2 additional notes on this disaster that I haven't seen a discussion on

[EG#9]

1. The refs stopped the game several times for long stretches in the final 7 minutes or so of the 2nd half. Between those unscheduled timeouts and the actual timeouts taken, Tubby had an unbelievable amount of time to talk to his team. Why was the same maddening strategy of passing the ball around the perimeter (to guys who couldn't make a 3 anyway) employed that entire time? It wasn't working, yet no adjustment was made. The most maddening possession of the game came witht he Gophers down like 6 and about a minute and a half to play...they passed the ball around the perimeter and took FOREVER to actually get a shot up (I believe that was finally a Rodney 3) essentially milking the clock for Iowa.

2. The one thing I've always given Tubby credit for is getting his team to play hard. Tonight they got outhustled and certain players looked flat out lazy on the court. It wasn't the Clemson game that ended up being Monson's last, but it certainly was a departure from what we've seen from Tubby during his tenure here.

 

[Gopher Warrior]

The most maddening possession of the game came witht he Gophers down like 6 and about a minute and a half to play...they passed the ball around the perimeter and took FOREVER to actually get a shot up (I believe that was finally a Rodney 3) essentially milking the clock for Iowa.

This possession really got me as well.. I think Minnesota was down by 5, but time was of the essence. It almost looked like the team was stalling. Then, Williams threw a 26 footer toward the rim (I want to say there was still ~12-15 seconds left on the shot clock).

 

[underground629]

Agreed. Tubby absolutely refuses to change his coaching style or adapt to games. Players could have literally ran around and set random screens and our offense would've been more effective. I was embarrassed for Tubby that he didn't do anything. I had to listen to Iowa fans behind me talk about how our offense didn't move.

On another note, why doesn't every single team play zone the entire game against us? We can never figure it out. As soon as they switched to zone I knew Iowa was going to go on a run -- I just thought that at some point we'd try something different.

 

[freshtrout]

2 - 3 zone

They didn't even put a man at the FT line against the Iowa zone .. unreal.

 

[bga1]

They didn't even put a man at the FT line against the Iowa zone .. unreal.

Trout- the odd thing is that they did it the first few times up court in the second half and it worked- then they never did it again.

 

[Minnesconsin fan]

Trout- the odd thing is that they did it the first few times up court in the second half and it worked- then they never did it again.

first two possessions were passes to the elbow and scores and then one more shortly after that was to Sampson but stolen and then never attempted again til about 2 minutes left. From my vantage point, which might be too low to see properly, it still looked that hole was in the zone but we never sent a guy to that spot.

with 7th and 8th graders when we couldn't figure out a zone we sometimes just ran our man offense against it- couldn't have looked any worse than last night. Wait til we have to try figure out Northwesterns 1-3-1

 

[CentralGopher]

1. The refs stopped the game several times for long stretches in the final 7 minutes or so of the 2nd half. Between those unscheduled timeouts and the actual timeouts taken, Tubby had an unbelievable amount of time to talk to his team. Why was the same maddening strategy of passing the ball around the perimeter (to guys who couldn't make a 3 anyway) employed that entire time? It wasn't working, yet no adjustment was made. The most maddening possession of the game came witht he Gophers down like 6 and about a minute and a half to play...they passed the ball around the perimeter and took FOREVER to actually get a shot up (I believe that was finally a Rodney 3) essentially milking the clock for Iowa.

2. The one thing I've always given Tubby credit for is getting his team to play hard. Tonight they got outhustled and certain players looked flat out lazy on the court. It wasn't the Clemson game that ended up being Monson's last, but it certainly was a departure from what we've seen from Tubby during his tenure here.

I was frustrated by the passing around the perimeter too but it seemed to be more on the players not doing what they were supposed to do to me. The post players just stood there and didn't get many open looks. Iowa did play good defense in the paint against us in the second half and took that away from us. And yes they did get outhustled. Hated seeing guys just jogging back and getting beat.