ROSEMONT, Ill. — Dusty May has a “weird mind.”

At least, that’s what senior guard Roddy Gayle thinks. When asked Thursday at Big Ten Media Days about his coach’s recent unorthodox playcalls in practice, Gayle used that exact phrase.

“He has a very weird mind, he likes to do stuff that people haven’t thought of before,” Gayle said. “Like, who would have thought to put two 7-footers in a pick and roll and play a guard at the dunker? … It’s those kind of unique things Dusty comes up with, and it’s just mind boggling.”

Indeed, the four-five pick-and-roll the Michigan men’s basketball team ran last year with former center Vlad Goldin and former forward Danny Wolf certainly qualifies as unconventional. But it was crucial to the Wolverines’ winning ways. These kinds of plays weren’t something

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