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Or, stated slightly differently: The degree to which people will care that he went elsewhere might end up having more to do with how well we're playing and less to do with how well he's playing.

They won 7 games last year. The sunshine pumper in me says last year isn't a worthy comparison.

I saw one that was for Brexit 1776. That was pretty funny.

Oh, look, gifs. Someone should send these to CNN so that they know what gifs are.

At least he has better hands than #32 in that pictures. How does #32 shoot with conjoined hands like that? Or dribble. It'd be like double dribble every time, right?

No, see it's like this. Griesel is still growing, right? He's going to grow 6 more inches between now and his senior year and he's going to become a Husker and come to Nebraska with all those guard skills in a 6'10" package and be like our version of Frank Kaminsky. That's how I have it planned out, anyhow.

I know, right? It's like she thinks college is all about studying and getting good grades and building an impressive resume and stuff like that. #priorities #drinksomebeerforgawdsakes

If you're looking for reasons to love Dixon Illinois ....

Appears to be a quality shooter:

Hear hear!

Here's another question: If he has a commitable offer, why did he take an unofficial visit?

Interesting prospect. According to 247, he has offers from Indiana (Crean), Xavier, Iowa, Penn St., Ball St. and Miami of Ohio. No way of telling if the Indiana offer is still on the table now. 247 has his ranking history as peaking at about #227 in January but a pretty steady and significant decline since then to a current ranking of around #341. Verbal Commits lists him as a 2 star and Rivals doesn't have him ranked at all in terms of stars. Scout has him as a 3 star and ranks him the #7 SG prospect in the Midwest (whatever area that covers.) According to 247 and other sources, Iowa offered last September; Xavier offered in November; Indiana offered in February; PSU offered in March; and we offered in April. Doesn't look like much new activity over the summer. In other words, it doesn't appear we're seeing this kid's recruiting "blow up" as they like to say in recruiting circles.

Not to quibble too much, because 10 deep I could see, but the averages would probably be more like 25 minutes for the 5 starters and 15 minutes for the next 5 off the bench. Amy's last team at SD was weird. She only had 4 players going more than 20 min/game. She had 8 others who got at least 8 min/game. So, that's 12 deep. And now you're into the territory of the hypothetical I posed above, which was playing Hannah Tvrdy 12 minutes and Emily Cady 20. Hey, if player #12 is that good, do it. But I think it's generally unlikely. It's more likely you'd see something like her 2nd to last team at SD, where the starters averaged roughly 25 min/game and the next 5 reserves about 15. Style of play and quality of bench are the big factors in this discussion.

I think it cuts both ways. It might boost the morale of the players at the end of the bench, but it might not do so much for the players at or near the top of the rotation. The real question is whether you have the quality depth to go 12 deep. So, for example, if going 12 deep means that -- oh just to use some names from the not-too-distant past -- Hannah Tvrdy is getting 12 minutes and Emily Cady is getting 20 minutes ... Are you hurting yourself by not having your best players in? And there's a balance between playing your stars too much that they get fatigued (oh, they can probably handle 38 minutes every now and again, but you probably wouldn't want to ride them that hard every night) versus putting lower caliber players on the floor. Is a slightly winded Emily Cady still better than a fresh Hannah Tvrdy? I think most people would probably take a slightly winded Emily Cady any day. And twice on Sundays, whatever that means.

Your cousin sounds like a perfect fit for the system Creighton runs. #letitfly #theyalreadyoffered

Brewster connection. He retweeted a Thomas Allen tweet. Also a lefty. Runs the floor pretty well but a little too finesse near the basket from the extremely brief video I saw.

And losing (a/k/a adversity) can wreak havoc on chemistry. I probably sound like a broken record but that team had a lot of bounce-back in them but they pretty much emptied the tank of bounce-back with about 12 games left in the season. It would have been a pretty aggressive schedule even with AWIII. But that's the kind of brutal schedule that can take the starch right out of you. Because once you start losing, things can start to fall apart and are more difficult to hold together. Losing can be demoralizing. Being demoralized causes loss of unit cohesion and esprit de corps. Chemistry might very well have been very good last summer, better than in times past. I can very, very easily believe that. But we put a young, inexperienced squad, missing a 3-point threat, through a meat grinder of a schedule. There's no way Miles would have scheduled like that if he'd known AWIII wasn't going to be part of the team. That's one of the reasons I hold AWIII in such low regard for leaving us hanging like that. He really left us in a lurch. Fortunately, sounds like this year's team has a more complete set of skills and perhaps a slightly less daunting non-conference schedule.

Walt P saying he's matured a lot, I guess I have to give him some credit because that's basically an admission that he wasn't mature enough before. Also tells me that maybe players don't hate Miles as much as some on here were reporting last March. Glynn Watson never transferred. That kind of tells you something too. I had heard that there were some flies in the ointment on last year's team. At least one of them transferred away and won't be missed as much as some around here thought. That helped chemistry right there.

