I hate to be a prisoner of the moment and aren't we all in the internet age. LeBron is the best ever, Scottie is just as good as Tiger or Jack, and Skubal is better then Jack Morris and so on......
I'm incredibly impressed with Dusty May. I watched him at FAU because my son went there and saw his style of play and how he developed a non-basketball school with barely a basketball program into a trip to the Final 4 and a basket away from the National Championship game.
The only other time recently I had this feeling was after Jimmy's first year when he turned the program around in one year with a great coaching staff and a transfer QB from Iowa. I knew the program was finally in good hands after disasters from Rich Rod and Hoke. It was bumpy road for a few years, but that feeling paid off with Big Ten Championships and a National Championship.
Dusty took the Michigan job with nobody on the roster after the favored son Juwan Howard flamed out with anger issues and health problems. He took this past season of misfit bigs to a Big Ten Tournament Championship and a trip to the NCAA. That alone was impressive.
He now understands he needs to do it again and maybe that is college basketball now. Having to rebuild your roster every year. He goes out gets a power forward from Illinois, a point guard from UNC, a big from UCLA, and the #1 player in the portal Yaxel Lendeborg from UAB.
The issue is Yaxel is an NBA prospect but not a top tier prospect. So he has to weigh transferring to Ann Arbor or get drafted and be at the end of an NBA Bench or the G-League. Yesterday, he picked Ann Arbor and the Dust Storm. Dusty does it again and now has a great roster lined up for next season. He has youth that he recruited with experience he grabbed from the portal. All of them are talented and if he can get the locker room and rotation right, they might be pretty good. A dust storm is brewing!
Time to get excited about this team and next season!
The more you know.............
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