SPORTS Page 8 40 The Michigan Daily Thursday, March 11, 1982. In two short years Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder has seen both ends of the spectrum. In his rookie season, Frieder posted the best first-year mark ever, 19-11. But with the loss of four senior starters and other extenuating circumstances, the Wolverines sunk to 7-20 this season-the first 20-loss season since 1960. As he prepares to rebound next year with a bumbper recruiting crop, Daily Sports Editor Bob Wojno wski and Associate Editor Larry Freed checked in with Friederfor some post-season comments. DAILY: How did you get into the position of a 7-20 season and do you think that it will ever happen again? FRIEDER: I think the biggest thing is that we had injuries. If you take two seven-footers (Tim McCormick and Jon Antonides) off of any team in the country, it's going to hurt their squad. I think that's the main thing. I think when you combine the injuries with heavy loss of seniors of a year ago, this is how it came about. It's fairly simple really. Now we're a young program rebuilding and we just got caught in the fact that we had to go with so mulch inexperience and so much lack of size. I don't think it's going to happen again but it could happen to anybody - look at Indiana State and Michigan State. DAILY: How much of it do you blame on recruiting mistakes? )'RIEDER: Oh, I think there have been some n4stakes made -a couple of the kids we were counting on didn't pan out, but you can just chlk it up to a lot of everything. AILY: Although you ended up 7-20, would you consider this year one of your most satisfying coaching experiences? 7RIEDER: I think it was. I think it was a tibute to the players that they came back ther way they did. I think it was a tribute to the caching staff that our team continued to im- pgove after being 1-13 and I think it's a tribute k . Frieder comments on k'M basketball season to the whole program that we came back to beat teams like Iowa and Illinois. The experts picked us for ninth and we ended up tied for seventh. I saw a lot of bright things - I see a lot of experience that was given young players and that'll pay big dividends in the future. DAILY: Do you feel that the "family at- mosphere" first began to appear after the departures (of M.C. Burton and Joe James) from the team? FRIEDER: Yes. DAILY: At what point in the season did you realize that this season would be chalked up to experience? FRIEDER: If you go back to my original comments (before the season) you saw a lot of hesitation and concern on my part, and that was before Antonides went down. DAILY: What were some of the special momepts from this season - on and off the court? FRIEDER: Beating Ohio State - hanging on the way that they did after apparently blowing the game in regulation and beating Illinois and Iowa: as decisively as we did after they decisively beat us were very important things to our program. . But probably the biggest thing was the overall improvement of the team and keeping the team together in the wake of adversity. DAILY: How emotionally trying was the season for you personally? FRIEDER: I enjoyed it - I really did. I had one concern: I knew we weren't going to be very good won-and-loss record but my main concern was that my team get better and im- prove and that happened. It wasn't that tough of a season on me - believe me. What the hell, people get so they don't expect you to win and then when you do it's a big thing. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to go through this again, but I think our whole team and the coaching staff handled it in the right way and we derived a lot of benefits from it. DAILY: Do you feel any pressure to produce now that this season is behind you and people are going to expect a big turnaround in the program the next couple of years? 1,RIEDER: Oh there's always pressure. We've gotten great publicity this past year - the media, the fans,everybody was good to us this year. But now we've got to get better and prove to them that we're headed in the right direction - and we're going to do that. We're still a couple of years away because, though we've got a good recruiting class- and it's not overrated I guarantee you - they're still going to be going against Indiana and Ohio State who have everybody back. Now, a year from now, when Eric (Turner) is a junior and these guys are sophomores and those Indiana guys are gone, then you're going to see our program getting there. DAILY: Do you have a timetable in regards to the team's performance? FRIEDER: We want to get back into the tournaments next year-that's a strong goal on our part and I think it's a reasonable goal. DAILY: Individually, give a quick synopsis on each of the following players' performances. Thad Garner. FRIEDER: Well, you can't say anything bad about Thad. Besides his strong leadership and the dedication he gave to basketball, he also improved as a player. He's going to get