Michigan basketball: After NBA flirtation, John Beilein wants Mitch McGary, Glenn Robinson III focused on season

Source: Detroit Free PressSept.迷你倉新蒲崗 05--Handling the NBA draft early-entry process is still new to John Beilein. Even while dealing with it for most of his six-year tenure at Michigan, Beilein is adapting.While most of the external attention is on the players who leave, by August and September his mind shifts to those who considered the draft but returned to school.He faced it with Manny Harris and DeShawn Sims in 2009, and the next season there were chemistry problems and no postseason play.Last year it was Trey Burke's turn, and this time Beilein was proactive, trying to keep Burke's head focused on U-M. That resulted in the best Michigan season in 20 years, led by Burke as the national player of the year.So Beilein will follow a similar script with sophomore forwards Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III, who considered leaving but returned."Trey had the media attention," Beilein said Wednesday. "So we sat and talked with Trey last year, and he and I got together with goals for the season, and darn it we made most of those goals. And they weren't about basketball. They were about focus and attention and keeping distractions away."We'll have a similar talk with these two (McGary and Robinson)."Beilein had a workout for the guards already this week and has one scheduled for the big men, where he'll get a better look at McGary's and Robinson's progress."Mitch is a very brig迷你倉出租t young man, and he's looking at the game every day as to how he can best improve his talent," Beilein said. "He really will enjoy the little things that other people may not enjoy. At the same time, there is going to be times that he's going to come down and make plays that everybody in the place will notice."I like that about him. He's learning the difference between the great play and a whole bunch of good plays."Robinson's task is a bit more theoretical."The sweet spot he's learning that I talk about all the time is running a play and being a player," Beilein said. "He's just got to continue to look for these bubbles, we call them, these areas where here can just do what he does. He can't force that. He can't say, I haven't shot in a while, I'm going to go take this shot. He'll learn little by little."-- NOTEBOOK: Beilein noticed in the guard workout how much Caris LeVert, Spike Albrecht and especially Nik Stauskas improved their bodies. "You can see what a year of weight training has done." ... Beilein said the nonconference schedule will be tougher than last season with a number of trips, including Iowa State, and Duke in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.Contact Mark Snyder: msnyder@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @mark__snyder.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Detroit Free Press Visit the Detroit Free Press at .freep.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