WATCH: Dusty May, Michigan players break down blowout win over Miami (Ohio)
Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May, graduate center Vladislav Goldin, graduate guard Rubin Jones and junior guard/forward Roddy Gayle Jr. met with the media following their team’s 94-67 win over Miami (Ohio) Monday night at Crisler Center. Watch their press conferences below.
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Head coach Dusty May
Graduate center Vladislav Goldin
Graduate guard Rubin Jones and junior guard/forward Roddy Gayle Jr.
Dusty May’s opening comments
May opened his press conference discussing his overall thoughts on Michigan’s win. He wasn’t happy with some first half turnovers but was pleased with his team’s response.
“Well, much like our last home game, a much better effort in the second half, as we continue to find solutions, remedies for the turnovers and whatnot,” May said. “But overall, I thought we played with good spirit overall. In transition, we played with much better pace. We were much crisper in the second half, so once again we’re moving incrementally in the right direction.”
May was asked about subbing out Michigan’s five starters less than three minutes into the game, after the group had committed 4 turnovers in that span.
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“With us, I think we have a lot of different guys that can be in any lineup,” May said. “And sometimes, it might just be simply different guys playing well with each other. I just thought we didn’t have much spark. We looked a little bit dazed, and so we just wanted to throw some guys in there and see if they’d bring some fire and spark — and they did that.
“Every game, we all have a different role. Our jobs might be a little bit different, and tonight that second group did a nice job of giving us a spark.”
Michigan had seven players with eight or more points.
“I’ll be honest: It’s tough,” May said of that balance. “We want to play with such pace, we want to play with such great tempo. We want our guys to crash, we want to get five on the glass and then we want to spring back in transition and be stingy on the defensive end. And so it’s tough to play 35 minutes, especially when our staff isn’t controlling each possession, we’re not holding it up, give our guys six, seven or eight seconds to hold their breath, running a set. So we typically play more than most games do. But we’re stretching our rotation now as we’re trying to figure out who’s gonna be in the rotation and who’s gonna be more of a specialty guy, or tonight they need this so I might get some minutes but I have to stay ready. So we’re trying to figure it out, but we do have a lot of weapons, as you see night in, night out.”
