UC Riverside (0-0) vs. Nebraska (0-0) Game Thread

[hskr4life]

2 minutes ago, B1G Red said:

From time to time I check out a few other message boards for the other sports teams I follow, and I’ve always felt the regular posters on this board were by far and away the most thoughtful, reasonable, and patient. Refreshing to say the least. Always can count on coming here for good, respectful discussion and usually learn something from many  posters on here who clearly have a higher basketball IQ than I. But tonight, I gotta say, I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of perspective. Can’t believe it’s too common to have a new coach, staff, and damn near all new players in a new system all in one year.  Add to that an opposing team that couldn’t miss from deep behind the arc.  Let’s at least wait until January before we start spreading the doom and gloom. 

I could take the “wait till January” approach if it was after GTech or Creighton.  I’d try to be reasonable if we lost to those two.. hell even to Wash St in our first game away from home.

 

This was UC Riverside.  This was doom and gloom.  I expect things to get better.  But there’s no sugar coating this loss for me personally.  This was a major clunker.

[jayschool]

5 minutes ago, B1G Red said:

From time to time I check out a few other message boards for the other sports teams I follow, and I’ve always felt the regular posters on this board were by far and away the most thoughtful, reasonable, and patient. Refreshing to say the least. Always can count on coming here for good, respectful discussion and usually learn something from many  posters on here who clearly have a higher basketball IQ than I. But tonight, I gotta say, I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of perspective. Can’t believe it’s too common to have a new coach, staff, and damn near all new players in a new system all in one year.  Add to that an opposing team that couldn’t miss from deep behind the arc.  Let’s at least wait until January before we start spreading the doom and gloom. 

It's gallows humor, the opposite of doom and gloom.

 

Peace be with you, Big Red brother.

[Norm Peterson]

On the bright side, the whole strategy of "slow the game down by running the shot clock down to the end on every possession before chucking up a 3" was vindicated tonight. On the other hand, they didn't run any weave, so ...

[Bugeaters1]

Too bad we didn’t have a black cat run across the floor. 

It have helped us.

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[Handy Johnson]

I feel like Bill Murray waking up to “I Got You Babe”...

[hskr4life]

How great would a “Big Red Overreaction” show have been tonight?

[Nebrasketball1979]

Hey guys...all we have to do is get hot over a 5 day stretch in March and we are dancing,. 

[colhusker]

Going to be a long long season

[khoock]

13 minutes ago, B1G Red said:

From time to time I check out a few other message boards for the other sports teams I follow, and I’ve always felt the regular posters on this board were by far and away the most thoughtful, reasonable, and patient. Refreshing to say the least. Always can count on coming here for good, respectful discussion and usually learn something from many  posters on here who clearly have a higher basketball IQ than I. But tonight, I gotta say, I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of perspective. Can’t believe it’s too common to have a new coach, staff, and damn near all new players in a new system all in one year.  Add to that an opposing team that couldn’t miss from deep behind the arc.  Let’s at least wait until January before we start spreading the doom and gloom. 

To be fair this is a game thread. If you ask many of us, im sure we are still optimistic that we will improve drastically over the course of this season and that Hoiberg will do great things here. But this game, no matter how optimistic or pessimistic one tends to be, was pathetic. 

[hskr4life]

We do have the same record as KU... soo... do with that what you want.

[hskr4life]

 

Yeesh— our first 10 minutes almost out scored our last 30.  This is why I still think we might have something.  Just have to find a way to get that 19 on all four lines.

 

[FredsSlacks]

28 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said:

On the bright side, the whole strategy of "slow the game down by running the shot clock down to the end on every possession before chucking up a 3" was vindicated tonight. On the other hand, they didn't run any weave, so ...

i wouldn't say that just yet. we had one of the worst shooting performances i've ever seen (after the first 8 minutes), but that doesn't mean we will shoot this bad the next game.

Edited November 6, 2019 by FredsSlacks

[Handy Johnson]

Just a reminder, their best player was OUT of the line-up...

[tcp]

3 hours ago, jayschool said:

It's gallows humor, the opposite of doom and gloom.

 

Peace be with you, Big Red brother.

 

Sadly, those who dislike our sense of humor are far more numerous. 

 

Which is probably why the world sucks as much horn as it does. :)

[NWUhusker]

I don’t think anyone who wants to keep things in perspective is saying this wasn’t a very frustrating game or a “clunker” if you will.  There’s a lot of issues with this team but ultimately if they could’ve made some lay ups and free throws throughout the game I don’t know if they lose that initial lead or at least stay close enough to be in the game at the end.

This looked exactly like what Hoiberg explained was his worry in the preseason. When adversity hit the team sort of unraveled. That’s what happens when there’s s bunch of new guys trying to play together and there’s no clear leadership on the the court.

This game sucked for sure and the point differential was shocking, but I think the issues as to why it happened are not surprising and can be worked on through this season.

[jimmykc]

Fun read, guys. Just glad the sun came up. That's all I've got.

[hhcmatt]

We got out-everythinged by a team full of guys that wouldn't be good enough to get a scholarship offer here. To say that things will get better is almost a statement of fact because it would be hard to play relatively worse than what we did last night.

[hskr4life]

1 hour ago, jimmykc said:

Fun read, guys. Just glad the sun came up. That's all I've got.

It’s cloudy where I’m at.  Will pass along word of the sun actually does come up.  

[basketballjones]

All I have to say after that one was... "Yikes."

[dustystehl]

Before the season, I said I'd be happy if this team went .500. After last night, it's hard to see them winning more than 3 B1G games. Gonna be a long, long, winter...

[Red Don]

Hey, Let's not over-react here!  Before everyone goes off to collectively cut our throats, let's remember Coach Miles start to the season the year he went dancing! 

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