Game Thread: Minnesota at Iowa
by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 5:15 PM CST
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Minnesota Golden Gophers at Iowa Hawkeyes, Jan 8, 2009 6:05 PM CST
The first Big Ten road game (and amazingly just second road game of the season) is here in the form of a trip to Iowa.
Game is scheduled for 6 p.m. central time for a tip on ESPN 2.
I'll be looking for the Gophers to push tempo. If we're turning the Hawkeyes over, scoring in transition and playing up-tempo ball, this will be a happy night for Minnesota fans. But don't expect it to be easy, even if Iowa is a lesser-caliber Big Ten team. Big Ten road games are never easy.
See you in the comments section below.
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Jason Kubel
I anxiously await the Jason Kubel reference contest, in which the winner will compare a Gopher to Jason Kubel, and the winner gets shwag of some sort. PJS is of course disqualified to make it fair.
Oh, come on now.
I have a good Jason Kubel reference ready to go.
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
Tony? You usually have this answer
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 6:03 PM CST up reply actions
Can we stop these lobs?
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I thought the second lob was fine. Colt just should have finished.
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We do have a big size advantge we should exploit somehow.
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I like that move
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Abu is the second off the bench
Disgusting.
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And promptly gets beat off the dribble
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No business playing.
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 6:16 PM CST up reply actions
Nevermind.
Now it’s basically a 5 in 5 out. JAS, Devoe, Carter, Williams, and Devron.
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Horrible offense with this 5.
We got the ball in the post and JAS was strangely right next to the post player.
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Correction
Horrible team with this 5.
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Doug Gottlieb is a fan, FTB!!!
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 6:19 PM CST up reply actions
Can we put a body on them?
They are just walking through our defense.
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Is that a good thing...
I mean,..it’s gotlieb,
I thought about taking a shot at Gotlieb, but you should just enjoy the traffic that comes from it!
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 6:23 PM CST up reply actions
Nice block by Iverson
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Why are we putting in Busch when our team is struggling the most?
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Personally I'd rather we had a good player in there instead
Intensity means jack shit if you have no skill at all.
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He plays hard
It is infectious. I think people are way too critical of him. He isn’t the best player, but I think against Iowa he has value
He's more valuable than JAS, I'll give you that.
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 6:32 PM CST up reply actions
But no one else
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How bout some Nolen, Westbrook, Johnson, Carter and Colt/RSIII
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Hoff can't make anything
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I see we are ignoring box out responsibilities now too
Great game so far, really.
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We apparently don't want to keep it close
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Our 2/3 zone defense has been surpringly good at contesting 3s
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Bench Abu
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Pathetic final possession
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Okay, so it was 29%
Must have misread the ESPN stat…yahoo has 29. That still seems too high. It seemed like 15
Good news
1.) After all of that ugliness, we are only down by 6
2.) No one is in foul trouble
3.) Iowa doesn’t look all that good, we just look that bad—easier to improve after halftime
ESPN
Karl Ravech is ridiculous. Yes, we scored 20 points in the first half. But this is the Big Ten. Some games are in the 40s.
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ON the road in a game like this we need good looks on ALL possessions.
Nolen and, on the last possession Westbrook, haven’t been good.
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Small ball right now. Carter and DJ the only two bigs.
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ugh
we are not moving well at all defensively and offensively we have nothing. We stink in the half-court.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
This second half has been really ugly
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this is what I was expecting to see
get used to this every year as long as lickliter is in Iowa City
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I do love
switching up defenses. man to man, zone, switching man, etc
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Commenting
is depressing when this sort of game is going on.
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Stop shooting 3's
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Thank you for at least driving, Al
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I thought our offense was bad in the first half
But it doesn’t even compare to how bad the Iowa offense is in this second half. They aren’t even trying to go inside.
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Tubby deserves praise for this defensive dominance.
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 7:42 PM CST up reply actions
he was great, yes.
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by PJS on Jan 8, 2009 7:43 PM CST up reply actions
I am going to Iowa City next year
I really wanted to this year but this Thursday game right after the holidays was too tough
who is with me?
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Busch is leading the team in scoring
That is frightening.
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Lickliter has countered Tubby's small ball with smaller ball.
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both of Gaten's threes
were on Johnson.
you won’t see that very often
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Hoff has been terrible lately
If he can’t make his shots, he’s a pretty bad overall player.
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Travis Busch
Wow
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Thank you for getting stuck, ball
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I'm tempted to delete that comment
please never say that again.
:)
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My god..
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Take out DJ please, we don't want him getting fouled here
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This is pathetic
We can’t even in-bound it!
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hahahahahahaha
that idiot
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Iowa is going to pesky all year
Glad we got out of there with a win. Nice to start 2-1 with Penn State coming up next at home.
They'll pull an upset or two once Tucker is back healthy.
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WHEW!!!!!
What the heck was Minnesota doing that first half. They were so worried about the outside shot by Iowa they were letting them drive off the wings time after time. Then the Gophers couldn’t (wouldn’t) penetrate in the first half even with a HUGE height advantage.
We were damn lucky we won this game!
John Maynard
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