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That would take the cake....guy supposedly doesn't like getting yelled at by a somewhat hyper and animated coach.....So, let's transfer to Indiana. Uh huh, makes sense.

Rumor of Louisville interest today. Whatever.

Bump. I encourage anyone who can respond to do so; great cause. Cip, check your email. P.S. I will bid high on any jars of Cip's salsa at the auction.

Good reading, Dimes! Muscles are cool and all, but I would be more interested in seeing if he improved his skills.

Blessing

"Jealousy" Wasn't there a song like that? (Not just in the Allen, but behind the bench!) Just ridin' the coattails of a buddy who is a KU guy and invites us every couple of years to take in a game in Allen. His wife is actually an NU alum, but she has been in Lawrence so long I suspect she will be wearing her Jayhawk blue.

i have 2 behind the Husker bench, looking forward to cheering on the Huskers who want to be part of the team. And, scoping out some fine KU coeds.

You're ahead of me; I'm not even trying

This explains enough of the on court stuff that has Tai frustrated. He's hard on the guys. Waaaaaaaaaaa

Shooting always is the focus of the fan, but rebounding will be the biggest thing missing by losing AW III. McVeigh won't touch AW III in defense and rebounding.

I don't know where he's going. I'm not saying his move at this point is a better move because I don't know where he's planning on ending up. Maybe there's a team out there that really lacks shooters but has all the other pieces in place. I don't know. But, if he wants to burnish his NBA resume, it might be tough to do it here on a team where his number of attempts was probably going to go down. And possibly by a lot. They (scouts) already know he can shoot. It's the rest of his game that needs work. So shot attempts alone would be an absurd reason to transfer. And I'm not convinced they would have gone down that much in any event.

Except I have trouble seeing how White presumably going to a contender with better players than ours would allow himself to "get more shots" or "be the centerpiece". Why would he think going to a better team would allow him to "showcase his skills for the scouts to see"? I accept the conclusion that the sky isn't falling due to the transfer, but I'm not buying the proposition set forth that our amazing talent on hand make for a sensible reason for an AW III transfer.

Are you a Husker fan or a fan of a team along the Missouri River?Nebraska season ticket holder and long time fan. I was on the Rivals basketball board with Dave and Nustudent before this board was ever created. I prior to the White info was a huge Miles fan. The reality is White wasn't the only one that was/isn't happy.Part of the issue is the AAU system, handler, etc. What Andrew is doing is selfish. He isn't an NBA player. He will never be one, that being said, he was our best player. It sucks. Lastly, this is a great opportunity for the young guys more PT. Man, are you all over the map or what? You went from being a huge Miles fan to a detractor all because of the "White info", yet the AAU system and handlers are the problem, and White is selfish and delusional about his abilities. Yeah, that all makes sense.

That is what I heard from the beginning about Tai, that if White went he would not return. White has not talked with Miles in over a month so I would say the writing was on the wall for quite some time. White went directly to SE for his release and completely bypassed Miles so that also says something. Timmy needs to get his house in order or he will not be long as Nebraska's coach (IMHO not hearing this but). Let me get this straight: Despite Miles giving White complete support as he explored his delusional NBA prospects, including Lewis' connections with Brad Stephens, White doesn't talk to Miles for a month and departs via text to the AD, and it's automatically Timmy who needs to get his house in order? No chance it's White who needs to get real and that commitments are two way streets and it's not just about me? Guy warmed the bench for two years, we gave him a chance to flourish despite the limitations in his game, and now this in late June.

There are no longer individual team HOFs. Now it's that new thing they built on the east side of the stadium above the track. Just a Nebraska HOF.I'm not exactly sure what you are saying. Here is a link to the Nebraska Basketball's HOF on huskers.com (Tyronn Lue was the last player inducted, in 2013) Are you saying the individual team lists (i.e. Basketball HOF) are now closed to further additions?http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=2102&DB_OEM_ID=100 But I don't see anywhere there is a list of 'retired' numbers, or jersey's hanging from the rafters. You make a good point about running out of numbers for current and new players. I could be wrong, but I think he's talking about an actual hall of fame...There was a basketball Hall of Fame at the Bob. That was not moved over to PBA. All the Basketball HoF and other sports that had their own HoF (I'm guessing baseball and vollyball) have now been moved over to Memorial stadium in that building. I think they all have their own HoF listings, but they are now under one roof.As for the comment about Jerseys. Is there a NCAA rule that limits jersey numbers? I mean could it get to a point where a team has enough retired that they have to start going to a triple digit number? they would just have to shrink them down enough to fit on the Jersey. Triple digits are not allowed, as well as any digit above five. Which limits you to 31 possible numbers for basketball jerseys at any time. Nebraska currently has 28 available numbers with three retired. (Cannot have a 0 and a 00 at the same time either) Thirty-one possibilities? Twenty-eight after the three that are retired? OK, for once, I'm not the grammar cop; I'm now the math cop. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 Is that not 36 possible numbers? Which means we could retire Lue's number and still have 32 options. Or we could just retire his jersey and continue to use his number like they have in football. Can you have a semicolon on a jersey?

