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  1. Ray below Moses.......... Come on Ray should be higher IMO
    3 points
  2. JBARGIE

    18-19 depth

    Here are the cliff notes: - Judging by the summer workouts, this is the most talented team that Robin has seen in his time covering Nebrasketball. - If you had zero knowledge of the roster and watched the summer workouts, you would think Roby is our best player and top NBA prospect. - Roby and Jordy will be fully healed by Fall practices - Karrington Davis might not be academically eligible this year. We should know more this week - Dachon Burke is a relentless defender and will only make Palmer better while going against him in practice every day. - This transfer year will be great for Burke to improve his outside shot and have a year of strength and conditioning under his belt. - Amir Harris looks the part and is actually playing more off the ball than point guard. His outside shot it his biggest weakness. - Heiman has impressed so far but he probably still needs to redshirt. - Glynn is shooting with much more confidence - Thomas Allen looks a lot bigger in the upper body and will be relied on as a go-to three point shooter this year - Nana has really impressed this summer with his aggressiveness on the offensive end - Armon Gates is getting along really well with the players and coaches - Robin's best guess at a starting lineup: Glynn, Tom Allen, JPJ, Copeland, Roby
    3 points
  3. MandRHusker

    Watson article from Lee

    Not sure if it was ineptitude or malicious intent. I tend to lean towards malicious intent.
    2 points
  4. A lot of it had to do with the ridiculous job by Barry Collier and the NIT selection folks. Their ineptitude put us in a situation on the road against a good team that we never should have been in.
    2 points
  5. #1 is a no-brainer in my opinion. You gotta start with making the dance in year 2. Terran Petteway was the single biggest factor in us making the dance. Without him, we don't make the dance. Period. And, if we don't make the dance, we don't land transfers Andrew White, Anton Gill, Isaac Copeland, or James Palmer; nor do we land Glynn Watson, Isaiah Roby, etc. Given how significant a factor I believe making the dance was in subsequent recruiting, I'd say the 2nd most important player in the Miles era was Shavon. He started as a freshman and would have been a day-1 starter had he not injured his elbow, but his emergence as a sophomore was critical to that run to the dance, and he was just a solid kid and solid player all the way around. If Shavon had been the player we all thought we were getting coming out of high school, Miles is probably coaching somewhere else right now. But Shavon turned out to be a 4-star caliber player in a marginal 3-star's body. Shavon is definitely my #2. James Palmer is 3rd. The reason we were even in the hunt for a return trip to the NCAA tournament is because we had a guy like Palmer who could get us buckets when we needed them. The reason we'll be in the hunt again this year is because opposing Ds will have to line up to stop him and it'll make other players on the team better. He scores, he dishes assists, he's deceptively quick, and he's really long at the guard spot. He's been ranked by whatshisname as one of the top 15 returning players in the nation. That's not for nothin. The fact that he returned for his senior year is HUGE for this program. So, that's my top three and the whys and wherefores.
    2 points
  6. 1 Lord loves a working man. 2 Don't trust whitey 3 If you catch something, see a Doctor and get rid of it.
    2 points
  7. I don't agree that they folded last year. They won 7 of their last 10. Yes, they got curbstomped by Michigan in the BTT, but turns out that was a red-hot Michigan team. Then they lost AT MissSt in the NIT. Turns out MissSt was pretty good, too. The year before that, they folded. Lost 8 of their last 10, including a 5-game losing streak to wrap things up. That team was very young and had a player or two who quit. And I'm talking before they officially transferred. We're going into this season with some seasoned veterans. Not only is this one of our most talented teams, it's also one of our most experienced.
    2 points
  8. 6'-2" 180# four-star guard from St. Louis. https://247sports.com/Player/Mario-McKinney-45572503
    1 point
  9. Armon Gates Retweeted Harlond Beverly @Harlond20 (4 star) Blessed to say that I’ve received an offer from the University of Nebraska.?
    1 point
  10. I read a really compelling article on the BBC today. The most interesting part was this little nugget: "Consider an American and Canadian study that analysed where 2,240 professional athletes from the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the Professional Golfers’ Association grew up and when they were born. In each case, the researchers found that the professional players were far more likely to come from relatively small cities – where they could have a better chance of rising to the top of a smaller league – rather than bigger cities. Around half the US population come from cities with fewer than 500,000 people, for instance, yet the researchers found that these cities provided a whopping 87% of all NHL players, with similar figures for the MLB and PGA. That’s a huge over-representation. The NBA was slightly more balanced, but not by much: overall, 71% of the players came from those smaller cities – over 20% more than you would expect from chance alone." Wow. Just wow. Statistically speaking, that means that half the county (small cities and towns) will produce 71% of NBA talent, while the other half (large cities) will only produce 29%. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever employed a strategy of solely recruiting non-city kids since they're apparently much more likely to turn into an NBA-caliber player. Miles likes analytics, I wonder if he's seen this data and, if so, if he's at all based his recruiting strategy around it. Full article here: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180703-why-it-pays-to-be-a-big-fish-in-a-small-pond
    1 point
  11. I had a hard time putting either any higher, for different reasons. Dachon will definitely have an impact but he can only do so much from the scout team/bench. So i thought just behind the rotational players was a fair placement. For Karrington Davis, he is just a bit of a mystery. With the injury, lack of playing time his senior year of high school, and academic issues i have no idea what his impact will be. The highest I would have slotted him was 12.
    1 point
  12. 1. Roby will be our poster child for the next tier of recruiting as he will likely log meaningful minutes in the NBA. He'll end a, what, 20 year drought? 2. I picked Tai because he can answer questions about 4-year player development under TM. Hopefully GWIII will finish with a great season--I will say his defense has definitely improved each season. 3. Terran provided the blueprint for unbelievable transfer success here. This has been amazingly important.
    1 point
  13. Man, Gates is making his presence felt like right now.
    1 point
  14. Huskerpapa

