Kenny Noland

They're two of the fastest players on the team.

Also, I like when Kenny Noland comes in for Elliot Cadeau.

Good ball security.

He distributes it well.

Yes, sir.

Kenny Noland, what is the best Halloween costume you've ever worn?

Ooh, that's a great question.

Best Halloween costume.

And this was just before they went on the run.

But it was Roddy Gale out there with Quinn Costello, Oscar Goodman, Kenny Noland and Jalen Reed.

And it was like, OK, I mean, that's not necessarily ideal.

You want to maybe two or three of those guys at a time in the game at most.

Great to visit with one of the new members of Michigan men's basketball.

That is Kenny Noland here on Defend the Block.

First off, Kenny, you've got a chance to get acclimated to the campus, to Ann Arbor.

How's that element gone for you so far?

He actually played the first and second half last game, but again, very short stints.

Uh, Kenny Noland had maybe like a quiet game and then a, a pretty solid game doing kind of exactly what you're gonna hope he's able to do, where Cadill gets in foul trouble and he can play.

Uh, Joe Hartman has shown some flashes and then hurt his shoulder.

Jalen Reid, like how, how do you wanna start with the bench? Quin Costello.

And Costello played well again, but wasn't as much of a focus because Oregon State did try to shade a little bit more toward him.

It was Kenny Noland, who didn't play all that well against Eastern Michigan, who really stepped up.

He was outstanding in the first half when both McKenney and Cadeau sat for the final eight-plus minutes.

We also saw a little bit more of Ricky Leiber and Jalen Reed, two young men who will be leaned upon but are battling back from injuries.

I don't blame Michigan.

Like, it's a very unique situation that we've, we've talked about a lot with, you know, why Roddy Gale was eligible, why Kenny Noland was able to join the men's basketball team.

But in the here and now, uh, I don't...

Why now would be my question.

All right, um, uh, moving on to backups.

Kenny Noland, uh, comes over from Columbia after two years as the starting point there.

Some Mike Smith vibes here because Noland's, uh, performance went off a cliff in, uh, Columbia's rare games against top 100 competition, and Smith had some struggles with his size, particularly when it came to turnovers when he was at Michigan.

Now, Noland is 6'2", and Columbia was pretty bad, so it's possible that he was just the only person on the team capable of even getting a shot up.

And we didn't really d- like, delve in because everyone knows who Elliot Cadeau is, but, like, how much more he's gonna be responsible for running the offense.

And one of the concerns we had with McKoy was like, I'm not sure he was gonna be able to, you know, be a backup point guard, which poi- which case you only have one guy who can run the offense.

Kenny Noland is gonna come, and he's been able to do that.

You saw him against EMU a little bit where he seemed pretty confident knowing what to do with the ball.

I just didn't think that it was smart to go into a season with Elliot Cadeau as your only true point guard.

The addition of Kenny Noland builds my confidence a great deal.

I liked actually Kenny Noland and Elliot Cadeau playing together.

Trey was on the court too.

That's three guards, three guys that can all handle the ball and run the offense.