Wolverine TV: Phil Martelli previews Michigan vs. Maryland, talks Will Tschetter, more
Michigan Wolverines basketball associate head coach Phil Martelli met with the media Wednesday morning, before his team takes off for Maryland. The Maize and Blue vs. the Terrapins will take place Thursday night at the Xfinity Center. Watch the Zoom press conference below.
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Phil Martelli talks Michigan focus level
Michigan beat Maryland by 35 points at home Jan. 1. The score will start off at 0-0 Thursday, though, and the Wolverines will need to have a completely different energy playing at the Terrapins’ venue. Martelli discussed the challenge and more.
“Great attention to detail defensively,” Martelli said of what Michigan did well in the first meeting, an 81-46 win. “We didn’t honor their shot fakes. We were very conscious of [Jahmir] Young getting to his left hand, challenged [Don] Carey on his three-point shooting, limited their transition.
“So all of the defensive fundamentals, and obviously, starting the game, whatever it was, 16, 17-0, helped us. But we were very, very sharp defensively that day — and we’ll have to be the same.
“They’re a little bit different team at home. Their last home game, they beat Ohio State, and we have to be aware now. A young team playing a team a second time where you beat them [the first meeting] — you can’t have any slippage.
“And then there’s always the factor of three kids going home — [junior center] Hunter [Dickinson], T-Will [junior forward Terrance Williams II] and [freshman guard] Dug [McDaniel]. Sometimes, young players when they go home, play for the wrong reasons. They play and worry about the people in the stands, rather than the players that are with them on the court.”
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Michigan and Maryland will tip off at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN Thursday night. The Wolverines haven’t won at the Xfinity Center with fans in the stands since March 3, 2019, a 69-62 victory in the penultimate regular-season game.
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