uneblinst's postgame chatter: vol 16; ed 8 - Creighton

Just finished watching my recording as I left to watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” which turned out to be far more entertaining.  Creighton was better in every phase of the game, passing, cutting, defending, rebounding and shooting. Even their effort was better and that is unacceptable.

I clearly believed we would win the game and I was clearly wrong.  We need to flush this game and hope for better days ahead.

5 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Just finished watching my recording as I left to watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” which turned out to be far more entertaining.  Creighton was better in every phase of the game, passing, cutting, defending, rebounding and shooting. Even their effort was better and that is unacceptable.

I clearly believed we would win the game and I was clearly wrong.  We need to flush this game and hope for better days ahead.

 

Yep, it was very disappointing and disheartening to see a complete reversal of last season's matchup. Maybe a little fire will light under them for a roadie at the Gophs.
  

1 hour ago, roscoe said:

It's 1 game and some people are acting like the season is over. 3 point shooting and Paul Szelc were difference in the game. When Kelly Pfeiffer is 2nd best official on the floor that's bad news. Got our turd out of the way and now time to regroup and beat Minnesota. 

 

Anything that involves "Tied for largest losing margin in the series" warrants a bit of reaction.

Pissed. Embarrassed. Disappointed. 
 

Outside of Keisei and at times Gary, it really looked like the lights were WAY too bright for our guys Thought Brice came out tentative. Is he at 6-7 really our best option to jump the opening tip?? 
 

Thought Allick and Mast showed just how different 6-8 and 6-10 are compared to a legit 7-0. 
 

Our defensive scout/plan was crazy crazy bad. Collapsing on drives and leaving wide open shooters??? Sheesh. 
 

All is ok if we bounce back and at least split the next two. 

11 minutes ago, Faux Mike Peltz said:

Pissed. Embarrassed. Disappointed. 
 

Outside of Keisei and at times Gary, it really looked like the lights were WAY too bright for our guys Thought Brice came out tentative. Is he at 6-7 really our best option to jump the opening tip?? 
 

Thought Allick and Mast showed just how different 6-8 and 6-10 are compared to a legit 7-0. 
 

Our defensive scout/plan was crazy crazy bad. Collapsing on drives and leaving wide open shooters??? Sheesh. 
 

All is ok if we bounce back and at least split the next two. 

I really don’t think the style of defense the staff likes to play fits this roster at all

Bummer.

 

But it’s just one game, to a potential top ten team. Nothing about our season changes because of this one.

53 minutes ago, k3s3i said:

I really don’t think the style of defense the staff likes to play fits this roster at all

It for sure didn’t work for the opponent.  I don’t think we will play a better shooting team again this year so not as worried about it but coming into this game it was a concern and wondered if we would play differently. Guess not!  Last year they missed. This year they didn’t!

I did not know all of our players were statistics majors, but the UNWAVERING faith in regression to the mean demonstrated by chucking evermore threes despite missing CONSTANTLY is amazing.

Tough matchup.  

 

If we hit our normal shooting percentage from three we probably lose by about 5.  Sometimes that's the difference--they hit shots and we didn't.  Their ball movement was an absolute clinic and a wakeup call to what defensive urgency actually requires.  Take the asswhooping from a better team and learn from it.

 

Rienk wasn't his normal self at all tonight, and we needed him to put in a double double.  Juwan only getting 1 rebound in 24 minutes is not like him.  

 

I don't know.  It just looked to me like we got worn out by a couple of NBA players.  A true matchup zone might have made more sense after the lefty made his 6th three in the first half.  We don't have any lateral quickness outside of JL and SH, but we certainly have length.  I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more zone wrinkled in this season.  

Some numbers to chew on:

 

Gary (career 25% )and Allick (29%) took a combined 6 3s.

KT and Brice took a combined 4.

14 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

Give me the shim-shams over that nonsense.

 

Do you mean the halftime show or the game?  Or, more likely, both?

36 minutes ago, Chuck Taylor said:

Some numbers to chew on:

 

Gary (career 25% )and Allick (29%) took a combined 6 3s.

KT and Brice took a combined 4.

That was a result of Creighton’s defense.

37 minutes ago, Chuck Taylor said:

Some numbers to chew on:

 

Gary (career 25% )and Allick (29%) took a combined 6 3s.

KT and Brice took a combined 4.

Brice took 0.  That’s completely unacceptable. 

7 hours ago, Fullbacksympathy said:

Tough matchup.  

 

If we hit our normal shooting percentage from three we probably lose by about 5.  Sometimes that's the difference--they hit shots and we didn't.  Their ball movement was an absolute clinic and a wakeup call to what defensive urgency actually requires.  Take the asswhooping from a better team and learn from it.

