Quinn Costello

two of seven from long range.

Quinn Costello was two of seven from long range.

This is a team Mike Boynton said it a number of times.

We just met with him earlier today.

I mean, this is exactly, I mean, this is what Mike Boynton wanted out of this game.

He said it today.

He's like, I wanted Quinn Costello, your freshman McDonald's All-American, walking back to the locker room and saying, man, it is hard to win at this level against the elite teams.

And he even wanted a reminder for Trey McKinney and Roddy Gale and L.A. Caddo.

The bench.

What are we making of the bench? Kenny Nolan, Ricky Lyberg, Quinn Costello, Oscar Goodman, Jalen Reed.

My initial reaction is I don't know what to make of any of them.

They all played between 10 and 18 minutes in that game.

Um, like I, I think Jalen Reed, they all play different roles and they also like have different issues associated with them.

Like Jalen Reed is coming off injuries and like hasn't played many games in two years.

Quinn Costello is a true freshman and like can shoot really, really well and everything else is a big question mark.

We talked about Nolan in detail.

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.

But a lot of intriguing pieces.

It's going to be up to this coaching staff to just kind of piece it together and figure out what works on what night.

For the Wolverines, Quinn Costello was one of the more impressive guys today and just continues to play at a level where I think he demands playing time because of his shooting.

The rebounding, he got beat on the boards a couple times on closeouts.

And then, one, he doesn't really have a backup right now.

And then you get 23 minutes out of Quinn Costello off the bench.

And Estrella's out there for 24 minutes.

Jalen Reed just 15 minutes.

Just trying to improve each and every day a little bit.

What is it like having bigs like JP Estrella, Mustafa Cham, Oscar Goodman, Jalen Reed, Quinn Costello, having that type of depth and that type of size? How do you try to maximize that when you have those types of players on the floor with you?

Yeah.

I mean, I think that they just make me better, honestly.

Like it was like a strategic game down the stretch.

Like did you notice that they went at Quinn Cos- they spread the floor and went at Quis- Quinn Costello on four straight possessions and they scored or got a foul on all of them? Not...

One of them, Costello actually stayed in front and like Liburd over helped from the corner and it led to either a three or, or a foul on a three-pointer.

I can't remember exactly.

Are you worried, JP Estrella, no assists in two games like we just talked about.

Are you worried of like, it feels like there's a little less maybe offensive flow where you get from one thing to the next and like Ricky Liburd not really a secondary creator.

Uh, Quinn Costello not really a secondary creator.

Uh, I, I do think Roddy Gale could be some of that, but is that something the offense is missing a little bit where-

Some things on film for him.

Quinn Costello comes in.

In the first exhibition against Eastern Michigan, he was Michigan's fourth guy off the bench.

In this game, the first guy off the bench.

So I was encouraged by that, even though it ended up as just only one rebound in the box score for him.

Mentioned the free throw thing with him earlier.

Um, we saw in Europe that they had the confidence to draw up these baseline out of bounds plays for Quinn Costello and he would come, you know, off a movement, off balance and, and hit some of those.

And even when he misses it, it's like, I mean, a guy that can get that off and look that smooth and become close to hitting those is good.