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14-6 MSU leads with 8:45 to go in the first half, Gophers need to figure out their offense or this one is going to get ugly fast.
 


We are getting killed on the offensive glass. Down 19-12 with 5:01 to go in the first half.
 

28-20 now, 2:57 remaining. Ugly game by our guys so far.
 

ralph is getting a quick lesson of big 10 inside game today
 





>>ralph is getting a quick lesson of big 10 inside game today<<

He's not the only one who's a bit lost out there.

Heart plus home crowd plus Tubby might keep us in the game.

Let's just say our 12-0 record wasn't fashioned against teams of thoroughbreds who have been coached to defend.

BTW, we STILL don't seem to have a go-to offensive threat.
 



Great hustle and heart

The guys are hustling their butts off. They do seem to be running around a bit much and need to be more organized on their rotations and doubles so they don't leave open looks. It's also a great sign that they just keep fighting. There were a couple of points where they could have hung their heads, but they clawed their way back to within one at the half.

I think our deep bench is starting to wear out the Spartans a bit. Lot's of Sparty fouls in that first half. I'm hoping that we can keep running fresh guys at them and win a battle of attrition.

Go Gophers!
 

- Where is Westbrook? This is the 2nd time in the 2 big games we've had that he's been a non-factor.

- We REALLY need to do better on the defensive glass, MSU's offensive rebounding is killing us right now.
 

The game is starting to slip from us, 38-30 now. Tons of fouls to start the second half.
 

Guys hustling out there ... 38-34 now.
 



westbrook seems to be lacking heart and want-to. If Nolen would keep driving to the hole their scorers will quickly be in foul trouble
 


Gotta love our heart.

Grimm on the radio has been getting on the refs a bit.

Just got done running errrands, now am back to "work"
 

We're just getting killed now because our offense can't do squat. 44-34, MSU.
 

too many shooters on msu and the defense is nowhere what it was the first half i.e. open shooters all over the state end
 

our trademark defense is letting this one slip out of our hands. We can compete with these guys no doubt, but we cant shoot with em
 



agreed. that 2 min span of wide open play almost looked like Tubby conceeded that we cant beat this team playing "our" game and we lost at that also
 

M St has way too many scorers for us to deal with. Few offensive rebounds hurts....
 



We just can't defend off of their screens...leaving people wide open. Well we have something to work on now. As poor as our offense has been, our defense is losing this one. Leaving people wide open and giving WAY too many second chances.
 

and guess what guys and gals...there goes are rankings and the start to maybe a horrible big ten season if we cant beat buckeyes..im really nervous for our team..lousville has fallen to hell so im not sure..Nit..
 


Haha, we lose to a top 10 caliber team at home and people are already mailing in the season. Love it guys!

We didn't play well, didn't shoot well, and Michigan State had more talent. We have a lot of things to work on.

Time to get after Ohio State on Saturday.
 

The bottom line is that Michigan State is a much better team than we are right now...they made a lot of big plays and we didn't respond well to a lot of what they did, especially in the second half.

The biggest thing I don't like about this game is that our defense has been awful in the second half. Maybe we blew our wad somewhat in the first half with how well we were defending, but the second half effort defensively has been very poor.

A lot of guys were also forcing things offensively, which led to some of our defensive problems.

Having said all of that, there is still plenty of basketball left to be played this season.
 

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