Jimmy, retirement sounds awesome. I can't wait to join you.

Boehm is the living example of "It's a great country". He has somehow served in completely undistinguished fashion through 3 athletic directors and still has a job. A very interesting part of the Barfy story is his tale of Collier not giving a crap about Tyronn. This was the Collier I saw frequently. He has this reputation of a having been this super nice guy who just couldn't recruit or coach well enough to get it done here; "but what a great guy". I actually found him to be aloof and arrogant, and someone who couldn't have given a hoot about fans, boosters, or former players. The example in the article of not getting Lue a game ticket doesn't even surprise me.

Kind of like the contingent fee......

Cheered for the Warriors. But now i feel dirty for watching at all. I vow to never watch another NBA game in my life. Just a grotesque perversion of the game of basketball.

You're mis-remembering a bit unless part of the equation of defensive chemistry is that it inspires you to play well on offense. During Mo's first year two years ago we matched the defensive numbers of the tourney team...we just cratered on offense. Some numbers that show you are the one mis-remembering, and not just a bit. Steals. Like I suggested, we generated a lot more of them. A whole entire steal a game more. This seemed obvious to my eye, and it is also obvious looking at the stats. Generated more runouts, which were huge since we were challenged offensively. We ranked an alarming 102 spots higher in the nation in steals than the outfit you are suggesting was just as good defensively. FG % we improved from 94th to 65th in this category. However, when you look at 3 pointers, we got way worse. And we allowed more attempts. We allowed 1.6 more 3 point attempts per game. When more shots are 3's the sum fg % is obviously going to go down, which is what happened improving from 94 to 65th. However our 3 point percentage defense seemed much worse to my eyes. And it was. A whopping 2 percentage points worse the following year. We dropped 90 spots from 44th in three point percentage allowed to 134th the next year. offensive boards. We allowed the other team half an offensive board more per game than the tourney team Steal percentage. Went from 10.5 all the way down to 9.5. We dropped from an awesome 55th in nation to a pedestrian 167th in the nation. Defensive points per 100 possessions. On the surface, it might look like we improved the year after the tourney team. We allowed 97.3 points the 2nd year verse 99.5 the tourney year. However, when you look at our rank in each we were better the tourney year, as I would have suspected. 73rd in the nation the tourney year. Dropped to 85th the following year. 3 point attempt rate against. Allowed 35.6 percent attempt rate in tourney year. Went up to 38.2 the next year and they shot it an alarming two percent better as I mentioned earlier. This is bad, and one of the main reasons our defense way much worse. effective FG percentage This is one category that we did improve on slightly the 2nd year. We went from .476 to .468 and improved from 98th to 87th. offensive rebound percentage allowed. Tourney team gave up off. board 29.5 percent. Next year was up to 31.1. We ranked 101 and fell all the way to 173rd the next year. We were obviously in much better defensive rebounding position first year, which is a big part of team defense. You add all of this up and it is not particularly close. The tourney team was easily the superior defense. Simple eye test told me that though. Stats are stats, but it doesn't necessarily point to your "It's Molinari" theory. We had Leslee Smith that year, and a somewhat motivated Walt. Since then we've had no bigs. When you have to double the post, you will give up more 3s. The offensive rebounding discussion is also personnel based, IMO. I don't disagree that the tournament team defense was better. But there was going to be a fall off no matter who was coaching that D. I said for whatever reason our defenses haven't been as good under Moliari. That is a fact. They haven't been. You can decide for yourself why that is. But it isn't because we were thinner in terms of big men. Smith was on both teams and the 14-15 club also had Abraham. I don't particularly care why our defense has been worse. All that I care about is that it has been worse. We clearly need to get better in this regard or we are not going to get where we all want to get. I did decide for myself. By the way, if you think the second year shredded knee Smith was anything like the first year Smith your eye test brilliance let you down. Abraham might have been a rim defender if he hadn't broken a hand that could defend a rim. Agree we "need to get better in this regard", but if we do, it will be primarily personnel based. You can't just plug in stats across years without understanding the personnel of each team. I am very confident that I understand the personnel of each team. And I am also confident that we played way better defense with the tourney team than any time since. Not even all that close. Especially after Biggs got sent packing. I am not sure why people are trying to argue otherwise to be honest. It is ridiculous. And this isn't even considering the often horrific defense this year. Why is that not being considered? We let a mediocre true freshmen NW big man have a career day because we cannot defend a simple pick and roll. Not sure what everyone else is watching, but I was watching a flawed defensive scheme. We aren't arguing the whether, we're arguing the why.

