Jacob Padilla

Correct, and he's 6'7" now. He played summer ball with Isaac Traudt.

Teddy shot 37% last season at WNCC. I was told that Thorir and Lat were consistently their two best shooters in practice heading into the season. Thorir is in a massive slump right now, but there's a reason Hoiberg keeps starting him and wants him to keep shooting the ball. He said that he worked with Thor on some mechanical things leading up to the USD game and that he was shooting lights out in warmups before the game, but the ball didn't really find him and he only attempted one 3. Hoiberg has confidence that he'll break out of the slump at some point.

Fred on Thor during Sports Nightly on Wednesday: As for Yvan, I asked Fred about him after the game because I thought that was his best performance of the season by far even if he only scored two points. Fred agreed, though I haven't transcribed his answer yet. +/- has its flaws, but in this case I think it demonstrates what we all saw: Nebraska was worse with Yvan on the floor. He was -15 against Nevada and -7 against NDSU. Against South Dakota, he was +15. He didn't try to do too much offensively and he rebounded better than he has on the defensive end of the floor. The two blocks were really nice as well.

Norm, Shamiel's bio at Pittsburgh had him down as having a 6'11" wingspan and a 40" vertical, so that's where you probably saw that. Toupee, it's not 21 days of quarantine, it's 21 days without playing. There are different stages of that 21 days. We don't know at this point when that period actually started for Eduardo. We'll see if Fred can speak to their expected timetable with him here sometime soon.

I caught that too but we were at the tail end of the Zoom so I asked Shamus in the chat section of the Zoom for clarification on whether Fred miscounted or if the suspension length had changed. He said he'd ask but as of 5:30 on Monday when I followed up, he said he still didn't have clarity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Post defense TBD. Like I said, he'll occasionally give up defensive boards by failing to secure position and allowing himself to be moved off his spot, but he attacks the ball in the air pretty well on both ends. Honestly, I think what we're seeing out of Mayen right now is what out can expect from Breidenbach early on, although Wilhelm will give you more of an option as a roll man in addition to popping considering his finishing ability with that left hand.

You're going to get a few of those "Huh?" shots from Teddy pretty much every game. That's just who he is. The interesting thing is, without rewatching every shot, I'd say he's probably shot as well or better on the tougher dribble 3s he's taken than on the catch-and-shoot looks. Had he knocked down a few more of the open C&S looks he got against NDSU he would have had a monster game. Then he goes out and hits that step-back one. Teddy is a tough-shot maker, which he has to be because he's not blessed with elite burst to just blow by guys. That extends to the defensive side where he'll have trouble staying in front of guys at times, but he also has terrific anticipation as an off-ball defender to get those deflections and steals. Outside of the poor 3-point shooting, the biggest problem with the offense right now is Yvan's minutes. With the way teams have been defending Nebraska and with the way their offense works, there's no hiding him. They can't just not pass to him in that dunker spot or in the pick-and-roll. As good as Yvan has been on the offensive glass, he needs to give them a lot more on the other end. 2 defensive boards per game on a team struggling in that area isn't going to cut it. If he's going to continue to struggle finishing, he has to be really good in other areas. I've actually really liked what I've seen of Shamiel as a finisher in that dunker spot role. Depending on the match-up, until Yvan figures some things out they're probably better off playing Shamiel more at the five as long as Dalano is out there as well. I'm not sure how Yvan fixes what's going on with him right now. I legitimately have no idea where the ball is going to go any time he elevates, and he doesn't either. Hoiberg claims he's finishing better in practice, so I'm not totally sure what they can do to improve it. I think it's going to be a case where you give him a shot each game and if he's hurting more than he helps, you go another direction and try again next game.

I disagree about the motor. That's one of the notes I had every game. The guy goes hard. He gets out-physicalled on the defensive glass at times, but he runs the floor hard in transition every chance he gets and he spends a lot of time diving after loose balls or setting up to take charges as a help defender.

He was at 19-48 (40%) as a sophomore, then nearly doubled the volume to 88 attempts and dropped off to 31% (27 makes). So the totals are about the same as Wilhelm's, just flipped. Hunter didn't shoot the ball very well this past summer either. That's probably the biggest question about his game.

