***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA VS SAN FRANCISCO NEUTRAL SITE IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[bga1]

Our guard play is unbelievably bad. Our defensive intensity is non existent. We have two good bigs.
I think Ben is going to get fired. This is formless garbage.

 

[GoodasGold]

Is this called losing going away?

 

[Roland Brooks]

No movement leads to no spacing which leads to turnovers… the offense has no purpose… no one cuts hard because they won’t get the ball the guards have there heads down and when they do pass the ball it’s late… garbage

 

[Wet_Blanket_Guy]

What are the optimism talking points from this one?

1) Payne
2) Garcia’s offense, especially how he was downhill focused

 

[kg21]

ihnen starts.........0 points

Carrington starts.........0 points

Hawkins starts........4 points, multiple turnovers

Ola-Joseph starts........4 points, one on a back door dunk

HOLY SHIT BALLS! 4 of your 5 starters combined for 8 points. It seems literally impossible.

 

[FinnGopher]

Gophers are better than last year...but not by much.

18 turnovers for the Gophers to 5 for the Dons. It's pretty simple to see what needs to be emphasized in practice.

 

[Gopherbbdude]

Ugh

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

Lol. San Francisco didn't name the tournament last year....or the NIT. Team isn't good.

It was two years ago that they made the NCAA tournament. I certainly don't think they are a bad team. Just because we're bad doesn't mean they are.

 

[kg21]

1) Payne
2) Garcia’s offense, especially how he was downhill focused

offensively yes, but defensively, they were abused

Play out the year and do the right thing!

 

[rivergopher]

Gophers are better than last year...but not by much.

18 turnovers for the Gophers to 5 for the Dons. It's pretty simple to see what needs to be emphasized in practice.

Hawkins averaged 4 turnovers last 2 years, it is not getting better.

 

[Bad Gopher]

They're just so unsound.

 

[mngolf]

Let Christie get all the minutes, at least he has upside.

For a different team.

 

[kg21]

If you haven't got your season tickets, get them now.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Nothing to really say other than holy balls that was bad.

 

[jblass]

18 turnovers. The ball is the program!

 

[topos]

What are the optimism talking points from this one?

I got nothing left in the tank, lol.

 

[Gophers7633]

It was two years ago that they made the NCAA tournament. I certainly don't think they are a bad team. Just because we're bad doesn't mean they are.

They aren't a bad team. They aren't good either. They're just better than us because we're fucking trash again.

 

[XMan]

We’ll make it 18’turn overs for the game. Man they played poorly

 

[leib0039]

18 point loss to USF, what an disaster this had turned in to.

Can we maybe just call JMU, take their AD, bball and fball coaches as a package deal?

 

[Spaulding!No!]

I can’t wait for Ben’s even keeled response to the loss.

 

[GopherCountry]

Mitchell cannot guard anyone. Takes the worse angles. My 5th grade team plays better defense.

 

[Wet_Blanket_Guy]

Does Ben even make through the entire season? Things could get very ugly this season. You have to cut the cord before his incompetence sets this program ever further back.

They need to fire him on the tarmac upon landing in MSP - ala Lane Kiffin @ USC https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...nic-college-football-departures/70924966007/#

 

[Bigg Robb]

They'll get a bit of a bump. We'll get a kick downward to approach De Paul status.

Minnesota NET ranking is #222. Ranked lower than schools like 0-6 Detroit and 0-6 Georgia Southern.... I don't think this is going to be anything other than a quad-dogshit win for USF

 

[Obi-Wan Okogie]

San Fran came into our house and smeared our toilet seats.

 

[60's Guy]

The defense can’t get any worse

I thought the first 10 minutes or so our defense looked improved...just not discipline to continue.
And they said, oh you are gonna do that...then we'll do this and we didn't adjust to their adjustments.

 

[stocker08]

Just like last year? They finished 5th in the WCC and didn't make the tournament.

Ah....that was the prior year.

 

[Wet_Blanket_Guy]

offensively yes, but defensively, they were abused

Play out the year and do the right thing!

I should have clarified that I was speaking purely about offense. But you’re correct, they got murdered defensively.

 

[Unregistered User]

These guys got crushed by that mail-order school.

Are you trying to say that it’s a shit school?

 

[TwistingMyMelon]

Our guard play is unbelievably bad. Our defensive intensity is non existent. We have two good bigs.
I think Ben is going to get fired. This is formless garbage.

If the rest of the season is even close to this bad, he certainly should be fired.

I didn't think the defense was bad for the majority of the game but they were only thinking of scoring at the end and couldn't even do that. I don't know how much of this is due to in-game coaching but it's fairly clear from watching us play a good team that we don't have many good players. Most of them even play like they know they're not any good.

 

[Holy Man]

Does Ben even make through the entire season? Things could get very ugly this season. You have to cut the cord before his incompetence sets this program ever further back.

Completely unrealistic to think it can get any lower. Coyle needs to start making back channel connections and be ready to announce something by March 18.