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per Amelia:
By the time the media left the Gophers men’s basketball locker room at Williams Arena on Saturday evening, it was all but empty. The players, toting cups of mac and cheese and sullen faces, filed out into the cold quickly and quietly.
The weight of another 0-4 start to Big Ten play — and the pressure to avoid matching last year’s 0-5 start when the Gophers visit Nebraska on Tuesday — is palpable now.
“You’re going to get beaten down [when you lose] because there are so many eyeballs on your program,” coach Richard Pitino said. “It’s the way sports work. You play like that, people are going to get on you, they’re going to get on me, which they should.”
But although he has preached about positivity in those moments as well-being continually “creative and innovative,” Pitino is also not one to shake the board for the sake of change. As much as anything, the 33-year-old is staunchly standing by what he and the Gophers (6-10 overall) have done all year.
“There’s not going to be, in my opinion, some magic trick thing that I can do to get them to all of a sudden flip the switch,” Pitino said. “I think they’ve got to understand and trust what they’re doing on the court, believe in each other and it will turn around.”
http://www.startribune.com/richard-pitino-gophers-not-looking-for-a-magic-trick/364937781/
Go Gophers!!
By the time the media left the Gophers men’s basketball locker room at Williams Arena on Saturday evening, it was all but empty. The players, toting cups of mac and cheese and sullen faces, filed out into the cold quickly and quietly.
The weight of another 0-4 start to Big Ten play — and the pressure to avoid matching last year’s 0-5 start when the Gophers visit Nebraska on Tuesday — is palpable now.
“You’re going to get beaten down [when you lose] because there are so many eyeballs on your program,” coach Richard Pitino said. “It’s the way sports work. You play like that, people are going to get on you, they’re going to get on me, which they should.”
But although he has preached about positivity in those moments as well-being continually “creative and innovative,” Pitino is also not one to shake the board for the sake of change. As much as anything, the 33-year-old is staunchly standing by what he and the Gophers (6-10 overall) have done all year.
“There’s not going to be, in my opinion, some magic trick thing that I can do to get them to all of a sudden flip the switch,” Pitino said. “I think they’ve got to understand and trust what they’re doing on the court, believe in each other and it will turn around.”
http://www.startribune.com/richard-pitino-gophers-not-looking-for-a-magic-trick/364937781/
Go Gophers!!
