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What grade would you give the Gophers 2016-2017 basketball season?
C. Once the eight game win streak was over, they went back to their old ways of playing as a group of individuals rather than a team.
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The other sixteen wins were just that wins.There was no streak involved, the team was figuring out that you can't solely rely on talent. Luck played a factor in them because most of the were one or two possession games that could have gone the other way. Many of those wins could have been losses if this team started their disappearing act sooner in the game. Think about it, how many times were people glad they held on to the lead at the end? The answer is enough that it would have made a big difference in how their post season went. Out of those sixteen wins not involved in the streak only a third of them could be considered decisive, even the nonconference games.Those 16 other wins must've been all luck... Another brilliant take from Ewert.
The other sixteen wins were just that wins.There was no streak involved, the team was figuring out that you can't solely rely on talent. Luck played a factor in them because most of the were one or two possession games that could have gone the other way. Many of those wins could have been losses if this team started their disappearing act sooner in the game. Think about it, how many times were people glad they held on to the lead at the end? The answer is enough that it would have made a big difference in how their post season went. Out of those sixteen wins not involved in the streak only a third of them could be considered decisive, even the nonconference games.
Decisive wins were not a signature of this team regardless of the players post season recognition.
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Here's an analogy that I hope you understand. We're all so happy that this team climbed fifty feet up a ladder, but we forget that they buried themselves twenty-five feet underground last season. You can argue all you want about the total of fifty feet, but twenty-five feet of the climb was just to get back above ground. It's stacking the deck, manufacturing unnecessary adversity. If you can climb fifty feet on the ladder, why did you have to drop down twenty-five feet to prove it?Decisive wins aren't the hallmark of teams that won 8 games the prior year, or really any team in a major conference that's not a top 10 team in the country( (source: watch some college basketball). I believe that over the course of a year, experience, coaching, and talent (in no particular order) determine a team's fate in close games... not luck. We won too many close games for their success to be categorized as such. This was a young and talented team who worked hard to figure it out.
Ewert, if this squad would have hit a few more open threes tonight (btw most of them were open looks they earned through working the defense), you might not have been back on this board moaning until Saturday.
My grade is an A+. The fact that there was room for improvement doesn't negate the fact that this current roster pulled themselves out of the gutter and have the big ten title in the crosshairs for next year. We got to the NCAAs a year after winning 8 games. This program has completed a 180 as a result of their on the court successes.
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C. Once the eight game win streak was over, they went back to their old ways of playing as a group of individuals rather than a team.
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Here's an analogy that I hope you understand. We're all so happy that this team climbed fifty feet up a ladder, but we forget that they buried themselves twenty-five feet underground last season. You can argue all you want about the total of fifty feet, but twenty-five feet of the climb was just to get back above ground. It's stacking the deck, manufacturing unnecessary adversity. If you can climb fifty feet on the ladder, why did you have to drop down twenty-five feet to prove it?
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Here's an analogy that I hope you understand. We're all so happy that this team climbed fifty feet up a ladder, but we forget that they buried themselves twenty-five feet underground last season. You can argue all you want about the total of fifty feet, but twenty-five feet of the climb was just to get back above ground. It's stacking the deck, manufacturing unnecessary adversity. If you can climb fifty feet on the ladder, why did you have to drop down twenty-five feet to prove it?
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C. Once the eight game win streak was over, they went back to their old ways of playing as a group of individuals rather than a team.
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Here's an analogy that I hope you understand. We're all so happy that this team climbed fifty feet up a ladder, but we forget that they buried themselves twenty-five feet underground last season. You can argue all you want about the total of fifty feet, but twenty-five feet of the climb was just to get back above ground. It's stacking the deck, manufacturing unnecessary adversity. If you can climb fifty feet on the ladder, why did you have to drop down twenty-five feet to prove it?
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C. Once the eight game win streak was over, they went back to their old ways of playing as a group of individuals rather than a team.
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Quoting the most ignored GH'er defeats the purpose of the ignore button.
Now if someone had the stones to ban this clown . . .