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But if you maybe wanna know why we're sitting here at 0 for the league, fast forward to about the last 10 minutes of this:
 
 
Thoughts, y'all?

I don’t understand how Lat keeps earning minutes. I really don’t.

Doc is already 100000% retiring (I can confirm) but Matt A better be looking for work by St Patrick’s Day. 

Would kill for a guy who coached hungry like that

I love the multiple times per game that Derrick Walker pins and boxes the fuck out of his guy on a free throw miss - and Lat’s finesse effort allows an offensive rebound after ball hits the ground twice. 
 
Also love it when Lat takes it up at 6-7/6-8 and finesse finger rolls it like a princess. 
 
least favorite player in program history. 

The most Lat Mayen sequence  happened. Pass hits him wide open in the hands as he is cutting, he fumbles the ball awkwardly, proceeds to brick a  fadeaway shot, and gives up a bucket on the other end!
 
I don't like pounding on a player that much, but at this point if we just talk about him it looks like that's what we are doing.

Clearly we have made some very poor evaluations of players brought in via transfer.  Hoiberg and staff have been unable to assemble a cohesive team in the tenure at Nebraska.  Players that were labeled as good have turned out to be average and below.  I don’t see Bryce as a 5 ***** talent and wonder how many of our team could play for another B1G or Power 5 team.
 
I will always be a Husker BB fan but my hopes of seeing an NCAA Tournament victory in my lifetime are fading fast! (I am 70)
 
Get the guys on the floor that will play hard and act like they care about the uniform they wear. 

As usual, just my opinion but I respectfully disagree with it being a red herring argument. There are lots of kids taking advantage of NIL money and there are programs positioning it in different ways. Some kids can do so and still be team-driven, some can't. It is very individual in nature, but the program & leadership play an integral role in how it affects the team environment.
 
I don't have a problem with NIL & kids profiting as long as it's kept in the proper perspective and the team/program come first. Some programs may be making NIL way too important in the recruiting process and as a part of the program, thus leading kids down the path of ME>WE. 
 
 
 
 

He’s done well recruiting talented individual pieces. He has not done well recruiting pieces that fit a system and pieces that function as a cohesive unit.

At least they have their podcasts and T-Shirts…

Yeah, I thought it was a great quote. It's always brought up, but Pettit illustrated it perfectly - we always look like 10 dudes who have never met, get thrown on a court against guys that play together everyday. 

Pettit is 100% spot on here. 

And I’m not against the players doing those things. I think they should be able to do it, but it’s a really bad look when it looks like some people don’t care much on the court. It’s been pretty clear over the last year that a couple of players on this team are much more concerned with building their own personal brand than they are with building a winning basketball team/program.

When I started this thread on December 4 after the loss at Indiana I was pretty frustrated with how our 5-4 season had gone so far.
 
Since that day, we are 1-6 with an average margin of defeat of 20.2 points in those 6 losses, and we have the one rousing home win against Kennesaw State. If you had to draw up an absolute bare minimum expectation for the 7 games following the Indiana loss you would probably say 1-6 with an average margin of defeat way smaller than 20 points.
 
I know, Trey and Wilhelm being out as hurt. Every team deals with shit. No excuse. 
 
On December 4 we had 5 wins and realtimerpi projected us for 10 total. You thought that was bad…now we have 6 wins and our projection is 8. Amazing.

I’m strengthening my stance. I see no hope for this staff’s future here. We are winning anywhere from 0 to 5 Big Ten games this year. Whatever, it’s all the same: horrible. But if Trev isn’t going to base his evaluation of this staff on wins and losses this year (since he called this Year 1 of his evaluation for all our coaches), we will see will he hold true to his word of “I want to see players that play hard and fight and compete (talking about football).”
 
Because if you do an honest evaluation of this program, the vast majority of the time they do not play hard, fight and compete. They have spurts of it, but a 20.2 ppg margin of defeat is what it is: getting beaten soundly all the time. 
 
It’s very rare to have a complete dogshit Power 5 basketball team and not be able to say “at least we have a bunch of talent returning and/or sitting out on the bench this year.” We don’t have that. We have a shit team that if we are being honest has no real founded source of optimism heading into next year. That’s what is most depressing to me. We have the next 2 months of this to look forward to and then nothing on paper next year to be excited about (and please don’t try and sell me on the optimism of returning a handful of Big Ten role players at best and one big man recruit who has done nothing here. Every Big Ten team has that and more every year.) 
 
Sorry for the long rant and bumping this thread. It’s just that the reality should be setting in for everyone. We went with quick fix bandaid approach for 3 years and now here we are with a horrible team and even worse, we aren’t building anything.

At least the Women’s team plays tomorrow 

He’s done well recruiting talented individual pieces. He has not done well recruiting pieces that fit a system and pieces that function as a cohesive unit.

And I’m not against the players doing those things. I think they should be able to do it, but it’s a really bad look when it looks like some people don’t care much on the court. It’s been pretty clear over the last year that a couple of players on this team are much more concerned with building their own personal brand than they are with building a winning basketball team/program.

Agreed. He's a acquired talent, which is a good thing however, you can't just take the best player because they are available.
My issue is primarily player development. Lat and Andrea have regressed. Bryce is still playing like its AAU ball. Free wheeling 3's, although that has improved somewhat.
Mostly disappointed with how we play defense. Lack of effort, except for Derrick. Poor design which puts us in a bad position to close out on 3's.

Best position for Bryce to succeed would be in old 6-on-6 Iowa Women’s games where he couldn’t cross half court to play defense 

He’s done well recruiting talented individual pieces. He has not done well recruiting pieces that fit a system and pieces that function as a cohesive unit.

That shooting percentage by Rutgers should never happen. Sadly, it is becoming way to common.

Hell woman's team could out rebound the men's team.
 

And I’m not against the players doing those things. I think they should be able to do it, but it’s a really bad look when it looks like some people don’t care much on the court. It’s been pretty clear over the last year that a couple of players on this team are much more concerned with building their own personal brand than they are with building a winning basketball team/program.

I also think there’s a style component in regards to Hoiberg’s offense and how it fits in the old Big 12 vs the current Big Ten. I’m not sure Hoiberg’s system is a great fit for the current Big Ten. 
 
Similar to Frost, I don’t think his Oregon/UCF offense is bad, but I think its not the best fit for the Big Ten.
 
I also think that the inability to bring in a true distributor PG has crippled this offense. There are capable shooters in this team, but they are all spot up shooters. They aren’t going to shoot well from 3 PT if they need to shoot off the dribble.
 
Also, Hoiberg needed to understand that you have to have some legit rim protectors in the Big Ten. And players need to give effort to rebound and when they can’t make shots, they need to give 200% effort on defense and rebounding, but unfortunately this team is doing those things as if they were scoring 90 points per game.