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Was at the scrimmage last night. I just want to be crystal, crystal clear here: I’M NOT SAYING WE’VE BEEN SOLD A LEMON OR THAT WE SUCK OR THAT HOIBERG SUCKS OR THAT MILES NEEDS TO BE BACK OR THAT OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF.... but.... if I were you, reader of this post, I’d slightly temper and adjust my expectations for THIS SEASON. Here’s just a few thoughts: -Higher chance we have a rough year this year than a good year. Lots of skinny dudes, with almost no bigs. B1G not gonna be fun this year. -Yvan is not ready. Closer to 6’7” than he is 6’9”. Huge build (and a huge head, so he’s always going to perplex this board in regards to his “true” height), very strong, but was working against fellow, 6’7”, freshman Kevin Cross. I don’t think we lucked into our own secret Giannis, but he’ll be a serviceable banger if he sticks around. -Mack is as advertised. Not sure he can shoot from outside. Shot from deep does not look natural or rhythmic. But boy can he slash the paint, finish, and find dudes. I’d describe him as a “violent” driver. -History says Jervay Green will struggle this year (JUCO shooter/scorers in their first year of D1), and I imagine he’ll prove that trend correct. He’ll show flashes of brilliance from time to time and probably have a very good senior year next year. -Is Stevenson eligible? Because if he isn’t I’m not sure who will get a rebound. -Kavas (sp?) and Cheatman (sp?) are really nice, experienced senior plays that I wish many of our previous teams had on them. Not superstars by any means, but complete basketball players (for what they do), that will be very serviceable. -Burke is a sprinter with the ball in his hands. Nice guy to have with Mack. Not sure if he can shoot, but he’s a hard working, athletic, aggressive player. -(gonna sneak this in here) Last years healthy top 6 beats whoever this years top 6 is pretty handily. There’s no Robys, Copelands, or Palmers out there. Miles shouldn’t be allowed to coach again after squandering our opportunity last year. I didn’t say that. I don’t mean that. I’m sorry Tim I still love you. -This years team will have a lot more serviceable, decent players that can just play ball than we’ve had in years past. Problem is we don’t have a definitive 1-5 and will be missing some serious size and girth (my wife agrees hey-o). -Banton (sp?) can literally be as good as he wants to be. If intangibles are there, all-big ten will be there.

Where’s the apology for a Creighton player on the cover...?

Nebraska picks up another commit from an Australian Ruby Porter Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk

I get so nervous everytime there is new posts under this thread...

Yes they are. Which makes that game a toss-up.

The staff raves about Thor all the time. I think he'll give them a calming factor to the offense at least to start the year. He does some things really well, which will earn him minutes.

I think to me it's a forgone conclusion that Thor will be racking up lots of meaningful minutes at least to start the season.

I just don't see how we are not a top 25 team to end this year. We have 10 if not more people that can play. We should be able to run run run and switch the rotations every couple to few minutes. I think it will be Whitish Kissinger Eliely Brown Cain and then I think we switch it up to Haiby Hudson Verbeek Bourne Mershon I would almost be ok with Bourne starting instead of Brown just for the reason that the second lineup would have the big group of Sophomores together and last year at times that is when we were the best!!! I am excited for this year. I feel there is a lot of potential.

It's up to any staff, anywhere, at any school, to work...to make a recruit interested in your school. That's what recruiting is...right?

Maybe Tim should show up in the coaches' offices tomorrow, just in case there's some time warp factor we've not factored into the 2019-2020 equation.

Roby, Copeland, Palmer we’re without a doubt big ten bodies. You’re flat out wrong if you disagree with that. Watson had serious big 10 experience. Borchart would start on this years team.

Thor had as many assists in the last two games of the season as Nana had the whole year. The wrong guy was playing.

Fred's first team at ISU finished last in the Big 12 so nothing is impossible.

I too like our depth and look for a successful year. I'm not sure the lack of success last year, was due to inexperience. I feel we underachieved because Whitish, Cain, and Simon didn't perform up to expectations. The inexperienced players carried their weight, and then some. (IMO). Regardless, this year has plenty of potential. Should be an enjoyable ride.

Obviously, this writer has forgotten that Iowa's worst nightmare, the God of Thunder, is still on the roster.

Glynn was a nightmare for the other PGs to play against and an absolute rock in taking care of the ball but he wasn't a guy who could take the ball to the hole and wasn't necessarily making his teammates better through his passing (you can blame some/much of that on our style of offense). Not sure what Chucky has in the verbal leadership department one often looks for in a PG but Glynn unfortunately didn't have that.

Yvan on Copeland? Cope scores as many as he wants on that matchup. Last year’s team vs this year’s team at this time of the year? I don’t see that as close at all. Call me a pessimist or a realist but my expectations for the year are not high. Maybe watching OSU play football has left me with a Husker hangover but we simply don’t have the Big 10 bodies. Our perimeter players were attacking the basket against almost no defense and had no one to meet them at the rim except our undersized bunch. Like always we have the ability to steal one here or there (mostly here) but if we have a game where we shoot like we did in the scrimmage there is no one in conference we can even stay close. I think by being realistic you can get a pleasant surprise and you can skip the sky is falling fire Frost, bench Martinez stuff during basketball season.

