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  1. Before I found out what a schmuck Jordy was, I was expecting Jordy to see 20-24 min/game this season. That was based on a combination of his and Duby's minutes from a year ago. And I was expecting him to take a big step forward in his game. I figured we'd see 28-30 minutes from each of Copeland and Roby. And I was expecting pretty much a 3-man rotation down low with Jordy spelling either of the other two. Obviously, that's not going to happen. The only other candidate on the roster to be that third guy is Dedoch "4" Chan. And he gives up about 50 pounds and 3 inches of height to Jordy, which hurts us on the defensive end, especially when we're playing a team with a big body inside. What kind of minutes Chan gets is anyone's guess. Suspect we ride the Roby/Copeland bus as far as their fouls and conditioning level will take us. That probably means 30-33 minutes each. James Palmer averaged 31 minutes/game last year. That's not going down. Might go up. Same with Glynn's 30 minutes. We don't have Anton or Evan to eat up 50 min/game like they did last year. And Thomas Allen can replace some of that -- probably going into the low-mid 20s from 10 min/game last season -- but that still leaves room for another full-time player. And the options we have to fill those minutes are untested and unproven freshmen and sophomores. From what we're hearing, Amir Harris sounds like the odds-on favorite to pick up most of those spare minutes. The other 3 are big question marks. Have no idea the health or status of Karrington Davis, but nothing I saw from Nana or Thor from last year tells me they're shoe-ins to beat him out at the 2-3 spot. Nana, in fact, might find himself backing up Roby at the 4, such is the state of our depth down low. Let's go with Brady is probably not going to redshirt this year due to Jordy bailing on the program. But he's still not going to get a lot of minutes until he beefs up to 220-225, and that probably won't happen this year. So, I'm guessing under 10 min/game for Brady. Jordy really screwed the pooch leaving like he did, if you ask me. He was in line to get all of his plus Duby's minutes from last year (20+ per game). Plus, given our depth at guard with the graduations of Anton and Evan, I could have seen rotations with Cope sliding to the 3, Roby playing the 4 and Jordy at the 5. He could have had a big role on what was shaping up to be the best Husker team in a generation. And he stuck a shiv in it and walked out the door. We know pretty much what we have at all the starting spots; what we don't really know is depth behind them. And I think the question for the season is whether we can get enough of whatever it is Dedoch does to make up for losing 6'11" and 270# of mass inside. If that 270# of mass inside was going to be dead weight, we're undoubtedly better off without him, but he could have been an important player on a good team. I suspect he's going to spend the rest of his career with really good seats for watching Dayton play. And that's his choice. And we'll live with it. But I worry what it's going to be like not having a big "big man" on the team.
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  2. The program changed after Lee wrote his Shim-Sham article.
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  3. I'm very intrigued to see who the World Herald will throw on the Nebrasketball beat.. Please not Dirk Chatelain. Please Not Dirk Chatelain.
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  4. In a media-related note, Lee Barfknecht has accepted a buyout and is leaving the OWH.
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  5. I am now ashamed to admit that I am also from Aurora.
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  6. khoock

    The rotation this year

    Heres my take on it: - Starters will be Glynn Watson, Thomas Allen, James Palmer, Isaac Copeland, and Isaiah Roby. Aside from Thomas Allen, they will all average 30-32 min a game. - Dedoch Chan will play 12-15 min a game (essentially Jordys time) - Tanner Borchardt will take Dubys min (3-5 per game) - Two players out of Amir Harris, Thor Thorbjarnarson, Nana Akenten, and Karrington Davis will lock down a spot. Averaging about 15 min each - Brady Hieman redshirts
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  7. LeeB has been pretty vocal on twitter over the past year or so about the sorry state of print journalism in the US today, to the point of being openly critical of pretty much every news outlet that has cut staff except the OWH. But one could tell he was none too happy about the cuts being made there either. I suspect his public stance may have created some bad feelings amongst management and they reached a somewhat mutual agreement to part ways. That's just my opinion though. I could be wrong.
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  8. regarding Nana- unless he totally changed, he was usually one of the first players out for pregame warmups, and the last player out of the arena after games, he would routinely stay after home games and work on his game, until we shut the lights off in the arena, and than he left.
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  9. I wouldn't be surprised if NU had a conference game on New Year's eve (again) or there-abouts. Huskers faced Indiana a couple years ago on NYE during the day.
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  10. I always thought Jon Nyatawa was the heir apparent there. Probably not now.
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  11. I never had a problem with Lee. I thought he was one of the more insightful and honest sportswriters covering the Huskers out there. The only thing I recall getting irritated about was it seemed like after the die was cast and it was clear Barry Collier was going to be fired (except that he wasn't) I thought Lee engaged in a little bit of piling on. Like there was no other angle than to remind us of what we all could plainly see. Beyond that, though, I've enjoyed reading his stuff. Happy trails, Lee.
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  12. That would be pretty unexpected as Dirk is more of a columnist than a beat writer so you'd expect if he remains with the OWH than he eventually takes over for Shatel or could even shift subjects and take over for Michael Kelly (who was a sports columnist back in the day) The OWH has 3 guys on the Nebraska beat: Sam McKewon, Evan Bland, and Chris Heady. The future nebrasketball beat writer is most likely to be one of those three.
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  13. I'm somewhat accurate every now and again.
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  14. embedded sloths are good at hanging around but are way too lazy to file a good report
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  15. Sad to see Lee leaving. A lot of people dislike him, but he did keep Husker basketball in the media.
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  16. Will be interesting to see if the Big Ten has 2 league games scheduled in early December again. Guess we'll find out Tuesday NU has the Nov. 30-Dec. 2 weekend still open on its schedule. That would be the weekend they used last year, scheduling around the Big Ten Football championship game on that Saturday. If they do that, that would leave 18 league games to be played over a 10-week span from Dec. 31 to March 10, so they could give teams 2 games a week with a couple of byes/1-game weeks. Much better than last year's condensed schedule. Nov 6 – Missi Valley St Nov 11 – SE Louisiana Nov 14 – Seton Hall Nov 19 – Missouri St (at KC) Nov 20 – Tex Tech/USC (at KC) Nov 24 – W Illinois Nov 26 – at Clemson ??? 2 Big Ten games ??? Dec 8 – Creighton Dec 16 – Okla St (at Sioux Falls) 2 non-con games left to announce -- finals week is Dec 10-14, so we won't have any games during that week I'd imagine. Mar 13-17 – Big Ten Tourney --- Also interesting, last year NU played 31 regular season games between Nov 11 and Feb 25 = 107 days This year, NU will play 31 regular season games between Nov 6 and March 10 = 125 days Should be helpful for our short bench in the front court.
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  18. Interesting thread on Reddit about a Rothstien tweet on how Chang is coming along at SDSU: Seems like a healthy chunk of the converstation confirms @NebrasketballJake's theory.
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