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Michigan's Beilein "Strong" on Max B

Another story about Max Bielfeldt....the main topic is how Michigan has been robbing players from other states...
http://sports.espn.go.com/colleges/...n-wolverines-take-players-indiana-aau-program

"Bielfeldt entered his junior year playing with close-to-home Peoria Irish in
Illinois, receiving mid-major recruiting attention. One high school game
against Gary (Ind.) Lew Wallace on Martin Luther King Day in 2010 changed
everything.

His team lost. A man approached him after.

"I'm like, 'Who the hell is this dude?'" Bielfeldt said. "He's talking to me like, 'I
want you on my AAU team.' I'm like this nutcase is in Gary, Indiana, probably
some podunk team that was nothing big.

"But I looked into it and kept in contact with him. Then I'm like, 'He's actually
a pretty legit guy and knows what he's doing.'"

Weeks later, Bielfeldt started playing for SYF, teaming with another player
Brumm discovered a few years earlier.

Brumm's teams practiced in the heart of the Northwest Indiana area known
as "The Region" at a place known as "The Courts" in Merrillville, Ind. While a
gaggle of high school players, including Robbie Hummel and E'Twaun Moore,
worked with Brumm, an eighth-grader played with his friends nearby.

Michigan's interest led to offers from both the Wolverines and Illinois, where
the athletic administration building is named after Bielfeldt's family. Bielfeldt
went to Illini games his whole life. He still chose Michigan, in March 2011."


 
Great kid

Great kid

Max won't be in the rotation for Michigan this year unless injuries play a part. Never should of went there If he wanted to play but some guys are happy sitting on the bench and just being a part of a team. I think if you are any kind of a competitor it's just not acceptable. He will be recruited over every year which is sad cause he is a great kid.
 
Think he is happy

Think he is happy

Think he is happy at Michigan. May be like Milo's just happy to be on team and to graduate with the Michigan degree.
 
Michigan just won the Preseason NIT...they go to 5-0...and Max appears to be little more than a deep bench player...
four of their games were pretty wide margins that extended all the way up to the 40-pt blowouts of IUPUI & Slippery Rock...and still Max gets only a few minutes and has not scored yet.
 
gerry said:
Max won't be in the rotation for Michigan this year unless injuries play a part. Never should of went there If he wanted to play but some guys are happy sitting on the bench and just being a part of a team. I think if you are any kind of a competitor it's just not acceptable. He will be recruited over every year which is sad cause he is a great kid.
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I agree and I'm betting he would be starting for us this year. On the flip side he maybe more then a bench player by his senior year. I'm sure his parents are guiding him to have a productive post basketball career.
 
Max Bielfeldt has been struggling with an ankle sprain...he played only 4 minutes in a win over Penn State 2/17 and has not played since...
I know Max is only a freshman - but he's oging to be recruited over time and again and Mitch McGary will be playing heavy minutes ahead of him...
he has only logged 100 minutes all year - less than ISU's Zeke Upshaw & Jordan Threloff and only a little more than BU's Nate Wells.
 
Looks like Beilein was less than honest - he clearly thinks very little of Max Bielfeldt...
Max is now a 3rd year RSSo, and still barely sees the court - with lots of 1st & 2nd year players playing way ahead of him...

Max has only played in 4 of their 6 games, although he did get 5 minutes yesterday and was 0-2 and scoreless, and on the season, even tho a fair number of their opponents have been horrible softies and patsies, Max has played only a total of 20 minutes and is 2-9 with 5 total points scored.
Maybe this is all OK with him but if he actually wants some playing time - he needs to give it some thought....
 
tornado said:
Looks like Beilein was less than honest - he clearly thinks very little of Max Bielfeldt...
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hmmmm.. so your saying you KNOW Beilein made some promises to Max about playing time? Or am I inferring incorrectly? I'd love to hear those if so...

Also, some kids want PT, while some want B1G Championships, Final Four appearances, and a Michigan degree. Pretty tough to pass up a full ride to one of the best universities in the country...
 
it was an observation - he thinks far more of about 10 other players on the team - I am not saying he doesn't like Max - but it is quite apparent he does not think Max deserves much playing time
 
Nacho said:
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Also, some kids want PT, while some want B1G Championships, Final Four appearances, and a Michigan degree. Pretty tough to pass up a full ride to one of the best universities in the country...
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Judging from the massive transfer list every year, I'd say most want playing time. It seems the other reasons are really more like excuses that come later, when the playing time doesn't happen.
I never heard of a recruit picking a school initially because they want to sit on the bench and cheer their teammates on to a championship.
 
Max just happens to have something that 99.99% of all recruits do not have that might make him an attractive recruiting target
 
Da Coach said:
Judging from the massive transfer list every year, I'd say most want playing time. It seems the other reasons are really more like excuses that come later, when the playing time doesn't happen.
I never heard of a recruit picking a school initially because they want to sit on the bench and cheer their teammates on to a championship.
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Seems to me Max is doing just fine. Got to go to the final four last year, getting a degree at one of the top public universities in the country. Not saying he doesn't want more PT, but there is something to be said for understanding one's role and being content with it. Usually if a player is redshirting for a non-injury reason it is understand that the player is in-line for limited PT in the short term.

I have no problem with Nate Wells and it is a very similar situation. Some players just don't develop like both parties hope, doesn't mean someone has done something wrong.
 
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