Timberwolf
01-12-2006, 06:11 AM
What do you know? The Gophers play divisional teams and they fall like a deck of cards. They played Northwestern and Wisconsin so far and they have looked horrible in those two divisional games so far. I got to watch the Gophers play Tuesday night since they were on ESPN. They looked very inept and unprepared against a very good Wisconsin team. I did not expect the Gophers to beat Wiscy. Wiscy is a superior team and probably one of the best if not the best team in the conference. My thing is how inept the Gophers could look out there. We basically have the same players from last year in Vincent Grier, Adam Boone, and Rico Tucker, who are the Gophers big 3. Those three are very good scorers and for them to be this inept is not very good.
This has to fall on Dan Monson, the Gophers head coach. For those three to be that bad falls on coaching. I am not sure if he is teaching those guys right or not. He is not getting the most out of his big three scorers which is inexcusable. His team just has no clue to run an offense as you saw Tuesday night against Wiscy. I don't see much chemistry on the court. For Pete's sake, Fairleigh Dickinson Knights team (my second favorite college team since I went to school there) can execute their plays a lot better than the Gophers. When I see teams like Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Indiana, I see those four teams knowing how to execute their offense, making plays, and hustling for rebounds. That's what you call a well-coached team and that's something the Gophers have not had since Clem Haskins was forced to leave because he hired tutors to do the players homework.
Gophers haven't looked great all season. Don't be fooled by their record. They played little sisters of the poor in the nonconference schedule and they looked bad playing elite nonconference teams. This is a team that has no clue how to play basketball at this point. The way things are shaping up, this Gophers basketball team is a NIT team at best. There are too many better teams in the Big 10.
Gophers gotta find a way to beat the creme de la creme of the conference and the way things are going, that's too much to ask.
Monson needs to find solutions and need to show leadership like last year. If not, it maybe time to give the keys to Jim Molinari, who should be the next Gophers coach.
This has to fall on Dan Monson, the Gophers head coach. For those three to be that bad falls on coaching. I am not sure if he is teaching those guys right or not. He is not getting the most out of his big three scorers which is inexcusable. His team just has no clue to run an offense as you saw Tuesday night against Wiscy. I don't see much chemistry on the court. For Pete's sake, Fairleigh Dickinson Knights team (my second favorite college team since I went to school there) can execute their plays a lot better than the Gophers. When I see teams like Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Indiana, I see those four teams knowing how to execute their offense, making plays, and hustling for rebounds. That's what you call a well-coached team and that's something the Gophers have not had since Clem Haskins was forced to leave because he hired tutors to do the players homework.
Gophers haven't looked great all season. Don't be fooled by their record. They played little sisters of the poor in the nonconference schedule and they looked bad playing elite nonconference teams. This is a team that has no clue how to play basketball at this point. The way things are shaping up, this Gophers basketball team is a NIT team at best. There are too many better teams in the Big 10.
Gophers gotta find a way to beat the creme de la creme of the conference and the way things are going, that's too much to ask.
Monson needs to find solutions and need to show leadership like last year. If not, it maybe time to give the keys to Jim Molinari, who should be the next Gophers coach.