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I was referring to the schedule immediately ahead not doing them any favors. They may very well start playing better but the results may be more likely to be Ls due to the step up in competition. I am not a fan of B1G games starting before the noncon portion of the schedule is done.

Battle is certainly struggling as one of the returning guys. I had expected the rest of the squad to be able to step up collectively to offset Willis' offense. I expected this team to get some more easy points in transition. It hasn't happened yet. Here's hoping that something clicks soon. The...

Seems half full to me! I doubt that many of us had this team making the NCAAs this year. Seems that the media and fans all had us near the bottom of the conference. With that goal seemingly out of the question, I immediately started looking to how this year can be a bridge to competing for that...

I agree with your take. Last year's team seemed to know their roles and, while clearly less talented most nights, played hard and were in most conference games. I am no pollyanna. We have seen a lower level of hustle out of this crew. I am hopeful that we are simply seeing youth thinking...

I agree with you on Henley. He has not been afraid to try to make some things happen. He hasn't always been successful but I like the mindset. I think he will continue to improve as the season progresses and he starts to get out of his own head a bit. I posited in another thread that Carrington...

Thank you to @MennoSota for finding this positive take on the young talent this year and signed for next. https://www.si.com/fannation/bringmethesports/gophers/gophers-basketball-is-loaded-with-up-and-coming-talent

After seeing several buzzkills immediately descend upon and bring their not-so-sunny dispositions to the "Gophers Loaded with Up and Coming Talent" thread created by @MennoSota today, I have created a thread specifically aimed at discussing some of the positives that we see from the team over...

I have been exceedingly realistic about this team from the day Johnson was hired! There was no way that this was going to be a quick fix. He is learning how to be a head coach at a Power 5 university on the job. Once the hire was made, anyone should have seen that this was going to be a...

Maybe they just want to make the cheating never happen again?

You continue to look for any possible way to spin to the negative. Evans is the highest rated recruit that we've attracted in 20 years... AND he's not from Minnesota! Christie has been rated in the top 100 by multiple services AND is the brother of a one and done player who went to Michigan...

How old are you?! You are using a U email address as your moniker so I get the sense that you are either a current student or graduated within the last 10 years. I can safely say that you are less than 35 unless you are a prof. Thompson was recruited by Pitino. Thompson has improved but doesn't...

Carrington is coming off of an ankle injury. Have you ever played ball? Did your game suffer due to an injury? If you have played, you would know that it can take a couple of weeks to trust your body again after an injury. Did you watch Sam Jacobson early in his Gopher career? He really...

You're using the wrong tense... lots of fans thought our guards were more capable than they have shown thus far in 7 games. Cooper appeared to be more solid and to be a true pass-first PG that this team lacked last year. Carrington and Henley were expected to be more talented than Loewe and...

Why do you feel that they are stuck in reverse? Will the new players not improve with more experience? Will the new talent coming next year be duds? So many fans in this board have sounded miserable for the last 18 months or so. Why do they put themselves through this? Fans really only have a...

Cooper would likely not be given as much crap if he was hitting his FTs. He has been a stat sheet stuffer which shows me that he is at least trying. He may not have the most lateral quickness on D but he is running a clean game as a starting PG on the offensive end. Johnson and Thorson have...

1. Newbies include Garcia and Cooper. I have been most disappointed in Garcia's effort this season. I thought he was ready to get after it. 2. I have previously shared that I am not a fan of Johnson not using every scholarship. Betts was getting a lot of attention from some bigger names over...

We can't win if Battle THINKS that he needs to score 30 to win. A veteran player like Battle should be smart enough to know that he could help the team in other ways in addition to scoring.

I would have liked to get some more talent in the portal last year. Its not like Johnson didn't try. As a coach completing his first year after coaching a last place team, he just wasn't able to sell the program or playing time to players in the portal. When he wasn't successful, he didn't cry...

Nice post. A couple of comments... 1 and 3-1. I just posted that they need to play with a little more energy effort. I think the team is thinking too much. Maybe the newbies aren't grasping the offense so they may need to rachet back a bit and just simplify their sets. On D, they need to get...

Or it just feels as bad as you think! This has been tough. I don't mind a well-played loss but they've just not had a lot of effort this year. I wish I could understand what is going on. Youth is one thing but there should always be effort... even if its just a mad scramble. A little more effort...