The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MICHIGAN IN THE PROS do a great job of playing with one another." There's room for improvement, though. The Journal adds that Hard- away's 0.2 defensive win shares this season — an estimate of how a play- er 's defense helps his team win — are the NBA's second-worst among shooting guards with 1,000 minutes played. His 5.7 percent assist rate is second to last among guards, and his 3.9 percent rebounding rate — the percentage of missed shots he grabs while on the floor — would go down as the seventh-worst season in NBA history for players 6-6 or taller. "He's a shot maker and he's an athlete. He's capable of putting the ball down and getting to the rim," Woodson said. "But I want him to be a complete player, so I want him to get better defensively, and I think he will as the years come and go." Hardaway is also scoring 60.3 per- cent of the time in transition, though, fifth best among NBA guards. He's also finishing at the rim with a 66.7 percent success rate, better than any Mario Manningham • NFL Manningham was slated to speak with the New York Giants March 17 with hopes of returning to his first NFL team. He signed a two-year, $7.3 million contract with the 49ers, but played 12 games in 2012 and caught 42 passes for 449 yards and only one touchdown before needing left knee surgery to repair a torn ACL and PCL. He made it back for only six games in 2013 and caught nine passes for 85 yards before he went back on injured reserve. Trey Burke • NBA The former Michigan point guard scored 23 points, shooting 9 of 15 from the floor in a 112-110 loss to Atlanta March 10. He made 5 of 8 triples and added four assists and two rebounds in defeat. Mike Cammalleri • NHL Cammalleri scored two goals to help the Calgary Flames erase a two-goal deficit in the third period to beat the Stars 4-3 March 1. "It's kind of something that we've been doing pretty well as of late," Cammalleri told the Associated Press. "Whatever the score is coming into the third period, putting out all that we have and trying to keep going and stick with what we're trying to do. Some- times you're rewarded." HEADLINERS Former Michigan athletes in the news this month