Nebraska (12-3) VS. Purdue (12-4) Game Thread

[Huskerpapa]

Something is way off.  Our bigs are on the perimeter handling the ball.  God bless him, but that is difficult for Meah.  They are not going to cover him, so that allows them to sag to the middle.  Gotta change something 

[Huskerpapa]

Gary's shoulder is not 100%.  

[cozrulz]

can't believe Juwan got the foul call

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

Just now, Huskerpapa said:

Gary's shoulder is not 100%.  

But not bad enough to discourage him from shooting.

[Huskerpapa]

Just now, GhostOfJoeMcCray said:

But not bad enough to discourage him from shooting.

Left shoulder

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

Unfortunately the old make our opponents hit 3s to beat us philosophy didn't have a great week at Iowa and Purdue. 

[Huskerpapa]

Back-to-back half's of very bad defense.   Guess what Purdue can shoot three's, can we defend them???

[Faux Mike Peltz]

Keeping it within 20 in the first half is a very small baby step

[Cazzie22]

I hope to see a better performance in the 2nd half.  

[roscoe]

Glad they didn't call obvious travel on them.

[Bugeaters1]

Shooting 52% should win you most games.

[HuskerFever]

Got them right where we want them...

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

Our opponents are 17-31 (55%) from 3 over the last two halves we've played.

[Bugeaters1]

1 minute ago, roscoe said:

Glad they didn't call obvious travel on them.

Here now.

[Bugeaters1]

NEB Specialty Stats

Bench Points	9
Points In Paint	20
Points off Turns	8
Opp Turnovers	5
2nd Chance Points	2
Off Rebounds	2
Fastbreak Points	4
Layups	5-6
Dunks	2-2
Times Tied	0
Times Taken Lead	1
Possessions	30
Scores	13
Pts Per Possession	.933
Scoring %	43.3
Turnover %	30.0
Time Leading	0:17
Time Trailing	18:45
Time Tied	0:52

[Bugeaters1]

Officials:

Jeffrey Anderson, Doug Sirmons, Kevin Brill

[cozrulz]

3 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Back-to-back half's of very bad defense.   Guess what Purdue can shoot three's, can we defend them???

 

I don't know.  Seemed like Purdue was even hitting with hands in their face.  The biggest thing is probably the 9 turnovers.

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

3 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Shooting 52% should win you most games.

 

we've given away 9 possessions though

[Faux Mike Peltz]

Rollie and Uhlis have effectively been benched. Brice didn’t come back so he could play PG. Part of the pitch from Fred was that he’d be the featured off guard and they would bring in a PG from the portal. Was really hoping Rollie would’ve been better. 

[millerhusker]

7 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Back-to-back half's of very bad defense.   Guess what Purdue can shoot three's, can we defend them???

Their perimeter looks start with our poor on ball defense at the beginning of the possession. Gary and Williams aren’t staying in front of the guys they’re guarding. Purdue is getting into the lane at will, then spraying it out. Hoiberg and Essegian are playing much better perimeter defense than anyone else right now. 

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

2 minutes ago, Faux Mike Peltz said:

Rollie and Uhlis have effectively been benched. Brice didn’t come back so he could play PG. Part of the pitch from Fred was that he’d be the featured off guard and they would bring in a PG from the portal. Was really hoping Rollie would’ve been better. 

All true, but Brice is disinterested in playing defense today so he doesn't have a lot of room to pout.

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

2 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

Their perimeter looks start with our poor on ball defense at the beginning of the possession. Gary and Williams aren’t staying in front of the guys they’re guarding. Purdue is getting into the lane at will, then spraying it out. Hoiberg and Essegian are playing much better perimeter defense than anyone else right now. 

10 minutes played for Hoiberg that half was not enough.

[cozrulz]

It would be nice if Griffiths was up to speed on defense.

 

Anyways, get it to 9-12 with 10 to go and you give yourself a chance.

[B1G Red]

Purdue coming out like they were the team down 18.

[cozrulz]

so now they call fouls that weren't in the 1st half?