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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to hhcmatt in Game Day Essentials: Game #19 at Wisconsin   
    It's more of a 'cry for help' than 'easter eggs'
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to hhcdave in 6 Reasons Fred Hoiberg Is A Great FLOOR Coach   
    So I don't post nearly as much as I used to (duh) but believe me, I watch EVERY game and sometimes, kind of miss the old report cards I used to do from 2004-2015. I also regularly read this awesome website that Matt does a GREAT job with.
     
    Anyway, I've been absolutely BLOWN AWAY by how good of a FLOOR COACH (especially situationally) Fred Hoiberg is.
     
    Sure, we all know he can recruit... we all know he played in the NBA 10 years... we all know he was in the T-Wolves front office... We all know he built ISU into a winner, regularly put guys into the NBA and coached the Bulls... we also all know he can recruit.
     
    But nobody really seems to comment on his floor coaching much.
     
    Here are six instances I've noticed that I've been yearning for out of a Nebrasketball coach for YEARS and YEARS and NEVER SEEN. These are little things that will make a HUGE difference when we upgrade the talent and are competing for postseason. They are as important as free throws.
     
    1. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE RUNNING CLOCK INSIDE 1:00 LEFT AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF
     
    The first time I noticed this was against Southern Utah, and it ALSO manifested itself the very next game. It hasn't presented an opportunity since then, but two straight games, I saw Hoiberg do the following.
     
    In the first half, our bench is right in front of us on defense, obviously. The opposing team made a shot with around 36 seconds left and our guys were running out of bounds and about to pass it in with 36 seconds left. He YELLED and told them to WAIT - the clock is running - run it down to at least 32 before you in bound (you get 5 seconds, after all). This completely eliminates one possession (which can be huge) and it's something NO COACHES EVER DO. EVER. He did it twice in a row. I've never seen anyone mention this. How many one possession games are there in conference when you are where you need to be? Why do no other coaches do this? (I promise you, they don't)
     
    2. BRINGING IN PLAYERS WHO DON'T PLAY TO FOUL AT THE END
     
    He's done this in one game for sure, but it seems like two. Maybe at Indiana? I don't know how many times I see dumbass coaches leave their starters with 3 and 4 fouls in there to foul at the end. ESPECIALLY OUT OF A TIMEOUT. Drives me insane.
     
    I get that you want a steal and keep your best guys in, but when there's a 5% chance of that, it makes more sense to bring in Arop or Charlie or Kavas or whomever to use their fouls and then bring back in your key players with 3 and 4 fouls during the free throws. This might sound ho hum but name me one other college coach who does this.
     
    3. WILLINGNESS/LACK OF STUBBORNNESS TO MIX UP DEFENSES AND EVEN PLAY (GASP) A LOT OF ZONE
     
    We haven't had a coach willing to play semi consistent zone since...... well I go back to Danny Nee and I don't remember it (outside of some of Danny's teams). I don't believe Doc ever did much when he was here - ditto on Miles (outside of small stretches). Same with Barry. I can't tell you how many times I yelled at the TV "switch out of the damn man" and my good friend Dustin who also watches every game would say, "He doesn't believe in it. We don't play zone." Hoiberg has shown that he will adapt defenses based on opponent and game situation MUCH MORE than any of our coaches throughout the last 25 years. He has his team prepared for EVERYTHING.
     
    4. CALLED PLAYS/SETS OUT OF TIMEOUTS GETTING EASY SHOTS
     
    I'm willing to bet if you went back out of a timeout when we had possession, we run a set or play that gets us a good look 4 out of 5 times. And that's with (no knock on our guys) semi inferior talent.
     
    5. ADJUSTING AT HALFTIME
     
    A coach who actually (Gasps) adjusts at halftime??? We've seen this many times this year.
     
    6. LITERALLY NOBODY EXCEPT FRED AND THOR’S FAMILY THOUGHT THOR WAS A BIG TEN PLAYER. 
     
    I don’t think this gets brought up enough. Fred was literally the only one who spotted Thor’s strength and upside to want to keep him around. None of us saw upside or ability with Thor. Fred did and we see Thor becoming a better player each game. The shooting ability from three point land out of Thor from last year to this year is one of the most remarkable year to year improvements I’ve ever seen at the college level. 
     
    These are just six of many examples - #1 and #2 and #6 are the ones I REALLY wanted to point out because I haven't seen anyone ever talk about them. These are HUGE THINGS that coaches just don't do and that will win us games down the line.
     
    Fred is a freaking winner. He's all class. He's a name. He's a recruiter. He's a "wow" factor.

    But let's not forget he's a HELL. OF. A. FLOOR. COACH.
     
