WATCH: Dusty May, Michigan players break down win over Tarleton State
Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May, junior guard/forward Roddy Gayle Jr. and sophomore forward Sam Walters met with the media following a 72-49 win over Tarleton State Thursday night at Crisler Center. Watch their press conferences below.
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Head coach Dusty May
Junior guard/forward Roddy Gayle Jr.
Sophomore forward Sam Walters
May broke down his team’s win, which was sloppy at times. He said the Wolverines made some strides, though, against a team coached by Billy Gillespie that can be tough to play against.
“Good to end our home stand with a win, in another game that I feel like we learned something about ourselves,” May said. “This was a game we needed. Coach Gillespie, he gets his guys to play extremely physical. They play with great passion and energy. And for where we’ve been and what we’ve struggled with, it allowed us to really put an emphasis on taking care of the basketball, meeting passes and whatnot.
“Our ball security came a long way in the last few days. It was an odd game, where we didn’t convert very well around the rim, we didn’t make our open rhythm shots. We missed several front ends, and for us to still have this margin, with all of that happening is a testament to our guys. They played hard, they competed and we got excellent guard play.”
Michigan applied some full court pressure at the beginning of the game and sprinkled it in throughout the night, after not showing much of that look so far this season. May discussed what the objective was.
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“Well, the one thing about us, we play a very fast tempo offensively, and this has been a theme for probably the last 10 to 15 years of my coaching career, defensively we have a really slow tempo,” May said. “And a lot of times, switching does that, where teams are trying to figure out different ways to attack the switch. Maybe your schemes take them out of what they’re trying to do, so they have to go to plan B or plan C. So we thought they were simply trying to slow the game down, move the ball and we were just trying to find different ways to speed up tempo.”
Michigan graduate center Vladislav Goldin scored 12 points on 8 field goal attempts, but he missed some easy looks.
“I thought he played one of his better floor games,” May said. “As far as not converting around the rim, it’s tough. These are shots he normally converts. They’re not dropping. I think it’s like everything else in sports — you hit a line drive, and it’s right at the shortstop in baseball or you do the right thing and it just doesn’t drop.”