    18-19 depth

    If the Prep school was the issue, then the four or five other studs on that team would seemingly be affected as well. I am wondering if his injury played a role. Oh well, a redshirt year for both Brady and him may be for the best regardless. It will be interesting watch all this play out.
    1 point
  15. Its a good discusssion post. The players in the top 10 seem right. But i think there are some glaring misrankings with the rest imo. Conk's post above me is one. Another glaring one is why is Duby so much higher than say David Rivers. Duby was a one year rental that was on the bench more than the court. David Rivers was a multiyear starter for a tournament team and put up better stats.
    1 point
  16. aphilso1

    Player Power Rankings

    1. Petteway. His individual success and leading the team to the Dance would probably already have been enough to make him #1 in my book. Now add to that the fact that his success opened the door for Miles to recruit and land more impact transfers. TP3 is #1 by a landslide. 2. Watson. When everyone else left, he stayed. If he had't, the Huskers would likely have a different head coach and we'd no longer still be in the Tim Miles Era. 3. Roby. He's got the best chance to be a recognizable face in the NBA. If he does that, I imagine recruiting and future success will be a lot easier in Lincoln. For that reason he's got a chance to make an impact on our program for years to come.
    1 point
  17. I got your back @Navin R. Johnson ? So it looks like coach Gates is doing work!
    1 point
  18. Well... the GOAT would still be Earvin Johnson.
    1 point
  19. Absolutely nothing does more for me then beating Iowa. Especially the pounding we gave them last year at their place in front of a huge home crowd. GBR
    1 point
  20. Two things: Sports Illustrated did a great article on Jordan's high school coach. It did not end well for him due to a mental illness. The real story was Jordan did not get cut from the team his sophomore year. The varsity had made it to state the year before and had 8 guards coming back include Michael's older brother. There was one slot left on a varsity that had 10 seniors on the team and the coach went with another 6'7 sophomore because the team had no one else taller than 6'3. That player went on to play professionally in Europe so he was no slouch. The coach felt that a 5'10, physically weak at the time Michael wouldn't get off the bench and it would do him more good to get lots of playing time on the JV where he ended up having a great season. The article is definitely worth the read if you have the time: https://www.si.com/vault/2012/01/16/106149626/did-this-man-really-cut-michael-jordan Second, I realize soccer seems to push some people's buttons on this board but they have addressed the early birthday issue for some time now. The national team's feeder system is the state Olympic Development Program teams from each state. Their research showed the same thing about the early birthdays dominating team selection and they felt they were missing out on some very skilled players that just weren't as physically developed yet. They went to creating two teams per state. An older team with birthdays Jan-June and a younger team made up of players with birthdays July-December. In this way, they are giving those younger players the same opportunity as the older, more physical at this time players. They are now going one step further. I'm not sure how it works but they are piloting a new system starting in California and then planning to go nation-wide. They still have teams designated Under 10, Under 11, etc. but through some scientific measurements, they are no longer using chronological age but are determining biological age. So everyone in that division whether they be 10, 11, 12 or whatever age will be of the same physical maturity and the true "best" players will be allowed to shine through. It would obviously be more effort than going with a chronological age but I applaud the effort to bring out the best players.
    1 point
  21. Or Brandon Ubel to some extent.
    1 point
  22. Disagree. Copeland and Palmer will not likely make the NBA. I will obviously pull for them, but it’s unlikely they make the incremental improvements they would need to as year-5 seniors. It’s the most talent we’ve had in 20 years, and I’m hoping for big things! ...But it’s not near the most talent we’ve ever had.
    1 point
  23. Never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body!
    1 point
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