It's a forget about it game..
I have no idea who somebody would say played well for the Gophers. Yes, Springs was AWOL, but nobody played consistent. Mason scored some points but then did lots of things that didn't help. Coffey and McBrayer same thing. Murphy couldn't stay on the floor long enough to get involved...without his double double somebody else has to elevate. Lynch lost control of the ball so often, especially on 50/50 balls, I wouldn't feel good about throwing it to him either. He got outmuscled, out hustled on too many rebounds. And yes, Lynch had 8 rebounds and 5 blocks but there was so much more available to him. We had nobody play even to their average ability...certainly not anything similar to their better individual play of the last month. I've said Konate has been consistent...even his basic ordinary fundamental contributions were absent...making him a liability. Curry was lost compared to how he has demonstrated he can play...got some rebounds, not much else going on. Hurt just ran around.
Somebody needs to step up and lead these guys. We should have been, easily ahead by double figures in the first half. You gotta make some big plays. You gotta answer. We had nobody play well consistently, it's not just one guy who didn't show up, it was everybody. Referees didn't lose us the game on any level but we sure didn't overcome the fact of the way they called it, which wasn't helpful to our flow.
Forget about it, regroup and be excited for another opportunity on Friday. We have all seen us play well. We just didn't show up as a team on Sunday, evidently as stated, happy with our guaranteed 4 seed.
I have no idea who somebody would say played well for the Gophers. Yes, Springs was AWOL, but nobody played consistent. Mason scored some points but then did lots of things that didn't help. Coffey and McBrayer same thing. Murphy couldn't stay on the floor long enough to get involved...without his double double somebody else has to elevate. Lynch lost control of the ball so often, especially on 50/50 balls, I wouldn't feel good about throwing it to him either. He got outmuscled, out hustled on too many rebounds. And yes, Lynch had 8 rebounds and 5 blocks but there was so much more available to him. We had nobody play even to their average ability...certainly not anything similar to their better individual play of the last month. I've said Konate has been consistent...even his basic ordinary fundamental contributions were absent...making him a liability. Curry was lost compared to how he has demonstrated he can play...got some rebounds, not much else going on. Hurt just ran around.
Somebody needs to step up and lead these guys. We should have been, easily ahead by double figures in the first half. You gotta make some big plays. You gotta answer. We had nobody play well consistently, it's not just one guy who didn't show up, it was everybody. Referees didn't lose us the game on any level but we sure didn't overcome the fact of the way they called it, which wasn't helpful to our flow.
Forget about it, regroup and be excited for another opportunity on Friday. We have all seen us play well. We just didn't show up as a team on Sunday, evidently as stated, happy with our guaranteed 4 seed.