Michigan hoops reaches out to Belmont 3-point whiz Cade Tyson
The Dusty May era has officially begun with the Michigan Wolverines basketball program. With a near-entire roster rebuild on the horizon, May will be hitting the transfer portal heavily to bring talent in with the latest contact made in the form of Belmont’s Cade Tyson.
Michigan jumped into the fray with a laundry list of schools that include Kansas, Villanova, Auburn, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, Miami, Indiana, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Nebraska, Notre Dame, BYU, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, VCU, Vanderbilt, UCF, Xavier, Georgia, Penn State and Louisville.
Tyson, who has two seasons of eligibility remaining, started all 30 games this season at Belmont, averaging 16.2 points, 1.6 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game, earning Second-Team All-MVC honors. The 6-7 wing is a 44.6% three-pointer shooter, averaging 4.7 attempts per game.
May and the Wolverines are going to lean on the three-pointer as a lynchpin of the offense, as he said during his opening press conference.
“[The offense] needs to be free-flowing,” May said. “We don’t want the defense to ever get set. We shoot probably too many threes. We finish at the rim. We play modern basketball. We do use analytics. We use the metrics, but we try to find the best way for us to play. And it usually is center ground. What do your best players do well? What do the other guys bring us from a skill set? And then you mold. We want fast-paced, energetic, big guys that want to share the ball and play together. All five guys are connected on both sides of the ball. It’s more like jazz where they’re playing off of each other reading each other.
“I can’t say we’re going to shoot a ton of threes this year because I haven’t seen our roster yet, but they are worth more.”
May and Michigan have been busy in the portal since he was hired on Saturday with other reported targets including in-house players George Washington III and Tarris Reed, Wisconsin’s Connor Essegian, Colorado’s J’Vonne Hadley and Vanderbilt’s Jason Rivera-Torres.
“Recruiting now in the portal is more like speed dating than traditional recruiting,” May said. “And I think it’s very valuable to have a network of people that you trust and they trust you. And hopefully between former players and former coaches, our program’s gonna have thousands of agents working for us. When I say agents, people that are going to say great things about us and want players to play for us.
“We’re going to cast a big net. We’ll narrow it down, we’ll be very patient because we’re not going to take the wrong guys because we have several spots. We’re going to be very thorough but we need to understand that we need to be right, we need to do our research in advance and make sure we make very calculated decisions because there’s a lot of options, and they’re not all great options.”
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