Post by DanMcQ on Dec 30, 2006 11:03:37 GMT -5
** As usual, I will collect post-game article links in this first post. **
The Hoya: Georgetown's 11-0 Run to Start Second Half Too Much for Michigan
GUHoyas.com Box Score
GUHoyas.com Recap
ESPN.com/AP: Hibbert, Hoyas send Michigan to season's third loss
ESPN Photo Gallery
Timberwolves Sportblog: Michigan Makes Early Plans for the NIT
Washington Post - Camille Powell: Once-Sluggish Hoyas Shift Into Gear
Detroit News: Georgetown Dumps U-M - Amaker changes starting lineup again -- to no avail
Wash Times - Barker Davis: Georgetown aces test at Michigan
Wash Times: Hoyas Report
Livingston Daily.com: Not ready yet — Michigan fails again vs. marquee foe
MLive.com: Amaker digs deeper hole for himself
The Hoya: Georgetown's 11-0 Run to Start Second Half Too Much for Michigan
GUHoyas.com Box Score
GUHoyas.com Recap
ESPN.com/AP: Hibbert, Hoyas send Michigan to season's third loss
ESPN Photo Gallery
Timberwolves Sportblog: Michigan Makes Early Plans for the NIT
Washington Post - Camille Powell: Once-Sluggish Hoyas Shift Into Gear
Georgetown's first trip to the University of Michigan was a game that, in the words of junior guard Jonathan Wallace, "kind of checks our oil going into conference play."
"It's a big momentum boost for our team, just to get the confidence going into the Big East," junior forward Jeff Green said. "It gives us a head start going on the road in the Big East."
But after the game, Coach John Thompson III said, "This is clearly a game where a couple of weeks ago, the outcome may not have been what it was today."
"I've said from day one that we're going to go as Jeff goes, but we're getting to the point and soon we'll be at the point where we don't necessarily need him [to have big games]," Thompson said. "I want him to have huge games for us to win. But we have other guys that have gained confidence and are getting a better feel for the flow of the game and how we need to win."
"Guys are starting to see, if we stick to our stuff and stick to our offense, certain things are going to open up," said Wallace, who scored 12 points. "Guys are getting more comfortable with our offensive system in general. Playing against a good team, and seeing that it works against a good team, should build our confidence going into our next game facing Notre Dame."
"It's a big momentum boost for our team, just to get the confidence going into the Big East," junior forward Jeff Green said. "It gives us a head start going on the road in the Big East."
But after the game, Coach John Thompson III said, "This is clearly a game where a couple of weeks ago, the outcome may not have been what it was today."
"I've said from day one that we're going to go as Jeff goes, but we're getting to the point and soon we'll be at the point where we don't necessarily need him [to have big games]," Thompson said. "I want him to have huge games for us to win. But we have other guys that have gained confidence and are getting a better feel for the flow of the game and how we need to win."
"Guys are starting to see, if we stick to our stuff and stick to our offense, certain things are going to open up," said Wallace, who scored 12 points. "Guys are getting more comfortable with our offensive system in general. Playing against a good team, and seeing that it works against a good team, should build our confidence going into our next game facing Notre Dame."
Detroit News: Georgetown Dumps U-M - Amaker changes starting lineup again -- to no avail
Wash Times - Barker Davis: Georgetown aces test at Michigan
"We better be ready because we have a week and then the real thing starts," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said . "We have a lot of things we need to tighten up here and there. ... But, yeah, I think we're ready."
"I've said from Day 1 we're going to go as Jeff goes, but we're getting to the point where we don't need him to have huge games for us to win," Thompson said. "We're progressing to the point where we have different guys who can step up and step in."
"We were up 10 or 11 [points] in that first half," Thompson said. "Then they bang a 3, we have a couple of turnovers and all of a sudden it's a six-point game. You watch tapes or TV, and the team that bangs that 3 always starts off like gangbusters in the second half. And I thought our guys were very focused at both ends at the start of the second half not to let that happen."
"We're making strides to get back where we should be," said junior guard Jonathan Wallace, who finished with 12 points. "This is another game that kind of checks the oil going into conference play. We've got some nice momentum going, and we've just got to maintain our focus and keep making the improvements we've been making during this run."