I was just making the comparison between the two teams PG. Bogut being out is definitely helping the Cavs. As is Igoudala being slowed by his back injury bc he has shown an ability to slow down and frustrate LBJ. Without Bogut and a healthy Iggy, LBJ has been doing whatever he pleases offensively. Excellent insight. A healthy Iggy is the key to game 7. I don't mean a 100% Iggy, but at least a functional Iggy.

Yep, that's the way that works. Hope it ends well for us. By the time we know, the driver of the energy bus will be at Wisconsin, and will not be subject to accountability.

No, I'm not going there.

Hopefully a few nice words only. Not into tangible gifts. If I want or need something, I'll just go buy it.

You're mis-remembering a bit unless part of the equation of defensive chemistry is that it inspires you to play well on offense. During Mo's first year two years ago we matched the defensive numbers of the tourney team...we just cratered on offense. Some numbers that show you are the one mis-remembering, and not just a bit. Steals. Like I suggested, we generated a lot more of them. A whole entire steal a game more. This seemed obvious to my eye, and it is also obvious looking at the stats. Generated more runouts, which were huge since we were challenged offensively. We ranked an alarming 102 spots higher in the nation in steals than the outfit you are suggesting was just as good defensively. FG % we improved from 94th to 65th in this category. However, when you look at 3 pointers, we got way worse. And we allowed more attempts. We allowed 1.6 more 3 point attempts per game. When more shots are 3's the sum fg % is obviously going to go down, which is what happened improving from 94 to 65th. However our 3 point percentage defense seemed much worse to my eyes. And it was. A whopping 2 percentage points worse the following year. We dropped 90 spots from 44th in three point percentage allowed to 134th the next year. offensive boards. We allowed the other team half an offensive board more per game than the tourney team Steal percentage. Went from 10.5 all the way down to 9.5. We dropped from an awesome 55th in nation to a pedestrian 167th in the nation. Defensive points per 100 possessions. On the surface, it might look like we improved the year after the tourney team. We allowed 97.3 points the 2nd year verse 99.5 the tourney year. However, when you look at our rank in each we were better the tourney year, as I would have suspected. 73rd in the nation the tourney year. Dropped to 85th the following year. 3 point attempt rate against. Allowed 35.6 percent attempt rate in tourney year. Went up to 38.2 the next year and they shot it an alarming two percent better as I mentioned earlier. This is bad, and one of the main reasons our defense way much worse. effective FG percentage This is one category that we did improve on slightly the 2nd year. We went from .476 to .468 and improved from 98th to 87th. offensive rebound percentage allowed. Tourney team gave up off. board 29.5 percent. Next year was up to 31.1. We ranked 101 and fell all the way to 173rd the next year. We were obviously in much better defensive rebounding position first year, which is a big part of team defense. You add all of this up and it is not particularly close. The tourney team was easily the superior defense. Simple eye test told me that though. Stats are stats, but it doesn't necessarily point to your "It's Molinari" theory. We had Leslee Smith that year, and a somewhat motivated Walt. Since then we've had no bigs. When you have to double the post, you will give up more 3s. The offensive rebounding discussion is also personnel based, IMO. I don't disagree that the tournament team defense was better. But there was going to be a fall off no matter who was coaching that D. I said for whatever reason our defenses haven't been as good under Moliari. That is a fact. They haven't been. You can decide for yourself why that is. But it isn't because we were thinner in terms of big men. Smith was on both teams and the 14-15 club also had Abraham. I don't particularly care why our defense has been worse. All that I care about is that it has been worse. We clearly need to get better in this regard or we are not going to get where we all want to get. I did decide for myself. By the way, if you think the second year shredded knee Smith was anything like the first year Smith your eye test brilliance let you down. Abraham might have been a rim defender if he hadn't broken a hand that could defend a rim. Agree we "need to get better in this regard", but if we do, it will be primarily personnel based. You can't just plug in stats across years without understanding the personnel of each team.