That's a big if. The Gophs won't finish last, but they will finish as the league's worst team when you look at how all the teams are playing at the end. After their relatively strong start, this is a bitter pill to swallow.
Did you see the defensive possessions while he was in? He offered no resistance and couldn't grab a rebound. Sutherlin and even Daniels at least were holding their defensive spot and would fight for rebounds.
Maryland shot over 50%, almost all on 2s at the rim. I saw Thompson block and alter a shot.
Regardless of what Nebraska does the gophers finish at the leagues worst team IMO. They lost to Nebraska.
Different year same results. St Thomas flippening is another year closer.
Ogele played the same amount of minutes as Thompson and got benched for awful defense just like TT.
Yogi?
He also took two ill advised shots and can’t contribute next year.
Daniels didn't play much in the second half as he wasn't an answer to defending their interior. He did have a block to go along with his rebound.
Then never played again. I just don't understand the logic with giving him 3 min last night. Right now hes not strong enough and is more of a perimeter guy, I understand that. But what was the worst that could happen last night? They scored at will in the post, we had nothing. They literally could not have done more on offense, so maybe try to take advantage of that on the other end, put Wahab in some PnR and maybe TT gets an open 3 or two. Sutherlin played fine but he was perfect for MD, hey he cant shoot so our big guy can just sit in the post until he comes in.Daniels didn't play much in the second half as he wasn't an answer to defending their interior. He did have a block to go along with his rebound.
Ogele played the same number of minutes as TT. He had two terrific drives to the basket while in and two terrifying attempts at trying to make those layups.
TT had the one block where the Maryland player drove into his area and TT blocked the attempt. He was slow to react to a rebound on two possession in a row and was taken out.
Sutherlin lacks height to stop the interior moves, but at least he was fighting for position, offering some resistance and rebounding.
I'd like to see TT play some more but he didn't have it last night.
He's averaged 8 minutes in 18 games so far this year, which is about right for him. He's got some work to do, but I think he can be a contributor next season.
Patience you must have my young Padawan.
This winning doesn't matter narrative keeps getting twisted.
Not arguing with you, but he doesn't have any young guys to speak of this year. That's next year when we all bitch about the young guys getting minutes and not playing a veteran we got that we feel would give us a better shot at winning. Just wait.
You are not suggesting that fans can be irrational are you?
What veterans will be on the team next year that aren't expected to play a ton?
My assumption is a few portal transfers. Purely speculation. Was kind of tongue in cheek. We are going to argue almost all the time on here anyways is kind of what I was getting at.
It's pretty delusional to say Parker will provide no offense when he averaged 23 and 10 at the D2 level. Creighton has a D2 transfer who Parker dominated who averaged similar stats and he's averaging 15 on an NCAA tournament team.
100% agree. If in year 3-4 we still aren't seeing a decent level of success it becomes time to start worrying some.
He was also a defensive player of the year, so good chance a guy like Fox would have had a massive impact on a game like last night.
Maybe. But it feels like I'm hearing "Ben is justified in not playing him" and "he's not transferring, he has a bright future here." I don't think both of these can be true.