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Tubby was on with Grimm and Zulgad tonight for his weekly radio show on 1500. These quotes are not verbatim, but close. I omitted some areas that don't add much to our current discussion or didn't make sense to transcribe, but do make sense when listening on the radio:
Tubby on Iowa game...We were so high and so excited about our win against Wisconsin. I guess we never recovered from it. We tell our players never get too high or too low. That's something that we try to tell our guys. You have to keep that balance in life and in sports especially. You can't live in the past, you have to move on. Friday was a real tough practice, trying to get them grounded. Valentine's Day is over. We got a good win. We had good practices, it wasn't as good as I hoped for Friday but we had a good no contact practice on Saturday. We got off, we were ready, prepared, but you know things change. Foul trouble with Andre Hollins, Rodney Williams only played 10 minutes, his shoulder is still bothering him again. Rodney is a pretty important part of our program. Those are no excuses, those are things that happen. Elliot Eliason is playing the best basketball of his career. He'll probably start for us against Ohio State. Rodney is still favoring the shoulder. We have to over-achieve every time we go out to play. I try to tell our guys we can't hope and wish, we have to make it happen. You have to work at it. I always enjoy coaching and I enjoy it now. This is biggest comeback I think I've ever had coaching. It was a tough thing to handle. We went twice today. We had a good practice. We went at 6am this morning and again this afternoon.
Tubby on dealing with the zone...If you don't have shooting. They are packing it back and we're missing shots. We missed free throws. We missed about four free throws. Then you turn the ball over 17 times, 10 at halftime. Right during that stretch, it wasn't so much the zone as it was the pressure. We just panicked. There were a couple of calls that were unbelievable. Those types of things when things are going bad that's what happened. We had a very poorly called game during that stretch. I was very disappointed. Those things happen, but that can turn a game. It was 21-5 and a kid hits a three at the buzzer and you could sense, you know we got in foul trouble. I was hoping guys like Oto could make some shots for us, he got some good looks. All this is happening at the course of the event. Those things happen. We look back on it and say hey, what do you have to do. I say all the time with Joe at the 3 spot, we have to overachieve. He's guarding bigger guys. We have to get bigger. We've talked about making changes to make sure we get bigger but I'm not sure it's our best lineup.
Tubby on whether things can be done in the game to change things up...I called two timeouts to try to slow it down. Be patient with the ball, but by this time the momentum had shifted. The crowd was in it, every one feels the pinch, the officials too. We had good minutes, good play from guys.
Tubby on what he'd like to see happen against the zone....We got second shots, we got the ball inside. Trevor got fouled. Elliot got fouled. Oto had wide open shots on the baseline. When its not going down on the road it can go South in a hurry. It's like the Northwestern game.
Tubby on the play of some of the guys...Elliot is playing unbelievable. A guy like Joe, you know you go around the league and people start to know what you can and can't do. You have to work on your weaknesses.
Tubby on his dance post UW game...It was spontaneous. All the sudden the music started playing and I went at it. I have a few moves. I have a few moves. I didn't even know what the music was. I don't know where it came from. I guess some other teams have done it. Whatever hits the social networks everyone starts to do it.
Tubby on UW game...We did some good things in that game against Wisconsin. We took care of the ball better than we did yesterday. We took care of the ball, and executed. When the clock was winding down, Joe Coleman took the ball to the basket and we just talked about it. It took a lot of guts to hit those free throws. Andre Hollins also made some big plays. Both sophomores came up big and the best thing is they'll be back next year.
Tubby on Gophers D against UW...You want to limit teams to one shot, but I say that and they had 18 offensive rebounds. They are a very patient team.
Tubby on going from high of UW win to Iowa loss...It's devastating. Especially the way it happened. All the sudden we're up and we're going to be OK and we're playing well. The guys got the message, then we do some things, make some careless mistakes, some fouls. Fouling will take you out of a lot games. Or a turnover. It gives an opposing incentive, inspiration. That's what happened. Even with substitution pattern we had guys playing well. It's pretty tough. I have to be honest with you. We went through those four loses in a row. I felt going into the Iowa game we had a great scouting report. We've gotten off to good starts for the most part all year which is something different than the past. But you know the zone, again. But when your center has the most assists, Elliot had 4 assists. Oto had 3 and Elliot had 4. We just didn't share the basketball as well as we should have.
Tubby on Rodney...I'm not sure about if Rodney will play or not. I think he will. He didn't practice today as he has a class at 3, but he was here this morning. We'll talk tomorrow. We'll do film. We'll look at film of Ohio State. So today was a busy day for us. Rodney had treatment, but he had class at 3. As a senior he has class he has to take, both he and Andre Ingram.
Tubby on Buckeyes...They have the leading scorer in Thomas. He's taken more than 200 shots than anyone on the team. Not only him, but they have an Aaron Craft. They probably feel like they haven't played as well as they'd like this year. We've got our work cut out for us.
Tubby on his approach with the team after a tough loss...We've hugged them all year long. Enough hugging. All this kumbaya stuff. This time of year we go back to morning practices to work on fundamentals. We're approaching it like we have a month and a half of basketball left. We need to get healthy, sharpen up our skills. We'd like to be playing better than we did Sunday. We need to pick up the intensity level. Post-season play intensity level will pick up. This time of year everyone has a sense of urgency and that's now we approach it.
Tubby on Gophers NCAA Tourney resume...we need to be at .500 at least. We're already at 6-7 and we have to come up with 3 wins. For us especially we have to find a way to do that (3 wins). I think we can, I know we can, but we can't do it the way we did it yesterday.
