So your battle comment says, won’t go to another college…but at the same time reads as will go to another college for NIL money if gophers don’t offer since he is a year older…
He did that for at least 1or 2 seasons. Always made me laugh at announcers because, when the team was going well, they would talk about how great our depth was that our coach could let two full units develop chemistry together. When things were going poorly, announcers would say "I don't know why he does that, really prevents players from getting into a rhythym."
Yeah it’s a mathematical thing. Better chance of forcing a TO and scoring off of that or fouling right away and adding possessions. Typically the lesser team will not look to add possessions
NIL offer at MN vs Overseas offers for Battle. He’s more likely to leave and weigh those options because he’s older into his earning window.
Gotcha. I hear NIL and I assume NCAA. I hear overseas and I think contract. But if he has his degree (not sure if he is on track for it by end of May), why not play overseas for decent money. He will have done what college athletics has offered: great competition, free school, got his degree, and now he can get paid to play basketball
I understand trying to force the turnover but realistically you need to add possessions to give yourself a shot. As soon as the trap didn't work they should have fouled ASAP. By not fouling we were down 4 with 8 seconds left having to go the full length of the floor with now zero chance to win.
I would argue there isn’t a big difference between 8 seconds and 10 seconds left in a game when you can’t advance the ball on timeouts like the NBA
Still remember when as a Frosh, he played huge minutes when we upset Purdue at Mackey in OT - snatching boards, draining shots from the elbow and taking it 2 Purdue’s gargantuan PF - he was fearless!
Finally someone explained to me what happened. Hard to see with everyone standing and I am short.
Richard Pitino chimes in, “Thanks dad, love you too!”
Did Ben come out and say what his strategy was on that possession?
I think it was the right call to try to trap first, I thought for a second they had a chance. But then waited too long to make the switch to fouling.
Good analysis.
It was zero percent because we didn’t get the turnover. I get your point of extending the game and adding possessions, but that isn’t necessarily a higher percentage success rate when you are a bad team that struggles to score
100% correct. It's hard to say if it is Ben's scheme or the lack of a quicker PG and SG paired with him that cause that situation. Battle is a great catch and shoot guy.
Tubby failed to use Hoffarber and run set plays to get him open away from the ball so he could catch and shoot. Ben, in my opinion, would be benefited by having a whole bunch of set plays to get Battle open off the ball so he can catch and shoot. Too often Battle is left to stand. He should be like a Reggie Miller mini-me, just making the defense chase him.
Maybe so, but in the end what would it matter? Is there a team that moves the ball worse than the Gopher? I don't think so. Ball movement is terrible, spacing is terrible, there just isn't much good right now about this team. However, on the other hand I guess we could say the one good thing is they are young. We can always fall back on that
Youngest team in the nation.
You're watching a different game than I am.
No doubt about that. That we can agree on
Wonder what game he is watching, maybe they are games in an alternative universe in which the Gophers are not ranked #276 in adjusted offensive efficiency per 100 possessions.
That was my real-time guess, too, and I agreed with the tactic. It was realistically their best path to a win. Indiana's players are just too good of free throw shooters to pin your hopes on their missing.
How did it go today? More of the same?
Apples vs. Peachesvs.
