Austin's awful missed dunk

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He's probably our most fundamentally sound player and he picked a bad time to add a bit extra showboating. Ugh.
 

Cost the Gophers 2 points they needed and probably messed with his head as well.
 

He is another one of the Gopher " head cases " along with Rodney, Coleman, and Oto.
 

I know when some posters get critical, one of the token responses is "I'd like to see you coach better" or "I'd like to see you play better". On that play, I bet there are a good handful of Gopher holers who actually could have scored from that spot on the floor.
 

I hope he goes for the slam again next time he has the opportunity.
 


We are ahead by two under two minutes and are shooting free throws - missing those during crunch time lost the game!
 



Guessing it was more of a frustration dunk than a showboating dunk. Either way, it seemed uncharacteristic.
 



spackler said:
I hope he goes for the slam again next time he has the opportunity.
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Definitely. If he had laid it up and it rolled off the rim, you'd be telling him to dunk the dang thing.
 

Cayman said:
Definitely. If he had laid it up and it rolled off the rim, you'd be telling him to dunk the dang thing.
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Layup, dunk, I don't care. The problem was that he was alone with the hoop, the ball did not go down, and we lost by 1.
 


book said:
We are ahead by two under two minutes and are shooting free throws - missing those during crunch time lost the game!
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We missed a shot with 19:13 to go in the first half. THAT cost us the game just as much.
 



Cayman said:
That's fine, but I don't think the decision to dunk was wrong in itself.
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No, but the decision to try and slam it home as hard as he could was.

Just get it over the front of the rim and force it down.
 

brucekaupa said:
No, but the decision to try and slam it home as hard as he could was.

Just get it over the front of the rim and force it down.
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He does virtually that exact same dunk almost every time on a breakaway, why would he go and try to do something different then? He just missed the dunk, I really think people are over-analyzing it.

I also think Marshall being right there near the basket messed him up more than anything, he got right up under that rim.
 

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