MN Daily Column: Mental game shook Gophers basketball this season

[BleedGopher]

per the Daily:

Richard Pitino strolled into his postgame press conference in a surprisingly gregarious manner after his team lost by 13 points to Wisconsin in early March.

The second-year head coach answered every question in his typical straightforward manner, including one asking whether the team’s seniors were concerned about their legacy at the end of a rather underachieving season.

“I don’t think they think like that,” Pitino said. “I think they’re college seniors. I don’t think they’re thinking legacies.”

Perhaps, therein lay the problem for the Gophers men’s basketball team this season — it lacked the mentality to be successful.

http://www.mndaily.com/sports/mens-...n-mental-game-shook-gophers-basketball-season

Go Gophers!!

 

[LakerFan]

I watched several games and commented to my wife that they looked mental.

 

[Bad Gopher]

I watched several games and commented to my wife that they looked mental.

90 percent of the game is half mental.

 

[SelectionSunday]

90 percent of the game is half mental.

When the Gophers came to a fork in the road, they took it.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

Maybe we can get Ed Grimley as an assistant coach in charge of Mental..........

 

[Bad Gopher]

When the Gophers came to a fork in the road, they took it.

"Is Nate Mason your shooting guard of the future?"

"He is for now."

 

[Winnipegopher]

Never thought I would say it but I miss the "Ya feel me" guy.