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My general thoughts are that he was a lot of fun to watch once he started figuring it out later in the season. I was not near as high on our prospects with him(under assumption one year). It takes a little time to figure out how to win. We had a roster that seemed promising, but it was going to take a lot of things to fall into place for him to be our catalyst to a great year. I thought we would be way better than this and was hoping to be playing meaningful games down the stretch. But never thought his one year was going to be some epic difference making thing. I would love to see him and his brother come and run it back. He might be capable of taking on a lot of what Verge did when the good Verge was on display. That would make him a lot more money in the end.

High school streaming game is hot here in Nebraska as well. Odd talking point.

We can certainly agree that they didn't play their best basketball. Perhaps the disagreement lies in what can be done about it. Hard to just sit them. A basketball half or series of minutes within a game is such a small sample size. If NW sat Bouie because he was playing like shit they would have lost.

When you are that out of control you cannot expect to get the benefit of the doubt. That being said Verge got fouled by the guy checking him before he even committed the charge. That is what pisses me off more than the charge call itself. Another thing that pisses me off is that when we had momentum Bryce hot hammered on the head going to hoop. They score. 4 point swing right there. We should have been up 17 late first which is harder to come back from than 13.

No way. Trey defense was huge reason why we generated a big lead. Knowing who is going to have a good or bad game is not predictive.

Fred should have called time out after very first awful zone possession. That changed the game letting them go on a 14-0 run or whatever the hell it was in about 3 minutes. By that time NW believed again. It is a fatal flaw of his. He has the NBA coaching mentality of trusting his players too much. Dug us an insurmountable hole in general this year before he structured the offense more. Also was stupid to call time out before the 2nd FT(unless you believe in getting shooter out of rhythm after making 1st FT, which I kind of do). Calling it after the ft stops clock and allows you to get the ball to a guard with momentum. We then should be able to generate a reasonable look which likely is a 3 to win.

Do we need to revive the games to watch thread?

We have got to come out hard and end this thing the first 4-8 minutes. No reason to let this get dicey although it can be human nature to lapse a bit. We aren't good enough to do that.

that is correct. Take off 2 zero's if you want the odds. 250-1. Also it is a terrible bet. You are way better off almost always just betting them on the money line and continuing to roll it over game after game. Payout almost always better in the end doing it like that. Easier to hedge as you get deeper in the bet as well.

I cannot argue the decision. As Matt said his conference efficiency was tremendous. I thought Bryce might have got the edge since he got the better of it in a landslide when we beat them recently.

Not sure they would be dancing without his performance tonight either. Clutch plays at both ends of the court.

Georgia won 4 in 4 days as last seed in SEC tournament, including playing 2 games in a single day in 2008 due to a tornado. Let's create our own Tornado starting tomorrow.

Watched Baylor play many times this year. There was no doubt in my mind he could play here, even though he had a tough go of it tonight. Sam I hadn't seen, but he sure looks like he could play here as well. I am not going to be one that says we screwed up not recruiting them. I believe that was Baylor's only D1 offer. Not sure on Sam. When those guys don't work it is easy to say you have to recruit talent. When they do, we have to recruit Nebraska kids. Tough spot, but is is fairly clear we cannot just keep taking nomads and hope that the recipe equals the ingredients. I am fine moving on from Matt, especially if his character issues that have been discussed are true.

To me it was obvious our upside was higher. I could also understand that our downside was lower. But that matters less to me as we already were as low as it gets. Getting booed a lot etc was not helping matters. Pry not a coincidence he is playing better on the road. Everything flipped when the offense became structured and ran a lot more sets. I think Fred had way too much confidence in his players and then it took a while to fix it when he realized they needed to be reeled in.

I would feel a lot better about our bracket if Iowa had beat Illinois. We would reverse Rutgers and Iowa games if nothing else. At the end of day have to beat them both anyway I guess.

Took the offense getting more structured to get the proper spacing to create the lanes. Frustrating took the staff so long to figure it out. They starting getting more structured on offense about the same time they started communicating and trying on defense. I wonder whose coaching roles elevated and whose shrunk? Certainly wasn’t a good look for doc at end of bench with body pointed away from rest of team entire game with little to no emotion. Either way, I was always on team Verge and always claimed our upside with him is light years better than without. Amazing that people wanted him out if mix completely. We were going to be bad with it without the way the defense was structured and offense having no structure. Verge was a victim as he ended up having to dribble way too much.

No inside information. Not so close to him that we talk on phone or anything like that. Social media friends etc. so have good idea of how season went and how recruiting is going. I have read that who keeps in contact with him this spring and summer could factor in a lot. I sure hope we are. He is the type of kid that seems like he would be here a few years as he continues to get more athletic. I do remind his dad about the Huskers whenever I can, but he doesn't need them being a big Husker fan himself.

What do you think Doc does if he has no role in coordinating the defense like the husker website says he does? Well compensated sleepwalker? Who is absolving Matt of not having any blame? I haven’t heard anyone suggest this? If the entirety of roster assembly etc falls on his shoulders that is on Fred but obviously would indicate that Matt is expendable. If he was simply closing the staffs targets I would be not so quick to assassinate him. I honestly don’t know. I assume what Norm is saying about Matt character must be true if it is so important to get out there for recruits to see that our lead recruiter has character issues. Would like to know more.

I don’t have a good feeling about this anymore. Getting too good, too fast. He is a game changer that we really needed. Deadly offensive player. He has been to Creighton twice in the last few weeks including last night against UConn. That would make it an even bigger kick in the nuts. http://www.hudl.com/v/2H2Ci8

I still have them. I don't know that he is the only one evaluating the recruits. I just know he closed the recruits we got. One is a good thing. One would be an absurd thing.

Also the spacing and cutting was so much better than at any point all year. Really kept the defense confused. This is a very good defense we did that to,

What needs to change is focusing on defense first. Fred strength is finding ways to get the ball in the basket. If we can play great d and get out and run and also not get broken down by allowing them into paint so easily, and being athletic enough to get more rebounds we will be more efficient. His unique offensive personnel he likes are compromising our defense far too much. Won't work in this league. And then we need a defensive minded coach to come in and handle all aspects on that side of the ball. This Doc thing is not the answer. You gotta have your defensive coordinator be the one coaching defense during the game. Longshot all this can get fixed before he inevitably gets canned. Frustrating that he went about everything backwards, thinking his scheme would make them adjust to us. Sounds familiar to another sport.

I have a question as to why everyone hates Matt so much? He has a knack of getting guys he covets. That is a good thing. Do we know for sure that he is the only person doing the talent evaluation regarding who to recruit? And if so, that is absurd. I think a guy like him can be useful IF he is used correctly.

It is awful to go a great team you aren't going to be able to play much for when trying to build yourself up for that next contract. Look what happened to Jaylen Smith recently. Wasn't good enough to play much for Phoenix and they didn't even pick up his 3rd year offer on rookie contract. This isn't like college where going to good coaching and development matters as much. Playing time and showcasing yourself for your next contract matters. Not particularly common for late round picks on great teams to see a bunch of playing time.

It isn't all about the percentage, it is the quality of the 3's we got. We got a ton of wide open 3's. Wide open 3's are going to drastically rise our success rate versus the types we have generated most of the season.