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* Novak finds his stroke
as other players go cold
M' struggles from the field
By JOE STAPLETON
Daily Sports Editor
Against Illinois on Tuesday,
five Wolverines put up 0-fers from
beyond the 3-point line, including
shooters Michigan normally relies
on, like sophomore Stu Douglass
and redshirt sophomore Laval
Lucas-Perry.
But piercing NOTEBOOK
through the dark
clouds surround-
ing the Michigan men's basketball
team's awful 3-point shooting was
a beam of light - from sophomore
guard Zack Novak.
Novak has been struggling with
his stroke recently, most notably
against Penn State when he went
1-for-6 from the 3-point line.
But against Illinois, Novak went
4- for-10, providing his team with
the only consistent touch from
beyond the arc.
"I've been working on changing
stuff up with my shot," Novak said.
"Just slowing down, trying not to
be in a rush. It helped."
The good shooting effort led
to one of Novak's best offensive
nights in a while. His 12 points
marked the first time the guard
has cracked double-digits since
Jan. 23 against Purdue.
LUCAS-PERRY STRUGGLES:
The shooting sruggles have been
plainly evident all season, and the
numbers continue to back it up.
Of Michigan's five starters, not
one is shooting above 31 percent
from deep. And recently, few play-
ers have been struggling as much
as Laval Lucas-Perry.
The guard's 0-for-6 shooting
from deep against Illinois was the
worst in his past five games. In
ARItL BOND/Daily
Sophomore Zack Novak, pictured here, shot 4-10 from three-point range in Tues-
day's 51-44 loss to the Fighting Illini.
three of those, he has not made a
3-pointer.
"Same old song," Lucas-Perry
said. "We got to find some answers
quickly, because the Big Ten Tour-
nament is coming up right away
and we got to find a solution to this
problem that we're having."
Lucas-Perry is known as a
shooter, but given his current
slump, he said he needs to find
other ways to contribute to the
team.
"I've got to do something dif-
ferent to help this team win,"
Lucas-Perry said. "Defensively, or
finding other teammates when I'm
not hitting, driving to the basket."
SILVER LINING: With the way
the Wolverines were shooting
during the first half of Tuesday's
game, no fan would have been sur-
prised to look at the scoreboard
and see that Michigan was down
by a wide margin.
In reality, the Wolverines were
only down by eight. The reason
behind the small deficit despite
the poor shooting was simple:
defense. When Michigan missed
shots, it tightened up on defense.
This observation may seem like
it's out of an elementary-school
coach's handbook, but it's been a
hard lesson learned by this year's
Wolverines.
One of Michigan's biggest prob-
lems this year has been that when
it can't hit shots, it becomes dis-
tracted on defense.
"When we haven't shot well, we
are a distracted team," Beilein said
after last week's loss to Penn State
at home. "Now you're thinking
about the missed shot and not get-
ting the loose ball. You're thinking
about it on defense."
But that was definitely not the
case on Tuesday. And if there was
a silver lining against the Illini,
that was it.
"We were great defensively,"
Beilein said. "Really good. You
can't do much better defensively."
Illinois has averaged 68 points
per game in conference play. On
Tuesday, Michigan held the Illini
to 51.
By AMY SCARANO
Daily Sports Writer
In their last three games, the
Wolverines shot a combined 31 per-
cent from the field.
And for a team with postseason
aspirations, that's notcutting it.
"If we can't shoot the ball better
than we are now, we can't beat any-
body," Borseth
said after the loss NOTEBOOK
to Penn State last
Thursday.
Against Michigan State and Penn
State, Michigan shot 28 and 29 per-
cent in the first half. And on Sunday,
they team shot 37 percent to the
Badgers 46.
But the Wolverines always play
their best games in the second
stanza, so there was hope. But even
when they are able to step it up in
the last 20 minutes, they haven't
been able to dig themselves out of
their first-half holes due to lack of
offensive performance.
"We came out a little bit on,"
Hicks said after the loss to Wiscon-
sin Sunday. "But then we didn't get
a few calls and we flattened out in
the first half and we dug ourselves
in a hole and unfortunately that hole
was insurmountable tonight."
Michigan had numerous free-
throw chances in all three defeats,
but only on occasion did those really
make a difference, and never in the
eventual outcome. Against Penn
State, freshman guard Dayeesha
Hollins shots from the charity strip
with fifteen seconds remaining gave
the Wolverines a second chance,
sending the game into overtime
before they lost 71-65. Against Wis-
consin - a team that shot 46 percent
at Crisler last Sunday - free throws
were Michigan's saving grace,
allowing them to stay in the game
before comingup short.
RECRUITING ASSETS: After nine
winning seasons as head coach at
Wisconsin-Green Bay, Kevin Bors-
eth had some adjusting to do when
he came to Ann Arbor three years
ago.
And in his third year as the Mich-
igan women's basketball coach, it
looks like those adjustments are
finally beginning to pay off.
Borseth inherited a squad largely
made up of upperclassmen, and in
two seasons, eight seniors gradu-
ated, giving him a chance to rebuild
the program.
Last season, the starting roster
was made up of four seniors and the
team record was 10-20. Neither of
Borseth's first two recruits at Mich-
igan averaged even 20 minutes per
game.
This year, he has had six new
freshmen to work with, handpicked
by Borseth himself. And while
NCAA tournament hopes are all but
gone, the squad is 14-12 with two
games left in the regular season.
Starting with now sophomores-
Carmen Reynolds and Courtney
Boylan, Borseth has been able to
pick the players he sees potential in,
as well as players who are coachable
and adaptable.
"I saw (freshman guard Dayee-
sha)Hollins in a tournament down
in Atlanta," Borseth said at Big Ten
Media Day at the end of Oct. "One
time was enough for me. She was
a junior. They had a shootout in
Atlanta I was watching her play.
And I said there ain't no way we're
getting this kid. She's a good guard.
She'sverygood."
After playing as reserves in their
first year, Reynolds's and Boylan's
impacts are felt this year. Reyn-
olds shoots almost 50 percent from
downtown, and has scored double
digits in all of Michigan's confer-
ence victories this season. Boylan
consistently provides a spark off the
bench.
While Borseth hasn't had that
same success he had in Green Bay
just yet, that could be different a few
years down the line when the play-
ers Borseth recruited are juniors
and seniors. They sure have shown
flashes of success.
When she is performing, Hollins
puts up double digits and takes the
ball down the court with surprising
conviction for a freshman.
"You know, you hate to put the
weight of the world on the kid,"
Borseth said at Big Ten Media Day.
"But I think Hollins is a real good
player. She's legit. She can move. She
plays the way I coach. She's a natu-
ral for what we do."
Hollins and freshman guard
Jenny Ryan have started every
game this season. And while Ryan's
contributions are the ones you don't
see as much on stat sheets, she is
second on the team in rebounds,
only four behind 6-foot-6 senior
Krista Phillips.
SENIOR SHINE: Senior guard
Kalyn McPherson scored a season
high eight points in the last 10 min-
utes of the Wolverines' loss to Wis-
consin Sunday. Off the bench, she
contributed five points to Michi-
gan's 12-5 run, putting the Wolver-
ines within four with four minutes
remaining.
"I just tried to provide a spark
for the team coming off the bench,"
McPherson said. "A lot of (posting
up), it's just body strength and body
position, learninghow to score."
McPherson, 5-foot-7, took over
6-foot-6 senior center Krista Phil-
lips's usual role, penetrating the
Badgers' defense to post itup for all
eight points.
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