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I've had a few successful coaches tell me that "there is no guarantee that I'll put you in a game, even a blow-out. You develop and earn my trust and confidence every day in practice. Once the player has done that by taking care of business, then you get playing time." It seems some of these...

I honestly think we might be a top 60 team. On a great night with everything clicking, we can give anybody a good game. But like most Better Than Average, but not Great teams, it's going to be rare that everyone and everything is clicking at the same time. I've spent time around some pretty...

If GG can't get open for decent looks from 3, what makes you think that Christian can? I don't think she's much faster, quicker or as adaptable as GG at this point. GG is about as good as we have at getting open for her shots, and UCLA gave her nothing. I mean, we worked pretty hard to get her...

Almost all of GG's success tonight has been when she gets the ball in the paint and uses her old post moves. UCLA is doing a great job on her and the rest of the Gophers out on the perimeter. Even when we do get a rare open look from outside, UCLA closes very quickly with size in our face.

We're doing a great job of preventing UCLA shots, but they're making the ones we give them. UCLA on the other hand is gumming up our offensive sets pretty badly. We can't seem to get a decent screen set. They're either effectively switching and hedging, or simply fighting over our screens...

What if our team beats Winter bad, like 0-10 from the floor, no rebounds and he fouls out early in the second half, but the rest of the Badgers play out of their heads and they win? I want to beat Wisconsin (the team) and if Winter goes for 25 and 10 with 4 blocks and looks like an...

My main question for almost everybody we get or look at is: Will they likely give up more points than they score? If they are strictly scorers and terrible defenders, well, those guys are a dime a dozen. If you feel that (even if they aren't great on-ball defenders like maybe Durkin) they...

Sorry to hear that. Always enjoyed the extra information.

Yep.

The way Minnesota found a way to win was clamping down on defense, taking care of the ball, clearing rebounds and one of our scorers got really hot. USC's defense against us and the big offensive second quarter by Davenport was the reason they surged ahead in the 2nd quarter.

I'm not worried about Battle. I'm guessing that in the next game or game after, she'll end up having another one of those "Thank God for Battle" games that she seems to come up with just when casual fans are losing faith in her.

Gophers took much better care of the ball in the 2nd half as well. That was a key. I think we only had 3 in the 2nd half and turned them over 8 or 9 times. That's another big stat! Our best free throw shooters uncharacteristically struggled at the end, depriving us of some breathing room at...

Offense is fun (Thanks GG) but defense, Thanks Glenn, Braun, GG and McKinney, (starting with about 4 minutes left in the 3rd) wins games! I think we held them to 19 points in the last 15 minutes. Good win!

Great D by Braun and GG on that possession

Nice 5 minute run in the 3rd. Good defense and GG (except for that awful turnover with :35) takes over for Minn. Hated giving up that "Might as well" 3 at the end, but you're also worried about her driving to the hoop and drawing a foul. At least now we're in the game.

I tuned in when it was 21-13 Minn. SC promptly caught fire from 3 and it got ugly. Davidson was definitely the best player on both ends of the floor in the 2nd. Nice to see Gophers get a little run at the end of the half to make it a game again. Can't believe that SC is going to stay that...

Even though the 3-point shot is not there, I think she has definitely added to her game. She's better defensively, maybe more as a team defender than an individual, but she does fight through and around more screens than she used to and takes better angles for the most part. Don't know if...

Yeah, he has some weaknesses that can drive a coach a little nuts, but the key is that he works very hard and is improving. Seems that he is finding out what, and embracing, his role is on this team. That role obviously changed quite a bit when Willis went down in the Thanksgiving tournament...

I also heard him at various times gushing over Reynolds, Tyson, Asuma and JCJ. National/Regional announcers not hired by the team they cover tend to say nice things about the stars of both teams. It's been that way forever. Still not sure why that bothers some people. Who cares if the...

Reynolds seemed to be the only guy who could guard Stirtz. In the second half, Iowa really worked the high screen to get the Gophers to switch off to another defender and Stirtz went off. I loved that one possession very late in the game, we started with Asuma as the primary defender on...