Berke Injury

[Faux Mike Peltz]

Fred just said on sports nightly that Berke has had multiple treatments on his ankle, severe sprain and swelling, will be out an extended time. Crap!!!!!

[Nebrasketball1979]

  On 2/11/2025 at 12:45 AM, Faux Mike Peltz said:

Fred just said on sports nightly that Berke has had multiple treatments on his ankle, severe sprain and swelling, will be out an extended time. Crap!!!!!

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That sucks.  It's time for Meah to step up into a bigger role again and hopefully carry forward his strong play from Ohio St.  Might need a few quality minutes from Cale as well.

[basketballjones]

Swelling is good. Hopefully they do an MRI soon, make sure no true damage, then he needs to get after it with PT hard. 

[hskr4life]

My guess is that he might be out until conference tournament. Maybe back for our final two games? Either way, we’ll need to team rebound every single minute.

[royalfan]

We are going to need to be very smart with our fouls in the first half of games.  

[Handy Johnson]

At least we’ve got Maryland @ Home then a couple manageable Road Games, Jacobsen will be ready…! 

[hhcmatt]

I'm not sure he said "extended time" though he didn't actually say the word "out" when going through who would play instead. Let's hope he's a fast healer

[Vinny]

I’m trying to remind myself that we started 12-2 with Meah and Ulis getting regular minutes. We can get through a few games scraping a new rotation together. We can do this.

[Faux Mike Peltz]

This was from Kaleb Henry

Edited February 11 by Faux Mike Peltz
Giving credit to source

[HB]

  On 2/11/2025 at 2:47 AM, hhcmatt said:

I'm not sure he said "extended time" though he didn't actually say the word "out" when going through who would play instead. Let's hope he's a fast healer

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Hearing out until at least Michigan 

[HB]

  On 2/11/2025 at 3:05 AM, Vinny said:

I’m trying to remind myself that we started 12-2 with Meah and Ulis getting regular minutes. We can get through a few games scraping a new rotation together. We can do this.

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Cale will play, Gavin will not, barring further injuries

[AuroranHusker]

I sure hope Berke heals up quicker than expected. He was just hitting his stride. Gotta hope Morgan & Meah can figure out their deficiencies and ball out as well as they can. Nebraska will need those 2 and possibly a scrappy guy or two to take up some first-half minutes as much as needed in the near future. This is horrible news to read tonight. I re-watched it and thought maybe it wasn't as bad as it could have been. These next few games are all winnable if the recent NU "winning formula" is followed, rebound the ball, limit turnovers, and shoot efficiently. GBR

[Sidelines - Nebraska]

Ankles are tough just hope its a low sprain and not a high sprain.  Swelling is generally a good sign that's it is healing.  Hope we get him back for Michigan at least

[kldm64]

  On 2/11/2025 at 3:05 AM, Vinny said:

I’m trying to remind myself that we started 12-2 with Meah and Ulis getting regular minutes. We can get through a few games scraping a new rotation together. We can do this.

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That is true but for the most part was against very average competition.  Will be interesting the rotation now and Gavin will be used if we get in foul trouble.  

[Silverbacked1]

I feel something isn't quiet right in the GG situation.  Don't know anything but find it hard to believe he buried so deep on the bench.

[hhcmatt]

  On 2/11/2025 at 3:36 PM, Silverbacked1 said:

I feel something isn't quiet right in the GG situation.  Don't know anything but find it hard to believe he buried so deep on the bench.

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He looks completely unsure most times when he's on the court and against pressure like Maryland brings I'm not sure you can play him.

We can only hope he has been figuring it out during practice if we find ourself in a situation of having to play him. 

[SkersHoops]

  On 2/11/2025 at 3:36 PM, Silverbacked1 said:

I feel something isn't quiet right in the GG situation.  Don't know anything but find it hard to believe he buried so deep on the bench.

