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It'll be interesting to watch how JG plays over the next few games with Race "earning" his starting spot back.

Part of that was us passing around the perimeter and not attacking the zone. Having JHS in the middle might have been a good strategy against the 2-3

JHS wasn't alone in that for the majority of the game. That had all the feels of knowing we were superior to them and just wanting to make it through the game. NW game repeated minus the outcome.

I got the same feeling watching this video as I did when JBj hit that game winner against PSU many years ago. Hope this season takes a different path.

Does dropping turds on the floor not hurt in some ways re: tourney seeding? I thought some of that was calculated into the NET rankings which helps to sort teams?

Didn't we get some great quote about Race having to earn his way back into the starting lineup? Odd

TJD has been tremendous and has been putting up numbers. He did that again tonight. We're not even close without him. There were plenty of issues and blame to go around tonight. It looked like the preparation for this game was off in that we thought we had the game won before tip-off. JHS struggled, Trey, Race, JG and others were right there with him. To me there is a different between an all timer in stats and an all time great. TJD is absolutely an all timer in stats but still has a lot to prove winning. That's part on him and part on the situation while he was here. We won but like you stated there are still concerns.

He had a monster game with 25 points and 20 boards. Watching him go up in the first half, the turnovers, the free throws was all half assed. That's not good enough for this team. We get into these funks and make dumb mistakes, don't get to loose balls, miss easy buckets, etc.

Re: TJD - something about finding 25-30 guys better than him to take in the first round he would kiss your @$$

I hope you didn't take my advice!

I do like that comment though by Ya though!

Battles and wars and such

NW performance all over again but against a really really really bad team.

Great hustle Kopp!! Glad to see we went with the story line there. /s

We're getting beat by an awful Minny team that is missing players with under 5 minutes to go.

Why isn't TJD cutting to the rim when we get it into the high post off the pass or dribble? We have to force them to choose who they want to defend there.

The entire team has along with slippery hands. We can't hold onto anything.

This feels like we're stunned the other team didn't roll over because they're shorthanded.

What are our goals here and how are we working towards those? Seems we're doing things that are not working or extremely low percentage but we just keep doing it because it worked once or almost worked. Can we put together a solid 9 minutes of basketball to close this game?

That's better TJD, attack and going up strong

We're scoring but let's lock down on defense to build a solid lead

I guess we won the toss and deferred horrible foul calls in our favor?

And alone at the top of the block list

Amazing Big 1.o teams are attacking Kopp. Started the game defending Battle and they went at him. Started 2nd half against their PG and they attacked him.

Hopefully we come out a little more focused in the second half with a little more e and e. 6 TOs, 10 fouls, 50% at the line, not going up and finishing at the rim, and only +3 on the boards against a little Minny team.