WATCH: Dusty May on Michigan defense, Fort Myers Tip-Off championship, football win over OSU, more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines basketball head coach Dusty May met with the media Monday morning coming off his team’s title in the Fort Myers Tip-Off and ahead of the Big Ten opener at Wisconsin Tuesday night. Watch May’s press conference below.
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Michigan head coach Dusty May
Michigan is No. 22 on Kenpom and No. 35 in the NET rankings, sitting at 6-1 heading into the first two Big Ten games (at Wisconsin Tuesday, vs. Iowa Saturday). May discussed what he wants to improve and also what he likes the most about his team so far this season.
“Well, there are a number of things that we need to improve on,” May noted. “The glaring improvements need to be on the defensive glass. We have to rebound the ball better on the defensive end, especially with our size. It’s not as if that should be a weakness for us.
“I don’t think anyone’s unaware of our turnover rate, and we have to do a better job. Some of them have been bad fortune. We’ve had two offensive goaltends, where we’re active on the glass, and you tip it in. Some things just kinda happen. Or we get an offensive rebound and we get bumped and lose our balance because maybe it’s a freshman or whatever the case. So it looks worse than it is. We do think we’re a lot closer to cleaning it up than some teams in this situation.
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“And it’s not as if we don’t have what we need to get it fixed. We have good guard play, we have steady wings, we have bigs who are good decision makers and ball handlers, as well. So we think we’ll get it fixed. We’ve tried some different things in practice, we’ve really been focusing on it the last couple weeks. “And to see us not turn it over against Xavier is a good sign. We think we have a really smart group so we should be able to get this fixed.”
Continued the Michigan coach, on what he likes the most: “The defensive side of the ball. The way we play defense, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made on the fly. We’re not real black and white, you’ve gotta do this and you’ve gotta do that. It’s, who am I, who is he, who’s the guy next to me? So there are a lot of really quick decisions that need to be made, and it seems like our guys are making those correct decisions a lot more frequently than they were three or four weeks ago, and part of that is us getting used to playing with guys and us not having a set system of rules, per se.”
