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per the STrib:
When the Gophers men’s basketball team boards its flight to Barcelona next week, the team will do so with an ease that hasn’t accompanied any other road trip of the Richard Pitino era.
The coaches won’t be combing through scouting reports at 10,000 feet. The players won’t have game plans memorized. Upon their arrival, rather than walkthroughs and shootarounds, the Gophers will be taking boat tours and going to Flamenco dance shows. And when they do step on the court, the general rule will simply be “stick to our principles,” Pitino said Tuesday.
But despite the relaxed vibe, this excursion could play a big role in how a team that slumped its way to a 6-12 Big Ten record a season ago shoulders the upcoming season.
“Just being with them in a different setting, away from everything, away from all the distractions, it forces you to [get] closer,” said Pitino, who last participated in a foreign tour as an assistant with Louisville in 2011, when the Cardinals traveled to the Bahamas.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-will-play-tourists-as-well-as-some-basketball/320714321/
Go Gophers!!
When the Gophers men’s basketball team boards its flight to Barcelona next week, the team will do so with an ease that hasn’t accompanied any other road trip of the Richard Pitino era.
The coaches won’t be combing through scouting reports at 10,000 feet. The players won’t have game plans memorized. Upon their arrival, rather than walkthroughs and shootarounds, the Gophers will be taking boat tours and going to Flamenco dance shows. And when they do step on the court, the general rule will simply be “stick to our principles,” Pitino said Tuesday.
But despite the relaxed vibe, this excursion could play a big role in how a team that slumped its way to a 6-12 Big Ten record a season ago shoulders the upcoming season.
“Just being with them in a different setting, away from everything, away from all the distractions, it forces you to [get] closer,” said Pitino, who last participated in a foreign tour as an assistant with Louisville in 2011, when the Cardinals traveled to the Bahamas.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-will-play-tourists-as-well-as-some-basketball/320714321/
Go Gophers!!