basketballjones

Correct, which is my exact point and main concession I'm making.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/6998 I got my info from his rivals page - are you sure he offers at those other places? He also started out as a preferred walk-on - http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2017/3/26/15067830/luke-maye-kentucky-north-carolina-ncaa-tournament-game-winner - so he definitely turned down some major offers if true.

So - Luke Maye just won that game for UNC. Game winner, 17pts, million rebounds, 3/3 from FT (huge FTs too), and dove on a ball to get a huge jump ball late in the game. Luke Maye was a 3-star with just mid to low major offers, and only ended up at UNC because his dad played QB there years back. I bet if you were a fly on a wall in UNC's recruiting office there were many arguments against offering him a scholarship. Probably almost felt like they had to. I've been championing for years that we need to recruit more "Luke Maye"s - guys who don't fit this perfect mold that everyone think you have to have to be successful - but they shoot it well, rebound, are strong, super fundamental, and just play a solid role. I've gotten a ton of pushback on that - and rightfully so. Especially when I've brought up certain in-state guys, the typical argument against this is, "if they were so good why did everyone else miss them and why aren't they just blowing up at the midmajor/NAIA/D2 school they ended up at?" Totally fair argument. So here's my half-assed observation why I'm probably never going to see what I want and why everyone arguing against me is probably right: What does Luke Maye HAVE TO do for UNC? The answer? Nothing. Everything they get from him is an additional bonus. Because he's paired up next to 5-star freakish bigs, electric guards, and athleticism all over the place. In other words, Luke Maye can just be his role and do it well for UNC. NU would NEED him to do something entirely different because we don't have the talent surrounding him to make him a threat. And that's the biggest problem and difficulty in recruiting - what role does ________ have to play? And can they play that role without giving something up? Because there's already a Luke Maye in Nebraska HS right now - his name is Logan Strom of Norfolk. Strom might even be a better outside shooter and more skilled with the ball. But they are super similar guys. Strom is going to UC Davis and I wish him the best - he's about as good of a dude as they come - but man I wish we could have him on our squad as a role player. Hopefully NU can get into a position soon where we have a roster we love, and instead of taking stabs at other guys - we can afford to go take a chance with a local kid we might think can really provide a role someday. Btw... now that we have schollies available - can we re offer Arop or is that bridge officially burnt?

The Baidens we've used for the past two years have been perfectly fine. Little slick out of the box, but worn in they're just fine. Definitely not the reason my guys can't shoot or dribble I'm a fan of the old school Spaldings myself but who knows....

I'd prefer to see you in uniform going through all the shell positions

This summer. Terrible basketball - but to each his own.

Pretty crazy... I feel there's gotta be more to this than just basketball/coaching

Have you ever shot with those adidas rocks?

Doesn't remind me of Tai at all. Reminds me more of one of the Harrison twins at Kentucky. Tai and him are different builds. Smith looks like a running back, a bully on the drive, low center of gravity. Tai's more like a wide receiver. That might make sense to only me and I'm fine with that. Smith also looks like a much better outside shooter than Tai but who knows.

Nope. Well, maybe, but I agree with you. I think that's my point though - I'd still trade Iowa State's bball success over the past 20 years with ours. And there's nothing anyone can tell me that would make me believe we couldn't emulate their success. Obviously, the problem is Adidas and we should have Nike like they do ??

Maybe my favorite Husker conspiracy

Sure. It can be just about results. But if you want to be like Wisconsin you've gotta play and recruit like Wisconsin - and my other point was that you can't tell me an excuse for why Iowa State is better. Wisconsin has a lot more talent in their recruiting radius.

I saw Daum play twice in hs left severely underwhelmed each time. When he turned up at SDSU after his redshirt season and exploded I was purely shocked. And you guys know I'm desperate to get some in state kids.

I see a lot of posters wishing we could model ourselves after Wisconsin - what about Iowa State? There's absolutely zero reason I would accept that validates why Iowa State has had so much more bball success than us. Fun style of play. Electric players. Coaches who take second chances on kids and chances on kids who don't fit a perfect mold. Iowa State plays some fun basketball.

