That’s really interesting breakdown and probably spot on. Although it may be my overreaction, there’s just something about this UM team that mentally they fall apart a little when games are close in the second half. They get sloppy and make big mistakes. As much as I like Wolf, he goes into a mode where he stops playing team ball and goes into isolation one-on-one mode. In some cases it will work, but I think their strength is their team game and plays using both big men.
Now, all that being said, the loss to the Gophers weighed heavily on Goldin missing free throws and a couple mistakes and not Wolf at all, so maybe my eyes see one thing and my brain points blame to areas not to blame. Who knows. There’s just something in my gut that says this team doesn’t have the closing killer instinct. The true test will be hitting Purdue twice and Oregon and MSU shortly after. I just see MSU, Illinois and Purdue and those are the conference teams I think have the best shot at a deep run.
