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This was how Parker responded today to Tony Liebert's tweet with his stats. Obviously cryptic, but I'm guessing he wouldn't be doing that unless he wasn't confident he would be able to contribute.

I'm kinda surprised there is not much Gopher basketball podcast content out there. Ryan James and Luke Buer record a couple podcasts per season but it feels like they could probably 4x their content output. I enjoy them when they come out. I don't mind listening to James but without trying to...

Fair enough -- I didn't realize you had copied the same numbers as Tony's tweet, I had clicked through to the 2nd page. Him comparing Mitchell/Hawkins' numbers at low/mid majors to B10 numbers doesn't make any sense. My mistake. So let's not compound the mistake by using Tony's framing. Do you...

Man, you don't need to cherry pick in this way to make Ben sound bad. Why'd you give us FG% and turnovers, but not include 3P or assists?? His tenure has been a disaster, but you come off as disingenuous when you make omissions like this. ParticuIarly when Hawkins/Mitchell ran point for their...

I don't see it on the ESPN website, either under the Cameron Christie page or the Minnesota page. Was it just a blurb in a bigger story? Do you have a link? That would be great if true.

Where have you seen that Christie is 6'7"? I think you are way exuberantly overconfident about having 4 or 5 on the all conference teams. But yes I hope we play faster and are fun to watch. I know Ola-Joseph and Payne have that in their games. Not sure about Garcia/Betts/Ihnen. I am excited to...

Very interested to see how much Ben lets Hawkins play like this. I for one am very excited for some lob dunks and alley-oops to Ola-Joseph and Payne.

Another nice assist on a backdoor cut: Turnover #5?: Gets penetration on the drive, but then just tosses the ball without much of a chance, this one is his fault, but he immediately steals the ball and gets it to Odom for a layup: Turnover #6, slipped and fell: Turnover #7? No idea how...

Another FT opportunity, I originally thought this was a turnover: Howard gets the ball back with 7 seconds, he is trying to get a last second shot up and steps out of bounds after some forcing contact with the defender, but they call the foul Hero ball long missed 3PT early in possession...

An example of his aggression leading to a defensive lapse, he lunges for the ball which leads to easy penetration for Harris who kicks it out for a 3: Another alley-oop pass that lead to a shooting foul. I think this is the 4th pass like this that has led to a basket or FT opportunity, really...

continued because I can only post 5 YT links at a time: Knocks down a 3 on a kickout after an offensive board: He sat for a while. Came back in the game and made a nice floating pass off the drive that led to a shooting foul: Made a high degree of difficulty drive in traffic, also looked...

I watched the Kansas game to see how Hawkins looked against Harris, the B12 Defensive POY. My biggest takeaway was his quickness and aggression. He took lots of chances on offense and defense, which led to points but also turnovers and allowing his man to get penetration. Thought he was a little...

I mentioned this in another thread, we were ranked 347 out of 352 teams in fast break points last year. We averaged 4 fast break points per game. Wisconsin was 349. We need to improve at this.

The turnovers are very bad. I wonder if he was trying to play hero ball or what. Or if a couple of those per game were from drives to the basket where he dribbled it off his foot/had it stripped/traveled etc. I am gonna rewatch the Kansas game if I get time today and see how those 7 TO's...

Good size/speed comp. I didn't remember him being that small. I'm not sure what happened to him in year 2 here, but year 1 he was a really nice addition.

Wait was Ben still here when Brock Stull signed? If Hawkins signs I'm excited to see what he can bring to the team. It is wild to go from a slow 6'4" 194 to speedy 5'11" 152. Chucky Hepburn at 6'2" 205 will push him around. I will be curious to see how Ben could use him and Mitchell together...

Agree with this. Watching teams run trap against us was painful. We ranked 347th in fast break points last year. Out of 352.

Love that Hawkins is a guy who will drive and looks like he is very quick. The very first possession of the Kansas game he takes it to the rim (barely misses) but nice shot creation. Reasonable FT% at 76%. A little small for the B10 at 5'11" 160 which would limit lineups a bit. Would be a very...

You're right it is not over. But I'm not particularly optimistic we will get a guard that will be a major contributor for us. We had two guys in for visits, and they both picked "lesser regarded" schools over us after hearing the whole song and dance routine. I'll get my hopes up again if we...

I'm curious what kind of locker room guy he can/would be. He has already played for 3 teams (UIC, Idaho, KC) and KC was bad last year (11-21). Somebody made a comment about how he "was out to get his". Also jacked up 8 3PT per game. Battle shot only 5.6 per game last year for reference. That...