Thursday, March 12, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine ThurdayMarc 12,197 THEMICHGAN AIL Paae.Nine A new era in ich igan basketball' By ELLIOT LEGOW The basketball season has been finished at Michigan for less than a week, but speculation has al- ready begun about the Wolver- ines' prospects for next season, and those , speculations center around the expected contributions from this year's exceptionally tal- ented freshman team. Among those who were favor- ably impressed by the perform- ances of the Baby Blue and expect them to make varsity games more enjoyable in the future are fresh- man coach George Pomey and as- sistant varsity mentor, F r e d Snowden. "'We'll be right in there next says Pomey of his charges. year . ..,we'll have strength in- side . .. and we can run well," SNOWDEN was also particular- ly impressed by the strength of the freshmen. "In terms of phys- ical characteristics," he main- tains, "they are along the lines of the Russell-Buntin-Darden teams, but they h a v e to prove them- selves." The freshien did prove that r they can handle other freshman competition' this season as they compiled a 9-2 record and aver- age'd downing the opposition by 15 points. Offense was the prime asset for the Wolverines and when the of- fense sputtered the team's chanc- es for victory died, too. In only two games did the frosh fail to score over 90 points, and in those two games they were defeated. THE FIRST LOSS was an 82- 80 overtime setback to a Central Michigan ,team which could have been beaten. The loss which fol- lowed three straight wins at the opening of the season, was the last in which erratic play marred the freshmen's performances. Aftr .the ter break the freshmen came back to play one pleaser with his court antics and could help to spark up the var- sity's spectators next season. WILMORE'S best personal per- formance was simultaneous with the team's worst. While his team- mateswere shooting at less than a 30% clip and .constantly turn- ing the mall over, Wilmore netted a season high of 34 points in a 79-73 loss to Michigan State. The loss dropped the Wolver- ine's record to 5-2, but the last four games were pure routs. The Baby Blue averaged 105 points for those last four encounters, and would have scored far more if Pomey hadn't cleared his bench in each of the games. Three developments w e r e in- strumental in this final surge: the shift of, Wilmore to forward, and the development of John Lockard and Greg Buss. Wilmore spent the first half of the season at guard but was mov- ed to the front court to let him concentrate on his shooting and permit him to play closer to the basket to take advantage of leis inside shooting and board play. The 6-4 New York City prep star led the team in scoring with a 23.1 average and finished sec- ond in rebounding with an aver- age of 10.6 rebounds. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT im- provement by any of the fresh- men was by Lockard. Although he is 'only' 6-5. Lockard jumps as high as a man six inches taller. In the early stages of: t h e season, however, Lockard was not scoring as w e 11 as Pomey believed he could. But in the last two games of the season Lockard showed as much as anyone ever expected of him. Though he sat on the bench for good portions of both of those games, Lockard totaled 53 points and 36 rebounds. T h e other player whose uin- provement pleased Pomey was, un-heralded guard Greg Buss. Buss moved into the starting line- up midway through t h e season when Tim Megge failed to live up to expectations. Pomey said of the 5-11 guard, "he helped us a lot, he can probably play on the var- sity." Buss contributed several tal- ents that some of his teammates were n o tso skilled at; .'amely passing, defense, and near-perfect free throw shooting. POMEY doesn't believe that his team showed any real weaknesses, but headmits that, "if anything, we were not real aggressive on de- fense. Everyone on the squadascored sometime in the season, and all but three of the Blue managed to hit double figures on at least one occasion. The victories were team efforts in that "they (opponents) couldn't concentrate on one man," but deteriorated into everyman for himself situations in some in- stances. The players did not always put out at their fullest but they show- ed that they "had the ability to win even when they weren't play- ing their best." Ne~tt season against top call- bre opposition 100i efforts will always be required, and Snowden believes that "if they play the game like the varsity did this year, there is no limit to what they can do." To make prospects even bright- er for next season is the presence of Ken Brady, the biggest (6-11) and possibly the b e s t of this year's recruits. BRADY sat out the entire freshman season with a scholastic ineligibility, but is expected to be ready next season. Brady is cur- rently being counted on to start at the pivot for the Wolverines next year and take over f r o m Rudy Tomjanovich the Michigan rebound leadership. Speculation on the rest of the lineup is still rather nebulous but at least the possible combinations seem certain. Wilmore should start at one forward position and Lockard, Johnson, as well as re- turnees R o d Ford, Harry Hay- ward, a n d Wayne Grabiec will battle for the final forecourt spot and/or try to dislodge Brady and Wilmore. L E O N ROBERTS a s'trong guard who averaged 12 points for; the freshmen may be able to win a starting guard spot -and join: Dan Fife in the backcourt. Snowden sums up next year's prospects in regards to the fresh- men: "We're trying to assemble a power basketball team, especially in the front line. Kenny Brady, John Lockard, Henry Wilmore, Leon Roberts - They are t h e physically powerful people we're talking about." It all starts next December. SAMMIE offers stimulating and unique group living situation free from bull 3Call: LARRY-663-1190 LES-663-9733 or drop by 800 Lincoln After 5:00 pm. Henry W imore of the seasn, a 97-93 downing of the highly-rated Ohio State frosh. In that game, as in almost all of the freshmen's early outings, 6-8, center Ernie Johnson paced the Michigan attack. He poured in 28 points and snagged 19 re- bounds in the Ohio State game for one of the best individual per- formances of the season by any of the Wolverines.- The second half of the season w a Es, however, Henry Wilmore's time. to star and he put on out- standing shows with his aggres- sive defense, fancy shooting, and outstanding ball handling. 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