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Did anyone watch the B1G special that featured coach Loensor? They showed a 20 second clip of him coaching which included a frustrated/stern talking towards GG.  Now, the way he coaches and the expectations he has for players, I'm sure almost every player is coached like that every practice, so it's probably nothing out of the norm..... But..... You know that tone you use towards a child/player/student that just reeks of frustration?  That's the tone I got from that clip HA

 

Probably making something out of nothing, but I'm guessing it's all due to the defensive end. 

[Norm Peterson]

  On 2/11/2025 at 3:36 PM, Silverbacked1 said:

I feel something isn't quiet right in the GG situation.  Don't know anything but find it hard to believe he buried so deep on the bench.

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Talented kid with some confidence issues. Your mind can really mess with you. Really affects athletic performance.

 

I remember watching some PGA tour event on TV some years ago and the commentators -- I think Johnny Miller was one of them -- were talking about how tour players almost never recover from a snap hook. They were talking about Steve Stricker specifically, and how he had developed a snap hook and somehow managed to correct it and find his swing again. And they were talking about how rare that is for a tour player. It's usually a career-ender.

 

I hear that GG is a good kid and a talented kid. But he's got some confidence issues. In a metaphorical way, he needs to figure out how to correct his snap hook. It can be done but it might take some time. If he doesn't portal, I would think that would be a sign the coaches still have confidence that he'll get things figured out.

[Silverbacked1]

So you guys are basically saying he has the YIPS?

[millerhusker]

I don't have any data to support this but I've always felt teams play really well the first game after a significant player gets injured. Northwestern beat USC after Barnhizer got hurt, so I guess there's one data point. Maybe it's the shot of energy players get knowing they all have to collectively step it up. Maybe it's tweaking a few things defensively, throwing something at the opponent they haven't seen on film. Maybe it'll be having smaller, quicker, scrappy players on the floor more (Sam, Ahron, Cale) annoying and harassing Maryland's bigs and energizing the crowd. 

We're playing a top 25 team at home. A team we had on the ropes at their place a few weeks ago. PBA better be rocking. 

Hopefully Berke is back for the Michigan game. 

[Faux Mike Peltz]

PBA has got to figure out the north entrance. Get to the game 20 minutes prior and wait 25 minutes standing in a line that backs up halfway across the bridge. Won’t be well received in negative wind chill temps Thursday. Maybe use more than one lane and one set of doors. I’m no logistics expert, but that seems like a start. 

[Norm Peterson]

  On 2/11/2025 at 5:14 PM, Silverbacked1 said:

So you guys are basically saying he has the YIPS?

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That's how I was actually going to describe it.

[roscoe]

  On 2/11/2025 at 6:11 PM, Faux Mike Peltz said:

PBA has got to figure out the north entrance. Get to the game 20 minutes prior and wait 25 minutes standing in a line that backs up halfway across the bridge. Won’t be well received in negative wind chill temps Thursday. Maybe use more than one lane and one set of doors. I’m no logistics expert, but that seems like a start. 

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Would also alleviate getting out south if they allowed people in 100's to get to floor. Making everyone go up congests concourse and getting to escalators is huge bottleneck.

 

[basketballjones]

  On 2/11/2025 at 4:26 PM, SkersHoops said:

Did anyone watch the B1G special that featured coach Loensor? They showed a 20 second clip of him coaching which included a frustrated/stern talking towards GG.  Now, the way he coaches and the expectations he has for players, I'm sure almost every player is coached like that every practice, so it's probably nothing out of the norm..... But..... You know that tone you use towards a child/player/student that just reeks of frustration?  That's the tone I got from that clip HA

 

Probably making something out of nothing, but I'm guessing it's all due to the defensive end. 

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Hadn't had a chance to watch that yet. Just saw it... Idk that sounded like pretty typical coaching. Especially for NL. All gas no brakes. 

[Huskerpapa]

  On 2/11/2025 at 6:17 PM, roscoe said:

Would also alleviate getting out south if they allowed people in 100's to get to floor. Making everyone go up congests concourse and getting to escalators is huge bottleneck.

 

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Not going to happen.  Security issues number one; but when the PBA opened, people were allowed to go down and the "fans" were leaving early and it caused major logistics issues.  I agree it takes awhile to exit; but the alternatives are even more nightmarish.