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AZgopherGirl said:
For some inexplicable reason, it appears Ben just does not like Asuma or has no confidence in him or something… Ben should be developing him. No reason not to play Asuma more minutes.
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Asuma is Ben's most prized recruit (outside of Wingspan Dennis Evans anyway) and his treatment of him is baffling.
 
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AZgopherGirl said:
For some inexplicable reason, it appears Ben just does not like Asuma or has no confidence in him or something… Ben should be developing him. No reason not to play Asuma more minutes.
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He has been playing Asuma a lot though up till this game. And he played him a lot in the first half as well. It was odd that he didn't go out there for most of the second half. Only thing that would make sense was some sort of injury otherwise it was odd that he was not part of the second half rotation until the final minutes of the game.
 

howeda7 said:
Asuma is most prized recruit (outside of Wingspan Dennis Evans anyway) and his treatment of him is baffling.
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Asuma has been getting starter level minutes off the bench up until this game. That is good for a true freshman. The decision not to use him in the second half was strange and I hope someone asked Johnson about it.

Edit - just saw the thread about this very topic. Holy crap that was a horrible answer. Zero justification for sitting the one offensive bright spot in the first half for nearly the entire second half if he wasn't injured (and it appears he wasn't).
 
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bga1 said:
Just Ben coaching scared. He had the guys he prefers in the game (for whatever reason) and he just rode them into the ground because he was scared to put anyone else in. So often he speaks loud and clear to his players- I don't trust you. This was Ben in a game where he know if he lost he was done for - so he went back to his old habits.

Two crazy things for me-
1. Fox was so obviously a bad matchup in this game- yet he started the second half and it cost Ben.
2. Asuma with 8 points in the first half and getting them going to the rim, gets no PT until 2 minutes left in the second half. The guards got tired and sloppy towards the end and turned it over three straight times.
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I too was surprised to see Fox out there at the beginning of the 2nd half.
 


howeda7 said:
They play 20 games. 8-12 should not be good enough. 10-10 maybe but there is zero chance of that.
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I disagree
If the team went 8-12 this year I think you can reasonably give him another year

We don’t seem to need to worry about that.
 



Some guy said:
I disagree
If the team went 8-12 this year I think you can reasonably give him another year

We don’t seem to need to worry about that.
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8-12, 16-15 no postseason and a 4 year conference record of 23-56. One meaningful returning player. I can't see it.
 












BarnBurner said:
Enlighten me
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It's very simple you use "negative" and "negativity" to look at any criticism as an attack on the program and an effort to destroy it.

Whereas, criticism is a summary analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the program. Criticism is designed to find areas that can be improved upon for the betterment of the program. It comes about because one has an affinity for the program and wants success for it.

I'm not all "duckies and bunnies", blindly supporting the program, because it has struggled for so long. I find the veil of toxic positivity so many alleged boosters exude to be more offensive than any criticism of the program.

In my opinion, Ben has given us four years of bad decision-making piled on top of the eight years of ineptitude we got from Richard Pitino. RP followed the Tubby Smith reign where administration and faculty kept yanking his chain about actually making improvements to athletic facilities but never following through on any promises or commitments in a timely manner..

Negativity is the bureaucratic oppression obstructing improvements to athletics. Negativity is belief that athletics have no place at a university thus there should be no funding for it and then complaining that raising funds for the school is unnecessarily difficult because the broader public doesn't donate funds for academic achievements at the level which academics expect. Negativity is ignoring the economic scale of academic donations that come from having a successful, revenue-generating athletic department.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Every other coach in Gophers MBB history has been better than Ben Johnson. All of the evidence supports this.
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I would agree except they did not have the expansion of the Big, a pandemic and the NIL tossed at their first years. If you look at what was tossed at him during those formative years, he had to adjust to multiple events where few to zero coaches have ever experienced these types of disruptive influences in such a short span of time. In fact, Ben is the only coach to run this gauntlet. It is for these reasons that I say you have nothing to compare Ben. Absolutely nobody. So as far as I am concerned, Ben is the first coach of the new era. He is the baseline.
 

ShushPush said:
I would agree except they did not have the expansion of the Big, a pandemic and the NIL tossed at their first years. If you look at what was tossed at him during those formative years, he had to adjust to multiple events where few to zero coaches have ever experienced these types of disruptive influences in such a short span of time. In fact, Ben is the only coach to run this gauntlet. It is for these reasons that I say you have nothing to compare Ben. Absolutely nobody. So as far as I am concerned, Ben is the first coach of the new era. He is the baseline.
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So it's just hard to figure out how Ben is doing?
 

ShushPush said:
I would agree except they did not have the expansion of the Big, a pandemic and the NIL tossed at their first years. If you look at what was tossed at him during those formative years, he had to adjust to multiple events where few to zero coaches have ever experienced these types of disruptive influences in such a short span of time. In fact, Ben is the only coach to run this gauntlet. It is for these reasons that I say you have nothing to compare Ben. Absolutely nobody. So as far as I am concerned, Ben is the first coach of the new era. He is the baseline.
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You are right, Ben is the new baseline for being the worst Gopher basketball coach in history. There is nothing he is good at. Every other coach across the B1G and the country deals with same things he has over the last 4 years.

Only a little over 1 month until the BJ era is over.
 

ShushPush said:
I would agree except they did not have the expansion of the Big, a pandemic and the NIL tossed at their first years. If you look at what was tossed at him during those formative years, he had to adjust to multiple events where few to zero coaches have ever experienced these types of disruptive influences in such a short span of time. In fact, Ben is the only coach to run this gauntlet. It is for these reasons that I say you have nothing to compare Ben. Absolutely nobody. So as far as I am concerned, Ben is the first coach of the new era. He is the baseline.
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With takes like this, no wonder you changed your poster name.
 

ShushPush said:
I would agree except they did not have the expansion of the Big, a pandemic and the NIL tossed at their first years. If you look at what was tossed at him during those formative years, he had to adjust to multiple events where few to zero coaches have ever experienced these types of disruptive influences in such a short span of time. In fact, Ben is the only coach to run this gauntlet. It is for these reasons that I say you have nothing to compare Ben. Absolutely nobody. So as far as I am concerned, Ben is the first coach of the new era. He is the baseline.
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Are you CBJ himself, his wife, or his mom? That is literally the only plausible explanation for this post. Well, other than just being a troll job, which is likely as well I suppose.
 


GopherWeatherGuy said:
You are right, Ben is the new baseline for being the worst Gopher basketball coach in history. There is nothing he is good at. Every other coach across the B1G and the country deals with same things he has over the last 4 years.

Only a little over 1 month until the BJ era is over.
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I'm happy for you. It is most likely going to happen. He will be fired. You need this more than me.

Clap. Clap. Clap.
 

Ben sets the new mark for conference coaching fails. He’s the new Lickliter but was somehow given a year longer than the previous poster child for losing.
 

goldenboy said:
Ben sets the new mark for conference coaching fails. He’s the new Lickliter but was somehow given a year longer than the previous poster child for losing.
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Lickliter didn't have Ben's vast experience losing to help him deal with all of that losing.
 


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