Gophers coach jokes about Bobby Durkin's 'PG-13 language' after game-winning shot

Yeah. What do you mean? Go for a basketball or Kirk Cousins? Come on, man. Like, yeah. Where's our priorities? I don't even think they talked about the Cincinnati game. Like, is everyone still talk about, you know, Kirk Cousins coming back or whatever, but I'm sorry. I digress. Go ahead. Yeah. You know, he's a young man. We identified really early in the process and everything about him seemed to fit. The way he played, his personality, his family, the versatility, he does so many things on the court. I think that affect winning. And so it just seemed like a perfect fit. And sometimes when you start recruiting a young man, it just feels really natural from a relationship standpoint with Isaiah, with his parents, with everybody around him. Again, a young person we identified, and he ended up visiting a couple places and decided to come here. Again, he loved Minneapolis, had a great visit, and I'm really excited about what he'll bring. No, no, no, no, no day, no days off. He, you know, even yesterday, we had to come right back, you know, yesterday and get back out on the court, but he's in here in the morning, you know, getting shots up or whatever. He just, that's what you do. You kind of stick with the routine that a guy either knowing him, he's more concerned about the five ones he missed than the one that he, that he made. I don't think so. I mean, I think that when I look back at the St. Thomas game, I thought he had some good looks too, you know. But no, I mean, it's no secret on the scouting report people are going to look and they're going to say, hey, we don't want Durkin to catch and shoot from three. Thank Sometimes that's difficult to do with all the other moving parts of guarding and offense, but it's just been one of the last, you know, couple games where it hasn't been as. As good, I think what the night before he went four for five or whatever it was against North Dakota. And so I just think those things are, you know, the rhythm of a season. you. And as long as he keeps taking great shots, they'll go in. Yeah, I mean, I just, you know, I always want guys to assert themselves. I mean, it's. You know, you're different guys on different nights. I mean, I think he kind of felt comfortable and confident early. I think that team and the way they play, they're sort of match-up zone, switching man-to-man. I knew going in, having played against it at Colorado State when Jared was at Utah State, the first time we played, especially in the first half, it was kind of difficult. And then the second two times we played him, we had a lot more success. So I wasn't surprised. It was a little choppy, but he kind of got it going and made a lot of great individual plays. And, yeah, he was terrific. I mean, he'd be the first to tell you you can't turn the ball over, you know, seven times, and I think Isaac turned it over four times too. But, man, we're not in the game with a chance to win without his performance. Oh, for sure. And, I mean, I joked with him yesterday. I mean, was that an expletive maybe he was shouting or whatever, which is way out of character for Bobby. But I think the guys all confirmed that there was maybe, you know, a little PG-13 language on the shouting tirade or whatever. But, yeah, you don't put in the work that you put in and stuff if you're not a fiery competitor and you don't love it. But, yeah, I mean, he's just a great person. He cares about the right things. He cares about the team. That's what he worries about the most. And so, but yeah, I mean, you got to see, you know, how much he cares and had that big smile on his face. And yeah, it was a big, a big moment for him is a huge moment for our program. Well, I think, you know, we we told the guys it was a really frustrating game, probably for both teams. I mean, a lot of turnovers. I was kind of sloppy. I thought we were really guarding. They were guarding us to kind of had us all out of sorts. But you just had to hang in there. And we did. And that last, you know, 15 seconds or so, you're just trying to manage the game and the next possession. And so. We did a really good job, and we didn't panic, and I think we had the ball, and there was like 40 seconds left, and we're down three, maybe there was less than that, 20-something, I think it was 26 seconds, and a lot of teams will just slop up a bad three there, but we didn't panic, and we ran offense, and we got to the rim, and scored, Isaac, I think, scored right there, and then we wanted to see if we could get, I think it was like 14 seconds left. They, or we scored, and we got to know if we had made a three, it's tied, but we made a two, we're down one. Well, we're down one. We'd love to get one good trap in that situation if we can, and then be ready to foul. A lot of times people just think you're going to foul right away and you can turn them over. We didn't quite get matched up the way we wanted to, and we probably let too much time go off the clock, to be honest, before we fouled. But we eventually fouled, and then we missed the free throw. And then they got the rebound. They fouled us, if you remember, because they had a foul to give, which was a great move on their part. And then, right, got the ball back. Then they fouled again, which they shouldn't have put us in the bonus. Then we missed the front. I mean, it all just sort of transpired that way. Our mindset in that situation when they're at the line is, okay, if they make it or make it, we know kind of what we're going to run. We got to get it and go, but on a miss, I'm not calling a timeout. I didn't have any timeouts left, but even if I did, I don't like to call timeout there and draw up a play because I think you get a worse shot. Now, had there been two seconds left, maybe you would call a timeout, but in that scenario, five seconds is plenty. I mean, our guys couldn't have executed it any better. One little game within the game, you know, I think from their standpoint, they were really going to the offensive glass hard on the free throw. So don't do second things first. You've got to get the defensive rebound there. You see it happen all the time. You get a team to miss a front end or the back end of a one-and-one, and then you don't block out, right? But I think the fact that they really crashed the glass hard and