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The good: - Man we’re big and long. Strong looking dudes too. - Even as average as we played, our defense is just tough to score on. - Thought a lot of dudes made some nice individual plays. - The high-low plays for Meah. I’d love to see a few more wrinkles on those. - Lots of steals and hands in passing lanes. The bad: - Definitely not 5 playing as 1 yet. Thats for sure. And I’m not talking about typical pre-season sputters. Far behind where they should be right now after this many practices. - I expected a lot more O rebounds. Especially on sub- 50% shooting. - Gave up 14 offensive rebounds to a D2 team…. Yikes. - Anything with Meah operating at the top of the key. Yeeesh. Please don’t try to force that. He doesn’t have any feel for it and does not have the skills for it. And we don’t have time for him to figure it out. The ugly: - Does everyone on this team have mono? Second time I’ve seen them, they look lethargic, uninterested, and bored. Maybe that’s a good thing? Need a bit more of a challenge to get our juices flowing? -Body language leaves quite a bit to be desired… whiney and uninspired.

I think Berke is a lot like me. You buzz your hair and as a result your body appears bloated a bit.

just a little sidenote from the Husker-Doane article in the OWH: Last week, Nebraska met up with North Dakota State in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for a scrimmage at the Sanford Pentagon, where Nebraska will play in November. The Huskers won 84-67 in an impressive showing against a team that went 22-12 last season. Markowski was great in that game, scoring 23 points on 9 for 11 shooting from the field and 5 for 6 at the line. Prince and Amiah Hargrove each added nine points and three rebounds for the Huskers.

There will be a couple lineups with this team that won’t have the shooting acumen we had last year. I know some on here don’t want him to shoot a three at all, but Gary will need to keep defenses honest and shoot a couple. He shouldn’t be hunting shots but a couple catch and shoots from the corner or wing are what we’ll need. As a team, we looked to be playing slow and reactively rather than anticipating and playing quickly. Saw our ball handlers try to push it from time to time but the other four weren’t getting up to that pace. That speed hopefully comes along a bit more each game. We also played guys that won’t be regular rotation players for ~40 mins. That’s good and bad, good for their experience and motivation, bad for getting time in a game-like setting for our rotation players who are still learning to play together.

https://www.barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Northern+Iowa&year=2025 Looks like they're being projected to finish pretty high on the MVC, but Wisconsin shouldn't lose to them still. A sign of things to come, as I think this may be a rough year for them. Crowl is arguably their best player, or klesmit, and neither are guys you want to be your best player in this conference.

I was wondering if his uniform was a size too small…

Fortunate enough to be up and close today. Got to see and hear some things I normally don’t. Some could say we were sloppy, I think that’s natural for an early season exhibition game. Connor had an off night from the outside, but our length is going to give teams fits. I’m not surprised about the 13 steals because we have active hands and deflected and altered quite a few passes. Because of Morgan being out, Berke was the backup center to spell Meah. Sam was also out (ankle) so Cale got some nice minutes too. I predict 2-3 guys will redshirt that we saw today. Too bad it’s not like football where they can play in a few games. Gavin is a better shooter than advertised. Brice and Gary and Rollie are definitely the leaders. Uhlis is solid, not overly flashy. Berke has a thick frame but I wonder how he will go against opposing big ten PF’s and Centers. should be a fun year!!!

Big fan of this.

Essegian and Griffiths will be real important to any success this team has. All the pieces are there, but definitely need a couple relatively consistent catch and shoot guys.

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAUD First one of the year

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This seems as good as a place as any to flex my collection of digital media guides. I have either the full guide or the cover of most guides back to 1958 https://huskerhoopscentral.com/media-guides/

All interesting stuff, but for the rest of my life I will be traumatized by my conclusions following our destruction of Colorado in the exhibition game 3 years ago. My defense mechanisms now lead me to not put much stock in exhibitions....

NU 79 UTRGV 61 10 23

Not a great outcome

Not really very concerned on who started at this point. This was more like a scrimmage. This is a much different team from last year. We have 4 or so from last that will probably start, but the new players appear to be contributors down the road. Amy's just sorting things out and getting everyone on the floor to see who can do what....well. If we do that much mixing of players, some times a little confusion shows up. The players you might expect to be ready to go...were. Rimdal may well be a frequent contributor, looked to be in control of what she was doing. No deer in the eyes look. She understands the speed of the game. Hargrove isn't afraid to mix it up. She just needs more time to learn her roll. Prince will be a great floor general. We had a ton of steals. A good sign. All in all we started the season well. Watched a replay. Sure was nice to see Weidner give it a go finally. Good for her. Good stuff.

I'm going to assume that Connor Essegian isn't too disappointed to hear about that. Not sure if there are hard feelings or not, but I would assume there is somewhat given how drastically his playing time was cut.

If you want Volleyball tickets then Seat Geek is where you need to go. I have used it a few time. Very easy to use.

I still haven't recovered from finding out we were playing Grand Valley State and Rio Grande Valley back to back.

I thought Berke's rebounding was pretty darn good. Now, that was against a lower division squad, but #9 still had to secure the rock and he did that plenty of times.

I thought he looked out of shape and a bit lumbering.

I wonder if Coach H told the officials to make us play through contact.

Final stats are here. https://huskers.com/documents/7b15338a-8d50-4115-a0e6-11ad8e78ca12.pdf

Did you do one game at a time or did load all of them at once?

A lot to like tonight. Business handled.

Hake is a hustler but she wouldn’t be my choice to start.

Berke seems like a pretty good rebounder. He was out of position on defense a few times but not afraid to stick his nose in there for rebounds even though he is not super explosive

Rather uninspired performance, especially in the 1st half. Could have used Sam's energy, and hopefully Morgan will also have some of that fire. Also, a big thumbs down to the uniforms. They are see through, as in you can see under the shorts where the shirts end. I hope they get lost in the wash tonight.

A lot to like, and yes, a few concerns. I really like Rollie running the point. He looks sooo natural. Still concerned with his perimeter shot. Brice and Juwan looked good. You can tell those two, along with Rollie are leaders. Meah is limited, yet what he does, he does well. We do not look like a quick team. We occupy space and look comfortable playing physical. I think the following is a good thing...our parts are interchangeable. If our players remain selfless, we can be good.

Sweet Jesus Rollie looks like an outside linebacker. Dude is huge

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You could probably hold a seminar somewhere on HHC advising everyone on how to regain a stolen identity. I'm guessing that very subjective is a huge worry for all of us here.