into his first season at Michigan.
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“We have a very big, skilled team and we’ve shot the ball pretty well,” May said on Thursday from Crisler Center. “We’ve tried to, just in the last few weeks, pick up our tempo and our pace, so we’re working through that fatigue and the shooting. When we’re not tired, we shoot it really well, and as we’ve gotten into playing more up and down, we haven’t shot it quite as well. So, we’re just trying to expedite the process a little bit.
“But that’s one area that I don’t think we’ll struggle with is making open shots.”
Defensively, the group should wind up resembling some of his former teams at Florida Atlantic with the caveat that it is still early on.
“We thought it would be polar opposites as we’ve evaluated our group, and we’re still trying to figure out the best way for us to play on both sides of the ball,” May admitted during the session. “We moved a little closer to how we played in the past with our positioning, with our off ball rules and whatnot. So, I’d say it’d be similar, but it won’t be identical.
“Our makeup is different, but the size allows us to play a little bit differently than our speed did at FAU.”
Watch May’s full media session above and the Michigan players in attendance at Thursday’s media session.
