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Well he didn't have any head coaching experience, and got caught with his pants down in back to back years with massive roster deficiencies (post then guard). So he clearly was not starting from a great space. I'm not defending his hire as I wanted Craig Smith. But he's the coach we have and I...

It feels like very publicly and loudly being put in the friendzone

My bad, thank you for the correction. I misremembered that. I'm going to charitably re-interpret my argument then. When Oturu showed up in the summer, Stockman saw the writing on the wall that Oturu would get big minutes as a freshman and decided to transfer somewhere he could get more PT...

This is a dose of reality. Payne looked great to close out the season and it is clear he will play a lot. The only obstacles are foul trouble/injury. And we haven't been a good team making tourney runs, so nobody is coming here for a promise of postseason glory. Good luck selling that picture to...

To add in case people didn't know -- he was originally a 4 star recruit out of HS and went to Oregon State. Transferred to Idaho before the spring semester of his freshman year. Played the 2nd half of his sophomore year, and 4 games of his junior year. Not sure why he quit. Then after playing...

What I want Jack Wilson to do: - bang with Payne in practice. I felt he sometimes struggled to get his shot off against the taller/more physical guys - give us 5 really hard fouls against Edey - be a positive locker room presence, as a 6th year guy who wants to be a strength/conditioning coach...

It's true, I would do a lot for a doner kebab

There definitely was some improvement, I was too harsh. Unfortunately he wasn't able to take advantage of all of those available minutes because of his multiple injuries. I'm still optimistic about his future.

Check the transfer thread from last year after Samuels commits. It's completely crickets as far as any news of us reaching out to more players, and is just a bunch of us Gopherholers arguing. Funnily enough, you are mocking GopherWeatherGuy for being concerned about our ability to bring the...

Whose development was accelerated by the lack of guards, that will benefit us next year? Carrington shot 32% on the year and I don’t think really developed much. JOJ annd Payne didn’t see the time/development they did because of our lack of guards. Everyone else is gone.

It did not pay off for him. We had our worst season in the history of the program. One of the guys being baptized by fire transferred after starting over half the games as a freshman. Cooper transferred as well, after playing more minutes and taking more shots in the B10 than he did in the Ohio...

Talon Cooper was a pretty good "get" for us. He was being recruited by USC, Iowa State, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, South Carolina and Florida. He ended up not being a particularly good fit, but part of that IMO was roster construction/coaching. IMO the real failure...

The point I am driving at -- if Battle was not taking any shots, do you think everyone else's shooting % would stay the same? Again, I agree that Battle played poorly last year. Him leaving the team doesn't mean everybody else just scales up their rate stats to their expanded minutes/shot...

I’m not arguing that his % was not lower than the team average. You said “If Battle didnt take a shot all season, the Gophers would have shot a better %. Thats a fact.” So I’m wondering in this scenario where he doesn’t take a shot, is everything else held constant? Battle is still out there...

So in this scenario where Battle plays the same number of minutes but takes 0 shots all season, do other teams still assign him the same amount of defensive attention?

Three power 5 schools. One of them a was a #1 seed, the other the hometown squad. That tells me this guy is much more highly coveted than the guy who lists us along with 5-6 low/mid majors. Very good FT shooter too.

So he was a talented recruit back in 2018, and he played parts of 3 seasons for Idaho. Spent last year playing football, then joined the basketball team in December after the football season was over. If this guy is literally your last scholarship instead of burning it like we have in the past...

41% from 3P, 87% FT shooter, seems to be a guy who can handle point duties if necessary...wow this would make me feel better about the Gophers if we could nab him. Here's a fun stat. He went 157/180 on the season shooting free throws. For reference, Payne was our leading FT shooter (53/109)...

It's also simplistic to think about it at as 8-9 guys splitting time in one game. It's 8-9 guys splitting time over the course of the season. Guys get benched (e.g. Henley, Samuels) for performance reasons or are hurt (Battle, Garcia, Carrington). Ben simply can't just count on 7 guys to play...

Mike Mitchell is our point guard. He averaged 5 assists per game, good for 2nd in the WCC. Daniel Ortiz averaged 1 assist per game. Fourth on his own team. He's not a PG. He is a surprisingly good rebounder though, tied for 3rd on his team with 3.8 RPG and had two double digit rebound games. I...