I absolutely cannot stand the Adidas ball. Heck, even the Baiden ball high schools in Nebraska have to use are better than the Adidas ball.

Not to mention that like 4/5 of the starters didn't qualify out of HS. Scott, Hollins, Billingsley, et al went JUCO.

So annoyed right now.

Kanon Koster, to me, was the best overall basketball player I saw this weekend. Literally does everything well. Unfortunate that he's not going to get looks because he's only about 6'3" and more of a savvy 3, stretch 4 game. And it's really unfortunate he's going to get labeled as not athletic enough to guard 2's at the college level, when he can literally dunk anything and has arms that hang down to his knees. Also, He wasnt at state - but this guy has serious potential - http://www.hudl.com/video/3/5047376/58bf7288c11a092ed858f9a9

It all becomes the same...

I certainly did not. I was worried this was a Doc Sadler-esque late add like "Mike Smith" or someone along those lines. My god, that name takes me back....

Evan Taylor is a fantastic player. I think it actually came as a surprise to everyone (staff included) that he was as capable as he showed. I wouldn't be surprised if we haven't seen the best Evan has to provide. The guy who I'm worried about as far as role development and position is Jacobsen. If you watch our loses or poor offensive showings you'll notice he's the clog. He's in the high post half the time - which is the worst place to be against man to man defense when your offense is dribble drive oriented, if you also have someone in the low post. It's as if the staff told him during his weak 3pt shooting that he needed to float around in his range - which is poor spacing when Tai/Glynn/Taylor are trying to drive. If no one is going to guard him on the perimeter - the answer is not to move him in and get in the way - it's to teach him how to immediately swing the ball and sprint into his ball screens. Or to attack at his partners man with a dribble hand off. Because if he's not being guarded on the perimeter, it means he's naked as he goes to ball screen, which means the guard can turn the corner easier and attack the big. Many of Jacobsen's drives were "probes," which I hate. He often drives at about 60% into gaps to see if he can create for someone else or manage to hang his way to the rim. Good teams just stayed in front of him and offered no help to the guy guarding him. Think back - how many times did you see him drive to the middle near the free throw line, jump stop, and have to just throw it back out to someone who got no advantage out of it? If he's going to be a threat, his drives can't be probes - they have to be purposeful. Either one move, go by, and get to the rim - or attack around the perimeter right at teammates defenders, not somewhere in between those two things.

I'm not gonna go back through my post history to prove this but I've been saying for years that our offensive transition lanes are miserable, our transition attack is terrible, our dribble drive rules/reactions are terrible, and our spacing is screwy. This video highlights how I feel transition should be played and how reactions to guys attacks should shake out. You don't have to be a pure dribble drive motion offense to react and attack this way. But the fundamentals of this in transition and early offense are incredibly solid. At the beginning of the year I believe I even made a post how it looked like we had figured a lot of these things out and I was incredibly encouraged. UCLA/Dayton games looked good in these regards. Then it just disappeared without a trace....

Why would GM ever leave Creighton?

Would you go as far as saying Thurman > Morrow? Asking for a friend. I'll hang up and listen.

A vocal, hold your teammates accountable, floor general cures a lot of problems. But, I don't disagree with you in general. When you're that bad from 3 and that bad guarding the 3 - something might be structurally wrong. Our statistical output (or lack thereof), seems more like an anomaly than it does a lack of skill. Glynn can shoot. Tai got significantly better. McVeigh can shoot. Jacobson looks like he has all the tools. Heck, even Evan Taylor's stroke looked relatively pure. Something is wrong when guys systematically can't make shots in game. Do they feel unsure in their role? Do they know if they're "allowed" to shoot? Are their expected types and areas of shots the offense is supposed to get but they don't seem to be happening? Does your defense not gel with the type of pace you want to play defensively? Lots of possible issues.