 

Rienk wasn't his normal self at all tonight, and we needed him to put in a double double.  Juwan only getting 1 rebound in 24 minutes is not like him.  

 

I don't know.  It just looked to me like we got worn out by a couple of NBA players.  A true matchup zone might have made more sense after the lefty made his 6th three in the first half.  We don't have any lateral quickness outside of JL and SH, but we certainly have length.  I wouldn't be surprised to see a little more zone wrinkled in this season.  

Creighton did not hit a great percentage from three for the game.

Very disappointed in the game plan and effort. Add in atrocious reffing, which made things even worse and affected our momentum early when the game was still competitive, and you have the perfect recipe for a blowout.

 

Fred always said the guys will always give great effort, but in the last 10-12 minutes we seemed to quit and CU kept playing. That is what ballooned their lead from 20 to 30.

 

I did not understand the game plan at all defensively. I get that our guys are drilled in a system, and as much as possible we want to “do what we do” and force the other team to adjust, but it didn’t take a genius to figure out what CU wants to do is exactly what our system gives up, especially with the personnel we have running it this year. I can’t believe there was no plan to adjust once CU started hitting open 3s. Just inexplicable!

 

All that said, the thing I was MOST disappointed with was Trev Alberts and the athletic administration allowing students in BLUE to occupy the entire front row in the baseline student section for the second consecutive year (at home). It is an embarrassing look for the program and should have been easy to anticipate and prevent. If you didn’t want to simply tell them to move, then you could have blocked off the first couple of rows and directed students that actually support their school to those seats. Instead, CU gets a boost because the students they can see from their bench are blue front and center. It was disgusting and an absolute FAILURE by Alberts and his team to allow something I have never seen at another program to happen for a second time.       
 

 

 

8 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Creighton did not hit a great percentage from three for the game.

 

They were hitting them when the game was still competitive and it mattered though. 

Woke up this morning surprisingly feeling ok.  We got out butts kicked yesterday.  We let the moment get to us… but I don’t think our 7-0 start was a fluke.

 

Most Power 5 teams would have been 7-0 with our schedule.  That’s true.  But Nebraska isn’t one of those most and in years past we wouldn’t have been.  Most Power 5 teams have danced and won when they’ve gotten there.

 

Learn from it, don’t let CU beat us twice, and let’s wash our hands of this one.  I’m already over it.

 

Go Big Red!  We’ve got to beat Minny.

12 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

For those that were at the game today. I thought you needed some more half time entertainment.

 

Have had regular season tickets for over a decade and this is the first time I recall booing the half-time show.

 
Have had regular season tickets for over a decade and this is the first time I recall booing the half-time show.

Do you think part of the building was due to the fact that the rest sucked and the team wasn't doing well, or was the halftime show that bad?

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I'm in this weird place where I'm pretty down about that loss, but also somewhat at peace with it? I mean what can you say - we didn't hit shots, they did, and they benefited from the majority of the calls (especially the debacle at the end of the half). 

I don't feel like there's some large, philosophical, "program evaluation," needed to be had here. You only do that if this loss continues to impact the next few games. Need to bounce back. 

Saw about 5 minutes of the the game in second half--that's all.

Observation: Allick is not a threat to score, so they ignore him beyond layup/dunk range and use his defender to assist elsewhere--where that assistance can have a significant effect.

3 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Do you think part of the building was due to the fact that the rest sucked and the team wasn't doing well, or was the halftime show that bad?

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Perfect storm. I'm sure there were people there who found this entertaining.

Notes from UNL

 

Nebraska Postgame Notes

• Nebraska tied a season high with seven steals in the game. The Huskers also had seven steals against Florida A&M. Juwan Gary had a season-high three steals in the game.
• Keisei Tominaga led Nebraska with 20 points, his second 20-point game of the season and 12th of his career.
• Tominaga was the only Husker to score in double figures. Before today, Nebraska had placed at least three players in double figures in every game this season.
• Nebraska sees its 12-game home win streak against non-conference foes come to an end.
• NU was held to a season-low 60 points, as its previous low was 64 against Rider on Nov. 13. The Huskers went just 2-of-22 from 3-point range, as NU entered the leading the Big Ten with 9.6 3-pointers per game.
• Nebraska committed just eight turnovers, the fourth straight game with less than 10 turnovers.

We have a very REAL opportunity to start 2-0 in the B1G. We can’t let that slide by because we’re feeling sorry for ourselves or questioning the process. 

1 hour ago, Cazzie22 said:

That was a result of Creighton’s defense.

 

After a while you could see they weren't closing out on those guys