draf- ted-I think fairly high. DAILY: Ike Person. FRIEDER: Ike the same thing. It took him longer than I had hoped but he finally came around and improved. DAILY: Dan Pelekoudas. , FRIEDER: As he played more he got better and started playing with more confidence and he even came along as a pretty good shooter., DAILY: Leslie Rockymore. FRIEDER: Rockymore still has been incon- sistent on his shooting. But he's a great shooter and over the summer he'll work on getting open quicker and getting his shot off quicker. DAILY: Dean Hopson. FRIEDER: Hopson has got to improve a great deal. He started a lot of games but he never came along as the scorer and consistent player that we wanted. DAILY: Willis Carter. FRIEDER: "Stretch" cane along fine. He made some big rebounds and some big baskets at times and then at other times he made a lot of mistakes-but again he's only a freshman. DAILY: Eric Turner. FRIEDER: Eric made the greatest im- provement, as evidenced by the fact that he played well against eight of the nine Big. Ten teams he played the second time around. He was phenomenal in our victories over Ohio 6 State, Illinois and Iowa. He too has to work on his defense and he has to work harder if he's going to become truly the great player that we think he can become. DAILY: If you had to do it over again, would you change anything that you did this season? FRIEDER: The only thing I would have done different about this season is that I would have taken another player or two last year that I passed up. But, once October 15 came around, there isn't anything I would've done different. DAILY: Do you feel you can securely go into next season with only three rostered guards? FRIEDER: We feel that (Richard) Rellford can play some guard, but we don't know what we're going to do on that, I'll be honest with you. I'm not going to take a guard if he's not a good player. DAILY: How much are you looking for out of the freshmen next year? FRIEDER: Our freshmen are going to con- tribute a great deal. My biggest concern is I don't want people. to expect too much too soon out of them. However, Paul Jokisch is a fierce competitor; Robert Henderson is one of the finest shooters I've seen in the game today; Rellford's astud, le's a man but he's got to work harder; and Roy Tarpley is a find, a sleeper. DAILY: How soon do you plan on naming an assistant coach?E FRIEDER: I think it's going to be a couple of weeks. I'm going to interview probably two or three guys and I've talked to about six or eight already. S Frieder ... looking ahead GMAT seminars starting Friday, March 12 on campus. University Test Preparation Service 33900 Schoolcraft-Suite G-2 Livonia MI 48150 313-261-LSAT SCORES College Basketball NIT Purdue 72, W. Kentucky 65 Illinois 126, Long Island 78 Dayton 76, Connecticut 75 NBA Denver 124, Detroit 113 Boston 121, Indiana 100 New Jersey 113, Phoenix 105 NHL Pittsburgh 7, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Rangers 5 Hartford 6, Winnipeg 2 Final Big Ten Statistics Michigan Basketball Statistics SCORING Player Turner ............................. Garner ........ ..................... Person ............................. Rockymore'....................... Pelekoudas ............................ Hopson .......................... Carter..... .................... Rudy.......................... Hall. .................. .. Brown.................... ... Team ................................ G-S 27-27 27-27 27-27 27-9 27-23 27-16 27-2 10-0 10-0 14-0 FG-FGA 163-343 152-321 113-224 87-19 56-120 55-109 40-98 3-4 2-5 2-4 Pct .475 .474 .504 .437 .467 .505 .408 ..750 .400 .500 72-113 74-102 38-53 29-38 32-41 19-46 8-18 0-0 0-0 0-1 .637 .725 .717 .763 .780, .413 .444 .000 57-2.1 180-6.7 176-6.5 77-2.9 37-1.4 93-3.4 53-2.0 1-0.1 3-0.3 4-0.3 89 FT-FTA Pct REB-AVG. Pts 398 378 264 203 144 129 88 6 4 4 Avg A 14.7 120 14.0 58 9.8 33. 7.5 17 5.3 105 4.8 20 3.3 3 0.6 1 0.4 0 0.3 0 Player, Team .K Edmonson, Pur ... 2. T. Kitchel, Ind ....... 3. C. Kellogg, OSU.... . 4. K. Smith, MSU ...... 5. C. Tucker, Ill........ 6. E. Turner, Mich..... 7. T. Garner, Mich .. . 8. R. Breuer,:Minn . . 9. T. Tucker, Minn .... 10. J.Stack, NU ...... 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 144-267 129-231 141-265 128-283 103-236 111-227 107-221 99-181 110-220 101-214 G FG-FGA % Pts Ave .539 370 20.64 .558 362 20.1* .532 312 17.3 .452 306 17.0 .436 282 15.7 .489 274 15.2 .484 271 15.1; .547 267 14.8; .500 265 14.7 .472 259 14.4" r .19110 I 4': Ilbi I ( MICHIGAN ........................... 27 696-1479 .471 280423 .662 789-29.2 1672 61.9 362 OPPONENTS ......................... 27 722-1435 .503 365-546 .668 874-32.4 1809 67.0 383 Field Goal % (Min. 4 FG/G) *J *1 .I D s 1 A I Subscribe to The Michigan Daily. Big Ten Leaders Name, Player 1. R. Cross, Pur......... 2. T. Kitchel, Ind......... 3. R. Breuer, Minn ......... 4. K. Edmonson, Pur....... Ike Person, Mich ........ 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