Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty

Meah probably hits the 20 minute mark if he wasn’t in foul trouble. His size was causing Kalk issues.

What a great feeling. I was wrong about this team! I don’t think Creighton is what they’ve been the last few years, but it’ll end up being a Q1 win unless they tank with an injured Ashworth.

You were fun to watch. I miss those teams!

Sure. But the sentiment of that saying is that it doesn’t matter as long as you win. And that’s not true in college basketball. It should be true in November, but for some reason the selection committee is told to treat November games equally to February games. Which is absurd and goes against the spirit of sports.

Unfortunately, the metrics used to select tournament teams disagree...

Yeah, I understand a new roster takes time to gel, but the problems appear to be deeper than that. Pretty much as you described... the individual players added from the portal just aren't very good IMO. Not enough shooters, and it's not like we have athletic freaks in their stead. Just a bunch of plodders. People overreacted from the tourney game last year. Everyone freaked out that we needed to get bigger just because one team beat us in the paint. But they never mention that A&M happened to hit all their threes that night too, something they never did. I wonder if Fred got wrapped up in that narrative... I do not agree that this will be Fred's last year. Nor should it be. We aren't firing a coach a year after making the tourney.

More guys will get minutes early on, but I believe this will be the rotation that develops. Starters: Worster Williams Griffiths Gary Meah Bench: Janowski Essegian Morgan Mystery Portal Big Man If Janowski isn’t ready to roll, it opens the door for Hoiberg or Ulis to get some minutes.

Robin just said he thinks Kyle ends up at UCLA. Damn.

He still pulled defenders out of the lane because they knew he could shoot. Kyle’s defender wouldn’t have to set foot outside the lane. I’m not saying the additions are bad or that I don’t want Kyle. I’m just refuting the comment from another poster that said we’re not moving away from what Fred does offensively. A guy like Kyle or Payne would absolutely change the offensive game plan, for better or worse.

As much as I like our new additions, I’m not sure I’d say we’re maintaining our offensive identity with these changes. Neither Worster nor Ulis are good shooters, especially not as good as the guys they’re replacing. If we replace Allick with a guy like Kyle or Payne, that’s a big change from Allick stretching the floor. Neither of those guys are three point threats. My concern is we’re overreacting to the last game we played, and the changes we make could do more harm to the offense than good to the defense. Not to mention I don’t think we’ve actually added any great defenders… just guys who are improvements over bad defenders like Keisei and Wilcher.

I hope not. I think people are forgetting Ulis was like… Plan D in our portal PG search last year. Then he got suspended and we went to Boogie as Plan E. Based on their careers prior to Nebraska, Worster seems more poised to be starter.

Per Gary Sharp (UNO play-by-play guy), Fidler will be announcing on his morning radio show on Monday morning. Probably means it’s either us or Creighton. I’d rather have Griffiths if we can only land one, but both would be nice.

Except Gary was in a red jersey meaning it wasn’t even from the dance

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. People overreact to the last thing that happened. Suddenly we aren’t good enough to win a tournament game because we lost one game? Yeah, they beat us off the dribble and on the glass. Despite that we’d still have been in that game if they didn’t go uncharacteristically nuclear from three. Also when you’re not a top five team, you’re going to have some weaknesses. Our weakness was handling extreme athleticism. Sure, in a perfect world you want to fix that weakness… but at what cost? If it takes away our strengths is it worth it?

I think they can play together. It shouldn’t be much different than Rienk playing with Allick. The nice thing about Morgan is if Rienk is on the bench he can serve as a center better than Allick could due to his size. But ideally we get one of the athletic bigs (Payne, Kyle). That way we can pretty much always have two of the three on the court at once.