U of Minnesota Game Thread

[SturgisJeff]

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We need to schedule like Tubby does. Only one away game so far this season. And twelve home games with two away in the first fourteen.

[bub94]

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Was Casey really expected to be "the man at the point" when we signed him? I don't think so. If he was then someone wasn't doing there job. Mack does what he can with what God has given him but he isn't the guy at the point.

I think Casey was actually a walk-on when he first joined the Jacks. Don't know it that changed later on or not.

[JackJD]

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MN will have to shoot...shot clock faster than game clock

Pile up

loose on the floor...jump ball - Minn

74-60 is the final.

[filbert]

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I've been to all the home games except one. This is the hustle we have seen (not calling you out so don't take it as that). I like the team hustle. Just have to handle the ball better and stop with the turnovers.

Maybe I should have said that the top-to-bottom team effort was what we needed to see . . . everybody contributed tonight, I think. We're not at Minnesota's talent level, but we should be somewhere in the middle of the pack of the Summit League . . . possibly in the top half if things keep coming together.

[joeboo22]

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I was happy with Sargent, Callahan and Cassaday (though he needs to quit getting charges).... Kai and Cordova need to play with more intensity...... One thing I was happy with is that we controlled there post for the most part.... the one thing though is the point guard play needs to improve.... Casey needs to run the offense and Palarca just needs to keep it under control....

[bub94]

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Maybe I should have said that the top-to-bottom team effort was what we needed to see . . . everybody contributed tonight, I think. We're not at Minnesota's talent level, but we should be somewhere in the middle of the pack of the Summit League . . . possibly in the top half if things keep coming together.

It's all good. Going to go back to the beginning of the year and repeat the same thing. We just need healthy players. How different would things be with a ligit center and not making AC play the position. He fits the power forward position. In 11 days we gain another player in the rotation of guards/forwards so maybe players can get some longer breathers on the bench.

[JimmyJack]

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I was happy with Sargent, Callahan and Cassaday (though he needs to quit getting charges).... Kai and Cordova need to play with more intensity...... One thing I was happy with is that we controlled there post for the most part.... the one thing though is the point guard play needs to improve.... Casey needs to run the offense and Palarca just needs to keep it under control....

A guy like Nolen can make a lot of players look bad. Personally, I prefer Palarca at the point for now.

[filbert]

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Twenty turnovers = too many.

I should have been counting how many times especially in the first half a Jack threw it right into the hands of a Gopher. Unforced turnovers.

[CatchEmAll]

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How in the world did we end up outrebounding the Gophs tonight? Per the Gopher Stats 38-36 in favor of SDSU. The game I was watching every missed Gopher shot in the first half ended up as a Gopher offensive rebound.

Second half was definately a better 20 minutes than the first. I honestly thought it would be a 30 point blow out after watching the first half. Refs were fair to both sides. Some really, really bad turnovers on SDSU's part. Post play was non-existent from both sides. I don't know that SDSU controlled the post so much as their guard play was just that good and Iverson & Sampson were relegated to non-factors.

Sargent could be a stud if he can consistently play to tonight's level. Definite struggles from some key players that need to be figured out. All in all good effort. Not sure how good Minnesota really is though.

[joeboo22]

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I think Nagy has hit it on the head.... Until the players believe in themselves they aren't going to win many games.... Also said that Kai and others need to just loosen up...

[filbert]

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Nagy:

You play like you believe--I'm struggling with our kids, I love them to death but they don't believe in themselves like they should. We were nervous and jittery and there's no reason for it. It's confusing and frustrating to me, I know the players are frustrated too. The guys got to get by this mental hurdle.

I don't know (if I'll start the same guys that started this game). Nobody deserved to start after the Oral Roberts game. We've got to get Kai going somehow--he's putting so much pressure on himself he's not thinking clearly--he's really struggling. Clint: show up and do that every night, you're that good.

They killed us on the boards in the first half, we wound up out-rebounding them. The guy who really hurt us was Johnson. Nolan was a very good guard, hard to guard, he did a good job attacking us.

At halftime--every 50/50 ball, they got them all. They had 35 points off of turnovers and offensive rebounds, you're not going to beat somebody giving that up. We're just not showing up in some of these bigger games in the first half for whatever reason.

Second half was definitely better, but that's my point--give us that in the first half. I know the kids are tired of it, frustrated, confused, angry, we're trying everything we can to get the kids to believe in themselves as much as we believe in them.

Denver-I haven't seen them at all, we'll start to look at that tonight.

[CatchEmAll]

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One question without naming names. Our roster shows two 6-10 players, I know one is out for the season, what's the deal with the other one? Is he injured, or just that bad that he doesn't see the court? And if he's just that bad why are they wasting scholarship money on him at this point?

[filbert]

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One question without naming names. Our roster shows two 6-10 players, I know one is out for the season, what's the deal with the other one? Is he injured, or just that bad that he doesn't see the court? And if he's just that bad why are they wasting scholarship money on him at this point?

Engen played . . . had a nice play vs. Sampson that I remember. Otherwise . . . I don't know how many minutes he had.

[CatchEmAll]

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Nagy:

You play like you believe--I'm struggling with our kids, I love them to death but they don't believe in themselves like they should. We were nervous and jittery and there's no reason for it. It's confusing and frustrating to me, I know the players are frustrated too. The guys got to get by this mental hurdle.

Doesn't the mental block start at the top and filter down to the players? If he's lacking confidence in them they'll lack confidence in themselves creating that cicular ripple effect of everyone having their head up their a$$ not knowing what to do or how to play.

[joeboo22]

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One question without naming names. Our roster shows two 6-10 players, I know one is out for the season, what's the deal with the other one? Is he injured, or just that bad that he doesn't see the court? And if he's just that bad why are they wasting scholarship money on him at this point?

He played tonight.... hes not great but you don't pull scholarships unless the player does something off the court or can't cut it in the classroom....