ANN ARBOR -- Among the very few questions that gets John Beilein mildly annoyed is one that implies his teams play at a slow pace.
"What do you mean by slow?" he asked a reporter after Michigan had lost 86-71 at North Carolina last season. "What does that mean? Number of possessions? Does that mean we value possessions every time, (that) we get a good shot? ... We don't play slow. We run on every single rebound as fast as we can, all right? Just don't tell me we play slow. We really don't. We just happen to take good shots and work a really good offense that scores buckets.