uneblinstu's postgame chatter : vol 17; ed 17-Rutgers

First three-game losing streak for Nebraska basketball since January 2023. Quite the stretch of quality basketball!

A loss on Sunday places us firmly in the bottom 5 of the conference... record wise. 

I don't know what kind of come to Jesus moment the team needs to have... but it better be quick. 2-4 in conference, blown out multiple times, losing a 20 game home win streak to a fellow bottom dweller, and blowing a 15 point road lead has this season turning sour quick.

If a 10 is - this is my coach sign him up for as long as he wants. 1 being Mike Woodson…. I’ve gone from about an 8.5 to start the season to about a 6. 
 

This is wearing on me. Gimmick defense mixed with hot-potato “find someone to chuck it up eventually” offense is driving me insane. 

Hawaii seems like a millennium ago. UCLA seems like ages ago. Oh how quickly the turn tables.

14 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

There is plenty to say about this one. Shitty all the way around. At least the women beat Ioa tonight.

Go to the women's board

Rutgers is well coached and they have two NBA players.  Harper made some plays at the end that we couldn’t match.  It was a very physical game and the officials let it be that way.

That sucks!  Not boxing out and missed fres throws in crunch time did us in.

2 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

If a 10 is - this is my coach sign him up for as long as he wants. 1 being Mike Woodson…. I’ve gone from about an 8.5 to start the season to about a 6. 
 

This is wearing on me. Gimmick defense mixed with hot-potato “find someone to chuck it up eventually” offense is driving me insane. 

And this is combined with not getting loose balls or rebounding!!! Even if the offensive and defensive strategies suck, they could still play the hardest. But that isn’t happening either. We appreciate teams that work hard. But not only are they being exposed on both ends, they don’t seem to want to be a hard nosed team with an edge, even though that is their supposed identity. SMH. I sure hope they can turn things around. 

History has shown that we always follow up decent years with a dud. Year after we danced with Miles. Copeland/Palmer Jr senior year. Can this group change that stigma? Just so frustrated right now.

We need to find more scoring within the offense, it seems like we were making basketball plays in the first half, and in the second half we were chucking fade aways.

Juwan seemed like he knew he was about to get his career high and it got in his head.

Connor just got bullied. He was just pushed around all night. 

Free throws sucked, but we have to know that’s what we get with Meah. It is a bunch of crap though when they foul him off the ball.

PBA was decent numbers wise, but that environment sucked. Not sure if it was the   Cancelled ladies night or what happened.

2 and 4 for Rutgers are ballers.

At the end of the day the difference of the score came down to a blatantly horrible travel at the end of the first half.

One last thing-- one thing we had going for us last year on our resume was no blemishes. As of now... that's a Q3 loss.

Nebraska didn't make the late plays to win.  Turning the ball over and missing free throws.

Home game you should win but I'm not sure Rutgers is that bad.  Of course now they will probably go on a big losing streak.

Maryland seems to be playing as shaky as us.  But the game is an early start and on the road.

Can anyone go back to the last in bounds play? Was a moving screen set against Sam? (Not that I would expect these refs to make the right call!!!) 

2 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

History has shown that we always follow up decent years with a dud. Year after we danced with Miles. Copeland/Palmer Jr senior year. Can this group change that stigma? Just so frustrated right now.

But this season isn't feeling quite like a dud just yet. Maybe it's more that looking ahead is just a gauntlet.

We started off the season in the best position in decades. And we hit our first three game losing streak in two years. And our first loss at home in 20 games.

Sure, we've hit a patch, but we also started ahead. If we end strong, then it's not out of the realm of possibility we end up similar or better than last season. But the team needs to find it's groove.

2 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

One last thing-- one thing we had going for us last year on our resume was no blemishes. As of now... that's a Q3 loss.

I agree with you this will be a blemish.

However, we have to get this figured out right now or we will be figuring out how many wins we need to make the Big 10 tournament. 

We need to get back to playing on the defensive end.

Is it just me or does JG not seem like that dawg on D like he was last year? At least not consistently. 

Also is Sam alright? We bolted pretty quickly after the game but it looked like he was still on the ground and the medical staff was coming over to him.

12 minutes ago, nuhusker7 said:

Also is Sam alright? We bolted pretty quickly after the game but it looked like he was still on the ground and the medical staff was coming over to him.

I wonder if it was the screen they set on him on the last play. I can’t go back and replay the last part, but I wonder if it was a legal screen. 

24 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

If a 10 is - this is my coach sign him up for as long as he wants. 1 being Mike Woodson…. I’ve gone from about an 8.5 to start the season to about a 6. 
 

This is wearing on me. Gimmick defense mixed with hot-potato “find someone to chuck it up eventually” offense is driving me insane. 

Baffling how we consistently lose shooters.  Plus most players can hit a wide open three.  Defense allows too many threes and needs rethought.

Thought the offense looked a bit better with movement tonight.

3 minutes ago, CanadianHusker said:

I wonder if it was the screen they set on him on the last play. I can’t go back and replay the last part, but I wonder if it was a legal screen. 

I had to turn on the recorded version and it appears it was not on the screen that was questionable at best, but instead after that where 4 was flailing around and hit him on the far opposite side of the court. Hope he’s alright.

28 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

One last thing-- one thing we had going for us last year on our resume was no blemishes. As of now... that's a Q3 loss.

Oregon State up 1 at half against Gonzaga.  I guess we have that going for us...

Worster with a solid game. 10 points, 7 boards, and 5 assists.  With 1 questionable turnover.  Where Bailey reaches over the end line and takes the ball out of his hand.

Just now, cozrulz said:

 

Baffling how we consistently lose shooters.  Plus most players can hit a wide open three.  Defense allows too many threes and needs rethought.

 

Thought the offense looked a bit better with movement tonight.

I know. Where is this defense that is scrambling everywhere and swarming and causing turnovers? 
 

And I thought the offense was better in the 2nd half for sure. 
 

The crowd didn’t seem too excited tonight either. I wonder how much that played into it. They need the students back. 

Just now, brfrad said:

Worster with a solid game. 10 points, 7 boards, and 5 assists.  With 1 questionable turnover.  Where Bailey reaches over the end line and takes the ball out of his hand.

Exactly! That’s what I thought it was right away! Good thing Bailey didn’t travel after that!