NEBRASKA vs USC game day thread 1-1-25

[redsteve]

Over the back foul.... Peitri gets knocked to floor...no call

[Cazzie22]

We are having a terrible time getting a decent shot in half court. I don’t consider threes by Markowski and Petrie to be decent shots.  Bad turnovers continue to hurt us.  I do like our effort.

[Cazzie22]

Juju is really good.

[Bugeaters1]

Not a good time to go cold.

[Bugeaters1]

BS, SNOWFLAKE BASTARD

[Neb Nets]

Another bad 3rd quarter just like against UCLA. It’s getting away from us. 

 

[Cazzie22]

It got away.  USC is putting so much pressure on us that we can’t get a good look at the basket.  I hope we keep competing in the 4th or we will really get lit up.

[Bugeaters1]

It will be fun to see how the west coast teams do with back to back games on the road.

[redsteve]

5 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

It will be fun to see how the west coast teams do with back to back games on the road.

 

It will be fun to see how the west coast teams do with back to back games on the road....not on the west coast

[Neb Nets]

Like the announcers said it’s been a brutal 3 game stretch for NU. This is where playing all those creampuffs and cupcakes at the start of the season didn’t serve us to prepare us for how brutal conference play will be. But at the same time, I understand scheduling lesser competition to log wins and gain critical confidence as a team. 

[Cazzie22]

Maryland and Ohio St will be challenges for USC and UCLA.  Otherwise they will be fine.  We have no excuse, we had three days between games and no classes.

[Cazzie22]

Halfway through the 4th quarter and we haven’t scored.

[Bugeaters1]

2 minutes ago, Neb Nets said:

Like the announcers said it’s been a brutal 3 game stretch for NU. This is where playing all those creampuffs and cupcakes at the start of the season didn’t serve us to prepare us for how brutal conference play will be. But at the same time, I understand scheduling lesser competition to log wins and gain critical confidence as a team. 

almost every team does it though.

[Bugeaters1]

2 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Maryland and Ohio St will be challenges for USC and UCLA.  Otherwise they will be fine.  We have no excuse, we had three days between games and no classes.

One is on the road and the other is at home.

[Bugeaters1]

Need better practice players.

 

[Bugeaters1]

NEB Specialty Stats

Bench Points	14
Points In Paint	18
Points off Turns	10
Opp Turnovers	11
2nd Chance Points	4
Off Rebounds	11
Fastbreak Points	6
Layups	6-18
Dunks	0-0
Times Tied	2
Times Taken Lead	2
Possessions	71
Scores	25
Pts Per Possession	.775
Scoring %	35.2
Turnover %	25.4
Time Leading	4:49
Time Trailing	31:17
Time Tied	3:54

[redsteve]

Considering we played the #4 team, we did about all we could. Not so bad really.  Lot's better than against UCLA. Either one will probably win the B!G.

 

About 20+ turnovers is always a killer.  We were much more completive and scrappy.  Too much size and talent on  the other side.

 

 

[Cazzie22]

Hope we can bounce back against Penn St.  If we can match up athletically we can compete.  We were outclassed today.

[Cazzie22]

First time seeing Michigan.  They are tall and can run the floor.  Hanging with the Bruins in the third quarter.

[AuroranHusker]

1 hour ago, Cazzie22 said:

Halfway through the 4th quarter and we haven’t scored.

 

Fortunate to score 10 points late to at least secure a modicum of confidence from LA. That game was a similar script offensively for NU to the prior one. Yikes, the majority of the 2nd half, the shooting was horrendous. It will be good to be back in The Good Life for the Big Red. That was a brutal stretch of three ballgames, but maybe it is a good learning experience for Britt and Amiah in particular. I hope they learned to keep the faith. GBR

 

Edited January 1 by AuroranHusker

[Huskerpapa]

We sorta looked like a buy-in team in the second half.  Better days should be ahead.

[Fastbreaker]

2 hours ago, Neb Nets said:

Like the announcers said it’s been a brutal 3 game stretch for NU. This is where playing all those creampuffs and cupcakes at the start of the season didn’t serve us to prepare us for how brutal conference play will be. But at the same time, I understand scheduling lesser competition to log wins and gain critical confidence as a team. 

I have a question. Who are you going to schedule in the non conference ? No halfway decent team will Agree to Play a home game in Lincoln in the non conference. So Nebraska would have Go on the road to Play the better teams So when we end up with a 4-7 record in non conference, you would be after coaches ass.  

[Bugeaters1]

https://huskers.com/documents/9f481de7-d566-4bb9-a0dd-11cd71ad0d24.pdf

[Bugeaters1]

I wonder what Coley said to the ref to get T'd up.

Edited January 2 by Bugeaters1

[All About the Corn]

It is a fine line in scheduling games you should win and a few tough non conference games. We have Creighton every year, and maybe a couple more so this year GT and one more. Yes if you schedule those tougher games we could come up on the wrong end. But when you schedule teams you win by 20-30 and it really does not get decided til the 4th then that does not help much as well.