    If he can't get it done here, we literally are screwed.
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to jayschool in HHCC Game #20 - at Rutgers (Jan. 25, 1:00 PM CST)   
    The other team MORE
    Our team LESS
     
    Assists = NOT ENOUGH
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Handy Johnson in uneblinstu’s postgame chatter: vol 12; ed 19 - at wisconsin   
    A big positive for me was Cross tonight.  The threes are nice but the one play where he pump faked and exploded to the basket for a bucket plus the foul was a thing of beauty.  He is going to be a good one.  Get him and Yvan in the weight room this summer and they will take very big steps forward next year.  Oh, and add in the three athletic sit out transfers and you have a team that can compete for a full 40 minutes.  
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from fr8-train in Setting Records   
    I guess who really cares if we lose 20+ games this year. In my opinion, it doesn't really change the narrative or future of the program.  Hoiberg is in year 1 and to steal a phrase from PJ Fleck in Minnesota, we should really treat this as Year 0.  When you're given a month to field a team,  the lack of results shouldn't be surprising.  I'm more encouraged by some of the performances we've seen against the likes of Iowa and Purdue knowing that these will be the exception this year and not the rule as we we will be very inconsistent all year.  But, you can see an identity at times forming and its just going to take more dudes and time for this to completely come together.  This is a process (when is it not for Nebrasketball!) and we're building towards year 2 and especially year 3.
     
    What's fascinating is that if you look at Lunardi's recent bracketology he has 11 BIG teams in the field and 1 more (Minnesota) as the first team out of the field.  This is utterly astounding and is a good year to be rebuilding.  I look forward and hope we can give our conference bubble teams a "bad loss" down the stretch.  The conference certainly did us no favors a few years back when we were relegated to the NIT a after winning 22 games so hopefully we can pay it forward this year to a team or two!
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from ReidStag in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Thinking of Icelandic women...were you asking about Thor or me?
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to Faux Mike Peltz in uneblinstu’s postgame chatter: vol 12; ed 19 - at wisconsin   
    I actually thought we did compete tonight- but Wisconsin setting a program record on three’s and just total confusion on defending the pick and roll won’t get it done- need to shore that up ASAP- was hoping Doc would have our defense better- absolutely no need to triple team ANY big guy from Wisconsin. I don’t see Nigel Hayes or Ethan Happ or Frank Kominsky on this team...
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to cipsucks in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    thor is a god....
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Silverbacked1 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Thor's free throws ensured the cover, if anyone else was playing along 😀
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Silverbacked1 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Iowa says hello 😀
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to aphilso1 in Setting Records   
    Wisconsin just set a school record for made 3's in one game against us.  We're setting records already! (I kid, I kid)
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to Silverbacked1 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Our "B" team is soooooo much better than their "B" team it ain't funny.
     
    Also Wisconsin reminds me of our football team in the 80's.  Huge, slow, white guys that are shocked when they have guys run by them.
     
    Also somebody needs to show these guys how to grow facial hair.  
     
    And lastly,  isn't a Pritzel the bone or something that a bull has in its penis?
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Ohhhh and that freshman for them has great hair.  (Wahl?)  but he really sucks hind tit.
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from thrasher31 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    I don't know.  Kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.  We don't have the size or bodies that can play one on one down low with anyone so we gamble that our opponents can't make threes.  It worked against Iowa when they were awful but the strategy looks terrible when the other team is making shots.  I also would contend we are slow in closing out on a lot of these tonight.
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Red Don in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    NO QUIT!!
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from jason2486 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    I don't know.  Kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.  We don't have the size or bodies that can play one on one down low with anyone so we gamble that our opponents can't make threes.  It worked against Iowa when they were awful but the strategy looks terrible when the other team is making shots.  I also would contend we are slow in closing out on a lot of these tonight.
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to colhusker in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    That is the one think Charlie brings.  Good defense there.
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to Fullbacksympathy in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    One of these days Davison is going to get a real injury from getting his ass kicked.  No more fake shoulder, flop, WWE injuries.  So sick of this guy.  
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Cazzie22 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    I don't know.  Kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't.  We don't have the size or bodies that can play one on one down low with anyone so we gamble that our opponents can't make threes.  It worked against Iowa when they were awful but the strategy looks terrible when the other team is making shots.  I also would contend we are slow in closing out on a lot of these tonight.
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to Handy Johnson in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Close it to 7, then two shitty possessions...
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Silverbacked1 in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    It's 20 minutes of scrapping and effort like that which reminds me why the losses this year are meaningless.  Who knows what the next twenty minutes holds but you can clearly see the process and the buy in from the guys on a 7-11 team.  Even Jervay Green with a reduced role.  Be patient everyone!
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    Nebrasketball1979 got a reaction from Red Don in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    It's 20 minutes of scrapping and effort like that which reminds me why the losses this year are meaningless.  Who knows what the next twenty minutes holds but you can clearly see the process and the buy in from the guys on a 7-11 team.  Even Jervay Green with a reduced role.  Be patient everyone!
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to Dead Dog Alley in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    No, we aren't very good, but the officiating in this conference is shameful.
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to colhusker in Nebraska (7-11) (2-5) vs. Wisconsin (11-7) (4-3) Game Thread   
    Another flop called a charge
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    Nebrasketball1979 reacted to cipsucks in Setting Records   
    This program hasn't won an outright regular season conference championship in over 100 years.  Maybe a 20 loss season or two would have helped this program over the last century.
     
    Baylor went 0-17 in the 1944-45 season.  The next year they went 25-5 and made it to a regional semifinal.   The HUH (Huskers Under Hoiberg) will be just fine.
     
     
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