Addendum to yesterdays press release: Nebraska announces Ed Weir Stadium will be the temporary home for the gigantic egg being laid tonight.

I was ... struck ... by the way Yvan was sealing Kevin Cross down low and scoring over him. He's nowhere near a finished package, Yvan. But he has a lot of lower body strength and you don't move him; he moves you. And whoever said he's just 6'7 should probably revisit that. From what I could see, he has an inch or so on Dalano Banton. The people who were pencilling him in as a starter were probably right. Having said that, he really would have benefited from being here all summer. Thor was draining treys in warmups, by the way. And hit one or two during the scrimmage. Probably no one has benefited more from Hoiberg's coaching.

The good news about our front court is there’s 2 sides to every mismatch. We’ll be iunderdized but guys like Stevenson, Cross, sometimes Kavas and even Cheatham at the 4 is that other teams have to guard them too. It just depends whether those guys are willing to attack those types of match ups and can hit shots when bigger guys sag off them.

I've always liked Thor's game. If he can become a regular rotation guy I'll be thrilled.

He did not commit to LSU during his visit there. He apparently plans to take another visit before deciding.

His brother is Daniel Mading whom Miles offered back in the day and who will be in Lincoln for our home opener with UC Riverside

Do we have an official height for him? I’ve seen him listed at 6’5”, 6’10” and everything in between.

Nebraska baseball has been getting a bunch of Nebraskans to stay in state during the early stages of the Will Bolt era.

I use the plastic card option. Keep it on a lanyard that is easy to find and I never have to worry about whether I pulled the correct ticket stub.

I wouldn't hold my breath on leaving a player/s on the floor if doing well. I don't think that coach can let a player on the floor without subbing the out. It's not in her DNA to do that. Sent from my moto z3 using Tapatalk

Well, that's it. No more afternoons in the sack with Lindy for me. I might get my soul eaten.

For a team that went 6-14 in the B1G, we STILL won 19 games and advanced farther in the NIT than the year before. Like others have speculated, you just don’t know who might blow-up or who might be a big letdown. I think the Conference is pretty soft in the middle & we could easily finish in the 6-10 range & yes maybe DANCING .....!

We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

The LA Clippers are taking-on the Yao Ming-owned Shanghai Sharks in a preseason game from Honolulu. Being televised on NBATV right now. JPJ got 5 minutes of playing time (and 3 points) in their first preseason game against the Rockets, so you may have a better chance of catching a glimpse of Ty Lue in his Hawaiian shirt.

Gotta say, he's not wrong here: It's not nessecarily the message that KU sends that's the issue here...it's the context that's the problem.

The question I have about Mack is whether or not he might be the best answer to the question posed overseas: 'what do we do when things aren't going our way' aka 'how do we stop a run' Just to state the obivous Legit Strength: Depth at guard Legit Weakness: Lack of depth at F/C Assume we'll be an above average shooting team and below average rebounding team. Our success then might hinge on the turnover battle.

@Norm Peterson the thing that keeps coming to my mind when thinking about what could be is the 2017-18 Ohio State Buckeyes. Remember that year they fired Thad Matta and replaced him with Holtmann and with a greatly depleted roster from a fairly uninspiring team the year before, they were picked by most pundits as one of the bottom four teams: https://bustingbrackets.com/2017/10/06/big-ten-basketball-2017-18-preseason-predictions/4/ They had a roster with a couple of exciting athletic guys but lacked size...and for all of those deficiencies they only finished 3rd in the Big Ten and a 5 seed in the dance. I'm not saying to expect us to have a season like that, or even close to it, but one never knows. If this team can gel and if they are able to rack up a few wins early in the year, who knows?

You certainly weren't the only one. Thanks Norm!

I was with directv for 20 years and switched to Dish 2 months ago. They better have BTN back by basketball season.

I think as a crowd/fans enjoy the underdog roll around here for Basketball.. It allows us to have a chip on our shoulder and if we fall apart in the end then many can just shrug their shoulders and say "we aren't any good anyway" Most on here don't think that way but I know some who do.

Imma save y'all a phone call because that's just the kind of guy I am. So, I still hadn't gotten my e-mail about tickets. I called and they confirmed my order for 4 seats. They said the e-mail had been sent. I could not find it in my inbox or junk folder or anything. I double checked that they had the right e-mail address. They told me I could log into my account and reissue them to myself, which I did. Still no e-mail. Called back and, long story short ... THEY ARE HAVING COMPUTER PROBLEMS. IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR TICKETS BY NOON ON FRIDAY, YOU CAN CALL AND THEY WILL PRINT THEM AND HOLD THEM FOR YOU AT WILL-CALL. But don't do that until they know for sure they can't get the software fixed because they don't want to have a bunch of tickets waiting at Will-Call if they don't need to. Anyone else facing this issue?

You. The. Man.

Creighton fans aren't people.

Quote from Center John Hugley

This also surprised me

I sure hope so.