cncmin
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You'd think with a 10-point lead that you'd make sure to GUARD THE 3-POINTER. You'd think that after you have given up a huge 3-point disparity in almost every game this season that you'd GUARD THE 3-POINTER.
The refs didn't help any in the second half either, that B.S. with taking 6 seconds off of the shot clock to leave only 3 seconds was one of the most terrible calls I've ever seen. Why not just take off ALL the shot clock time, would have made just as little sense. Then to top that off they don't call the foul down low and give DJ his 4th foul on an off-the ball foul call on the other end so our best defender has to get off the court. That was pretty much the continuation of the fall in this game, Lucas-Perry's wide-open 3's being the start of that fall. It also didn't help when the Mich. player got the loose ball skidding towards out of bounds, and somehow got a time out called with two Gophers tying him up. Don't think that play wasn't huge...if I recall correctly the Gophers had the arrow, and Mich. got a 3 from Harris at the other end on the ensuing possession. Tubby's time out call on Westbrook's tying 3 was simply bad luck...Lawrence didn't take a good shot, but if I were Tubby and Westbrook has the ball in transition at the end, I'm letting him take the game-tying shot before I set up another inbounds play that doesn't get anyone open.
This game pisses me off for a whole lot of reasons, most being that they STILL, after two straight years of this stupid collapse defense, haven't learned to guard the 3-point line, including when a team can ONLY shoot from 3 (NDSU, NU, PSU, Michigan) or when the other team catches fire from outside (see almost every game this year, at some point). This kind of stupid collapse defense made a lot more sense when a shorter, slower Tollackson was down in the post, makes NO sense now! Let the other team have some 2-point buckets once in a while, STOP letting every team kill us from 3!!! Well, this would make WAY too much sense. Maybe they'll learn now that they may have stupid-played themselves out of the tourney; or at least made their road much more iffy and difficult. And for all the times I've stood up for Hoff this year, once again he got sucked in on defense on a pass into the post, such that he left his guy wide open for an easy 3. Only this time he did it was a 10-point lead late in the game, and did it twice in a row.
I posted this long before we ever played Wisconsin, that whoever lost THIS game was out of the tourney. Certainly that was the case for Michigan, but Minn. winning the Wisconsin game made this game a little less must-win. I think the Gophers still have a chance, but now they have to at least win one BTT game, possibly 2. Way to piss away an easy tourney bid with some very stupid basketball against a very mediocre basketball team that is entirely one-dimensional except for one player (Harris). I think - no wait, I know - that my rec league team could have guarded Michigan's 3 line better.
Lastly, where was Iverson today to spell Sampson a bit more, and where was Busch when the going got tough? And where was Joseph on the final play (on the bench)? And why do the Gophers never have a half-court inbounds play that works? And why have the Gophers, after having so much success with the full-court zone trap, left it and gone to a man press, which rarely, if ever, succeeds at any level of basketball? A lot of questions to be answered that better be answered in a hurry, as we'll need the first-round win to possibly make a low seed (10-13 or out altogether), and need 2 wins to have a secure bid (8-11 seed).
I haven't thrown that much shit around the house during a game in a long time, pretty much since the Gophers blew that Wisconsin football game with the blocked punt in the end zone, and the time before that when another Michigan guy named Perry beat the Gophers in Minneapolis doing the same play over and over.
The refs didn't help any in the second half either, that B.S. with taking 6 seconds off of the shot clock to leave only 3 seconds was one of the most terrible calls I've ever seen. Why not just take off ALL the shot clock time, would have made just as little sense. Then to top that off they don't call the foul down low and give DJ his 4th foul on an off-the ball foul call on the other end so our best defender has to get off the court. That was pretty much the continuation of the fall in this game, Lucas-Perry's wide-open 3's being the start of that fall. It also didn't help when the Mich. player got the loose ball skidding towards out of bounds, and somehow got a time out called with two Gophers tying him up. Don't think that play wasn't huge...if I recall correctly the Gophers had the arrow, and Mich. got a 3 from Harris at the other end on the ensuing possession. Tubby's time out call on Westbrook's tying 3 was simply bad luck...Lawrence didn't take a good shot, but if I were Tubby and Westbrook has the ball in transition at the end, I'm letting him take the game-tying shot before I set up another inbounds play that doesn't get anyone open.
This game pisses me off for a whole lot of reasons, most being that they STILL, after two straight years of this stupid collapse defense, haven't learned to guard the 3-point line, including when a team can ONLY shoot from 3 (NDSU, NU, PSU, Michigan) or when the other team catches fire from outside (see almost every game this year, at some point). This kind of stupid collapse defense made a lot more sense when a shorter, slower Tollackson was down in the post, makes NO sense now! Let the other team have some 2-point buckets once in a while, STOP letting every team kill us from 3!!! Well, this would make WAY too much sense. Maybe they'll learn now that they may have stupid-played themselves out of the tourney; or at least made their road much more iffy and difficult. And for all the times I've stood up for Hoff this year, once again he got sucked in on defense on a pass into the post, such that he left his guy wide open for an easy 3. Only this time he did it was a 10-point lead late in the game, and did it twice in a row.
I posted this long before we ever played Wisconsin, that whoever lost THIS game was out of the tourney. Certainly that was the case for Michigan, but Minn. winning the Wisconsin game made this game a little less must-win. I think the Gophers still have a chance, but now they have to at least win one BTT game, possibly 2. Way to piss away an easy tourney bid with some very stupid basketball against a very mediocre basketball team that is entirely one-dimensional except for one player (Harris). I think - no wait, I know - that my rec league team could have guarded Michigan's 3 line better.
Lastly, where was Iverson today to spell Sampson a bit more, and where was Busch when the going got tough? And where was Joseph on the final play (on the bench)? And why do the Gophers never have a half-court inbounds play that works? And why have the Gophers, after having so much success with the full-court zone trap, left it and gone to a man press, which rarely, if ever, succeeds at any level of basketball? A lot of questions to be answered that better be answered in a hurry, as we'll need the first-round win to possibly make a low seed (10-13 or out altogether), and need 2 wins to have a secure bid (8-11 seed).
I haven't thrown that much shit around the house during a game in a long time, pretty much since the Gophers blew that Wisconsin football game with the blocked punt in the end zone, and the time before that when another Michigan guy named Perry beat the Gophers in Minneapolis doing the same play over and over.
