I didn't say we are going dancing. This style of play frustrates me every game and reason to think another below average season coming unless we find some accelerators.
I know not everyone loves PJ and he has flaws but the gulf between him and Ben as coaches is massive. Yet it seems like PJ has more people calling for his head than Ben does. I don't get it.
There’s more apathy toward Ben and the basketball program.
Have you seen Washington or USC play? Both ranked below the Gophers on KenPom. I haven't checked this week, but last week BartTorvik still had the Gophers projected as 7-13 in the Big Ten. I've seen some ugly box scores from Northwestern, Nebraska, and Rutgers. I am not watching much college ball and I think the eye test probably tells more than the stats I am looking at.
I checked both kenpom and torvik this morning - both sites now have the Gophers below Washington and USC. Torvik has them at 6-14, but only one conference game where they’re currently favored - home against Washington on Feb. 1.
last year, at the start of one of the games it was like 2-4, she said, "this will be a good match, both teams have already scored points" or something really close to that. LOL
Yes.
Ok. Wouldn't Caleb Williams playing potentially be a positive? Very odd response by you.
You are not asking me- but he has to be looked at. I know Patterson scored points last night but he is not good. He grinds the offense to a halt. It is just a total head scratcher to me that he still initiates the offense. I would guess we have had close to 25% of our possessions either end up in a shot clock violation or a desperation shot because we started our offense with 12-15 seconds to go. The whole thing looks different when Asuma gets the ball, but Ben has him in the corner.
Yep. If I was a coach who might/will get fired because the product is bad and uninteresting, I think I'd take a chance on letting the reins off of the kid who has the highest potential to run the team at a pace that might produce some offense and some level of fun. 6 points, 6 assists and 6 boards and he can do a lot more once he gets confidence.
Didn't she actually improve a lot and become a serviceable broadcaster who showed decent potential as the season went on. I remember a female color announcer that, by the end of the season, seemed to have done her homework and was steadily improving on her ability to articulate some of the things she was seeing fairly concisely. We talking about the same girl?
Femi is a situational player- defense. I'd be thinking Asuma, Mitchell, Cochran (hoping he is good), Garcia and Edmonds or Fox. Frank Mitchell is a beast but he is too slow at this level, can't get a shot off and opposing centers are going to go right over the top of him.
To turn the ball over and miss free throws?
He has showed promise of becoming a poor man's Pharrel Payne. I just don't get anything about what Ben is doing. I don't know if he has made some promises in recruiting that he feels he can't go back on or what.
Have you seen Frank shoot free throws? Frank has had 8 Turnovers in 70 minutes, Edmunds 4 turnovers in 68 minutes. Both are horrid FT shooters. Frank is no doubt a better rebounder but too short to defend in the Big Ten at the 5. I think Fox is the better option than Frank if we are moving away from Edmonds.
They all turn it over and miss free throws.
Sure have. He was also the best player on the team yesterday in the 1st half and things immediately went south when he went out of the game.
He's our 2nd best player by miles.
To be fair, I was unable to watch the first half, only saw the second half. I'll take your word for it on that. On other nights so far, I just haven't seen it with him.
I didn't see it with Frank either, before the first half last night.
OK- you are going to make me watch the first half. Grrrr
