basketballjones

I think I’ve seen enough of the Teddy Buckets era to see this isn’t how winning, team basketball operates.

All joking aside - I would love to get this kid.

Pros: Listening to people attempt to say his last name. Seems to be able to stroke it. Has a "nasty" attitude (competitor, confident) Cons: Might have a credit card vertical, based off of the videos I watched. @Norm Peterson - got any workouts for him to fix it?

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I appreciate you talking me through my crisis, haha. I will step back off the ledge now.

I'm not sure I really care if he can guard a B1G center. Front, double, rotate, and play hard. Do what we have to do. I also didn't know that Walker was eligible tomorrow - that was pleasant news to me. Can a B1G center guard Shamiel if they end up on the perimeter with him? Our problem is offensively. Yvan is not a threat, at all, to score off of the roll. He is also not capable of catching the ball in the dunker spot and finishing. That is killing our offense. Shamiel, in limited minutes, has demonstrated to me that he is much more capable underneath the defense in the dunker spot and as a roll man. And I should say, I do not think he has played well in his limited minutes. I just can't watch Yvan play anymore.

It is very difficult to be a guy who has probably started and played huge minutes his whole career then playing 3 minutes. If you've ever played, you know it's very difficult to get in a rhythm or figure out your role with inconsistent minutes. Great. Semantics. Limited at this level? That's a really nice way of saying they're not good. Valuable contributors? How can you be a valuable contributor when you've played huge minutes on teams that are a now 11-32 combined? I am a nobody bitching on an internet message board, man. If our players are one, reading this, and two, upset by my words - then we have some bigger problems than I thought. I'm tired of the bs from Husker men's athletics. This crap is embarrassing. Constructive criticism is out the window at this point. Do better. Get better players. Work harder. Stop with the excuses. No other programs in the country that spend as much as we do, have the facilities and support that we do, and have the fans that we do struggle as much as us.

Does anyone have some inside info on Shamiel? I don’t get what is going on. No, he has not looked good in his limited minutes (no one would). Thor is terrible. Yvan is terrible. Lat hasn’t hit a shot or guarded well in many games.... where does Shamiel fit in there? I feel like a line-up like this... Point Guard - Webster 2. McGowens 3. Teddy Point Forward - Banton 5. Shamiel is worth looking at.

I just don’t know anymore...... Purdon’t 75 neb 65

Mayen sitting on bench >>>

I really don’t mean to be disrespectful, but Thor wouldn’t even be a stud at UNK. Stop playing him. This season isn’t going anywhere good - see what you have in Wood and Lakes (at least Lakes doesn’t try to do anything he can’t do).

The one game I didn’t get to watch. Makes sense.

Anyone else feel like things have been off (well, off in reference to our already typical... offness), since he started playing?

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And you might be right. My bias definitely learns towards being a “this is who we have,” mindset. And I tend to overvalue the talent cause they’re what we got and it’s not changing. That’s probably why I tended to win a few games a year I definitely shouldn’t have, but ultimately have a terrible record, hahahaahahaha

Don’t ever hesitate to weigh in. I’m a losing coach with only enough information to be dangerous. But I do disagree. I’ve yet to watch a game where I’ve gone, “ah yeah, just don’t have the horses to compete with these guys,” yet. Not even close. Sure, we don’t have certain horses at certain spots some teams might... but basketball is a team sport. Whole outweighs the parts (as Creighton demonstrates year in, year out against us). Sure, a 5-star center answers the majority of our questions. But if you have a baseline talent to compete, which I believe we do, those intangible things become the primary issue.

Man I thought I had taken over the role, unintentionally, of the resident @nustudent slightly-negative-but-ultimately-realist poster position.... but you are a whole another level my man.

I don’t think any part, whatsoever, of my post mentioned talent. Literally nothing we are having a problem with - outside of Yvan’s role - is a talent issue.

We give great physical effort in ways, but refuse to do the little things right and play as a team, which is part of giving great effort mentally. We don’t have enough guys who will just catch a pass, and immediately reverse it or move it. Everyone wants to be the guy to make the play off of a ball screen or something. We’re very one dimensional. You just handle our ball screens as a team, then close out comfortably. Yvan continues to leave 7-10 guaranteed points in the ether by his I inability to finish bunnies and and1 opportunities. He’s a zero-threat as a roll man on ball screens, and he’s a zero-threat as a drop down guy in the dunker spot. He played 30 minutes and Michigan’s big had 13 and 15, so it’s not like he really negated much. We have to either attempt to see if Andre can do it with the bullets flying, put Shamiel as the 5, or just wait and pray for Walker. I watched it quickly, but by my count Thor gave up two massive, back-breaker 3pt shots by over/late helping on a drive from the corner - which is a major no-no in big boy basketball. He’s also just not a threat to do anything offensively.

Decent amount of time off between this game with nothing to do but get right... NU 74 OSU 72 10

This team just does not do the little things well. Minor breakdowns, offensively and defensively, every possession. We should be up 5-8 on these guys at half. If these guys would buy in and commit to doing the little things correctly we’d be just fine.

Slipping screens isn’t fancy. Slipping every single screen and not actually setting it, which is what these ghost screening teams are, is “fancy.”

I was just coming on here to comment on this. The ghost screening crap has trickled down from the nba. It works for like one team (whoever Mike D’Antoni is coaching). It’s one of those things, like playing a full-switching defense that looks beautiful, but only if you already know how to do everything before that. You’re skipping learning/developmental steps if you go to this type of stuff in college, before you’ve learned how to do the other thing well. As an example - the best team I ever coach defensively (statistically, look, record wise), we switched almost everything on ball and tons of stuff on the backside. Fought through/chased all stuff where it looked like a guy was coming through a screen to score. Looked great and worked really well. BUT, the only reason we were able to do that kind of “advanced,” stuff, was because we spent the last 2 years beating basic man-to-man, no switching principals in first. You can’t skip steps. Screening is the first step you must master before you can get fancy.

Excellent write up

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