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It was a candid chat with hall of fame Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino that has led 7-foot junior Matz Stockman to transfer to Minnesota.
“We talked and he said, ‘Coach, do you see me playing a lot?’ ” Pitino told the Pioneer Press last week. “I said Matz, I can’t tell — we have some great recruits coming in. And then he said he’d like to go someplace ‘where I’m guaranteed to be a factor whether we win or lose a game.’
“And I said, ‘Go to my son (Minnesota coach Richard Pitino) — he’s going to need some (big) players.’ ”
Stockman is from Oslo, Norway. At Louisville, Rick Pitino said “he had the misfortune of playing behind two centers, Mangok Mathiang and Amas Mahmoud. It wasn’t a matter of Matz not being good enough — it was playing behind two outstanding players.”
The scouting report on Stockman from Rick Pitino: “He’s a legitimate seven feet with a big-time 7-4 wingspan and he’s 250 pounds. With a 7-4 wingspan and being seven feet, if he gets near the basket, he’s going to dunk it like a rubber ball.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/04/15/walters-wild-playoff-crowds-are-loud-large-and-disappointed/
Go Gophers!!
It was a candid chat with hall of fame Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino that has led 7-foot junior Matz Stockman to transfer to Minnesota.
“We talked and he said, ‘Coach, do you see me playing a lot?’ ” Pitino told the Pioneer Press last week. “I said Matz, I can’t tell — we have some great recruits coming in. And then he said he’d like to go someplace ‘where I’m guaranteed to be a factor whether we win or lose a game.’
“And I said, ‘Go to my son (Minnesota coach Richard Pitino) — he’s going to need some (big) players.’ ”
Stockman is from Oslo, Norway. At Louisville, Rick Pitino said “he had the misfortune of playing behind two centers, Mangok Mathiang and Amas Mahmoud. It wasn’t a matter of Matz not being good enough — it was playing behind two outstanding players.”
The scouting report on Stockman from Rick Pitino: “He’s a legitimate seven feet with a big-time 7-4 wingspan and he’s 250 pounds. With a 7-4 wingspan and being seven feet, if he gets near the basket, he’s going to dunk it like a rubber ball.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/04/15/walters-wild-playoff-crowds-are-loud-large-and-disappointed/
Go Gophers!!
