basketballjones

If my son was a late-blooming basketball player and we wanted him to get better offers... I would do whatever I could in my power to work the emails and phone calls and stay as far as humanly possible from JUCOs. Someone will have a spot late.

What happened? I didn’t watch the game

@Norm Peterson - Here ya go bud: 1. How explosive is he? Can he dunk effortlessly? Watching him in warm-ups and watching him generally operate throughout the beginning of the game, I didn’t think he had much explosion. Then, he caught a drop off pass after a steal, and drop-step/no dribble, dunked the absolute shit out of the ball- like one of Copeland’s Shaq-dunks. Had another good one hand cram after a steal towards the end of the game. He has a herky-jerky style to his game ala James Palmer, the kid from Boystown (that plays at Witchita State now), and Shavon Shields. 2. How smooth are his handles? Good enough. 3. What's his motor like? Dove for a couple loose balls, rebounded, seemed to play hard. 4. So, he hits at a high percentage; does the shot look good? (i.e., good form, quick, good release point, elevation on the jump, etc., such that it will translate to the next level.) He can stroke. But he didn’t look selfish at all, I didn’t think he took one bad shot all night. Shot looks good, not perfect or necessarily quick - but I find that a bit overrated. 5. Is he scoring at all three levels? Is he getting to the rim, can he pull up mid-range off the dribble, etc. Yep. He has an old man’s game. Will destroy church leagues after his playing days are over.  We don't need another guard this year, but would he be willing to attend prep school for a year? I would never do that if I was a player or giving advice to a kid. Don’t risk injury or losing attention. Get the best offer you can and take it. Would he be willing to greyshirt? Same answer. So..... where’s he going or where should he go. First off, has UNO got a hold of this kid? Personally, I think they’d be insane not to snatch him up. Millard South was not very good. But let me put it this way, if I was not from Nebraska but you called me up and said, “hey fly in and watch this kid Nebraska’s got committed and tell me what you think.” I’d answer you, “Dang he’s pretty good, was the best player on that court easily. Looks like ya got a good one!” I’d say his biggest knock is he has the game and thickness of a 6’7” 3-man, but is only like 6’4”, 6’5” (and didn’t seem to be a particularly long 6’5” - but I could be wrong). I dunno bros! Love me some instate kids!!! I’d love to hear @Jacob Padilla ‘s take.

I’ll do my best to make you proud

As Bo Pelini would say, Amir was out there moving around today.

I’m an instate homer, always have been, so in an attempt to maintain my homerism - I’ll make this statement: if there’s a 6’5” guard/forward getting 23ppg game in class A - he probably deserves our attention (Central kid). I’m gonna go watch him over break, I’ll report back!

NU 92 S - 48

Oh man where do I start.... *That’s a game we lose under Miles for at least 4/6 years he’s coached here. No kids, deadish crowd, break coming up, coming off some emotional wins with illness creeping through the team. Nice to have talent. If Doc was coaching that game with his players, that’s 21-19 at half or something. *I feel bad for CSF’s coach. He had a phenomenal game plan that I expect conference teams to exploit. His team executed the general principles of it well, also. Too bad he has some bone-head individual players who lost him so many crucial possessions when it coulda been made into a real game. *That was an ugly 20 from Roby. I did not think he played well at all. We kinda forced it to him in the second half and he clanged his way to 20 somehow. Should have had 30 with his miss free throws and missed opportunities earlier in the game. *If Glynn woulda had just an “ok” year last year - he’d be receiving so much more pub this year. He’s really doing some special, special stuff to lead this team. And his defense.... OOOHHH MY ? *I love Cope and Palmer. *Nana’s never seen a shot he didn’t like. *Tom Allen is that dude. 11:52 mark in 1st half - his 1on1 defensive transition - 99.9% of people can’t do that. *As long as we don’t ever have the type of team that solely relies on Brady to be a superstar, he could go down as one of the most serviceable bigs we’ve had IN A LONNNGGGG TIME.

I think we can meet in the middle and agree that a lot of how they play can exacerbate if you were a bit rusty or off.

-The Brad Underwood Coaching tree most not have many branches, a little inbred. How many timeouts ya gonna call right before TV timeouts? And again, that offense is so stupid. Also, you can’t force your guys to play that crazy of defense for 30 games, while also asking them to run the most strenuous offense too. -Lots of people saying we looked tired, rusty, etc... to start that game. Disagree, that’s just how Illinois, wait, I mean Okie State makes you look. Those dudes are blowing their load on every possession in the first half. Once they stopped to breath we smoked ‘em. That’s coaching and player leadership to stay tough and stay the course. -Losing to Texas Tech was the best thing for us - it taught us how to play against crazy defensive pressure. Miles and Lewis have gotten really creative recently to get guys open. The set that got Borch a lay-up in the second half, and the back-door set that shoulda been a Palmer dunk were beautiful. -This is my favorite Husker team I’ve ever been a fan of since I’ve been old enough to really follow them. The tourney year under miles was a good team, but I always thought TP and WP were pretty selfish. JP and Cope are a thousand times more enjoyable duo to watch than those guys in my opinion. -James Palmer is so hard to guard if anyone in our squad can hit a couple threes. He’s a freight train to the rim. -Sanford Pentagon puts on a great show - that was fun. Great meeting you in person @hhcmatt

Skers - 89 Baseball team - 59

We had zero starters have less points than field goals attempted. Typically a good sign for your offense.

Nu - 73 OS - 65

He’s athletic and works hard. Takes bad angles and has bad balance on his close-outs. All fixable with time and experience. He moves his feet just fine, just typically not starting from a good place so it looks like he can’t.

You are 100% correct

-incredible -god that felt good -Palmer showed up big today -Tom Allen for Heisman tonight? -low key great game for Roby -Nana made some huge plays that won’t show up on the stat sheet -Brady and Borch continue to give great minutes off the bench that no other big we’ve had in the past few years have provided -Cope didn’t play his best and was still awesome -my only negative, sorry, but I’m recruiting as if I have one more scholarship than I do (Thor) this off season

NOOOOOOOO I FORGOT TO DO MY SCORE DAMMIT!!!!

You really think Minnesota is a bottom 4 team? Dang... I sure hope not.

X10 Needed it when they started sniffing a run. Was yelling at my TV the whole time.

Bummer. Credit were credits due - Cofey was a man. Sometimes the game is bigger than basketball and winning and losing - good for the young man on minnesota’s Team to get a win for his mom.

Actual highlights

Best analogy I’ve ever heard?

NU - 78 Minny - 73

Feel free to merge this into the “official” post game thread - but I gotta drive so I HAVE TO get this posted NOW! ? * Great job by our boys tonight. Those guys guard like a bunch of Juco junkyard dogs. We took care of it as well as we needed to, and when you do that against those guys - they can’t do much. * Why would you want to play for Brad Underwood? That offense is junk. Zero room for playing basketball in it. Also, if you’re lucky, you get to play with his terrible son. And you get to get yelled at by a guy who looks like a mob boss the whole time. * I wouldn’t worry about Roby leaving early.

From a local, public news and media station - to determining the NCAA’s rankings and tournament odds - either way I’m just proud of NET. ?