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Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff Writer
One week after Doug Gottlieb referred to weaker potential opponents as “Nobody U,” his Green Bay males’s basketball crew misplaced to Division-II Michigan Tech for its eighth consecutive defeat.
Green Bay took a double-digit lead into halftime and led by as many as 13 factors within the second half earlier than Michigan Tech got here again to take the lead with just below eight minutes left. The two groups went backwards and forwards for the remainder of the sport, earlier than Michigan Tech’s Marcus Tomashek hit a 3-pointer with 53 seconds left to provide the Huskies a lead they would not relinquish.
In a press convention final week after the Phoenix’s loss to Milwaukee, Gottlieb defined his scheduling outlook and used the now-infamous “Nobody U” phrase.
“Part of the explanation I need to play higher groups is like, it is 2 levels outdoors, it is snowing. I do not actually like the thought of Nobody U coming in right here,” he mentioned. “What can we study enjoying a sport the place we win by 20? There’s a technique to it and I’m going to have to regulate shifting ahead.”
“Every sport on our schedule is a sport that we are able to lose,” Gottlieb continued. “And no person else does that. Now you already know why.”
After Wednesday’s loss, Gottlieb took to social media to answer his viral press convention.
“Done with this crap,” he wrote on X. “We scheduled up. Including Michigan Tech. No the place ever, have I been essential of anybody on our schedule. Now, again to work.”
Speaking to the media after the sport, Gottlieb was requested about his off-court actions and his concentrate on the job. He bought right into a back-and-forth on X earlier this week with ESPN’s Adam Schefter and nonetheless hosts a day by day radio present on Fox Sports Radio.
“Whatever I do is gonna draw a ton of consideration,” he mentioned. “I’ve a sure tone typically to the best way I converse and particularly to the best way I tweet, which might upset folks. I promise you, despite the fact that it is within the detrimental now, it’s going to be within the optimistic quickly. Keep all of the receipts and we’ll simply preserve doing our job.”
Green Bay dropped to 2-11 on the season with the loss to Michigan Tech, with the final three Division-I defeats coming by a mean of 20 factors. The Phoenix are 0-3 in Horizon League play and head to Drake, one of many 4 remaining undefeated groups in Division I, on Saturday.
“I’m as devoted to this job as any human being has ever been,” Gottlieb mentioned. “And I’m going to see it by way of till we win a Horizon League championship. This is my dream job and I cannot fall in need of the 100% effort that is required.”
Gottlieb was employed final May after being one of many ultimate candidates for the Green Bay emptiness within the spring of 2023. He changed Sundance Wicks, who led the Phoenix to an 18-14 document in his debut marketing campaign after which left to turn into the top coach at Wyoming.
Gottlieb did not have any faculty teaching expertise, however was a part of the employees for the United States crew on the 2009 and 2017 Maccabiah Games, serving as the top coach in 2017 and as an assistant underneath Bruce Pearl in 2009.
