Brice Williams' strong start fades when Michigan is defensively set

Lincoln – The slug festival on Friday evening was interrupted by bad shootings from both sides. The Michigan men's basketball team No. 15 ended the men's basketball team with a 29.5% clip out of the field and shot 18.5% from Deep. Nebraska, on the other hand, ended the total brand of 25.8% and 21.4% outside the arch.

However, the silver strip for both teams was a player – but he didn't play from the winning team. Cornhuskers Guard Brice Williams was the only player who scored more than 12 points, with 26 by Nebraskas 46 by Nebraska and the best offensive performance for both sides when the Cornhuskers were defeated against the Wolverines.

“A guy who has experienced that talented, you can't really stop him,” said Junior Guard Roddy Gayle JR .. “You can't keep it to zero.”

Williams scores an average of 19.6 points per game, so he has no surprise with a high performance with a high score. But the fact that nobody else appeared in a large way for both teams stated how unique his performance was.

Eighteen from Williams' points came in the first half, and the Cornhuskers ended with only 21, barely one point per minute. In fact, Williams was the only Nebraska player with points on the board in the first 10:33 of the first half. And at half -time he all over one of the cornhusers' field goals.

Despite the strong start, nobody supported Williams. Michiagn knew that it only had to hold it and had to make one of his shots in the second half to extend half of his four-point lead.

“In the second half we were able to show him body, get him out of his rhythm a little and make him think of his next place, his next action,” said Gayle. “So I have the feeling that we did a great job.”

In the second half, Williams only had eight points. A small number compared to his brand in the first half, but eight points were still more than every of his teammates all games. Michigan did not completely remove him as a threat, but it did just enough to hesitate Wilims and include his teammates.

“He always took difficult pictures in the first half,” said Freshman Guard LJ Cason. “But we knew that nobody could do the whole game, so we stayed the course, then after all he no longer made these hard shots.”

When the Wolverines stayed its course, Nebraska had to find other players and let them knock off. And the trust of the Cornhuskers in Williams was taken away in the second half when his teammates simply did not hit the same amount of shots that he could do on a relatively efficient level.

“We tried to deny his catches and push him more of his places,” said Michigan coach Dusty May. “… He does a good job to get involved and get these bad calls. And I thought our big ones were higher than normally on the screens, and we put two on the ball and risked these other boys who were wrapped in shots. “

For a night that had as miserable as the Wolverines on the offensive, they needed everything they could achieve defensively to contest every shot and make every bucket difficult for the Cornhuskers. And by neutralizing Williams as a threat in the second half, Michigan found the scope it was looking for the difference.

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