Touted freshman Isaiah Washington gets tough love from Gophers' senior Nate Mason

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Richard Pitino recently noticed Isaiah Washington wasn’t practicing as hard as he normally does, but it wasn’t something he had to personally handle with his talented freshman.

Senior captain Nate Mason talked to his fellow point guard away from the team. And the next day, Washington had a completely different mind-set.

“He comes in [Saturday], and he’s got this big smile on his face,” Pitino said Saturday at Gophers basketball media day. “He said to me, ‘I had a great talk with Nate last night … about me playing hard.’ ”

Mason already has that type of tough-love relationship and mutual respect with Washington where he is always competing and demanding the most out of his younger teammate.

“I’m telling him a lot,” Mason said. “I don’t take any plays off. I go at his head like he’s not a freshman, because we’re going to need him. The way I come at him is, ‘This is how it’s going to be in the Big Ten.’ ”

http://www.startribune.com/touted-f...ove-from-gophers-senior-nate-mason/453922233/

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That's awesome. Mason is the kind of leader that we haven't had in a while.
 

That's awesome. Mason is the kind of leader that we haven't had in a while.

I'm sure we've had good leaders, they just weren't also good players. Its one thing when the sr playing 10 mns a game gets on you, its another when the all conference senior gets on you
 

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