Watching one game definitely is not the way to make judgments like that. Just how good of a shooter he actually is is something I'm pretty curious about. His MaxPreps page only includes made 3s and not percentage. He had 5 mades 3s as a freshman, 26 as a sophomore and 16 as a junior. That's not a ton. I watched seven of his games I found on YouTube (most last year, a few from his sophomore year) and tracked them myself, and he shot 6-20 from 3 in those seven games. He shows some shooting potential for sure, but I don't know that he's a "lights out" shooter right now. He definitely had more buckets in the post than he did from the 3-point line in those seven games. He certainly likes that jump hook.

Curious... How do you feel confident calling him "lights out" as a shooter?

Hoiberg definitely wants ball movement, but if teams are giving them looks early I'm guessing he's encouraging them to take them. If they continue to shoot under 30% the emphasis will probably change as the season goes on.

That is the offense, though. Hoiberg has a ton of quick-hitting actions to generate 3-point looks baked into his offense, and I'd be willing to bet he's telling them that if the defense goes under screens or fails to step out, they have the green light. He doesn't want them using up the whole shot clock. I put together a thread on the shooting in that Nevada game. The problem is they need to start making them at a higher rate or it's going to cost them games. The Nevada game was something of an outlier... But shooting like they did against North Dakota State won't be good enough to beat Big Ten teams. We'll have to figure out what kind of shooting team they really are as the season goes on. Right now, I'd say everybody on the team other than McGowens is shooting below their ability based on what they've shown at different stages of their careers.

Yes, you would have.

He was their leading returning scorer after averaging 6.4 PPG as a freshman. Came off the bench and played just 16 minutes against NDSU, scoring 3 points on 1-8 shooting.

1) Correct 2) Half-right; Lat and Dalano were tied for second (14 each). 3) Correct (as I said earlier, he had 25). Shamiel and Elijah tied for second (11 apiece).

On paper it has a chance to, but these guys have to go out and prove it. For all of its flaws last year, I did not at all see that team being quite THAT bad coming. I think a lot of it will come down to how efficient guys like Teddy, Trey, Dalano and Lat can be. Trey being the same player he was at Pitt isn't going to get you anywhere. Lat has to be a consistent shooter. I'm pretty confident in Teddy being able to do his thing. Is Dalano ready to consistently stuff the stat sheet and impact games? He wasn't as a freshman and we haven't seen him in real competition since. I don't love the rosters for Northwestern and Purdue in particular. Maryland is in trouble if Wiggins and Ayala don't have a bounce-back year after a rough 2019-20. Minnesota has some pieces with Robbins and Gach both being eligible, but they had Oturu last year and still weren't any good. As good as the league should be, there are some vulnerable teams. Nebraska's just the biggest wildcard of the bunch coming off the worst season, so they drop to 14 for most by default.

There's another, but he's only an 8th grader right now.

Double-double. Still apparently adjusting to the sight lines at PBA. 20-10 assist-to-turnover ratio for the Red team. All six guys between 2 and 4 assists apiece.

I probably shouldn't because I don't believe it was supposed to be available publicly. I'll just say it was their first scrimmage in PBA and the shooting numbers reflected that. Kobe Webster led the White team by a lot with 25 points but it took him a lot of shots to get there.

Yalden is a 2023 recruit and Dior Johnson likely doesn't play one second of college ball.

I may or may not have found a box score for this scrimmage that may or may not have been accidentally posted somewhere and Teddy Allen may or may not have put up 29 points in a 21-point Red team win that included a 35-9 run to start the second half.

Based on the release, it's not an injury but a procedure to fix something he's been dealing with for some time. He was already pretty bouncy playing on a chronic bad knee, so I'm assuming the purpose of this is to make sure he's even better moving forward.

I think Fred just doesn't have to do more than one. Wait until the expected news drops and get it all at once. The Zoom call has been scheduled for Monday - for now. Hopefully the Big Ten doesn't force them to push it back again by dragging out the schedule even longer.

FWIW, the follow-up message was "Hopefully by that point there is some schedule clarity."