Illinois vs Nebraska Game Thread

[cipsucks]

Well, here we go.  Illinois comes to town.  The question has been raised is this the Huskers biggest game of the year?  It sure could be.  I'll go out on a limb and say it is the most pivotal game of the year.  We beat the Illini, we stay out of the play in round of the tourney and have momentum going into Minnesota.  Drop this one and the possibility of losing out to end the season becomes larger and the speculation for a coaching change comes front and center.

 

It's really cool a lot of former players are back this weekend and the 86-87 team is being featured.  That team showed a ton of character accepting a new head coach and making it to the NIT Final Four.  In early 86, Billy Ocean had a hit which that team personified and this current one needs to down the stretch to become the team that we all know they are.  It's time to climb any mountain, guys.  GBR!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Huskerpapa]

Gotta have this one.  About ready to head downtown to begin my preparation.

[Bugeaters1]

 

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[fred1212]

wow. The shorts in the picture are only half as long as the shorts Roby is wearing.

[aphilso1]

I really dig those jerseys, but I'm a sucker for old school cursive on the front of unis.  Those shorts though...I'll withhold judgement until I see them in action, but the look in warmups is not good.

[hskr4life]

If the biggest thing we have to complain about after the game tonight is the shorts... I'm going to be one happy man!

[Bugeaters1]

We won the that segment.

[Bugeaters1]

 

[atskooc]

Love wearing red at home. Makes "Go Big Red" make more sense. 

[atskooc]

Not terribly exciting so far. 

[atskooc]

Miles is a bit chippy tonight!

 

I like that we're drawing fouls. 

[basketballjones]

My Roku is super behind right now - so do not mind my potentially super late takes. 

 

But our offensive rhythm is soooooo bad right now. 

[atskooc]

If Morrow is missing from 0 feet, and they're dropping threes, this is going to be a long night. 

[basketballjones]

We need to run some full sets. No more quick hitters into motion - Illinois is guarding too well right now. 

 

*as I type this they ran a pretty set to get McVeigh a 3, but he got a lay up out of it. Well done, coach. 

[Bugeaters1]

Lost that segment.

[atskooc]

Jordy's getting chewed up down low. 

 

But out I do like that we're giving the chance to guard him one-on-one. At some point we're going to have to rely on that. 

[atskooc]

Great pass there!

 

Webby playing hard!

[basketballjones]

We're doing a lot more side to side action with screening and set action. Really helping distort the defense. Good move coach 

[atskooc]

We're pretty bad against a zone. 

[nustudent]

3 minutes ago, atskooc said:

We're pretty bad against a zone. 

Weve been a bad shooting team for a long time.   Dont understand why teams dont zone us more

[atskooc]

1 minute ago, nustudent said:

Weve been a bad shooting team for a long time.   Dont understand why teams dont zone us more

Agreed!

[atskooc]

Webby going for another double-double?

 

Ten, six, and four at half. 

[RedEyedFanatic]

6 minutes ago, atskooc said:

Webby going for another double-double?

 

Ten, six, and four at half. 

Maybe he's gonna mess around and get a triple double. As long as no AKs come out, we should be good. Unless that's a metaphor for Jack Or jeriah...