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Niyo: Michigan's Juwan Howard finds coaching compass in his staff

(Photo: Max Ortiz, The Detroit News)

Ann Arbor — They need to figure each other out before they can figure out the rest. Or before we can figure out what kind of head coach Juwan Howard will be at Michigan, for that matter.

But all that really matters now, according to Howard and his newly assembled staff, is that they’ve figured out the most important thing already: The pieces seem to fit, and so do the personalities.

And it starts, by all accounts, with Howard’s “ego-less” return to Ann Arbor, where the former Fab Five star and longtime NBA fixture quickly surrounded himself with a group he’s convinced is just the right mix.