So first I wanna backtrack a bit. With 14.9 seconds left we inbounded to McConnell and first their PG #55 Brooks swipes at the ball aggressively trying to steal or draw a foul but no foul called. Ron was right there watching the play and Brooks actually jarred the ball loose, but then McConnell regained it and got a pass off to Geo as Caleb Houstan was rushing in and flayling his arms to try to block the pass. He may have hit McConnell in the face a bit, or maybe not. Hard to tell. But then when Geo catches said pass, Houstan fouls him and is met with not only a ton of boos from the RAC crowd for fouling when the game is out of reach, but clearly you see RHJ in the background mouthing some stuff to Houstan, giving him the business. Now let me clarify something here... this is just couch observation sh#t. Who the heck knows what else may or may not have went on during the game with McConnell, RHJ, Houstan, Diabate, etc. but yeah, this was the visible stuff from TV.
So then Geo hits the 2nd foul shot and immediately McConnell and Houstan get their arms interlocked going for a potential rebound off a miss, and they ride each other into the sideline. When they disengage, Houstan shoves McConnell's arm off. Ref is watching but no whistle, which is fine because it seemed like pretty harmless whatever-type stuff. Then Dingus Dickinson sets the vicious unnecessary moving screen on McConnell. Total bullsh#t. Now all this time Diabate, the main guy behind the postgame fireworks, is on the bench, having fouled out earlier.
Game ends. You can clearly see from this video that B. Knight is absolutely livid. Fired up. He has to be restrained as he says something that seems to be in the direction of Diabate. Diabete gets fired up from it and then he, too, has to be restrained. And in the middle of this beef is what appears to be Michigan's Dir. of Player Dev. Jay Smith, who is shouting back at B. Knight and is also being somewhat held back. So those three seem to be the focus of the postgame stuff, at least per this angle.
And if you watch this vid in its entirety, Pike spends a LOT of time walking with Jay Smith after, seemingly cooling the situation down.
Personally I LOVE the fire from B. Knight as they really did pull some late game BS. He being an ex-baller, well, he gets it. That said, Pike is Mr. Nice Guy (I mean that in a complimentary way) so I'd imagine he's probably not entirely thrilled with Knight losing his cool like he did. I mean if nobody was there to hold them back, it could've been B. Knight and Diabete throwing down, with old man river Jay Smith probably jumping in. Mess, ha. I wonder if the league will try to review footage and take any action? Probably not, but you never know.
Here is the vid with great angle. Side note- Juwan missed a lot of the initial action and then didn't seem to care all that much after because he was busy congratulating all our players. And when I say all, I mean ALL. I don't know what to think of him TBH. I don't love some of his public comments and the way he seems to perceive us, but geez, if you allow yourself to just focus on him during this vid, he congratulates EVERYONE, even our student managers, ha. He makes sure he gets everyone. So there's that. Vid link here:
Best Angle By Far...
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So then Geo hits the 2nd foul shot and immediately McConnell and Houstan get their arms interlocked going for a potential rebound off a miss, and they ride each other into the sideline. When they disengage, Houstan shoves McConnell's arm off. Ref is watching but no whistle, which is fine because it seemed like pretty harmless whatever-type stuff. Then Dingus Dickinson sets the vicious unnecessary moving screen on McConnell. Total bullsh#t. Now all this time Diabate, the main guy behind the postgame fireworks, is on the bench, having fouled out earlier.
Game ends. You can clearly see from this video that B. Knight is absolutely livid. Fired up. He has to be restrained as he says something that seems to be in the direction of Diabate. Diabete gets fired up from it and then he, too, has to be restrained. And in the middle of this beef is what appears to be Michigan's Dir. of Player Dev. Jay Smith, who is shouting back at B. Knight and is also being somewhat held back. So those three seem to be the focus of the postgame stuff, at least per this angle.
And if you watch this vid in its entirety, Pike spends a LOT of time walking with Jay Smith after, seemingly cooling the situation down.
Personally I LOVE the fire from B. Knight as they really did pull some late game BS. He being an ex-baller, well, he gets it. That said, Pike is Mr. Nice Guy (I mean that in a complimentary way) so I'd imagine he's probably not entirely thrilled with Knight losing his cool like he did. I mean if nobody was there to hold them back, it could've been B. Knight and Diabete throwing down, with old man river Jay Smith probably jumping in. Mess, ha. I wonder if the league will try to review footage and take any action? Probably not, but you never know.
Here is the vid with great angle. Side note- Juwan missed a lot of the initial action and then didn't seem to care all that much after because he was busy congratulating all our players. And when I say all, I mean ALL. I don't know what to think of him TBH. I don't love some of his public comments and the way he seems to perceive us, but geez, if you allow yourself to just focus on him during this vid, he congratulates EVERYONE, even our student managers, ha. He makes sure he gets everyone. So there's that. Vid link here:
Best Angle By Far...
👀
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