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He has been much better than last year but pretty inconsistent on offense. Defensively he has upped his game nicely. We need a guy with Reynold type athleticism, but a better shooter next to Asuma. Even with all the great movement in this offense, you still need a guy or two who can go to the...

Niko is going to go out and get good guards who can defend shoot and run. Groves? I don't know much about him. Evans is a good shooter who succeeded in Niko's system next to Nicque Clifford. He is a defensive liability against big guards. I'd take him, but I am not sure a duo of Evans and Asuma...

Washington has been caught out of position on D several times but we keep failing to drain the wide open 3.

Asuma trying to force things in the late in the first half instead of just working the offense. He got 3 turnovers over dribbling. Slow down. Tyson had a good first half but turned down a few open shots, including one that cost us saving to throw up a prayer. Too bad because they were hanging in...

Yeah, Niko is not going to let him do that, nor will he need to. This offense is about cutting and passing to hunt for open shots- this is not a dribbling offense for the most part.

Next year losing a game like this would kill me. This year, while I hate to see it, it's part of the process. We need a full roster with an upgrade in talent. We will get it.

Correct. Despite Maryland's bad record they probably put more talent on the floor than we do.

I'm pretty sure that the offense to go in the paint is developed, we just don't have the guys that can play above the rim to do it. Once we do it will make life for the shooters a lot easier.

Crocker Johnson didn't show up today. Just like Penn State. We need the better version of him. Not all of it is on the Gophers though, Maryland played well and Coit was just unreal. That go ahead 3 was just off the charts difficult. He had 9-13 shooting, 4 of 7 on 3s and 7 of 7 at the line. You...

Well Willis ain't playin' so yeah. I would not trade Reynolds for Evans. No way. I'd be happy to have Evans though. But here's the good news for you Reynolds is gone after this year and there is certainly a good chance we get Evans who is now buried on the bench at NC (0 points in 6 minutes...

"Meyer" has not been great today....

Agreed. Looking back into the non-conference part of the season when we still had Vaihola and Willis and had hopes of getting Omot back, it still appeared that this was maybe a 6 Big Ten win type of squad. If at the time one would have said we won't have any of those guys and our current...

Oil money. They have plenty of NIL

Niko is the better coach. There I said it. What Gophers would start for MSU? Maybe one or two. Then there is the bench disparity. Yet we beat them. Give Niko time and really good players will come our way. Then this is going to be an upper division team year after year.

That's awesome! Looks like the players had a plan not to react to the coach for a few seconds...:)