Recent content by Chico Gopher

It will be interesting to see how the rest of the Big 10 responds to her play, now that she is playing, There's film available and teams are now forming a scouting report on her. Since she's started strong, she will become one of the focuses of the opponents game plan, which will mean...

I was at the Santa Clara game. Was 6 rows up, so had a pretty good view. That's a pretty good team with a well-respected coach that seems to win wherever he goes. One thing that stood out to me in that game is that Santa Clara plays defense the way that most coaches wish their team played...

Considering the week this team was coming off, this was a great win. Very good defensive effort! Loved to see them get stops when they needed to, force some tough shots and clear defensive rebounds. Also good to see them run through their offense and make shots when they needed to. This is...

Defensively, this is about as good as you could have hoped for by Minnesota. I think Indiana has done of pretty good job of denying Tyson and Durkin good looks from 3. Hopefully, the Gophers have enough gas in the tank to keep up the effort in the 2nd half. Be interesting to see what...

The more I'm on this board the more I'm convinced that frustration drops the average basketball fans relatively low basketball IQ ( as compared to most college coaches) another 50% or so.

Well, I was also counting the assistant (position) coaches that he's likely worked with over the years. Plus, I think this is his 3rd team, with another new set of coaches, who likely had him on some type of pre-season program. But, point taken.

Seems to me that when he joined the Gophers, he was considered a pretty raw talent. Good ability that needed time to develop. Now, after playing ball for 4 years with and against high-level college talent, and under several different types of coaches, he is finally reaching his potential. Not...

Fun Drill. Still not the same consequence as "If I miss the free throw now, we lose the game!" At least in my mind. Every drill in practice, running, push-ups, longer practice, was just that; practice. We run more because I miss a free throw in practice? At least I didn't lose the game...

If there was ONE secret or ONE specific technique that guaranteed an improvement in free throw shooting for every team and every player, you know that every coach in the world would be teaching and practicing it. Of course, all coaches also know that teaching and practicing something doesn't...

"she had the ball in her hands much more, probing the defense and hitting the mid-range jump shot regularly" I seem to remember that during most of last season, there were a significant number of posters complaining about that exact thing. She dominates the ball, she dribbles too much in an...

Unfortunately, I was only able to follow in Live Stats tonight. However, if indeed, part of the issue was letting cold shooting affect their defense, that may end up being the big lesson for the night.

Didn't expect it to be this lopsided. Sometimes, once you get rolling it's hard to stop. Good win with lots of contributions from almost everybody.

Always thought that GG and Battle have always been pretty good rebounders over the years. They both have a nose for the ball. Couple of really good, long defensive holds in the 9:30 to play area. Seems like they've focused on not letting the stars get theirs, and seem to be having pretty good...

Absolutely, 100%. Bet if you asked them tonight, they would say that after reviewing the tape, it was not a result of contact by the other player.

Hate to tell you, but her knee blew out right before there was really any contact from the defender. You could see her right leg collapse a little as soon as she planted it. I stopped the video at the exact moment it gave way and if there was any defensive contact at all at that point, it was...