Gopher women beat Rutgers yesterday. Was a little surprised after they got destroyed at Penn St. by 56 pts. in their final game. Play Michigan at 8 p.m. on BTN reputedly. Last nite's women's BB game showed up on the Gopher's home website as being on BTN at 8 p.m. It was not. The men with their pathetic performance was.
Amir Coffey is the only Gophers player I'm aware of playing in the NBA presently. Plays for the LA Clippers. Several alum coaching with several others playing in G league or internationally. No doubt, it's been a rough several decades starting with Clem's firing. Monson didn't get it done. According to a friend who was a HS coach, he had zero rapport with high school coaches. Tubby was a breath of fresh air at first but couldn't hang onto players like Royce White who later starred for IA St. or the stoner guard, Devoe Joseph, who left and starred at Oregon. Tubby's offense was offensive. Had he realized the error of his ways and brought in someone who could actually design & make them execute an offense, he might well have retired here. Throwing the ball around the outside until late in the shot clock and jacking up a desperation jump shot is not a recipe for success. Little Richard? Well, he did better than anticipated after he got rolling but still had a rough time keeping players eligible as well as getting MN kids & keeping them here. Some of them like Brad Davison, it's just as well. Not sure I would've enjoyed his antics here no matter what their record might've been. Tripping Nate Mason and seriously injuring him was bush league. I would've liked to have seen Jordan Murphy tune Davison up after he intentionally stuck his leg out, causing Murphy to land awkwardly on a rebound. Luckily Murphy wasn't injured and had more class than that or he would have torn Davison apart. Why I still maintain Gard is a piece of crap. If I want to watch garbage like that I'll watch the UFC.
The "Bad Gophers" showed up for the entire game against a very ordinary IN team. The "Good Gophers" never came to the rescue in the 2nd half. Down by 5 at halftime, I watched as they continued to dig themselves deeper to open the 2nd half. Had to feed bottle lambs and when I came back in, they were down 15. Time to watch Tales of Wells Fargo. Lost by 12. Carrington out with concussion. Ben plays 6 guys. They were gassed by the end of the game. Not sure what Ola-Joseph did to pi$$ in Ben's Wheaties but something is wrong there. Could've used another big body to take up space, get the ball down deep & score. 18 turnovers. Could not or would not get the ball inside. Stopped driving the ball at the IN guys already in foul trouble. Fell in the love with desperation 3 balls. Christie lets the B1G freshman of the week go to his head, hits 2 out of 9 from the 3 pt. line. Mitchell matches him & Hawkins delivers 0 for 5 from 3 pt. land. Only guy who looked alive was Parker Fox. A lot of this stuff comes back to coaching. After $hitting the bed against IN at home, beat Northwestern on the road? Surely you jest...
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