Roddy Gayle Jr.

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Roddy Gayle Jr.

First off, if you could play another sport in Michigan, what would you pick? Either baseball or football.

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Brandon McCoy Jr. was injured in the early stages of the last game, and he will not play for Michigan this season due to injury.

Then in the three-game exhibition slate in October, no Roddy Gayle Jr. until Sunday.

Some injury buildup for the likes of Ricky Liebert and Jalen Reed and Oscar Goodman.

And then on Sunday against Houston, a ton of foul trouble with a 10-man rotation.

We'll see if this team is championship caliber, but...

But even though we've had six examples of this team against other foes, the mystery is still a bit stronger than you'd expect at this point.

Let's react to Michigan's loss in exhibition play to Houston with Coach Boynton, with Terry Mills, and with Roddy Gayle Jr. here on Defend the Block.

We're talking Michigan basketball.

So like we could see their roles evolve based on like comfortability, but I think they both like look good in their limited minutes.

And then, you know, we have this Roddy Gayle question of like when is, when is he gonna play? I assume he's gonna start when he plays, but like yeah, it just like Nolan's playing but he's not, so it's weird.

Yeah.

Well, there are different cases and everything, different-

In a pinch, he can handle the ball.

I mean, we know what Roddy Gayle Jr. is, right? Behind him, uh, it's, it's Ricky Leibert.

Uh, R- Ricky is just, uh, I mean he's, he's unknown.

He, uh, red-shirted last year, uh, before there was a five and five thing, although it would've been hard for him to see the court regardless.

it could be, could be anybody.

Uh, I think this is a probably a good time to talk about Roddy Gayle, our projected starting small forward.

Uh, this is gonna be his third year on the team.

He's been a sixth man, uh, for most of his career.

That was a once in a lifetime team, and this can be a really, really good team and, and have a Final Four ceiling, which I think...

I really still think if Roddy Gayle is out there, they're gonna have an opportunity for that.

But this is not...

There are gonna be some tough times, right? Uh, they need Oscar Goodman to step up.

Like, there's a lot of talent there.

It's gonna be exciting to see.

Um, the other thing was Roddy Gayle did not play.

Mike Boynton said after the game there was something about his, uh, injunction that didn't cover the fact that he was in NBA Summer League last year.

So it's pretty much exactly what you wanna see in an exhibition game without knowing, again, what it means about what we'll see going forward.

So let's start with Roddy Gayle Jr.

He was not in the lineup today.

It was a bit of a surprise based on what Boynton had said on Thursday in Chicago, and that was because...

And, and maybe it was something that they just realized at the last minute, or the NCAA notified them of here in the last few days.

But Roddy Gayle Jr.'s court injunction in the State of New York, uh, Niagara County, did not include that he participated in the NBA Summer League over the summer.

And I don't have it in front of me, but I remember reading at the time that, you know, the wording in Gayle's statement and, um, you know, the court paperwork when it was filed, I think August 31, was that You know, he got a stipend from playing in the Summer League, but he wasn't on a salary.

Like, there were references to it, but maybe just it's semantics or, or whatever it is.