***OFFICIAL MISSOURI AT MINNESOTA IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[short ornery norwegian]

Hopefully the Gophs can avoid the "black holes" on offense this year. Can't go 4-5 minutes without points vs a good opponent.

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

3:34 left in the half and only 8 fouls in the game (5 by Missouri, 3 by Gophs).

 

[BTChamp]

Christie has played great D though

He did come back and take away a wide open drive from Easton ended in a Minnesota rebound. He is good. Getting experience, he looks to be something special.

 

[leib0039]

I'm not arguing that. But seeing the contributions of Ihnen and Fox so far......you can't say that it's tough for a coach with a young team to be missing BOTH of these guys for two years. Basketball rosters are not large. Depth has been a huge issue. Agree?

Agree.

 

[MUgopher32]

Done a good job of buidling the lead back every time Mizzou gets it down to like 3

 

[BTChamp]

Carrington looked 5'10" guarding the bean pole guy

 

[BTChamp]

Payne. Nice moves against Pushover

 

[XMan]

I love what Hawkins brings to the team

 

[BTChamp]

This looks like fun.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

Payne with some solid minutes. Got to get him fully healthy - he adds a different dimension when he's out there.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Very balanced team. Garcia hasn’t done much yet other guys are stepping up.

 

[BroncoRedux]

I love how Payne plays

 

[Gophers1992]

I don’t know if we’re going to hang on and win this game. I don’t know what the rest of the season has in store. I don’t know where we will finish in the big ten, but one thing I can say with confidence.

Gopher Basketball is fun again.

 

[Gophers7633]

Defense has been great thus far. Transition offense has been great. Little concerned with the half court offense, but the good thing is that it's fixable if we take care of the ball a little more. I'd go with Mitchell a little more in the next half do to his ball handling.

 

[Stan]

JOJ is explosive!!

 

[DarrenTheGreek]

Fun half. Nice to see it not be a foul fest and both teams got some run out there.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Nice half. Hawkins is a lot of fun to watch and nice to finally have a team that can hit some 3s

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Without a doubt my favorite thing this far in the season has been having a variety of options. Yes we had a myriad of injuries last few years but felt like CBJ only had one option. Now we look like there are multiple things we could do to win a game.

Hard as heck to defend.

 

[BTChamp]

Very balanced team. Garcia hasn’t done much yet other guys are stepping up.

I was surprised to see he only has 5 at half.

 

[Ewert86PC]

38-32 at the half?

Regression to the mean: activated.

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

Talk about balanced scoring ------

Ola-Joseph, Ihnen, Hawkins, and Payne with 6 each

Garcia and Mitchell with 5 each

Carrington with 4

Have to get Christie into the act!

 

[WCGopher]

Reading Missouri was picked towards the middle of the pack in the SEC and a potential fringe tourney team. Nice half of basketball by the Gophers. Let’s get a quality win

 

[Bayfieldgopher]

Need to establish better O flow, hi/low, more lanes to drive, fewer 3’s. Easier said than fine as Mizzou is a very good D squad.

 

[60's Guy]

Shoot 50% from 3 and get 8 offensive rebounds again in the second half and we will win.
Whatever happens we are competitive and fun to watch.

 

[howeda7]

Can't answer his phone but can get T'd up...

 

[MplsGopher]

Just tuned in. Nice!

Oh hey it’s Gates, isn’t that who some people wanted to hire?

 

[nitramnaed]

Anybody see what happened on the bench? Did they jump up onto the floor?

 

[60's Guy]

Dang! We are dominating!

 

[BTChamp]

Ihnen with a special move

 

[WCGopher]

This years team plays with much more pace than last years team.