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Sunday Night OT recap
Alex Carlson | The Gopher Report
Per TC:
General thoughts on game yesterday...
"Any time you have an OT game on the road it’s tough. We took the third quarter off basically. You can’t go on the road and win in a tough place like that when you get outscored 17-0 in the 3rd. It happens sometimes where you lose momentum and the other team gets it. They did fight and we fought back and they made a play to get the game to overtime and they finished it off. Obviously disappointed, we had our opportunity, at the same time it was the first trip for some guys and we have eight conference games to go, so we’ll be fine."
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Excuse us TC...Minny won't be fine if you allow your warriors to take a quarter off. Yes, they had a dominating 1H, but taking a quarter off in the BIG is simply unacceptable for engaged coaches in a conference were teams are too evenly matched to allow that to happen.
Taking a quarter off just doesn't "happen" out of the blue...it's the result of lack of intensity, focus and drive over the entire 60-minutes of the contest. That's a failure of leadership from the top: both coaches and upper classmen.
Many here have commented that Claeys looked very detached emotionally during the game and content to let his staff run the game while he functioned in some type of general managerial role.
Just from TV observation, TC didn't seem to express any real distress to his staff and team as the 3Q meltdown unfolded. TV shots panned to Claeys during the meltdown and he didn't seem to express any real concern to anyone on the sideline...coaches or players.
Perhaps others have information that contradicts this TV view of his demeanor, but it didn't seem like he took any animated steps to get his guys motivated to turn the situation around.
Is TC just too cerebral and generally passive in personality to get the most out of this BIG opportunity for his coaching career?
Is he too "laid back" and Minnesota Nice to make BIG things happen?
Can this coaching style work at Minny when it took a very intense, hard-driving, hands-on and dominating style from Kill just to get the program turned around to its current state?
Sunday Night OT recap
Alex Carlson | The Gopher Report
Per TC:
General thoughts on game yesterday...
"Any time you have an OT game on the road it’s tough. We took the third quarter off basically. You can’t go on the road and win in a tough place like that when you get outscored 17-0 in the 3rd. It happens sometimes where you lose momentum and the other team gets it. They did fight and we fought back and they made a play to get the game to overtime and they finished it off. Obviously disappointed, we had our opportunity, at the same time it was the first trip for some guys and we have eight conference games to go, so we’ll be fine."
............
Excuse us TC...Minny won't be fine if you allow your warriors to take a quarter off. Yes, they had a dominating 1H, but taking a quarter off in the BIG is simply unacceptable for engaged coaches in a conference were teams are too evenly matched to allow that to happen.
Taking a quarter off just doesn't "happen" out of the blue...it's the result of lack of intensity, focus and drive over the entire 60-minutes of the contest. That's a failure of leadership from the top: both coaches and upper classmen.
Many here have commented that Claeys looked very detached emotionally during the game and content to let his staff run the game while he functioned in some type of general managerial role.
Just from TV observation, TC didn't seem to express any real distress to his staff and team as the 3Q meltdown unfolded. TV shots panned to Claeys during the meltdown and he didn't seem to express any real concern to anyone on the sideline...coaches or players.
Perhaps others have information that contradicts this TV view of his demeanor, but it didn't seem like he took any animated steps to get his guys motivated to turn the situation around.
Is TC just too cerebral and generally passive in personality to get the most out of this BIG opportunity for his coaching career?
Is he too "laid back" and Minnesota Nice to make BIG things happen?
Can this coaching style work at Minny when it took a very intense, hard-driving, hands-on and dominating style from Kill just to get the program turned around to its current state?
