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@thrasher31 and @No Place Like the Vault 100 losses in 5.5 years for Hoiberg. Supposed offensive genius with a timeout in his pocket, standing with his hands in his pocket on the last possession. I assume this will get downvoted too?

Hoiberg Fire-O-Meter 10 = Izzo Lifetime Contract 1 = “Fire Mike Woodson” chant at halftime. I was at 6 before this game and I believe for the first time in quite a while I’m going below a 5 to the fire side. One nice run, that ultimately still didn’t result in anything, and the rest has been absolutely trash.

As Nebrasketball as it gets. Loser program. Just a joke. So tired of this crap. We deserve so much more.

The wheels on the bus come off MU - 82 NU - 69

It’s not to me! When you’re constantly pre trapping and doubling the post you’re gonna face teams who’ve figured it out. Especially after year 2.5 of being in this system.

If a 10 is - this is my coach sign him up for as long as he wants. 1 being Mike Woodson…. I’ve gone from about an 8.5 to start the season to about a 6. This is wearing on me. Gimmick defense mixed with hot-potato “find someone to chuck it up eventually” offense is driving me insane.

Get ready to learnt NIT skers

Idk, I keep getting told this defense is great!

So, basically anyone good haha. Or anyone kinda good on the road.

NU - 71 RU - 73

Nebraska needs to entirely re-think it's defensive philosophy, and I imagine many of you think I am insane saying that. "But we just had one of the best years in program history last year." Was it really because of our defense? We essentially run a gimmick defense. And it, at this point, statistically only works at home. This defense requires you to work SO HARD and be 100% LOCKED-IN. When those things happen - we can literally beat anyone. When they don't (and don't can mean like 98-99%), literally anyone can beat us. And it truly does not make sense if you think about it. When it is not working, we give up so many, wide-open, barely contested 3's. If you were so worried about paint touches and being able to tag roll men - why not just sit in a packed-in 2-3 Zone? If you're willing to give up help & recover 3's all game long because you don't want to allow paint touches - then again - just sit in a 2-3 zone. Don't work as hard and exhaust your guys for the same result. At some point a coach needs to decide if he wants to just play man-to-man defense or if he just wants to play zone. When you muddy things up in there you're just a gimmick defense and people will figure that out. Also, you cannot ask your guys to work as hard as they do on defense, rotate that much, be that sound, and then give them nearly free-reign to chuck up any shot you want on the other end. That results in a lot of 28+ second defensive possessions, and 5-15 second long offensive possessions. A recipe for disaster with the athletes and shooters we see. A highly disciplined defense paired with a highly undisciplined offense (at least from a player shot selection/role perspective) is a recipe for disaster in mens college basketball. Why do we insist on pre-doubling a post player? Who is the last post player we have seen that was truly efficient enough to beat you 1on1 enough times that the offense can score enough points to beat you?

I stand by this statement. Made almost exactly a year ago.

Embarrassment. Bench these guys. Meah is a disaster. Rollie is broken.

NU 77 PU 71

Meh.............. that sounds like a lot of excuses. At a certain point, your weight and weight room strength has nothing to do with if you can handle the ball with toughness.

In my experience... Kids who the game moves too fast for are either: 1. Bad 2. Young 3. Not bought in and more focused on themselves, so they're not doing what they're asked to do before they do what they can do. I don't think he's bad. You can't call him young anymore. So while I don't think he's a selfish kid or a bad teammate, my guess is he's more focused on himself and what he's doing, and not how he fits and moves in the big picture to create opportunities for himself and others. In my personal opinion, and clearly I am not there, he needs a fire lit under his ass and needs to be challenged. "Low confidence" is such a cop-out. Playing with fire, violence, and toughness is a choice.

In scrub minutes against Southern.

They guy who needs to get his head out of his ass is Gavin Griffiths.

Ulis is simply not very good and Rollie, who was one of my early favorite players, is becoming increasingly difficult to stick up for. He is struggling.

I feel none of you want to hear this but so be it... Sam and Essegian both played 25 minutes apiece. 25 minutes was the highest total of Sam's season so far. Their two perimeter guys combined for 61 points. Sam is: 1. Better at home than he is on the road. He's an energy guy that gets the crowd into it and feeds off off the crowd, in short spurts. 2. Better with less minutes. He can't be a full-time guy, he does not possess the length to contest shooters. I've never seen someone work harder flying at shooters to contest, and watch the 3pt just splash in his face.

NU - 79 IA - 77 4 Make or "not really break, but continue bubble watch type of season" game for us.

This should be a ranked basketball team.

NU - 72 UCLA - 73 Man……. Idk…. Seems illogical to pick against us at home in conference play. But idk. UCLA has some dudes.

Man that’s the GG I dreamt about

Can we just call this game and let people go home. Uuuuuggggglllllyyyy