I can see you guys sitting in the stands bad mouthing your kid's high school coach. Most of you have no clue what you are watching. Maryland is now 19 and 2. They shot lights out. They executed. Springs decided basically not to assert himself on offense the last 5 minutes of the game. He's our offense. Maybe until the very end he might have looked to score once in the last 5 minutes, but I don't think so. Is that Pitino not recognizing that and encouraging him? Or was Pitino aware and realized on this day Springs was hiding late game? (There's not much you can do about that as a coach during a game w/o risking permanent damage...everything has consequences) Nobody filled the void offensively...Coffey usually contributes at this time, not today. Had we made our free throws in the last 5 minutes it is a different game possession wise.
We didn't make plays. If you guys think a coach can magically elevate his players to finish games versus more experienced teams and if he can't he's not a good coach...you don't understand how it works. It's absolutely a process. We ain't ready yet. We don't have a Melo, we didn't have two unconscious three point shooters. Nobody stepped up for the Gophers because they just are not ready yet. They caught fire, we went cold. We could have lost by 40 without the first half run. Our schedule is brutal! Who we play, when we play em, where we play em etc