Starting lineup

[TourneyBound]

Do we need to tweak our starting lineup??  Seems like we are struggling to score with our current starting lineup.  I think Id prefer Morgan over Meah.  I like having Connor come off bench for now but could slide him in there and play Berke at 5.  We get into conference play and we cant afford slow starts offensively.

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

30 minutes ago, TourneyBound said:

Do we need to tweak our starting lineup??  Seems like we are struggling to score with our current starting lineup.  I think Id prefer Morgan over Meah.  I like having Connor come off bench for now but could slide him in there and play Berke at 5.  We get into conference play and we cant afford slow starts offensively.

 

We do seem to start off halves slow, especially offensively. But I don't think they're changing anything with an 11-2 record and 5 straight wins by double digits. 

[hskr4life]

I don't think so because what you're losing in scoring punch, your gaining in defense. Who cares if we start slow on offense and only score 10ish points if the other team has 4.

 

Right now Meah presents something that Morgan doesn't on D-- he is HUGE in the middle.

[B-town hoopsfan]

I think this years team is just destined to be kinda clunky on offense.  Just gotta stick with leaning into the defense and hope Williams/essegian can get us another 9+ wins.  I could see a game or two where Gary/berke/morgan combine for 50 too. 

[Art Vandalay]

1 hour ago, TourneyBound said:

Do we need to tweak our starting lineup??  Seems like we are struggling to score with our current starting lineup.  I think Id prefer Morgan over Meah.  I like having Connor come off bench for now but could slide him in there and play Berke at 5.  We get into conference play and we cant afford slow starts offensively.

Outside of the Hawaii game I thought our starts have been pretty solid lately but might be forgetting something.

[Silverbacked1]

All I gotta say the summer between my freshman year and sophomore year in college met a nice girl that I started dating. 
Had to go back to my college not here in Lincoln so I could keep playing football.  Kept up the long distance thing as my folks really liked her and brought her along to games.

She is very smart, hot, compatible with me, which ain’t easy and we really do seem to be clinking.
Well met a girl at the bar one night and start fooling around with her.  Not great but available daily.

So kind try to dump home town girl, and got new “girl friend”. Forget to tell mom and dad and next game she shows up with mom and dad.   We have a long talk after the game and I realize this is the one.

45 years later, 40 married 3 boys and oh yeah she became a lawyer and does well there. So I almost screwed up the perfect thing for me.

Hope Fred likes the starting lineup he is dating now and doesn’t change it just because you know he was thinking with the “wrong head”

[Navin R. Johnson]

7 hours ago, Silverbacked1 said:

All I gotta say the summer between my freshman year and sophomore year in college met a nice girl that I started dating. 
Had to go back to my college not here in Lincoln so I could keep playing football.  Kept up the long distance thing as my folks really liked her and brought her along to games.

She is very smart, hot, compatible with me, which ain’t easy and we really do seem to be clinking.
Well met a girl at the bar one night and start fooling around with her.  Not great but available daily.

So kind try to dump home town girl, and got new “girl friend”. Forget to tell mom and dad and next game she shows up with mom and dad.   We have a long talk after the game and I realize this is the one.

45 years later, 40 married 3 boys and oh yeah she became a lawyer and does well there. So I almost screwed up the perfect thing for me.

Hope Fred likes the starting lineup he is dating now and doesn’t change it just because you know he was thinking with the “wrong head”

 

I was married, divorced and jobless by the age of 24 so I decided to go without a starting lineup for a few years.

[royalfan]

With the current lineup there is lot more pressure on Gary and Rollie to score.  Gary shot looks a bit smoother this year to my eye.   Rollie really needs to make those wide open threes that he can step into.  We go from good team to great team if he can start doing that.  

[Vinny]

31 minutes ago, royalfan said:

With the current lineup there is lot more pressure on Gary and Rollie to score.  Gary shot looks a bit smoother this year to my eye.   Rollie really needs to make those wide open threes that he can step into.  We go from good team to great team if he can start doing that.  

Rollie doesn’t catch the ball ready to shoot. He catches then sees if he has space. So he often ends up out of rhythm or out of space to shoot if he wasn’t wide open.

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

On 12/31/2024 at 2:38 PM, TourneyBound said:

Do we need to tweak our starting lineup??  Seems like we are struggling to score with our current starting lineup.  I think Id prefer Morgan over Meah.  I like having Connor come off bench for now but could slide him in there and play Berke at 5.  We get into conference play and we cant afford slow starts offensively.

 

Perhaps it's time to revisit this. It seems we start off every game like crap. I'm not sure our point guard situation this year is any better than it was last year where we didn't have one.

Edited Sunday at 05:13 PM by GhostOfJoeMcCray

[Faux Mike Peltz]

So who would we start at PG instead?? Have to remember fouls and rotations. Maybe we tweak it a bit but I don’t see it being at PG 

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

1 minute ago, Faux Mike Peltz said:

So who would we start at PG instead?? Have to remember fouls and rotations. Maybe we tweak it a bit but I don’t see it being at PG 

 

It won't be, but Brice running PG last year worked very well and he scored a lot. Indiana is the only Big Ten game out of 5 now that we've had a good start.

[hskr4life]

It’s not on the offense. The lineup that starts is out there to shut the other team down. We need to focus there on that end.

[nuhusker7]

Brice is just not even trying

[thrasher31]

1 hour ago, GhostOfJoeMcCray said:

 

Perhaps it's time to revisit this. It seems we start off every game like crap. I'm not sure our point guard situation this year is any better than it was last year where we didn't have one.

Id agree if Connor was playing well in big ten play. Other option is to move Sam into the starting lineup, but I think Fred would go small with Connor in for meah vs swapping PGs. 

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

10 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

It’s not on the offense. The lineup that starts is out there to shut the other team down. We need to focus there on that end.

 

But they don't shut the other team down. 

[hskr4life]

25 minutes ago, GhostOfJoeMcCray said:

 

But they don't shut the other team down. 

There then lies the problem. There isn’t a lineup that we can throw out there that’s going to “score” with the best of them. We don’t have those kind of players.

[No Place Like the Vault]

1 rollie

2 connor

3 brice

4 Gary

5 berke

[Huskerpapa]

Something is off at this point.  I'm not sure the starting line up is causing the issues or a plethora of other problems.  But there needs to be some introspective exploring taking place.

[Silverbacked1]

Okay maybe going to Hawaii wasn’t such a good idea. 
instead of resting and getting small chance to get home. We flew a fairly long way. 
played 3 games in 4 days and then flew back here and played what 5 days later?

I think we look tired which happens when you play in the road anytime and we are a team that had to dictate the game to be played our way to be

successful.

[Handy Johnson]

Brice 

Juwan 

Connor 

Morgan 

Berke 

Let’s ROLL…!!! 

[Cazzie22]

25 minutes ago, Silverbacked1 said:

Okay maybe going to Hawaii wasn’t such a good idea. 
instead of resting and getting small chance to get home. We flew a fairly long way. 
played 3 games in 4 days and then flew back here and played what 5 days later?

I think we look tired which happens when you play in the road anytime and we are a team that had to dictate the game to be played our way to be

successful.

Respectfully, even if we were fresh, we weren’t beating Purdue today.

[Silverbacked1]

10 hours ago, Cazzie22 said:

Respectfully, even if we were fresh, we weren’t beating Purdue today.

yeah, I am not sure that there was more than 3-5 teams in The country who could have beaten them today

Edited 19 hours ago by Silverbacked1