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per Chip:
The Gophers were pushed into desperation mode. The time and score necessitated they score a basket, preferably a three-pointer.
Therein lies their problem.
They don’t shoot very well.
The Achilles’ heel of Richard Pitino’s team was on painful display throughout a tense, physical and testy battle with its rivals to the east. And when the Gophers needed perimeter shooting in the final minute, the predictable happened.
Brick.
Three missed three-pointers doomed any chance at a comeback, leaving another smudge mark on the Gophers’ tournament résumé in a 56-51 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers at Williams Arena.
The Gophers trailed 52-46 with 1½ minutes left when Amir Coffey, Dupree McBrayer and Gabe Kalscheur all missed three-pointers.
That put a bow on a horrid shooting performance from beyond the arc. The Gophers made only one of 13 three-point attempts. That’s 7.7 percent for non-math majors.
Kalscheur had the lone made three-pointer on the team’s first attempt, meaning the Gophers missed 12 consecutive the rest of the game.
Uffda.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-poor-shooting-costly-in-loss-to-badgers/505490802/
Go Gophers!!
The Gophers were pushed into desperation mode. The time and score necessitated they score a basket, preferably a three-pointer.
Therein lies their problem.
They don’t shoot very well.
The Achilles’ heel of Richard Pitino’s team was on painful display throughout a tense, physical and testy battle with its rivals to the east. And when the Gophers needed perimeter shooting in the final minute, the predictable happened.
Brick.
Three missed three-pointers doomed any chance at a comeback, leaving another smudge mark on the Gophers’ tournament résumé in a 56-51 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers at Williams Arena.
The Gophers trailed 52-46 with 1½ minutes left when Amir Coffey, Dupree McBrayer and Gabe Kalscheur all missed three-pointers.
That put a bow on a horrid shooting performance from beyond the arc. The Gophers made only one of 13 three-point attempts. That’s 7.7 percent for non-math majors.
Kalscheur had the lone made three-pointer on the team’s first attempt, meaning the Gophers missed 12 consecutive the rest of the game.
Uffda.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-poor-shooting-costly-in-loss-to-badgers/505490802/
Go Gophers!!