basketballjones

My take on the transfer portal, is that most teams are basically saying, "we're going to fight to keep (pay, promise starting position) anyone who has shown above replacement value production." We really only have 3 of those guys on the roster. Gary, Mast, and Williams. Everyone else is very replaceable from a statistical perspective. JL (who I love and think still has massive potential) averaged 6.9ppg this year on 42% shooting from the field. On paper, you should pretty easily be able to replace a 6.9ppg guy. Btw, major props on JL for 6.9 on .420 shooting - HEY-O. Essentially, if you aren't promised to start and/or given a massive NIL deal, you're considered replaceable. Unfortunately, this really sucks as a fan, as we tend to get attached to these guys. But from a strictly "on paper" perspective, they're just numbers, and you should pretty easily be able to replace a guy who only gets > 8ppg. Losing guys like CJ and JL really sucks because as fans we've learned to love and appreciate them - but statistically speaking - we should very easily be able to replace them with non-tweener athletes with similar or better production. In theory at least.

Can I just say how blown away (in a good way) that at a P5, men's athletics program - that one of our culture values is "Be Kind"? Call me soft, I really don't care.

Yuck. This sucks.

The more I watch this ncaa tournament the more I feel like we just got the worst possible draw. There’s countless teams in the 6-10 seed range I feel we’re better than.

I love CJ and appreciate him so much. But I'm not sure CJ could guard me - so I highly doubt we'll be seeing him play for Pitino.

A lot of people on this board are over analyzing one loss to a red-hot Texas A&M team.

I fully expect (and expected) to lose Keita, CJ, and Lloyd. I think anyone in here starting to downplay Rice's potential is just sour grapes. Kid had loads of potential.

This is really disappointing. He's either going to end up somewhere with less chance for success, or he will be at a much smaller school.

Nail, meet hammer head.

Finally home and had some time to reflect… The second I saw A&M line-up for the tip I immediately said, “oh no this is a baaaad match for us.” They were just too big, too “man strong,” and too physical for us. I knew in my head they were good offensive rebounders, but when I saw them I understood it wasn’t an accident. Mast and Allick are great players but they’re simply not big/long/athletic enough to rebounds against them. Our guys worked hard, but they simply couldn’t high-point rebounds high enough that tips didn’t happen. Oh and then of course they shoot 60% from 3.

Deep sigh

I’m here - it’s like 100% husker fans

I don't know exactly what my first game was, but it was in the womb for the 1986-1987 season.

The good: they don’t shoot the 3 well and the don’t defend the 3 well. The bad: they offensive rebound well and they have a “dude,” which is my biggest fear. Our defense is not built to stop “1 guy” who’s going off. Hopefully they can add in some adjustments this week.

Maybe it’s just my experience, but I find it very non-user friendly. The drop down and roll over menus frequently don’t work and you have to hover over just perfectly to make it work.

Shannon just would not take no for an answer today.

They’ve struggled with this every time we’ve played them.

I don’t think Mike Woodson is sure how to attack Nebraska’s defense lol. My guy…. Watch some film?

NU 78 IU 77 1

Playing for ncaa seeding now

Yes. I’d say that’s good.

I almost burned down my house tonight - good or bad omen for tomorrow?

Easy now...

Still awaiting the review.