What did they say about chemistry last year? Asking because I honestly don't recall. We've been talking about leaders on this team and who will fulfill those leadership roles. This article, as much as it might be labelled the annual "team chemistry will be better this year" article, still has some interesting insights. The guys acting like captains: Anton Gill and Glynn Watson. I have mentioned ever since he arrived on campus that I've noticed what seem to me to be good signs from Gill. When he was sitting out as a transfer, he'd go join the huddles during timeouts and would make a point to go say something to a guy who just got pulled from the game. I saw the same thing last year after his injury. Rather than getting discouraged and checking out, Gill was still active around the huddle during timeouts even after he got hurt. So, to read Lee B describe Gill as one of the players assuming that kind of leadership role just confirms what I thought I'd seen of him in the past.

Yeah, I think Duby is muy importanto. He has to be healthy; he has to be in shape; and he has to be developed to where he's not foul prone. Don't necessarily need him to be able to do much scoring, but he does need to hold down the paint, box out, get rebounds, and get putbacks on the offensive side. We probably need 15-18 min/game out of Duby. Any scoring from Duby would be a bonus. Jordy needs to be healthy, in shape, and developed as well. We might want a little scoring out of Jordy. So what do you do with those guys in the summer so that they're ready to go in the fall? I've been thinking about this and I'd be curious about @Dean Smith and @basketballjones's thoughts on the matter. So, the real Dean Smith back at North Carolina used to have his guys go one-on-one against each other in practice. I think that's a great way of developing certain skills. I think that's especially true in Miles' offense, which depends a lot on one guy beating his defensive counterpart. So, what would you do with the bigs to develop them using one-on-one situations? And I've been thinking about this and would be interested in thoughts. I think you have to have some kind of shot clock. Whether that's an actual clock or just a coach moving his hand to count like a ref, either way, but I think there needs to be a time limit on the offensive player to get a shot off. Like maybe 5 seconds at the most. I think the offensive player should be rewarded for scoring a basket, but the defensive player should get rewarded for making a stop. So, what values? Maybe 2 points for a bucket and 1 point for a stop? Or 1 point for forcing a bad shot or getting a block or a turnover? Have a coach or a manager enter the ball to the post, and the post guy has to initiate his move with his back to the basket. In other words, I wouldn't want to see them go out 15 feet, catch the ball and then turn and face the basket and basically try a dribble drive like they're guards. I'd want to see them post up and score against defense. I suppose you could have the offensive player start out on the block and slap the ball to simulate catching the entry pass and then have 4-5 seconds to get his shot off. If he scores, award him the value of the basket. If he runs out of time, forces a bad shot, gets blocked or turns it over, award a point to the defender. If he draws a foul, award 1 point to the offensive player and he goes again. If he grabs an offensive rebound, he simply retains possession. Defensive rebound changes the possession and the players switch. If the offensive player has no shot, he can kick it out to avoid awarding a point to the defender (because you don't want to develop a habit of forcing bad shots) but inbounding rules would apply, right? So, if he doesn't get it kicked out with at least a second left on his "shot clock" it's a turnover and you award the point to the defender. Dean? Jones? Is that anything you might do to develop your posts in the off-season?

He's a tree trimmer from Stockton-On-Tees, UK. Calls himself a "tree surgeon." So, clearly, he has a little bit of a complex. http://www.bizuk.biz/Andrew-Whitell-2098820

After taking a quick tour of this kid's twitter, my guess is he's looking as much at reclassifying to 2019 and spending a year at a place like IMG Academy as he is looking at colleges. And, who knows, maybe he does have the game. Or maybe he just knows how to game the system to score some unofficial visits to some pretty good basketball schools.

Looks like Kentucky's involved now, so we probably don't have a chance.

Here's some film:

As much as AW III agonized over nearly every decision he made and waited until the last minute to pull the trigger, he just strikes me as the kind of guy who is going to continue to doubt himself after the fact as well. He's not the kind of guy who is decisive, who makes his decision and moves forward without looking back. He's the kind of guy who suffers paralysis by analysis. He's not going to stop debating the decision after he makes it. He's going to continue to obsess about it especially if things don't turn out the way he'd hoped. My thought is he'll be second-guessing his decision to transfer to Syracuse for a long, long time. While some above in this thread might doubt that he was worthy of being drafted, neither he nor his father doubted it. So, there must be some other reason than simply "I just wasn't good enough." Obviously, switching schools to Syracuse wasn't the answer. Should he have gone to Michigan State? Naw, might not have played as big a role there. Should he have stayed at NU? Well, the Huskers died down the stretch last year, but there were portions of the season where they played like a tourney team, beat some tourney teams, and the big thing they needed was a perimeter shooter. Hey, do you know any players who could have filled that role for them? Been that spotlighted perimeter shooter? There are many who say NU would have been a tourney team if he'd stayed. Even people outside the fanbase. He knows this. Staying at Nebraska would have allowed him to play man-to-man in a situation where his lack of lateral quickness wouldn't have been exposed. Staying at Nebraska would have given him the chance to prove to the scouts that he was good enough to elevate a team and take them to a higher level. Staying at Nebraska would have shown scouts that he was up for a challenge rather than someone who shrinks away from it or tries to find the easy way out. If any of you think these thoughts haven't been playing over and over in his mind since draft day, then I think you're naïve. I bet it eats at him. A lot.