***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA VS NORTHWESTERN IN-GAME THREAD***

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This has been a thorough beat down that Northwestern has provided to us. It's rather embarrassing.
 

StCroix said:
You blow up the coach now...you might as well be ready for another 3+ years of ineptness.


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Don't agree with that at all. Tubby's first team won 21 games after the 9 win Monson/Molinari season. After Lickliter's 3 year tenure at Iowa, McCaffrey's first team was bad but his second finished over .500 and his third won 25 games.
 

The sad thing is this year's schedule is probably the easiest we could have drawn in the BIG. It could happen again in future years as who is up and who is down is very in flux, but it would be a shame to have a fringe NCAA tournament team get swallowed up by a brutal BIG schedule in a year or two when this one was dealt the easy hand and it didn't even matter.
 

Hmmmmm..... Patrick Reusse was right, fancy that.

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First, I think Northwestern will make the NCAA tournament this year. They have a good team. Second, I want to lower my expectation of three wins in the B1G for the Gophers.
 



Before today, I 100% felt that Pitino should get another year to get the transfers in and to work past his big man recruiting blunders.

To be fair, this is the 1st game I've (attempted) to watch in full. It may not always be this bad, but holy hell. I knew we have been really struggling with rebounding, but the fact that we looked so horrifically lost on defense and so stagnant on offense, all while playing with low energy has me thinking that whoever the new AD has to seriously consider cleaning house after this year. Really wasn't any bright spots today (McBrayer was aggressive, but is weak and a horrible shooter) and the only way to go is up. I don't think anyone significant would transfer, and that Coffee and Hurt would most likely stick to their commitments as they have ties to the U.

This could be a reactionary post, but 25 point loss to Northwestern at home with a Coach who is also in year 3 is staggering.
 





Sid Hartman said:
Little Richie made a major blunder not bringing in a veteran assistant when McHale left...country club 2.0 (alla Wolves)
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The two future lottery picks from Africa should have balanced that out.
 

GophersInIowa said:
With the transfers there will be five new players next year.

But with this kind of effort, it won't matter. Pitino needs to get these guys going fast.
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Is there any evidence that RP knows how to vet transfers? Will fitz and lynch be anything more than the next king and Morris? Started the year with hope, but now thinking RPs learning curve is too steep
 

StCroix said:
You blow up the coach now...you might as well be ready for another 3+ years of ineptness. I'm not saying Richard is the greatest coach ever, but I'm willing to wait at least another year. Everyone of us knew it would be like this, this year. The thing I struggle with the most is the lack of effort on the part of some of the players. As I have said a number of times during past games, there is not one player on the floor that has stepped up to kick the other players in the ass...sorely missing a floor general.


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I certainly did not think we would go 0-3 against the South Dakota schools and UW-Milwaukee, and then lose by almost 30 at home to Northwestern.
 

I bet I have a better chance of winning the powerball than the Gophers do of getting to 10 wins.
 




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The recap from ESPN. Warning, this is a brutal read.


MINNEAPOLIS -- Aaron Falzon tied his career-high with 20 points and Tre Demps added 13 as Northwestern defeated Minnesota 77-52 on Saturday.

Joey van Zegeren added 11 points and Bryant McIntosh had 10 assists for the Wildcats (14-3, 2-2 in the Big Ten), who posted their biggest victory ever at Minnesota's Williams Arena.

Nate Mason scored 13 points and Bakary Konate added 12 for the Gophers (6-10, 0-4), who have lost eight of their last nine games overall.

Falzon, a freshman forward, was 6 for 9 from the 3-point line. He hit two of them early in the second half as Northwestern quickly expanded a six-point halftime cushion and blew the game open.

The Gophers have been plagued by poor 3-point defense, and it came back to bite them again early. Falzon knocked down four 3-pointers in the game's first 11 minutes, keying a 15-2 run that put Northwestern on top 20-11.

Minnesota entered the game ranked 296th in the nation in 3-point defense, allowing opponents to make 37.3 percent from beyond the arc. Northwestern hit 5 of 14 3-pointers in the first half and finished the game 11-for-25 (44 percent).

The final statistics were as lopsided as the score. Northwestern shot 56 percent from the floor compared to just 39 for the Gophers, and the Wildcats won the rebounding battle 33-17.

Konate kept Minnesota in the game in the first half. The 6-foot-11 sophomore scored eight points on three dunks and a pair of free throws as the Gophers trailed just 32-26 at the break.

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TIP-INS

Minnesota: The Gophers have started consecutive seasons 0-4 in Big Ten play for the first time since 1929-30. Last year they lost their first five conference games and finished 6-12 in the Big Ten.

Northwestern: The Wildcats scored nine-straight points on dunks by van Zegeren. He closed the first half with back-to-back slams and drew a foul on one. He hit the free throw, then opened the second half with dunks on consecutive possessions. . Northwestern's largest margin of victory at Minnesota had been 22 points, in a 45-23 win in 1931.
 

cjbfbp said:
Don't agree with that at all. Tubby's first team won 21 games after the 9 win Monson/Molinari season. After Lickliter's 3 year tenure at Iowa, McCaffrey's first team was bad but his second finished over .500 and his third won 25 games.
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Pitino's first team won 25 games and it took McCaffrey until year 4 to reach the NCAA tournament.
 

