12/15/2012 - At Oregon Report Card

I thought Shavon showed a bit of what he can do in the years to come.

Add that to the guys coming in and it looks good. We will be small, but...

Miles' tie: C-

Level of Excitement: D (C+ for Oregon fans)

Miles' tie: C-

Level of Excitement: D (C+ for Oregon fans)

Damnit...I forgot about the tie grade!

Thanks for picking up the slack. I'm sure it won't be the last time!

I thought the F grades were a bit high. Don't they give out F minuses any more? I had other places to be yesterday and thought I might wear out the fast forward button on this one.

I like how this team defends. Despite a new system and freshmen playing big minutes, it looks like everyone knows what they are doing and understands Miles' concepts. Nice schemes game in and game out. it took Altman about 4 timeouts to figure out how to attack the zone. Oregan finally got some easy buckets late moving the ball in the half court.

Offense is just going to be a struggle. Not many shooters, which makes it easy on the defense. Brick after brick after brick, often when the looks are decent.

With this team its easy for me to be glass half full. So, I'm thinking of the defense right now.

The 80 point, two game total (Creighton, Oregon) is the lowest since the 1948-49 season. I wouldn't be surprised we find out the lowest point total record in a 3 or 4 game stretch once conference play starts....

I know the game was a dumpster fire and all that, but agree on the B for coaching, maybe higher.

We aren't playing with these scores because we're holding the ball for 30 seconds, jacking up a shot and then running back without going for an offensive rebound. We're running an offense and playing sound defense. But this is the result of the roster we're playing. There was one possession under 5 minutes where it was pretty obvious we had no chance of a comeback, but we still ran the offense with crisp passes and Talley ended up with a nice little open baseline shot fairly early in the shot clock. (shockingly, it went in!) That tells me the coach has the team's attention. Oregon is good, is well-coached and pretty deep. We played them on the road and didn't quit plugging away. But we're playing, what now, 7 scholarship players? and two are freshmen.

Yeah, it's hard to watch sometimes, but the coach is holding up his end.

What Chuck said.

Thanks to the microphones of FSN, we got to hear two thirds of what Coach Miles had to say outside of timeouts, and it was quite clear he had fire and intensity in this one, plus he NEVER gave up throughout the course of the contest.

Oregon has a team that has knocked off some people and have one loss on the season.

They had less than 7000 people at the game and you could hear Miles yelling during most of it.

I know a lot of that had to do with Christmas vacation, but that place was dead.

If they flipped scenarios, is there any doubt Nebraska would have sold out the Bob?

When people talk about Nebraska having great fans, this is one of the reasons.

I'm not sure that Nebraska would have sold out the BDSC but I know it would have been close.

Having followed Oregon the past few years I can safely say that Nebraska fans are much, much better in terms of support.

Just last season, we only scored 34 points against Michigan State. A 62-34 loss.

Well somehow I missed that one.

Then OUTSIDE of that game, it was 1961