uneblinst's postgame chatter: vol 16; ed 18 - Rutgers

Key word remains...consistency!  Reality bites.

57 minutes ago, HuskerMB said:

At what point does Fred tell Blaise to man up and play?  What's it going to hurt at this point?  This isn't going to be the only game we struggle to rebound in going forward, especially if Gary is out.  I mean just look at Mast and Allick, they took a physical beating tonight (Allick's face and Mast's cuts/scatches on his arms).  Rutgers are a physical team and just mug the heck out of you.  It would be nice to have another big guy to put in there to help them out.  Diop isn't ready to be that guy either.  

 

Time to move on though.  Hopefully we can get a win on Saturday and get things turned back around.  GBR!

Fred doesn’t control this? He has to be cleared medically and that will be by Dr.s and specialists that have been working with him. I’m frustrated by the 15 month ankle injury as much as anyone, but I think it’s not as easy as Fred telling him to simply “man up” 

10 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

To be fair they're 8 and 6, repspectively.

To be even more fair, I don't think there's anything irrational about getting angry while watching Nebraska basketball.

And I'm living proof that age has nothing to do with it.

Losing Juwan Gary is the biggest kick in the nuts since when?

18 minutes ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Losing Juwan Gary is the biggest kick in the nuts since when?

Bandemel @ Penn State.   Then Copeland.  

1 hour ago, AGHANSEN said:

I was curious to see how many offensive rebounds RU had after Gary went out.

Here is what I found.

Juwan Gary went out at the 13 minute mark of the second half.
Up to that point, RU only had 10 offensive rebounds.
Without Gary, RU had 15 offensive rebounds in the final 13 minutes (unreal).
Gary also had 6 rebounds on his own.
Needless to say losing Gary was catastrophic for how the game turned out.
There is no way we would have lost that game with Juwan going out.

Sickening. Even on the offensive end, Juwan would have been physical enough to score on RU, while others seemed to go soft into contact hoping for a whistle. Hard to imagine, especially after Isaac Copeland injury still fresh on my mind from this time of year when NU was on the precipice 5 years ago.... alas, that's how the story goes for Nebrasketball. Time to regroup and conquer anyways. GBR

1 hour ago, HB said:

Bandemel @ Penn State.   Then Copeland.  

At the time, I was thinking since the last time Gary went out due to injury. Back-to-back Juwan Gary. Ughh.

If one is an optimist maybe Rice, Diop and C.J. will up their games and we get on a run last year after adjusting to injuries.  That might be too optimistic.

2 hours ago, Faux Mike Peltz said:

Fred doesn’t control this? He has to be cleared medically and that will be by Dr.s and specialists that have been working with him. I’m frustrated by the 15 month ankle injury as much as anyone, but I think it’s not as easy as Fred telling him to simply “man up” 

Yeah, fair enough and I understand that.  Just frustrating to watch.

42 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

The only thing I can try to justify it with is that we need Wilcher and Sam’s scoring off the bench.  We already have Brice, Keisei, Mast all as scoring options in that first group.

It’s flabbergasting thought.  Lawns definitely having himself a sophomore slump of epic proportions.

1 hour ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Perhaps there's more behind this tweet but it reads like the basketball version of 'what if we played Jeff Simms at running back?'

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Perhaps there's more behind this tweet but it reads like the basketball version of 'what if we played Jeff Simms at running back?'

Yeah, it's an absurd notion on its own merit. Just thought it was an interesting take.

5 hours ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Losing Juwan Gary is the biggest kick in the nuts since when?

what year did Custer go down again?

The rebounding edge was NOT what cost us the game. Our offensive shot making that cost us the game. Even if we just hit a couple over about a 10 minute span -- just one would have done it! -- we win that game. So frustrating since we have a fair number of players on the court who normally shoot the ball quite well. I do not understand what happened to us on offense but it seems to me THAT kind of drought should be a thing a coach should be able to help his team correct.

Now here's my rant on RU getting so many offensive boards. Kudos to them for the effort and result. HOWEVER, there are rules that are supposed to be followed. One of them is a 3 second rule -- a rule violated regularly by #11. He absolutely camped out in the lane. On one occasion he was in the lane for 12 seconds -- 12!!!! Another rule is you are not supposed to be able to simply shove players out of the way and/or reach over backs to get the ball. Again, #11 did this OFTEN. I commend him for realizing the refs were not going to call ANY of this on him and on playing the game accordingly. He is a tough, physical presence that would be hard enough to play against if the rules were enforced. What I cannot understand is why referees let him. IMO, even if it were called consistently for players on both teams, this kind of officiating spoils the game of basketball. Surely it CAN'T be the referees don't see the infractions. They MUST be choosing to swallow their whistles and I don't like or understand it.

Is Juwan out for the season?

Just now, Swan88 said:

I Juwan out for the season?

It's trending that way

No official word.  Speculation is yes.

9 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

No official word.  Speculation is yes.

In this circumstance no word is bad news. If it was nothing they would have already said so.

In reality we don't necessarily need JG scoring, however we do need his defense and rebounding.

1 hour ago, Ron Mexico said:

In this circumstance no word is bad news. If it was nothing they would have already said so.

In reality we don't necessarily need JG scoring, however we do need his defense and rebounding.

Arguably, JG's effort, grit, and toughness are his merit to achievement for Nebrasketball. The team seems to go as JG goes. I hope someone else like JA can take the reigns of the 'grit' horse and ride it all the way until NU is in the Big Dance.

2 hours ago, tcp said:

 

what year did Custer go down again?

1876

So, it is clear that Custer is the start of the Nebrasketball curse. Dammit.

13-5 through 18 games -- I don't think many would have predicted this at beginning of season. Yeah, there are different ways to get there, but whatever.  Right now, it feels like season ended last night, but we all need to relax a little; this is not college football.  You can have several bad losses and still achieve an end goal. 

Mast -- he needs to fix what happened last night quick. Cliff pushed him around, and if word gets around that that can happen, other bigs will do that for rest of year.  I trust he will fix that against NU on Saturday. 

If we win Saturday (I think we will), we will be 14-5, 4-4, and in prime position going down the stretch.  3 of our 4 toughest conference games will be out of the way. I think only sure loss is @ Illinois. All other games are winnable.  Just need to hang in there.

Maybe we actually caught a break and there isn't a curse!

Please oh please oh please oh please oh please