Pitino's smooth, cool, cereberal coaching style needs to stop now. It is not working on these players. I said it before and I will reiterate it here, Pitino needs to be more steel fist than velvet glove with this group.

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GopherWeatherGuy said:
Pitino's first team won 25 games and it took McCaffrey until year 4 to reach the NCAA tournament.
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Yes but he had a veteran team in his first year and he took over from a winning coach. If he gets fired after this year, his successor won't be so lucky. I really don't get how anyone can be defending Pitino at this point.
 

Just an ugly game all around. Had open looks and the shooting was terrible but also took some horrible shots that had no chance from the moment it left the hand led by Morris in that category. The SRs went from both having a solid game against Penn State to both having a terrible game today on both ends off the floor. The few positives from today were Konate having a solid game especially the 1st half, McBrayer's aggressiveness in getting to the rim and either finishing or drawing a foul, and Mason's play especially creating some open looks for others.
 

cjbfbp said:
Yes but he had a veteran team in his first year and he took over from a winning coach. If he gets fired after this year, his successor won't be so lucky. I really don't get how anyone can be defending Pitino at this point.
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Just pointing out a fact. I disagree though with the bolded statement. If a new coach was hired for next season, he would inherit mostly underclassmen with plenty of upside, along with at least one if not a couple of solid juniors.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Pitino's first team won 25 games and it took McCaffrey until year 4 to reach the NCAA tournament.
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I don't even think McCaffery's first team was this bad. I'm betting they didn't lose to South Dakota, South Dakota, Milwaukee and Nothwestern at home. Certainly if he'd done that in year 3, he'd likely have been fired.
 

howeda7 said:
I don't even think McCaffery's first team was this bad. I'm betting they didn't lose to South Dakota, South Dakota, Milwaukee and Nothwestern at home. Certainly if he'd done that in year 3, he'd likely have been fired.
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Actually their first home game of that season was a loss by 10 to South Dakota St. They also lost to Northwestern at home by 19. Other losses were to a Wake Forest team that won 1 ACC game, and Long Beach State.

This was done with a good JR in Matt Gatens and a couple of talented FR in Marble and Basabe.
 

MennoSota said:
Konate kept Minnesota in the game in the first half. The 6-foot-11 sophomore scored eight points on three dunks and a pair of free throws as the Gophers trailed just 32-26
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Wait, I thought GH'ers forced Pitino to transfer his ass out to St. Thomas already...
 



HOOP DREAMS said:
There have been post calling for both 'African' big men to get lost.

Even with Lunch, we are going to need Konate.
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I have always thought Konate could develop. I saw him get mad when the referee called him for that phantom foul on a clean block in the 1st half. I was glad to see it bothered him. I was pissed for him, watching on tv.
 

Ewert86PC said:
Pitino's smooth, cool, cereberal coaching style needs to stop now. It is not working on these players. I said it before and I will reiterate it here, Pitino needs to be more steel fist than velvet glove with this group.

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I don't know what game you were watching. I was there and he was screaming his head off at the players to no avail- he looked like a raving idiot in the huddles. But regardless of his demeanor- whatever he is doing is not working. This looked like one horribly coached team out there today. No effort, no defense, no purpose on offense. They shoot poorly and part of that is poor shot selection. They don't rebound the ball at all. Awful. Have to give Pitino the rest of this year and next but this is really getting ugly. I have been defending him but today was one of the worst efforts I have seen in nearly 50 years of watch in Gopher buckets.
 

bga1 said:
I don't know what game you were watching. I was there and he was screaming his head off at the players to no avail- he looked like a raving idiot in the huddles. But regardless of his demeanor- whatever he is doing is not working. This looked like one horribly coached team out there today. No effort, no defense, no purpose on offense. They shoot poorly and part of that is poor shot selection. They don't rebound the ball at all. Awful. Have to give Pitino the rest of this year and next but this is really getting ugly. I have been defending him but today was one of the worst efforts I have seen in nearly 50 years of watch in Gopher buckets.
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You've been just about his biggest backer on here. I'd say a post like this from someone like you speaks volumes. Sigh.
 

bga1 said:
I don't know what game you were watching. I was there and he was screaming his head off at the players to no avail- he looked like a raving idiot in the huddles. But regardless of his demeanor- whatever he is doing is not working. This looked like one horribly coached team out there today. No effort, no defense, no purpose on offense. They shoot poorly and part of that is poor shot selection. They don't rebound the ball at all. Awful. Have to give Pitino the rest of this year and next but this is really getting ugly. I have been defending him but today was one of the worst efforts I have seen in nearly 50 years of watch in Gopher buckets.
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Agreed on Pitino's demeanor today. He was voicing his displeasure quite noticeably during the timeouts today. It was intense.

I never thought I'd write this, but I was at the game today, and then tonight I took my daughter to both of ours first Gopher women's gymnastics meets and the atmosphere, energy and effort was so much better tonight at the Pavilion than it was earlier in the day at The Barn.

Go Gophers!!
 

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