uneblinstu's postgame chatter: vol 13; ed 14 - @ Minnesota

And just to think...we were just a few dozen Minnesota missed FGs and a dozen FTMs away from winning this one.

it'll get better one day, right?

Not much to say other than it was butt UGLY for both teams.

I have nothing.  But, I will be hopeful again on Wednesday. 

Andre is an interesting prospect. Going to be interesting to see what he looks like with a offseason in the weight room.  He and Walker need to receive the bulk of the minutes down low going forward. Drago at this point is what he is. If you are lucky to hit the rim on a bunny you should not be playing. 

Nothing to say this time I haven't said the last 23 times we played in conference.

This offense is offensive.  Poor ball movement, poor movement, bad shots, no pick and roll or pop, too much create your own shot with no ball movement.  This is disappointing even with the whole Covid stuff.  I hope this team can somehow create offense cause its not lookimg good at all in this system

So two things. 
 

Why Lakes?? 

And why the poor shooting for two years? This is Fred’s bread and butter-shooting/scoring. 

Just now, unl said:

So two things. 
 

Why Lakes?? 

And why the poor shooting for two years? This is Fred’s bread and butter-shooting/scoring. 

Fred probably thought Trevor would go off playing in front of relatives? Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes!

I'll see myself out and don't forget to tip your server.

I just find it very telling that a team going 1-5 in their last 6 games, wins by 18, and the takeaway is "Well, there's many lessons to be learned about this. But at least we walked away with a win."

Wash rinse repeat. Still struggle shooting and can’t make FTs to save ourselves.

Nothing new to be said that hasn't been said already.  We're 0 for our last year+ in the Big 10.  Let that sink in.

Not that it matters. But per Hoiberg due to Big Ten rules we cant practice tomorrow. That means the Wisconsin prep will happen on game day. 
 

Have to love the Big Ten

11 minutes ago, unl said:

So two things. 
 

Why Lakes?? 

And why the poor shooting for two years? This is Fred’s bread and butter-shooting/scoring. 

Fred said he had been shooting well in practice and him and Stevenson were the 2 players that didnt have covid

So Lakes gets the start...  odd but okay.  Then he doesn’t play again the rest of the game..  I’m guessing the Lakes experiment might be over but who knows. Next game he will prolly play 40 minutes..

13 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Nothing new to be said that hasn't been said already.  We're 0 for our last year+ in the Big 10.  Let that sink in.

There you go cherry picking stats.  Ok, so we haven't technically won a game in the Big in over a year.  However, I would like to point out that we did not lose a big 10 game during the following months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and November.  If you take away the other four more months, we've honestly held our own in conference.

Carr pushes off every single time he drives.  Could have easily called 15 or more fouls on him.

Lakes starting was either a 'we're going to start a guy who is doing the right things off the court because we're missing a guy who isn't' or a 'let's see if what happens' sort of deal.  Feels like Lakes is trying to be a role player which to him involves not shooting unless wide open and never does the one thing he was brought here to do.

If the following isn't Nebrasketball in a nutshell, then I don't know what is:

Our opponent shoots 38% overall, 22% from 3, go 1-20 during a stretch in which we are ONLY able to cut it to 9 or 7, miss a wide open dunk in that stretch, and then somehow proceed to lose by 18.

One day this nightmare will end, but my God this has been a brutal year and a half. Here's to hoping we can get some more positive moments that eventually bring us a W.

26 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

Lakes starting was either a 'we're going to start a guy who is doing the right things off the court because we're missing a guy who isn't' or a 'let's see if what happens' sort of deal.  Feels like Lakes is trying to be a role player which to him involves not shooting unless wide open and never does the one thing he was brought here to do.

 

Probably because the older guys told him if he shoots they will take his lunch money...

We ended up somewhere between being in this game and losing by 30+ if Carr and Robbins aren't in foul trouble the entire game.

Encouraging play and energy from Andre there. Him moving around on offense for the purpose of trying to get other people looks was unexpected.

Is Stevenson this decade's Toney McCray?

We've had 3 games the entire season where we made less than 7 threes:  The Ohio St game and the two games back from the break. Doesn't look like a lot of guys shooting with confidence out there from outside.

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

I just find it very telling that a team going 1-5 in their last 6 games, wins by 18, and the takeaway is "Well, there's many lessons to be learned about this. But at least we walked away with a win."

they didn't play well, and I'm sure Baby Pitino knows had they played anyone with a pulse, they lose another one tonight. 

Fortunately they play the one near-guaranteed win in the conference. 

20 minutes ago, jason2486 said:

If the following isn't Nebrasketball in a nutshell, then I don't know what is:

 

Our opponent shoots 38% overall, 22% from 3, go 1-20 during a stretch in which we are ONLY able to cut it to 9 or 7, miss a wide open dunk in that stretch, and then somehow proceed to lose by 18.

 

One day this nightmare will end, but my God this has been a brutal year and a half. Here's to hoping we can get some more positive moments that eventually bring us a W.

Yep, that's it in a nutshell. Brutal.