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KZRider

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  1. I take free therapy wherever I can get it.

    Speaking from the therapist's point of view, you get what you pay for, friend! With some, you would do much better with a box of cookies and a half gallon of ice cream. :) Neither really solve your problems but at least one of them is fun for awhile.

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    MSU is good. Very good. But they are made of steel. I'm picturing Rocky Balboa smacking Drago in the kisser and hearing Duke yell: "Ok, you've hurt him, now he's nervous, it hurt!! You see Rocky, he's NOT a machine!! He's a man!"

     

    Honestly, I'm picturing the start of Rocky III.

    My prediction?  PAYNE.

     

    Nicely done!

  3. KZ, I loved Doc, was a big fan of him.  But, in all honestly, I'm not sure about the "laughing together" part.  I didn't see what happened in the film room or the locker room.  I only saw what happened on the floor during practices and Doc would go hoarse yelling at people.  He was an ass chewer and he challenged guys and when they were on the floor it was all business.  Now, while they would be doing individual work like shooting freethrows and some of the guys would be shagging balls for the guys who were shooting, Doc would go around and flip some of them some good-natured crap about something. 

     

    Periodically, he'd yell at someone in a way that made everyone laugh.  For instance, I was at a practice that Marcus Perry attended and was watching from the sidelines and Doc was yelling at someone about how bad they were playing defense, how it was as bad as Marcus Perry's defense.  He looked for all the world like he was pissed but everyone, including Marcus Perry, laughed about it.

     

    I don't know if that sheds any light on anything or not.  I would say that I think players were afraid to screw up in practice.  And certain players were primarily on the receiving end, including Ryan Anderson his freshman year and Toney McCray his whole career.  Doc yelled but I'd seen Danny Nee yell worse, so I figured that was just par for the course for a major college hoops coach.

     

    I'm imposing an observation from working with families on a basketball team. Since I am not a coach and never played the game at this level maybe that observation doesn't hold. The struggling marriages/families I work with are almost always lacking in laughter. It is not that laughter makes the relationship work but the thing that makes the relationship work leads to laughter. People only go so far in any aspect of life because they are yelled at. It takes something more to get them to run through a brick wall for you. I believe we see it in Tim Miles more than any other Husker BB coach in my lifetime. I know there are times when a coach has to yell but it would surprise me if the team and Miles don't also have a lot of times when they laugh together.

  4. I don't know why we are dragging Doc through the mud.

     

    Lets just be thankful he recruited Shields and Gallegos.  

    If anyone thinks I am speaking unkindly about Doc, I apologize. I had and have great admiration for him as a person and as someone who knows the game of basketball. There are few things I would rather do that sit down with him over a Diet Mountain Dew and one of the last things on earth I would want to do would be to cause him pain.

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    I don't think it has much to do with the players. The difference is Doc HOPED the Huskers might steal a win and Miles BELIEVES we can take one away. It pains me to say this because I loved Doc as a person but, IMO, if Doc were coaching this same squad of players we would have lost against ILL and Indy and Minnesota and @ NW and probably Georgia and Miami to boot. It has very little to do with the players' talent. It has a lot to do with the heart and mind of the coach.

    Hmmm.  That's a very interesting observation.  I defer because you're obviously the expert in such matters and you would see things that would escape the normal person's attention.  But, do you think it might have been different in Doc's first couple of seasons?  Like when we beat KSU and Mrs. Beasley?   Seemed like there was a lot of believing going on that year and the following one.

     

    My recollection is that Doc had a knack for getting into KSU's heads but that didn't translate into other teams. He did have Maric the first year while riding the high of a new "era" and that did help the few couple of years but after Maric he lost a lot of games he should have won and won precious few he should have lost. Did you, or others, attend practices much while Doc was coaching. If so, did they laugh together very much? I would be surprised if they did. I'm sure Miles works them hard but I would venture to guess they laugh more. I don't know Miles but I knew Doc -- not well but well enough -- to think I had a read on him. There was always something that made me think players feared screwing up and losing with Doc more than they wanted to win for him. I'm guessing it is the other way round with Miles. I'd love the feedback on this diagnosis from afar from others who see things closer up.

