Recent content by Chico Gopher

So when the other team is focusing their defense to stop your best shooter from getting a shoot, you want to force the offense in her direction and make her try and take bad shots? I've seen teams do that and watch their best shooter score an inefficient 22 and lose because they tried to force...

I've been very impressed with her overall game this year. When she gets it going, she's a load on both sides of the ball. Yeah, she has her bad moments or games, but pretty much every college player in America, even the All-Americans, have had moments or games that had fans frustrated. Things...

I think her defense is a work in progress. She's a freshman, so getting all the intricacies to be instinctive has probably been her major hold up. That and when you've got 8 solid players that you already trust, minutes are tough to come by. Guessing that's part of the issue with Holloway as...

Another well executed defensive game plan. Cleaned up the turnovers and suddenly the offense looks good again. It's funny that when the offense was suffering from execution and poor shooting issues from everybody but Tori and GG, it was a crap offense. Now, that players are executing it...

Fans hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see, regardless of what is really happening.

Hard to find any players from junior high on u through the pro's that don't travel almost every time they receive a pass or square themselves up for a shot. Kinda like speeding on the freeway. It's illegal, most of us do it at some point and it's rare that you get pulled over and ticketed for it.

For many fans all over the country, not just Gopher fans, if the announcer isn't biased toward my team (which I will hear as very fair and even-handed commentary) they are completely biased toward the other team. I agree with the above about Shimmy. Maybe not a great commentator, but I've...

I love how everybody seemed to go into panic mode around here when Nebraska made their expected run in the 3rd quarter. It happens in almost every game involving decent teams all over the country every week. It's like people.... Never mind. :)

Answered prayer is more like it. When you're going good, things like that work out. She obviously thought she was going to draw a shooting foul. Since the ref didn't give her the "and one", it's obvious she wasn't going to get the call if it hadn't gone in. BTW, I thought it was a...

Do we really want to be like a bunch of 7th grade girls and look for or create a bunch of drama? Seriously?

Well, to be fair, I think he actually recruited to the point where he felt he would be 12 deep and filled in the rest of the roster with practice/project guys. 4, or is it 5 of those top of the roster guys, ended up being or getting injured and out for the season. I haven't put in the time to...

Do you suppose an established coach like Niko might know better than us whether just randomly putting somebody out there who obviously hasn't proven in practice that they deserve anything other than a couple of garbage time minutes per game might hurt more than help (or even tread water) the...

Did any frustrated fans start yelling that she needs to stop shooting after the first 5 misses, like they do when any other player on the mens or womens team starts a game cold?

Well, he obviously didn't "Square Up The Shot" judging from Reynolds reaction. Still, not bad for a "first time I tried this in a game" No-Look, Reverse, Mule Kick! :) I actually don't think I've ever seen that one before. Glad to see Izzo giving him the "try not to ever do that again"...

Seriously! Those last 3 3-point shots were something else!