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I don't think Verge is a cancer to the team the way that Biggs/Teddy were at all (At least I haven't heard any of that). But the way that Verge plays on the court is just as much a stick in the spokes of this offense, because it impedes ball movement to the rest of the scorers on the team. As long as Verge continues to be more concerned with getting his NBA Street game right and finishing it off by throwing up poor quality and highly contested shots at the rim, rather than kicking it out to an open shooter, this offense will continue to look discombobulated at best. He is highly skilled, but that type of play by the PG is a killer for Hoiberg's offense. If, on the other hand, Verge decides to be a distributing PG (Like he was in the exhibition games), then he can be a very valuable piece of this team. Verge has all of the necessary talent to be that piece. It's up to him to embrace the role that Hoiberg needs him to fill, and to embrace the WE>ME, rather than looking to put some impressive personal highlights on film for NBA scouts to see. I believe Verge is 100% capable of being a great player and filling the role Hoiberg needs him to fill for this team. It's up to him whether or not he wants to embrace that. Up to this point, unfortunately, he has not done so and it has resulted in a very ugly product on the court.

I would be interested to see a lineup with Bryce at PG, just to get the ball in his hands more. Maybe: 1- Bryce 2-Wilcher 3-Edwards 4- Mayen 5-Walker

Hoiberg’s offense absolutely requires ball movement to create open shots for the shooters on the floor for Nebraska. When you have a PG that is a high volume dribbler, that kills ball movement, and since the rest of the players on the court aren’t touching the ball frequently, that lulls them to sleep, so they don’t move without the ball, which means that they don’t get open shots in rhythm and they aren’t attempting many back door cuts to the basket, because they don’t expect to get the ball anyway. It turns into a bunch of standing around and watching the dribbler. And when they aren’t getting touches on offense, which lulls them to sleep, that carries over to a lack of intensity on defense. So it kills them on offense and defense. Verge’s stats don’t tell the whole story in regards to how much his play and decision making really hurts this team. When a team rebounds as poorly as Nebraska, the ridiculous drives to the basket resulting in poor, low percentage, contested shots at the rim are effectively turnovers in the way that they hurt the team. And when the primary ball handler consistently chooses to take those shots, rather than distributing the ball to all of the shooters that Hoiberg has assembled on this team, it sabotages the ability of the rest of Nebraska’s players on the court to play to their potential. Nebraska’s margin for error is so thin that they can’t afford to have all of their players failing to play to their potential. Until Hoiberg gets a distributor at PG, it doesn't matter how much he upgrades the rest of the talent on this roster. And all of those things kill the crowd energy in Pinnacle Bank Arena, which negates what should be a pretty substantial home court advantage for the Huskers.

Verge should not be starting. He’s the Biggs/Allen of this team and is in the way of the rest of the team developing chemistry. I think this would be a more successful lineup: 1- Webster 2- Wilcher 3- Bryce 4- Lat 5- Andre

That’s because you have yet to see a real PG that operates within the system and that initiates the offense at the beginning of each possession.

I agree on the talent, but it doesn’t matter until they get a distribute-first PG. Until they do that, then this will be the results, regardless of the talent that is put together around them.

Creighton’s freshman PG > Verge

This is what Nebraska basketball is. It’s what it always is. It’s so pathetic. Every single season. It just gets so old.

Hoibergs offense isn’t the same as Miles offense. Also, the way petteway played only really worked for about a 12 game stretch of one season where he got extremely hot and shot out of his mind and was making circus shots on the regular. If Verge doesn’t become a distributing PG fast, then Nebraska isn’t going to win many Power5 games this season.

Verge just doesn't even look to find shooters on the 3PT line. It's so frustrating to watch.

I think Andre should be starting even just for what he brings protecting the rim and rebounding. I've been so impressed with him.

I think hes talking about the B1G+ announcer

They start passing the ball a few times and they start scoring. Amazing how that happens...

I'd like to see what this team looks like with him starting vs Creighton next week

Although, this might not matter much, if Verge doesn't start playing the role of distributing PG

I like Walker, but it might be interesting to see how this team looks if Andre were to start at the 5 for a game.

With all of the talent that has been added to this roster, I can't believe how bad this team has been so far this season. I'm honestly stunned by it. And, so far, now that the regular season games have started, Verge has decided he doesn't want to be a PG, so none of the shooters can get into a rhythm.

Bryce played 39 minutes last night and had the ball in his hands all night, but I'm pretty sure he didn't have a single assist.

1 score loss. Frost says Nebrasketball is close.