we get the rebound obviously gave us an outlet to go, which is why I like to run. Man, nobody talks about Isaac threw a strike there. I mean, he threw an absolute dime, hit Bobby right there, and Bobby didn't hesitate and knocked it down. So you work on those situations in practice, and to see it transpire into a win was pretty cool. Hopefully it's a lesson for the guys, like you just got to hang in there. Sometimes just hang in there. It's not pretty. Give yourself a chance, and if you keep giving yourself chances, something like that can happen. Oh, I just think that that's what they do, and you know, in their perspective, if they miss the free throw and they get it back, and we foul, you know, maybe the games, though, so I think that, I'm not saying that was the wrong move on their part at all to try to do that, because a lot of times, again, I've seen it happen in games, you foul. And you get them to miss, but then you don't come up with the ball. You know, some of these people are so worried about what they're going to run on offense. And again, don't do second things first. You got to rebound the ball. But I thought in that instance, we ended up getting the ball, but they kind of had some guys crashing and it allowed us to get out quickly and kind of gain a little bit of an advantage in transition. Well, I mean, you know, you got to move on to and. I think at the end of the year, having been in this, that's a quad one road win. Those are gold. Those are probably the most valuable thing you can have. We'll see where everything lands at the end of the season. It's one game. We've got plenty more opportunities, but those games add up. The reason you schedule these games is to give yourself an opportunity to get a high-level win. In this instance, we did. Those things look really good at the end of the year, but we got so far to go before that even matters, but it sure feels good right now, and I think putting yourself in those situations and coming out on that end usually end up paying off at the end of the year. You know, he's a big part of what we do, so we've missed him here. I mean, hopefully soon, but, you know, when you're dealing with, you know, some of the soft tissue stuff, you also want to make sure, hey, if we're resting this much or he's doing rehab like crazy, you want to make sure when he comes back he's healthy, that we don't bring him back and then it, you know, flares up again. So we'll see. I think we'll probably evaluate him here at the end of this week and then kind of see how he's doing. And then if everything goes well, you'll kind of start to. Ramp him up a little bit and a return to play protocol from there. So I'd love to have him back sooner rather than later. But again, we're not going to rush it with him. We want him to come back and be 100%. Not really. I think him and his representation are exploring all avenues right now. So I'm sure if he decides to do something different, that'll get out there fairly quickly. But I mean, I know he wants to play. Again, it's difficult watching, I think, probably some of these other guys play all over the country and him not playing. So we'll see what the future holds, but I don't think he's given up yet. You know, it's... It's kind of disappointing. I mean, they really played poorly last night at Iowa State because I know people probably won't believe this, but they've been a good program. I mean, they played to go to the NCAA tournament. They've beaten high majors before. You look at it, they had SMU on the ropes in the first game. I mean, that thing took SMU everything they had to get a win. I watched them play Drake the other night, and again, they were up on Drake most of So the first half, they came back and. Man, they almost turned it over. They had it to five. It was 50 seconds to go and kind of a bang-bang play. They almost turned Drake over there, and so it was a game. And last night, it got away from them quickly. I mean, it was like 22-2 before they could even. I mean, Iowa State's throwing in shots from, I mean, it was crazy. So, you know, I think we got to put that, you know, aside because I know that coach and I know them and they really guard. I mean, they play great defense. They turn people over. I think they're in the top, whatever, 20 in the country and turnover percentage. And so I'm sure they'll be foaming at the mouth. And so we'll have to come out here and, you know, and like I told the guys yesterday, right, everyone's giving us sugar right now, you know, Bobby Buckets and, you know, big game and all that stuff. You got to move on. That's over. And you got to move on. I always tell the guys that, you know, what you wouldn't accept in losing, you can't accept in winning. And had Bobby Schott not gone in, we'd be feeling different. But in reality, nothing that happened in the game changed other than that one play. And so we didn't. We turned the ball over too much. We didn't execute the way we needed to. And so that's our focus. We've been really getting a lot better on the defensive end. But just because we did it the other night doesn't guarantee you're going to do anything tomorrow night. So you've got to keep doing the things that have allowed you to be successful and keep growing. And so that's what I want to see from our guys going into tomorrow night. I love guys, he's a really unique player, and you try to describe him and say, what position is he? I don't really know. He handles the ball, you can give him the ball in a pick-and-roll situation, and he can make a play, he can score a little bit on a dribble down, or we call him Barkley's in the post. He's always been an elite rebounder on both ends. He gets on the offensive glass, it's unreal. He's athletic, he can really finish, He's a really good passer. He's got to continue to improve his three-point shot, but he's just kind of one of these hybrid guys who can guard multiple positions, score in different ways. He can affect the game as a passer. He can affect the game getting to the free-throw line, and I love those kinds of guys, you know, finding a way to fit him in. And so he's not like David Roddy, Neat Clifford, you know, two NBA guys. He's different than both of those, but he's in the same mold as far as they both were kind of positionless, right? You could play them all over the court. So that's what I see in him. Thank you. Thank you.