Nebraska (7-1) vs. Minnesota (6-2) Game thread

[colhusker]

Just now, cjbowbros said:

I almost have to put this on Miles. He riled out the same defense on Coffee the entire game. I mean the last ten minutes he was there whole offense and it couldn’t have been any worse than it ended up.

This and it was clear Palmer was not able to defend him

[MichHusker]

We are gonna have a lot tougher road games than this one in conference play. Hope we figure out to win on the road 

[khoock]

Say what you want about officiating but Nebraska has absolutely no one else to blame but themselves. Too many lulls on offense. Let Amir Coffey look like the best player in basketball. And they were not clutch at the FT line when it mattered (TA missed the front end of one and one and Glynn split a pair).

 

Hopefully they come out with a fire under their @$$ against Creighton and play hard for a full 40 minutes.

[Boots]

You can't have huge scoring droughts that let the other team back in to the damn game.  We have very little offense besides one on one b.s.  

 

[Red Don]

 

Seems like MInny was scoring at will inside during the 4th quarter; and we couldn't!

Sorry, no final stats. Minny live stat feed won't load. (didn't want to see 'em anyway)

Well, at least the Ladies Won! 

Edited December 6, 2018 by Red Don

[The Polish Rifle]

Can't blow double digit second half lead on the road regardless of the situation - those will haunt...

[hal9000]

How'd we lose that?

[RexxRacerX]

Just now, The Polish Rifle said:

If we lose that one, I'm sorry for the anger I will bring to this board.

You and me both.  Some of this loss is on Miles eating all of his timeouts and not doing any coaching.  I really wish they could have gotten this one, they were in control of it at several points.  NU just really sucked on defense and rebounding most of the night, and they just HAVE to figure out how to eliminate all of these scoring droughts/empty possessions.

[khoock]

3 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said:

If we lose that one, I'm sorry for the anger I will bring to this board.

If we lose that game I will be MIA for a good week or two bc i already know what it will be like on here!

[HuskerFever]

1 minute ago, khoock said:

Say what you want about officiating but Nebraska has absolutely no one else to blame but themselves. Too many lulls on offense. Let Amir Coffey look like the best player in basketball. And they were not clutch at the FT line when it mattered (TA missed the front end of one and one and Glynn split a pair).

 

Hopefully they come out with a fire under their @$$ against Creighton and play hard for a full 40 minutes.

 

Yup. 24-9 run by Minnesota to finish off the game is not the fault of officiating.

[hhcmatt]

Brutal loss. The road, man. Couldn't get those stops tonight.

[hhcscott]

Just now, khoock said:

Say what you want about officiating but Nebraska has absolutely no one else to blame but themselves. Too many lulls on offense. Let Amir Coffey look like the best player in basketball. And they were not clutch at the FT line when it mattered (TA missed the front end of one and one and Glynn split a pair).

 

Hopefully they come out with a fire under their @$$ against Creighton and play hard for a full 40 minutes.

We made mistakes, but call the game for Coffey as they do for Palmer and he looks like a benchsitter,  Just stopped calling anything against him after the 3rd foul, not one foul called after the half...nonsense...2 foulss on "Shoulders" Murphy ...nonsense

[The Polish Rifle]

1 minute ago, khoock said:

If we lose that game I will be MIA for a good week or two bc i already know what it will be like on here!

My Nebrasketball psyche is so fragile right now - that's the straw that will break it. I guess it's good that I know that in advance?

[khoock]

Also would like to use this as another example of why i cant stand college basketball (aside from our beloved Nebrasketball). Officiating is so inconsistent and usually pretty awful across the board.

 

NBA is much more consistent and refs are actually held accountable for crappy calls and officiating. I know its more complicated for college (constant rule changes and many MANY more teams/games that need to be officiated) but it makes it hard to enjoy the sport as a whole.

[huskerbaseball13]

I guess Miles forgot the zone in Lincoln? 

[Nebrasketball1979]

I can't for the life of me figure out why we didn't change up defenses.  Minnesota has struggled against the zone but if you are afraid Coffey is going to dribble through it, stay in man and run another guy at him when he catches the ball.  Make someone else beat you!

[GATA]

This one is gonna p*** me off for awhile. Just incredible how meek we were for the final 6 or so minutes.

[Faux Mike Peltz]

Guys, I’m on a plane from Phoenix and it was killing me so I bought the WiFi. Just followed along this game thread. First time in a long time I haven’t been able to watch the game live on tv or in person. I must say, I’m not nearly as angry, simply because I didn’t see all of the garbage calls and scoring drought. Unfortunately, we are not a team that can afford to pee games away if we are in control. That being said, we beat CU, Cal State, Ok-State, and SW Minnesota, we are still heading into the meat of our conference with a good start- 

[khoock]

2 minutes ago, hhcscott said:

We made mistakes, but call the game for Coffey as they do for Palmer and he looks like a benchsitter,  Just stopped calling anything against him after the 3rd foul, not one foul called after the half...nonsense...2 foulss on "Shoulders" Murphy ...nonsense

Officiating wasnt what you would call great. But even with that subpar officiating we still managed to build a 12 pt lead ... and completely lose it. And the crappy officiating was pretty consistent the whole game which means we stopped doing what was working or Minny took it away from us.

 

Tough loss to take. I expect them to bounce back well against Creighton... at PBA... with kinder officiating.

[tcp]

I got nothing. Just another opportunity to wave goodbye to. 

[huskerbaseball13]

1 minute ago, tcp said:

I got nothing. Just another opportunity to wave goodbye to. 

This one hurts as if we don’t play well in Jan it’s not hard to find many losses on the Big Ten schedule. Starting 2-0 would have been big. 

[GATA]

3 minutes ago, khoock said:

Officiating wasnt what you would call great. But even with that subpar officiating we still managed to build a 12 pt lead ... and completely lose it. And the crappy officiating was pretty consistent the whole game which means we stopped doing what was working or Minny took it away from us.

 

Tough loss to take. I expect them to bounce back well against Creighton... at PBA... with kinder officiating.

 

I doubt we'll get a good game from the refs. Creighton gets every questionable call it seems.

 

That said, I'm the first to get angry with the refs, but tonight was more about us. We got punked. We showed zero pride defensively against Coffey. It was a joke.

[Faux Mike Peltz]

You know what hurts? Descending from 39,000 feet when you are super congested. That’s pretty much top of my mind right now. Gonna grab my bag, rush home, and probably watch the entire game on DVR- because I want to hurt with you fellas, and then focus the next two days on the Jays

[hhcscott]

3 minutes ago, khoock said:

Officiating wasnt what you would call great. But even with that subpar officiating we still managed to build a 12 pt lead ... and completely lose it. And the crappy officiating was pretty consistent the whole game which means we stopped doing what was working or Minny took it away from us.

 

Tough loss to take. I expect them to bounce back well against Creighton... at PBA... with kinder officiating.

My objection is that it wasn't consistent. Coffey and Murphy were pushing off on offense and bodying defensively and they got 5 fouls combined. Roby plays an athletic and graceful game and get 5 himself. 

[Faux Mike Peltz]

1 minute ago, GATA said:

 

I doubt we'll get a good game from the refs. Creighton gets every questionable call it seems.

 

That said, I'm the first to get angry with the refs, but tonight was more about us. We got punked. We showed zero pride defensively against Coffey. It was a joke.

Did we try something different vs Coffey than Palmer down the stretch? More size??