WBB: Game #11 @ Creighton

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hopefully, this will NOT be the game janning decides to have her "breakout" game. i watched one creighton game on tv and she played pretty "average" for her. not really what i was expecting to see from her. i also heard matt coatney mention she hasn't really been the same since her injury (not a direct quote).

10 hours ago, whoopdeedoo said:

hopefully, this will NOT be the game janning decides to have her "breakout" game. i watched one creighton game on tv and she played pretty "average" for her. not really what i was expecting to see from her. i also heard matt coatney mention she hasn't really been the same since her injury (not a direct quote).

Matt Coatney said that she was not her old self, and that the injury had taken a lot out of her.

Live out out-state Nebraska or can't make it to the game and want to watch the game Sunday free? No problem the following link will give you the live stream free.

http://netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/sports/nebraska-v-creighton-womens-basketball

Be warned now, should you watch this game on tv or the internet you may want to sync up the Nebraska radio broadcast to your tv or computer as it will most likely be broadcast with a Creighton slant. The color guy on the broadcast is Rob Anderson who is none other than the Sports Information Director at Creighton.

I'm not sure how to go about syncing the Huskers.com audio (Matt & Jeff) broadcast, with the on-line live stream, or if it can even be done.  (I usually have to just live with the time delay between Matt's pbp, and the live stream, or if it's too much of a differential (it varies) just switch to listening to the live-stream announcers. 

If you can't defend the 3 against creighton you might as well call it a day. Horrible perimeter defense and ball handling. 

I'm not trying to be negative, but I've watched every single game this year and our defense is absolutely atrocious. There is no kind of intensity at all. It'd be interesting to see the percentage our opponents shoot from 3 bc every team has wide open looks. I'm not sure what the girls do in practice but they're definitely not getting better game by game. Coach Williams and her staff need to be tougher. Period. Idk if that's not her style or if she's holding back bc this is her first year, and also Coach Yori resigning bc she was "hard on her players". I know Nicea actually responds better to tough coaching, that's one of the reasons we chose NU..and she's playing like she's in the fog now too. Better get it together fast!!

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13 minutes ago, Merlin said:

If you can't defend the 3 against creighton you might as well call it a day. Horrible perimeter defense and ball handling. 

Has been all year so you might as well call it a day.

Just now, Actualfacts1 said:

I'm not trying to be negative, but I've watched every single game this year and our defense is absolutely atrocious. There is no kind of intensity at all. It'd be interesting to see the percentage our opponents shoot from 3 bc every team has wide open looks. I'm not sure what the girls do in practice but they're definitely not getting better game by game. Coach Williams and her staff need to be tougher. Period. Idk if that's not her style or if she's holding back bc this is her first year, and also Coach Yori resigning bc she was "hard on her players". I know Nicea actually responds better to tough coaching, that's one of the reasons we chose NU..and she's playing like she's in the fog now too. Better get it together fast!!

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Being tough is what got the last coach fired.

Exactly right. They're not very tough at all in my opinion and I've been a follower since Angela Beck teams. 

5 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Being tough is what got the last coach fired.

Among other things. 

Not sure I'm going to want to see the Connecticut debacle. 

I knew we needed patience this year but wow. 

Huskers have been outscored 40 19 since the end of the first quarter.

Ditto to all of the above. It almost looks like no tape of Creighton was reviewed before the game.  Are there no defensive coaches on the staff ?

Been saying for weeks...no defense...just put them in a simple zone....right now, we're just not good at man defense.   ...still too many turnovers. Creighton is about a .500 team, and they're making us look bad.

Have a player or two that will just throw the ball up no matter if it's a good shot or not. Gets the ball in their hands and rarely passes off. Turnover machines....That's got to stop.

Exasperating

Yup I agree with all of that. Defense is not a priority. They might be the worst team I've seen at defending the screen. The girl whose 'man' is setting the screen just sits back and watches her teammate try to fight through it. There's no hedge/show, switch or open up to help the teammate. Offensively it seems like it's just "my turn motion". Very frustrating to watch this basketball bc they really could be so much better.

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11 minutes ago, Actualfacts1 said:

Yup I agree with all of that. Defense is not a priority. They might be the worst team I've seen at defending the screen. The girl whose 'man' is setting the screen just sits back and watches her teammate try to fight through it. There's no hedge/show, switch or open up to help the teammate. Offensively it seems like it's just "my turn motion". Very frustrating to watch this basketball bc they really could be so much better.

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I dont think they have the people to dribble drive and or take a player one on one.

On a good note the huskers have done better on their free throws.

I think the announcer, late in the game said we had 17 turnovers that led to 20 pts by CU.  

Did see good play from our freshmen. They seem to have good skills, and are more disciplined in the way they play. Our starting point isn't scoring, and could be replaced by Hannah, or Jensen, and we might well get more assists.....and points. ..less turnovers. We need to change our game some what.

We don't have an offensive screen scheme in our game... to open up shooters, or to drop off the screen for plain old "give and goes".  I have seen it a few times with Allie making the go to the basket....that's about it.

I realized we were going to be short experienced players, on the squad, but this is tougher to overcome .....than I naively thought ..I guess.

Had I knew the effort the team was going to put out this afternoon I sure as heck wouldn't have drove all the way to Omaha today to watch that. Played fairly well the first quarter but after Cincore about took the head off of Lamberty early in the second quarter on that break away lay-up it seemed like the Huskers lost all their desire to play hard. Creighton ran that motion offense that Yori had been running the past 14 years at NU and absolutely left our defense in shambles. In Flanery's post game show, he said they didn't think NU had the horses to shut down their outside shooting game and he was right.  I can't remember one contested three point shot. I don't even want to think about our no movement, stagnant offense. Just not a good showing up in Omaha today.

Only good to come out of this trip I guess was heading downtown to the Old Mattress Factory Sports Bar where one can drown their sorrows after the game.

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One good note to come out of games played this afternoon Drake beat Iowa 81-76.

Looking at the box score....the turnovers were greater than the assists. Completely backwards.

There doesn't appear to be the motion offense I thought Coach said she was bringing to UNL...or am I mistaken?

Are these growing pains I'm feeling?

Am I crazy to feel like Cincore doesn't help with team chemistry at all? I just don't like her attitude at all every since she been here. I feel bad for the freshman because I just don't think the upper classmen give a rats A** about each other. Its how I feel about this team. After all the crazy stuff that happened last year  I just don't think everyone agrees with what happened.

I just hope Nicea or Shepard don't transfer out of here!!!

17 hours ago, Actualfacts1 said:

Yup I agree with all of that. Defense is not a priority. They might be the worst team I've seen at defending the screen. The girl whose 'man' is setting the screen just sits back and watches her teammate try to fight through it. There's no hedge/show, switch or open up to help the teammate. Offensively it seems like it's just "my turn motion". Very frustrating to watch this basketball bc they really could be so much better.

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which seems kind of odd to me after coach williams time at usd. maybe coach thought there is a few other priorities to work on. idk

I have a friend who is very close to the program but who can't post on here.  He has followed the recent discussions on here, and has asked someone to look into the following player statistics:

1.  Assist to turnover ratios;

2. Turnovers per minutes played;

3.  Rebounds per minutes played;

4.  Field goal percentages;

5.  Shot attempts per minutes played.

I assume the numbers will shed some light on production/non-production of players getting minutes, in perhaps a surprising fashion.  But I don't know that.  Don't have time today to comb those stats, but throw it out there upon request!  Have at it, women's hoops fans!