  6. I don't think it has much to do with the players. The difference is Doc HOPED the Huskers might steal a win and Miles BELIEVES we can take one away. It pains me to say this because I loved Doc as a person but, IMO, if Doc were coaching this same squad of players we would have lost against ILL and Indy and Minnesota and @ NW and probably Georgia and Miami to boot. It has very little to do with the players' talent. It has a lot to do with the heart and mind of the coach.

  7. I would like to drink the Kool-Aid on a regular season 19-11 / 18-12 season. Games @ MSU, @ Ind and @ ILL along with a home game with Wisc are all tough. Well, they are ALL tough! Since we have to go 6-1 / 5-2 it means we have to at least split those four AND win out otherwise at home. It would be the stuff of legends to beat MSU and a mighty feat to take IND. Best chance is to win @ILL and WIsc without stubbing our toe at home. If that happens TIm Miles should be B1G Coach of the Year.

     

    More realistically, I think we could hold serve at home, end the season 17-13, win two in B1G tourney and watch the selection process as a bubble team. The end of season game with Wisc is looming as a monumental game! House ought to be rocking that night!

  8. Petteway

    Pitchford

    Shields

     

    Rivers: Don't recall seeing Pitchford and Smith on the floor at the same time this year so and Smith appears to be playing hurt. To add energy and defense and grabbing a key board, I want Rivers on the court

     

    Gallegos/Webster: Depends on situation. If we are tied or leading, I would choose Webster to run point and free Petteway up to create. If we trail and need a shooter, I would choose Gallegos.

  9. Ron, to me, "toxic waste" includes bashing Shawn Eichorst for being rumored (the sketchiest of rumors, too, BTW) to have told Tim Miles to do what Miles almost certainly was going to do of his own volition anyway.  Calling Eichorst a "douche" for allegedly influencing a good decision to happen is weird.  And toxic waste in its own right.

     

    So far, we've managed to avoid some of the toxic waste posters.  I'm sure there are a few.  The tone of this board tends to be different than others I've seen and part of that is that I don't think the moderators here are best buddies with the most toxic of posters, letting them get away with virtually any kind of toxic behavior while appearing to "moderate" everyone else.

     

    If those guys have migrated over here, they've done it under a different screen name and managed to behave themselves so far.

     

    I kind of miss "kidney"

  10. It's that "One Big Man Away" thing rearing its ugly head.  Much as I hate to say it, what we lack most is a consistent inside presence who can produce points in the paint and defend the other team's big men.  Smith gives us about 18 minutes a game.  I suppose he's probably fighting through some knee issues just to give us that much.  But we need that inside force.  We also need one more guy who can reliably stroke it from deep.  A guy better than 40% from beyond the arc who can spread the D would create some driving lanes the other guys could take advantage of.

    +1 on the big man. IMO, though, what we are missing most is that true point guard that can penetrate and dish or take it to the rim. I really hope Tai is still going to be that guard -- he shows flashes but not consistency. I confess I had hoped for more from him this season. Maybe my expectations were unfair.

     

    As far as someone to stroke it, what are the chances of that being Fuller or Wagner next season?

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    LOL. one of the poeple on that board was seriously concerned about Vooch's size and 3 point shot.

     

    "They do have a center who is over 7 feet in sophomore Sergej Vucetic, but he only weighs about 240 pounds, and is known for shooting the 3. "

     

     

    May have mistaken him with Pitchford... but I mean seeing a 7 foot center on another roster is probably cause for concern for another team who doesnt "know" our team.

     

    i know. it's just funny to see anyone worried about vucetic

     

    they should be worried about serge. if he gets in the game, it means we've won.

     

    Well, then, START him for crying out loud! :)

  12. I should also have said that we didn't drop off much when we went to our bench. A lot of times in the past the first five could play with the other teams but the second wave would get abused. Don't think that will happen this year.

  13. Like what I see especially from Petteway and Pitchford. Both of them shot very well from outside and Pitchford as tough inside. The "Dunk City" team got no dunks and Pitchford was a big part of why.

     

    Shields was a force to be reckoned with. I thought FGCU would limit him more. Either they weren't as good as expected or Shields is a very special player. I like the latter idea.

     

    As well as Tai played, I expected him to be even more explosive than he was. You know the kind of guard that can just kill you off the dribble and take it to the hoop. I still believe he is the key to how well this team will do this year.

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