***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT INDIANA STATE NIT IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[Gopherbbdude]

Fun season!!! Better than the last 3 years

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

time to move on to recruiting and keeping the roster intact

I hope not completely intact.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Nothing like getting embarrassed by Indiana St. Minnesota big 3 athletics, the more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.

Clearly you don't pay attention to college basketball if you think this is embarrassing.

 

[GopherBlood777]

Is the ISU coach available next year? : )

 

[howeda7]

Ben won't play his bench.

FIFY.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Nothing like getting embarrassed by Indiana St. Minnesota big 3 athletics, the more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.

Indiana State is not a bad team and it was a home game for them.

Sucks to lose but this was a road game against a very solid team.

 

[BTChamp]

That play encapsulates the Gopher season. Nice play on one end immediately followed a blown alley-oop.

Yeah so many opportunities, but just didn't get it done. Other teams seem to play with knowing they are good but the Gophs play hoping not to screw it up.

 

[Barnyard Dog]

Nothing like getting embarrassed by Indiana St. Minnesota big 3 athletics, the more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.

How is having the much higher rated team win an "embarrassment"?

 

[holereader]

ISU is just a much better basketball team. Fundamentally sound and play a team game. What is painful is to be so painfully exposed as to how far our team needs to progress with just basic fundamentals - let the off season banter begin but Ben needs to be a better coach and not sure he can get there - the ISU coach showed how far Ben is in over his head

 

[fan of Ray Williams]

Ben won't play his bench when the game is over.

It flabbergasts that he doesn't have enough sense to do it. Baffling.

 

[howeda7]

That's just it. People think somehow it's going to magically improve enough to matter.
Johnson sucks. Outside of unsustainable 3 ot hot streaks, his teams play well below their talent level.
He's gonna get fired. Now, next March, January 2025, it's inevitable. Just a matter of time.

Yes. He's elevated the talent level from awful (which was on him) to mediocre. But he has shown zero ability to coach it up from mediocre to good. And he's not suddenly going to figure it out now. The odds of retaining all five starters are low, so where's this improvement next year going to come from? If we lose more than one starter it's likely a dead coach walking situation. That's no good for anyone.

 

[upnorthkid]

this board is such a weird place

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

Failed alley-oop at the end is quite appropriate for this game. Yikes.

Yep. If you were writing a screenplay for a movie about a hapless basketball team, you would have scripted a moment like that.

 

[Bad Gopher]

Someone needs a manzier... or bro

He could stand to drop 10-70 pounds, yeah

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Yeah so many opportunities, but just didn't get it done. Other teams seem to play with knowing they are good but the Gophs play hoping not to screw it up.

Well said. No confidence.

 

[BilldGopher]

Not a BB guy but it seems like free throws should be a gimme.

I know the pros miss them too.

 

[CentralGopher]

Nice titties on that fella.

Some day he’ll grow out of that baby fat

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

It flabbergasts that he doesn't have enough sense to do it. Baffling.

Maybe he's trying to induce as many reserve transfers as possible. I won't be upset if that's what happens. This team needs an infusion of talent.

 

[Gopherbbdude]

Box score is closer than I thought it would be

 

[Barnyard Dog]

Some day he’ll grow out of that baby fat

More like Sugar Baby fat.

 

[Gophers7633]

Indiana State is not a bad team and it was a home game for them.

Sucks to lose but this was a road game against a very solid team.

And that's part of the issue. They are in year 3 of a coach, as are we, and we're pretty far behind a team like this.

 

[fan of Ray Williams]

Maybe he's trying to induce as many reserve transfers as possible. I won't be upset if that's what happens. This team needs an infusion of talent.

Maybe so, but a bad look nonetheless.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Been hanging out with PJ (Not playing the bench while being blown out)

 

[BTChamp]

Nice titties on that fella.

 

[CentralGopher]

Yes. He's elevated the talent level from awful (which was on him) to mediocre. But he has shown zero ability to coach it up from mediocre to good. And he's not suddenly going to figure it out now. The odds of retaining all five starters are low, so where's this improvement next year going to come from? If we lose more than one starter it's likely a dead coach walking situation. That's no good for anyone.

Said it before but I think mediocre is the ceiling for Ben

 

[DietCokeFan]

Ben needs to let Ihnen go and use the scholarship on some speed and defense

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Maybe so, but a bad look nonetheless.

It’s not fair to the guys who show up every day and practice

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Ben needs to let Ihnen go and use the scholarship on some speed and defense

X2 add another with Keinys spot as well?

 

[howeda7]

Said it before but I think mediocre is the ceiling for Ben

This season could well be the peak. We fired Tubby after making 2nd round of the NCAA's as a double digit seed not because that season was unacceptable on its own, but because it was obvious from the recruiting that that was as good as it was going to get. How far the bar has fallen in a decade.

 

[fan of Ray Williams]

It’s not fair to the guys who show up every day and practice

A few fricking seconds at the end? Really disappointing. Not sure if he understands that part of being a team. He really loses me on his handling of this.