The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 10, 1993 -15 Ble BY J.L. ROSTAM-AB DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER Although classese Michigan women's bas 2) is just leaving for t games yet to be played The Wolverines be ney today, as they head where they will take o tomorrow. Butler's new heat Olkowski, has a squa experience but is still dent. "There may be si they're learning aT Olkowski said. "I don better - being a seni seeking ADI system or being a f system." end today, the The Wolverin ketball team (1- fresh itself. With s: he first of four on a nine-player t this month. has some fine tun -gin their jour- official start of Bi, to Butler (2-2), "Our problemr n the Bulldogs we'reayoungteam things and making d coach, June takes," Michiganc d chock full of said. "Basically v not overconfi- prove on the thing lems with last wee x seniors, but Since the begin new system," Wolverines have 't know what's bers and have ha or with a new with endurance. to make improvements during "break" freshman with'anew "The kids are playing a lot of min- However, defense alone is not the yet because we've got a game this andsophomoreguardJoanneMc( utes and they're going to get tired and weak link in Michigan's game. weekend before we go to Michigan so led the pack, averaging 11.6 an( e system is a little that is basically something that we're "The thing that'sreally hurtingus is I'm not even aware of what they have," points per game, respectively ix first-year students going to have to overcome from now transition defense," said Wolverine Jabir said. . The year will come to aclose f eam, Michigan also until the end of the season," Roberts freshman forward Silver Sheliman, who Like most other teams at this point Michigan at the University of1 Carthy d 11.4 for the Okla- ing to do before the g Ten play. rightnow is, because n, we'redoing young a lot of young mis- coach Trish Roberts ye just want to im- gs that we had prob- k out at California." ning of practice, the been short in num- ad to accommodate said. "You can only play five on the court atone time," Roberts added. "We try to sub as much as we possibly can and if the kids can stay out of foul trouble, I think they can play enough minutes and with the substituting, that they won't get very, very tired." Other than general conditioning, Michigan's practices have had a strong emphasis on the times when they don't have the ball. "We basically worked on getting back on defense and boxing out and controlling the boards," Roberts said. "If we can control the boards, then I think we can alleviate getting beat up and down the court." leads the Michigan in rebounds, with a 10.0 per game average. "And defense is the main key." Despite the rough edges surround- ing Michigan, the Bulldogs are not underestimating the Wolverines' po- tential. "I'm sure they're going to be very well coached and prepared to play us," Olkowski said. After a week of finals, Michigan will host Marquette Saturday, Dec. 18. The Warriors' head coach, Jim Jabir, is looking forward to the debut of the series against the Wolverines, but ad- mits limited knowledge of the Michi- gan team. "We haven't even looked at tape in the season, Marquette is still getting everything in place itself. "Right now we're just trying to work a rotation and develop our rota- tion and get some people experience and we're still kind of feeling ourselves out," Jabir said. Monday, Dec. 20, the Wolverines will host Illinois-Chicago. The Flames have three starters returning from last year. Junior guard Penny Armstrong homa Holiday Classic. The Wolver- ines first tipoff against host Oklahoma Dec. 28 and then Oral Roberts the following evening. "I have absolutely no predictions about any of the games and about the outcome of any of these games," Rob- erts said. "Right now we just want to take one game at a time and improve upon our mistakes and hope, that by the Big Tenseason, we'llbeready toplay." QCHARISM§958 YOUR HAIR AND SKIN CARE PROFESSIONALS-995-0804 315 East Liberty - DOWNTOWN - Mon-Fri 9-7 - Sat 9-5 - Private Parking - Smoke Free Environment - ALSO AT: LAUREL PARK PLACE, LIVONIA- NOVI TOWN CENTRE, NOVi ihe women's basketball team will be working on its movement without the basketball over its winter break as well as its defense. r. mmn m m m ..m m.. m am asuam m mm m am u m em ,.,NN ARUORl 1 2 5th AVE. 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