Just Some thoughts on Michigan basketball roster movement
Last Friday, Michigan basketball fired its head coach. On Monday, not surprisingly, the Wolverines lost their best player and leading scorer, Dug McDaniel to the transfer portal.
Some Michigan basketball fans on social media are acting caught off guard. The truth is that they should have seen this coming from a mile away.
Dug McDaniel led Michigan basketball with 16.8 points per game. He shot 41 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3-point range, in addition to four assists per game. There’s going to be a strong market for him and in the right program, he could be elite.
McDaniel was asked to carry too much this past season. It wore him down and I think that’s why his defensive effort waned at times. You can’t carry the team on both ends of the floor.
Yes, he took too many shots and too many low-percentage shots, but he had to. There was nobody else, especially at the end of the season, who could create a shot.
Dug was also really close to Juwan Howard, so I don’t see any scenario where he would have been back after Juwan was fired.
Maybe if Michigan basketball hired Jay Wright, but come on folks, the Wolverines aren’t a blue-blood program and won’t be unless John Beilein returns or Warde Manuel gets fired. It’s really that stark to me.
