Where are all the experts that said you couldn’t win with D
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Rutgers scored 62 points which is more than in most recent games which Rutgers loss.The second half defense was outstanding because it limited scoring from Dickinson..Spencer and Simpson were the stars on offense.Great team performance.
We frustrated MU so much that they gave up with a few minutes left.
Can't win with ONLY D. Even Caleb said as much after the Northwestern ugliness. But playing great D keeps you in games when the offense struggles. Our O was much better today than in recent games, too.
Yea Hawk and others saying we needed to change our style and start scoring in the 70s and beat people with offense 
The 2 games we scored in the 70s post Mag were losses
The 2 games we scored in the 70s post Mag were losses
You can win a game with good defense and close to adequate offense
You can’t 35-38% your way to the final four
Great game today
Truly couldn’t care less mugrat….way to busy celebrating for 22 hours until Purdue
I’m saying if you want to be good and seriously advance
A while back we should have beaten Houston and we had a path
Play well, shoot well and you can hope
Well at least you are celebrating. Many others are crying in their beer
Using a very inexact sample size….out of fifty posters, you’re probably talking about two or three I can think of..
And we all know they aren’t posting after a win so why bother
Our offense starts/ends with our defense.
Whether people like it or not, Pikiell plays to the strengths of his players. We’re at our best offensively when we’re playing shutdown defense, grabbing boards, getting steals and running in transition.
I can’t wait until we bring in more offensive pieces…but until then I’ll take a grind it out defensive masterpiece that leads to the type of offense we saw today.
Whether people like it or not, Pikiell plays to the strengths of his players. We’re at our best offensively when we’re playing shutdown defense, grabbing boards, getting steals and running in transition.
I can’t wait until we bring in more offensive pieces…but until then I’ll take a grind it out defensive masterpiece that leads to the type of offense we saw today.
The pieces coming in will change our offensive problems forever
To be fair we scored 37 points in the second half, which is damn good against a solid defensive team like Michigan. Our defense definitely fueled our offense.
Pike and staff coach a great Defensive game. We need just enough Offense to win with this formula. This is why we have been so good away from the RAC this year. Teams like Iowa have the opposite problem. When they’re hot they’re hot. When they’re not they’re not.
Caleb’s steal in the second half, reminded me when Jordan stole the ball from Karl Malone in the finals. Caleb like Jordan let his man go, and poked the ball from behind. Really awesome stuff.
Easy there, we just beat a team that's barely in Top 50
Let’s just make some shots today then we can resume the debate. Rebound and protect the basketball please!!
Was going to say that 37 in the second half equates to 74 so we also won with good - effective offense which in our case usually comes with our good defense
Michigan went 19:00 minutes without a field goal and we only won by 12. Thrilled we won but any halfway respectable team would have beaten Michigan in 2nd half yesterday.
Is this the part where we pretend the team didn't do the bare minimum to scrape by and destroy any chances of real seeding in the tournament again?
Boy you sure do love beating your chest over barely meeting expectations.
Do you think we are going to hold all of our opponents to 50 pts? Defense is great but if you still have to be able to score to win.
Strangely enough it was against the 2 worst teams in the league and in both games the defense didnt show up, how do you explain that.Yea Hawk and others saying we needed to change our style and start scoring in the 70s and beat people with offense
The 2 games we scored in the 70s post Mag were losses