Go Gophers!!
Tubby on Iowa game...We were so high and so excited about our win against Wisconsin. I guess we never recovered from it. We tell our players never get too high or too low. That's something that we try to tell our guys. You have to keep that balance in life and in sports especially. You can't live in the past, you have to move on. Friday was a real tough practice, trying to get them grounded. Valentine's Day is over. We got a good win. We had good practices, it wasn't as good as I hoped for Friday but we had a good no contact practice on Saturday. We got off, we were ready, prepared, but you know things change. Foul trouble with Andre Hollins, Rodney Williams only played 10 minutes, his shoulder is still bothering him again. Rodney is a pretty important part of our program. Those are no excuses, those are things that happen. Elliot Eliason is playing the best basketball of his career. He'll probably start for us against Ohio State. Rodney is still favoring the shoulder. We have to over-achieve every time we go out to play. I try to tell our guys we can't hope and wish, we have to make it happen. You have to work at it. I always enjoy coaching and I enjoy it now. This is biggest comeback I think I've ever had coaching. It was a tough thing to handle. We went twice today. We had a good practice. We went at 6am this morning and again this afternoon.
Tubby on dealing with the zone...If you don't have shooting. They are packing it back and we're missing shots. We missed free throws. We missed about four free throws. Then you turn the ball over 17 times, 10 at halftime. Right during that stretch, it wasn't so much the zone as it was the pressure. We just panicked. There were a couple of calls that were unbelievable. Those types of things when things are going bad that's what happened. We had a very poorly called game during that stretch. I was very disappointed. Those things happen, but that can turn a game. It was 21-5 and a kid hits a three at the buzzer and you could sense, you know we got in foul trouble. I was hoping guys like Oto could make some shots for us, he got some good looks. All this is happening at the course of the event. Those things happen. We look back on it and say hey, what do you have to do. I say all the time with Joe at the 3 spot, we have to overachieve. He's guarding bigger guys. We have to get bigger. We've talked about making changes to make sure we get bigger but I'm not sure it's our best lineup.
Tubby on whether things can be done in the game to change things up...I called two timeouts to try to slow it down. Be patient with the ball, but by this time the momentum had shifted. The crowd was in it, every one feels the pinch, the officials too. We had good minutes, good play from guys.
Tubby on what he'd like to see happen against the zone....We got second shots, we got the ball inside. Trevor got fouled. Elliot got fouled. Oto had wide open shots on the baseline. When its not going down on the road it can go South in a hurry. It's like the Northwestern game.
Tubby on the play of some of the guys...Elliot is playing unbelievable. A guy like Joe, you know you go around the league and people start to know what you can and can't do. You have to work on your weaknesses.
Tubby on his dance post UW game...It was spontaneous. All the sudden the music started playing and I went at it. I have a few moves. I have a few moves. I didn't even know what the music was. I don't know where it came from. I guess some other teams have done it. Whatever hits the social networks everyone starts to do it.
Tubby on UW game...We did some good things in that game against Wisconsin. We took care of the ball better than we did yesterday. We took care of the ball, and executed. When the clock was winding down, Joe Coleman took the ball to the basket and we just talked about it. It took a lot of guts to hit those free throws. Andre Hollins also made some big plays. Both sophomores came up big and the best thing is they'll be back next year.
Tubby on Gophers D against UW...You want to limit teams to one shot, but I say that and they had 18 offensive rebounds. They are a very patient team.
Tubby on going from high of UW win to Iowa loss...It's devastating. Especially the way it happened. All the sudden we're up and we're going to be OK and we're playing well. The guys got the message, then we do some things, make some careless mistakes, some fouls. Fouling will take you out of a lot games. Or a turnover. It gives an opposing incentive, inspiration. That's what happened. Even with substitution pattern we had guys playing well. It's pretty tough. I have to be honest with you. We went through those four loses in a row. I felt going into the Iowa game we had a great scouting report. We've gotten off to good starts for the most part all year which is something different than the past. But you know the zone, again. But when your center has the most assists, Elliot had 4 assists. Oto had 3 and Elliot had 4. We just didn't share the basketball as well as we should have.
Tubby on Rodney...I'm not sure about if Rodney will play or not. I think he will. He didn't practice today as he has a class at 3, but he was here this morning. We'll talk tomorrow. We'll do film. We'll look at film of Ohio State. So today was a busy day for us. Rodney had treatment, but he had class at 3. As a senior he has class he has to take, both he and Andre Ingram.
Tubby on Buckeyes...They have the leading scorer in Thomas. He's taken more than 200 shots than anyone on the team. Not only him, but they have an Aaron Craft. They probably feel like they haven't played as well as they'd like this year. We've got our work cut out for us.
Tubby on his approach with the team after a tough loss...We've hugged them all year long. Enough hugging. All this kumbaya stuff. This time of year we go back to morning practices to work on fundamentals. We're approaching it like we have a month and a half of basketball left. We need to get healthy, sharpen up our skills. We'd like to be playing better than we did Sunday. We need to pick up the intensity level. Post-season play intensity level will pick up. This time of year everyone has a sense of urgency and that's now we approach it.
Tubby on Gophers NCAA Tourney resume...we need to be at .500 at least. We're already at 6-7 and we have to come up with 3 wins. For us especially we have to find a way to do that (3 wins). I think we can, I know we can, but we can't do it the way we did it yesterday.
Go Gophers!!
