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per Amelia:
Winning ugly. When I asked senior forward Joey King tonight what it would take for the Gophers to take the next step and get out of this close-win, close-loss territory and onto firmer ground, he shrugged. “This is kind of a young team,” he said. “We’re going to win ugly sometimes and we recognize that.” He’s got a point. Will this team get to the point where they’re blowing out other teams – even less talented teams? That might not be realistic. From the Gophers’ perspective, any game they can gut out or steal is a big victory. And certainly, today’s win can be viewed as a steal. Omaha was impressive, scrappy, refusing to fall back at any point in the game. Omaha big man Jake White was tough, inside and out, and if he hadn’t fouled out with two minutes to go, it might have been a different story. That Minnesota was in such high spirits after this one says a lot. This year is going to serve as a sort of in-between. Whatever the Gophers can put away, they’ll be happy with.
Pitino will send messages, even at the team’s expense. Carlos Morris had an ugly live-ball turnover in the first minute of the first half and after coming out immediately, rode the pine for the next 11-plus minutes. Morris is prone to mind-boggling mistakes and bad shots, but he’s also one of the team’s best natural scorers at this juncture, and his absence was felt during a stretch where Omaha controlled. Pitino has remarked that the bench is the “greatest motivator” but sometimes that motivation can come with a cost if he does it too much down the road, particularly with senior captains. The message though? Received. “That was definitely a long sit for me,” Morris said. “And I kind of woke up from that.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-postgame-ugly-wins-are-still-wins/356327841/
Go Gophers!!
Winning ugly. When I asked senior forward Joey King tonight what it would take for the Gophers to take the next step and get out of this close-win, close-loss territory and onto firmer ground, he shrugged. “This is kind of a young team,” he said. “We’re going to win ugly sometimes and we recognize that.” He’s got a point. Will this team get to the point where they’re blowing out other teams – even less talented teams? That might not be realistic. From the Gophers’ perspective, any game they can gut out or steal is a big victory. And certainly, today’s win can be viewed as a steal. Omaha was impressive, scrappy, refusing to fall back at any point in the game. Omaha big man Jake White was tough, inside and out, and if he hadn’t fouled out with two minutes to go, it might have been a different story. That Minnesota was in such high spirits after this one says a lot. This year is going to serve as a sort of in-between. Whatever the Gophers can put away, they’ll be happy with.
Pitino will send messages, even at the team’s expense. Carlos Morris had an ugly live-ball turnover in the first minute of the first half and after coming out immediately, rode the pine for the next 11-plus minutes. Morris is prone to mind-boggling mistakes and bad shots, but he’s also one of the team’s best natural scorers at this juncture, and his absence was felt during a stretch where Omaha controlled. Pitino has remarked that the bench is the “greatest motivator” but sometimes that motivation can come with a cost if he does it too much down the road, particularly with senior captains. The message though? Received. “That was definitely a long sit for me,” Morris said. “And I kind of woke up from that.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-postgame-ugly-wins-are-still-wins/356327841/
Go Gophers!!