This one hurts because you had a double digit lead on the road in an extremely tough environment, you're up 13 with 14 minutes to play. You miss the front end of a 1-and-1 twice, IW's wasn't even close. Missing shots affected the defensive intensity, which has happened multiple times this season.
Gabe was tremendous on D against Edwards, but 0-5 from 3-land. Kalscheur, Murphy and Dupree were a combined 5-of-19 from the field. Add in IW and it's 6-25. Some of it was shot selection, other times shots just didn't go in. But Murphy has to be more consistent offensively, and we got killed on the boards at crucial times because of missed box outs.
It would be one thing if we trailed most of the game but kept it at arms length. But you had a 13-point lead and melted down because of missed shots. A huge missed opportunity. Interestingly, Seth Davis has the Gophers as "Almost Famous" in his weekly top 25 poll, the equivalent of receiving votes. It would be huge to win 3 of the next 4, you're not winning at Sparty. You've got Wisconsin at home, Nebraska is without one of its best players with an ACL (Copeland) and Indiana is having a weird season. Can't do anything about Purdue now, other than get it back when they come to The Barn next month.
If I don't recall, please correct me. Did we ever try to go zone within that stretch to shake them up a bit?
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While I completely understand that, sometimes going to a zone is enough to get an offense out of sync. An out of sync offense doesn't get the shots that they want. And really, it couldn't have been much worse.With Carson and Cline, I think they would have loved to see a zone. Those two guys are lights out.
Going on a long memory, but maybe too many offensive sets for Murphy. Murphy cannot drive to the lane when guys are playing off him. He has to be confident in his mid-range game. The defense just waits for him. If we are going to run sets for him with no mid-range shots, he needs to kick it when he feels the defender or we need some great cuts off his ability to hold the ball in the low post. He has been scouted well, so he needs to respond to what is now common knowledge. He has been a rare talent for this program -- just needs to adjust a little (just like defenses have adjusted to him).
This one hurts because you had a double digit lead on the road in an extremely tough environment, you're up 13 with 14 minutes to play. You miss the front end of a 1-and-1 twice, IW's wasn't even close. Missing shots affected the defensive intensity, which has happened multiple times this season.
What was this sequence? Looks to me like he saw it right away.
13:46 Matt Haarms made Layup. Assisted by Carsen Edwards. 47 - 36
13:31 Foul on Carsen Edwards. 47 - 36
13:15 Foul on Eric Hunter Jr.. 47 - 36
13:15 Isaiah Washington missed Free Throw. 47 - 36
13:15 Matt Haarms Defensive Rebound. 47 - 36
13:00 Carsen Edwards made Three Point Jumper. 47 - 39
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12:52 Minnesota Timeout 47 - 39
Following the time out, we continued to miss shots and free throws. There was a TV time out in the 11 minute range and then we called another time out with 8:43 left
Please someone tell me what Mcbrayer does for this team? This year? Great kid does nothing well. Time to put best players on the floor to win games let’s go!
Gophers shot 80% from the FT line, sure missed front end of some 1 and 1s, but FT shooting is not why they lost in my opinion. They gave up 46 points in the second half, they took a couple of punches and did not counter.
I can say the roster is in far better shape now but i can not take excuses about injuries...
Free throws win ball games and keep you in games until a stagnant offense wakes up. You could sense that 8 point swing was the beginning of the end. It was an avalanche after that. If we can’t shoot a proper free throw I’d rather we go “Hoosiers” style like Ollie. (Granny)