WATCH: Michigan basketball players speak from team media day
ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball program open its doors to the press on Friday afternoon for a team media day and pro day event for NBA scouts in attendance. The day started with a press conference with head coach Dusty May – which can be viewed in full here – followed be a look at a team lift and a full practice at the William Davidson Performance Center.
One of the major things Michigan is working on sorting out is chemistry and familiarity with all of the new players on the roster.
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“We want guys to take what the game gives us,” May said during his press conference on Friday afternoon. “If there’s two on the basketball, we expect that guy to pass it, even if he’s our leading scorer. But we also believe that because we’re putting good shooters over there and over there, that he’s got a lot of trust and faith that he’s going to make the right play as well. I do think it’s a product of how we’re built. We didn’t go sign anyone that got 25 a game at a lower level because we do value the team beat. We enjoy coaching it when everyone’s doing it together and everyone’s involved.
“We don’t really have guys stand in quarters for 20 to 25 seconds because we do think these young guys want to be involved. Not necessarily shooting, but they want to be involved in the game. But also because we have a lot of guys who think they’re double-digit quality scorers, and on that given night, maybe it’s a matchup, maybe it didn’t begin, the ball just finds them a little more often, and they take advantage of it.”
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Post-practice, we were allowed to speak to every player on the roster, or at least as many as we could fit in during the half-hour of media availability. Below are snippets of interviews with each of the players The Wolverine staff were able to get to, headlined by plenty of new faces and the younger, fresher faces on the roster.
Junior center/forward Danny Wolf
Junior guard Roddy Gayle Jr. and redshirt junior forward Will Tschetter
Freshmen guards Phat Phat Brooks and Justin Pippen
Junior guard Charlie May
Graduate center Vlad Goldin
Freshman guard LJ Cason
Graduate guard Rubin Jones
Michigan will hold an exhibition scrimmage for Forgotten Harvest against Oakland University at Little Caesars Arena in Downtown Detroit on Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. It will follow it up on Oct. 25 with a charity exhibition against Toledo at Crisler Center.
The regular season gets underway on Nov. 4 at Crisler Center against Cleveland State.
