uneblinstu's postgame chatter: vol 13; ed 5 - Georgia Technical Institute

No surprises here. Georgia Tech was never a gimmie game. But no subs for the final 14 minutes of the game and we can't react to that?

Lack of passion and effort.  Not a team.   

Just now, HuskerFever said:

No surprises here. Georgia Tech was never a gimmie game. But no subs for the final 14 minutes of the game and we can't react to that?

Tells you GT coach went with the hot hand. 

I just don’t like getting down a ridiculous margin in Omaha with 11 minutes left in the first half. I’ve seen that movie a few times....

This team sucks like nearly every NU team has sucked. Maybe next year they will finish higher than the bottom fifth of the league. One can dream....

Perhaps Walker or Andre will be that guy but If not we need to find a big man ASAP

Outside of Iowa we probably won’t be seeing much more zone this year. We played right in to Ga Tech’s hands settling for long jumpers. Until we may teams pay for it it’s going to be tough sledding on offensive with how we shoot. 

Offense is stagnant and has looked that way for a few games.  Outside of chucking 3's that arent falling what do we have?  Not sure Walker or Andre can change that but we will see.  Last year I feel the offense was more productive at times with less talent.  Cheatham was the difference and Cam and Burkes speed.  Hopefully something changes.  Need more from Thor as well.  Not sure why he isnt getting the shots he had last year.  

It’s just hard for me to judge much without a full roster of bigs.  We need height at the 5 or we need to just stick Shamiel there as a band aid for now.  He’s easily our best available 5.  
 

I feel like we have enough at the guard position to mix and match how we want.  We’ll be a little different when we can do the same at the 4-5.    
 

Kobe, Trey, Dalano, Teddy, and Shamiel is who I would roll out to start against Creighton.  

We gave up 38 points in the last 14 minutes of game time.  At that point in time, we were ahead 43-37.  As much as the offense sucked, we may have lost this one on the defensive end during the last 14 minutes.

One last thing... wouldn’t mind Kobe coming back for one more year if they allow that extra year thing.

I think the difference in the game tonight was that they have a guy, Alvarado, who is simply capable of taking over a game, putting his team on his shoulders, and just carrying them across the finish line.

Yeah, the Wright kid is a very talented player as well. But Alvarado, when he came back into the game for the 2nd half stretch run, he just nutted up and got it done.

Yeah, sure, we pissed some defensive possessions down our leg. (Not sure what Banton was looking at when Alvarado blew by him for a (missed) layup.) And we graciously left a couple of their shooters all by themselves, which they finally managed to cash.

We actually did a pretty darn good job defending Wright for most of the night.

But Alvarado just took the game over down the stretch. If my math is right, he had 15 points in the last 6:43 of the game. We had no answer for him.

We don't have that guy at this point. I had hoped Teddy Allen might be that dude, but it doesn't appear to be that way. At least not tonight. A couple of years ago, that guy was James Palmer Jr. And when you needed a bucket, JPJ could pretty much get you one against almost any team.

But they had an Alvarado. And we don't. And that was the difference in the game.

What were we expecting this year?  I expected improvement and we are improved.  Georgia Tech beat Kentucky, Kentucky so a loss is not a disaster. NU, if they played well, could have won the game.  Last year you couldn’t say that.  I think we will battle the Jays Friday night. 

7 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

What were we expecting this year?  I expected improvement and we are improved.  Georgia Tech beat Kentucky, Kentucky so a loss is not a disaster. NU, if they played well, could have won the game.  Last year you couldn’t say that.  I think we will battle the Jays Friday night. 

Kentucky is not good right now.  Tech also lost to 2 bad teams and is probably a bottom of the ACC team.  This should of been a winnable game and a game that needs to be won to show progress this season IMO.  

19 minutes ago, coughunter said:

Kentucky is not good right now.  Tech also lost to 2 bad teams and is probably a bottom of the ACC team.  This should of been a winnable game and a game that needs to be won to show progress this season IMO.  

Agree, we could have won but you have to execute.  Last year our team would not have had a chance to win this game.

Is it true we haven’t beaten a power conference team in over 300 days?

apparently tonight was the Empire Strikes Back sequel for the ACC. 

5 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

Is it true we haven’t beaten a power conference team in over 300 days?

337 days....18 straight losses. On 1/7/20 Nebraska beat Iowa 76-70.  

Felt like we got a bit confident/complacent when we went up 5 or so in the 2nd half ... they kinda punched us in the mouth and we kind of wilted. Missed an inside presence for sure. I appreciate the tenacity and chippiness, but we kind of backed down when GT kept punching back. Lots to work on ...

33 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

Agree, we could have won but you have to execute.  Last year our team would not have had a chance to win this game.

Who cares about last year?  This team on paper by vision is and should be more talented.  Saying you have to execute is coachspeak.  They should be winning these games.  Im more upset over this loss then the Nevada loss.

3 minutes ago, coughunter said:

Who cares about last year?  This team on paper is by vision is and should be more talented.  Saying you have to execute is coachspeak.  They should be winjing these games.  Im more upset over this loss then the Nevada loss

Might be missing your point, but Georgia Tech is a much better team than Nevada.

Georgia Tech weathered a 16-2 Nebraska run from the last 3 minutes of the first half through the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half.  Game went from 32-24 them to 40-34 us during that time which also saw Alverado sitting with 4 fouls.  We trade some baskets until Alverado comes back 13:51 to go and they're down 43-39.  They outscore us 36-21 but it's this sequence that breaks us

Georgia Tech is a veteran defense oriented team that rode their senior PG tonight. 

I'm not exactly sure what we fall back on when things aren't going our way. I would think offensively it would be Teddy or Kobe. Defensively maybe Trey or even Shamiel.  None of thee players are our starting PG.  We're still a team learning to play together so I don't think we know for sure what our floor or ceiling is.

2 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

 

You can't say that these guys were out here shooting to impress the remaining crowd I guess.

I sort of feel like until such time their spirit is either broken or forged, they're going to be one of these rollercoaster effort type of teams.....the type that lives it up after a win and takes shooting practice after losses.