The only downside to Maryland’s 68-59 basketball win at Rutgers: guard Darryl Morsell twice he had to leave the game with problems with his right shoulder. Mark Turgeon, whose team cannot be without its senior leader for a long time, offered an update after the game.
“Quickly in Darryl, I’m going to get that out of the way. The shoulder didn’t come out completely. The term I heard is, like, ‘to the limit’, and they pulled him back both times. The first time, he was very strong, he was in no pain. The second time, he was strong and painless, but we would not play with him again, “said Turgeon. “Then he will return he will see a specialist he will see a doctor tomorrow and we will determine where we will go from there. “
Fortunately for Maryland, he has six days off until the next game, giving Morsell a break to see the doctor and recover. If you’ve seen it in the past four years, you won’t be surprised at the reaction of the rude Baltimore native after the second time. It was the same reaction he had at the beginning of the season, when he broke a bone in his face after being elbowed in Michigan’s Franz Wagner, demanding surgery and pushing him away for a game.
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“He was begging us to put him back,” said Turgeon.
When he left, however, Morsell had left his mark on the game. He totaled 12 points, three assists and three steals, and scored consecutive baskets to end Rutgers’ comeback effort. He also helped keep Scarlet Knights star Ron Harper Jr. to six points.
“Well, we started with Harper and then [Jacob] Young started walking, so we pushed him to Young. And then Young was no longer scoring, so you know, he’s that special. He guards the passing guards. And then, yes, we were really fighting, we couldn’t do a kick, the defense caught, we turned the ball, “said Turgeon.” Young was kind of controlling the game with his defense and Darryl hit the three-point game and then he got another layup in the transition, which was a good thing. Put us in. 11. So yes, we were really fighting, we just said as a team: ‘If we could win a bucket, you know, I think we can get away again.