"I've said from Day 1 we're going to go as Jeff goes, but we're getting to the point where we don't need him to have huge games for us to win," Thompson said. "We're progressing to the point where we have different guys who can step up and step in."
"We were up 10 or 11 [points] in that first half," Thompson said. "Then they bang a 3, we have a couple of turnovers and all of a sudden it's a six-point game. You watch tapes or TV, and the team that bangs that 3 always starts off like gangbusters in the second half. And I thought our guys were very focused at both ends at the start of the second half not to let that happen."
"We're making strides to get back where we should be," said junior guard Jonathan Wallace, who finished with 12 points. "This is another game that kind of checks the oil going into conference play. We've got some nice momentum going, and we've just got to maintain our focus and keep making the improvements we've been making during this run."
Wash Times: Hoyas Report
Livingston Daily.com: Not ready yet — Michigan fails again vs. marquee foe
MLive.com: Amaker digs deeper hole for himself
It was a beautiful day to be in Southern California, the kind that leaves Michigan players wiShut uplly talking about their Rose Bowl trips for years.
Bill Martin's mind was in Ann Arbor, though.
The athletic director had spent the morning watching Tommy Amaker's basketball team get manhandled by Georgetown, 67-51, the most lopsided home loss in 36 games. Michigan is 12-3, but the wins are against nobodies and the losses are to North Carolina State, UCLA and now Georgetown.
They were supposed to be the three games that told you whether this team was for real, and now they seemingly have.
Michigan hasn't just lost all three, but lost them in brutal fashion, blowing a big lead against the Wolfpack, getting blown out against the Bruins, and now totally outclassed at home by the Hoyas.
More and more this feels like a season with an inevitable outcome. If Amaker can't make the NCAA Tournament, he's getting fired, and no one watching Saturday's loss could argue the Wolverines are a tournament team right now.
Amaker has used three starting lineups in this last three games, shuffling in freshmen, benching seniors, then reshuffling again, all to little avail (and with long-term chemistry implications). The coach looks like a man desperate for answers and unable to find them.
"Nobody,'' senior Dion Harris said Saturday, "is supposed to lose like that at home.''
Certainly not after six full years of "rebuilding.''
...
So, given how this season has gone so far, is the athletic director concerned?
"Yeah, of course we're concerned, but you know ... it's still very early in the season,'' Martin said. "A couple of losses don't make a season. Talk to me at the end of the season.''
Oh, we'll be talking all right.
The question is whether the subject will be the amazing turnaround Amaker engineered to make the NCAA Tournament or who the new coach should be. Anyone who watched the Georgetown game knows the likely answer.
Bill Martin's mind was in Ann Arbor, though.
The athletic director had spent the morning watching Tommy Amaker's basketball team get manhandled by Georgetown, 67-51, the most lopsided home loss in 36 games. Michigan is 12-3, but the wins are against nobodies and the losses are to North Carolina State, UCLA and now Georgetown.
They were supposed to be the three games that told you whether this team was for real, and now they seemingly have.
Michigan hasn't just lost all three, but lost them in brutal fashion, blowing a big lead against the Wolfpack, getting blown out against the Bruins, and now totally outclassed at home by the Hoyas.
More and more this feels like a season with an inevitable outcome. If Amaker can't make the NCAA Tournament, he's getting fired, and no one watching Saturday's loss could argue the Wolverines are a tournament team right now.
Amaker has used three starting lineups in this last three games, shuffling in freshmen, benching seniors, then reshuffling again, all to little avail (and with long-term chemistry implications). The coach looks like a man desperate for answers and unable to find them.
"Nobody,'' senior Dion Harris said Saturday, "is supposed to lose like that at home.''
Certainly not after six full years of "rebuilding.''
...
So, given how this season has gone so far, is the athletic director concerned?
"Yeah, of course we're concerned, but you know ... it's still very early in the season,'' Martin said. "A couple of losses don't make a season. Talk to me at the end of the season.''
Oh, we'll be talking all right.
The question is whether the subject will be the amazing turnaround Amaker engineered to make the NCAA Tournament or who the new coach should be. Anyone who watched the Georgetown game knows the likely answer.
