Maryland vs. Minnesota

[Oriole4Life]

Chance to get a quality road win.  Vegas has the Terps at +2.  Could be a close one.

[Tony-OH]

Terps playing well early on. I like that Turgeon is getting more guys into the game early and seeing who is hot and making some impact. 

[Tony-OH]

I will say this, Bender does not belong on the floor for anything other than garbage minutes. His best skill on the court is getting to a fallen teammate and helping him up.

[Oriole4Life]

Wish Fernando were a better passer. We would have 4-10 more points a game if he could eliminate the turnovers. Jalen Smith playing with lots of confidence. Need better defensive awareness, Gophers getting lots of easy shots.

[Tony-OH]

9 minutes ago, Oriole4Life said:

Wish Fernando were a better passer. We would have 4-10 more points a game if he could eliminate the turnovers. Jalen Smith playing with lots of confidence. Need better defensive awareness, Gophers getting lots of easy shots.

He's getting better, but yeah, he's still a bit of a turnover machine. He's definitely doing a better job of passing out of a double team, but still needs to work on other parts of his distribution.

[Oriole4Life]

Maryland committing so many stupid fouls which lead to and ones and turnovers. Also getting beat on 50/50 balls. Not loving the effort on defense. 

40-34 Minnesota at the half.

 

[Tony-OH]

This second half may be Lindo's coming out party. This kid is going to be a real beast next year. Seems to have a knack for the smart play.

[Oriole4Life]

Ricky Lindo showing me something, offensively and defensively. Gonna give some credit to Turgeon for going to the 2-3 zone, giving Minnesota problems. 

[Oriole4Life]

As a junior, Cowan still makes so many bad decisions. In a close game like this those turnovers can kill.

[murph]

Both teams playing out-of-control a bit last few minutes, but I am very impressed with Maryland so far. I think their defensive effort has been fantastic. Hoping for a strong final few minutes    

[murph]

1 minute ago, Oriole4Life said:

As a junior, Cowan still makes so many bad decisions. In a close game like this those turnovers can kill.

 Yeah running into traffic three times in a row was not too smart.  Not sure what was going through his head there    

[murph]

Fernando is just a man among boys!

[murph]

 Minnesota getting a bit desperate

[Oriole4Life]

Cowan stepping up! That one driving layup was a thing of beauty. Step up the defense boys.

[Tony-OH]

This team is actually one of the deepest teams I've seen from the Terps in sometime. when you can bring a Lindo, Wiggins, and Serrel Smith off the bench without having a huge drop off, that's pretty good. 

So far the Terps have shot the lights out in the 2nd half. Gotta hold on.