basketballjones

Well it was fun while it lasted.

If ed was healthy and either Tai or Glynn were injured we wouldn't even be in games imo.

I think I see what you're trying to say here.... it's subtle, but I see it.

You and Jim Weeks of Beatrice fame would agree with one another. To the tune of many wins. Problem with this philosophy is you will run into teams who dominate you in the post, backdoors, well organized ball screen action, and a lot of and1's at the rim. In other words, college basketball players are too good with the ball, too good at the rim, and coaches are too good with their spacing and actions to not help.

So I didn't get to watch the game - but what you're describing sounds like a late stunt to help in a pack defense. The basic fundamental of any pack defense is that you're in help early, before the other guy's drive has started, then as he nears you on the drive, you're cutting him off, anticipating him to pass to the guy you're guarding so you can close out to him. However, sometimes you have to help a bit late, which means you're lunging towards the gap to help the drive while the drive is already happening. This a breakdown in the defense that requires your team to make a decisions - do we all stunt and go or do we fully rotate? Sounds like the situation you're describing we rotated to help and the first guy who left had to scramble to find the open guy. Puts your team in a tough situation, yet if done right, guarantees no open kick out shot. Stunt and go, if done right, guarantees you won't lose a man since no one is rotating/switching - but if the stunts are hard enough and the guys don't recover well enough, you'll give up drive angles leading to kick outs. Where I've seen Nebraska struggle defensively these past two years has been being somewhat in the middle on that decision of whether we'll rotate or stunt and go. Also, regardless of that decision, when we lose/give up 3's, we seem to struggle to "help the helper." Defenses that are consistently elite at helping the guy who had to help win ball games. It shows awareness, anticipation, teamwork, and lack of indecisiveness.

I've never had any issue being critical of some issues I've had with TM - but I'm really not sure what you're getting at here. At this point, Jordy is flat out terrible. You're basically praying he doesn't make a mistake on defense and that he's gonna actually catch the ball without traveling/throwing up some weird shot on offense. If he's ever effective here, it won't be until his Junior/Senior year. The fact Miles gets him any minutes at all is solely a credit to his foresight and attempt to get Jordy minutes so he can gauge where he's at and get used to game speed at this level. Also, as others have said, scoring wasn't the problem yesterday. If you keep creeping within 3pts and then proceed to not be able to give up stops - playing the freshman (Horne) who's prone to defensive errors and rebounding errors - is not the right play. Could Horne have stepped up and made some amazing play to get us over the hump? Absolutely. But that's on him to correct those other mistakes so he's trusted to be on the court to do so. Our coaches have this team in a great position right now. Let's chill, and buy in. We have to be committed to making our home game environments ridiculously hostile - we are in control of our destiny right now.

I should have clarified. I'm not instate-baiting here. Just trying to access where I think these two are level wise.

Would you take either at NU?

I can't go - but would love to hear the thoughts of those who went.

I once beat Alonzo Edwards in a 5 spot shooting competition in "Coaching Basketball" class at UNL..... not that anyone asked

Dead legs... wish we coulda gotten that one with the break coming up. Didn't have it today - no big deal! Move on

Bad closeouts killing us right now. Major downside to playing/practicing zone a bit more. Different closeouts in man and zone.

Correct. I don't understand this. Jordy is simply not ready yet.

I think he's fine

This is, uh, how do I say this - "fun to watch" - is that how the kids say it?

I 100% agree. I'm getting so sick of it. The problem is how athletic and fast everyone is. Pretty tough to call a generic three step travel when you consider how fast they're moving and the gray area during the "gather" of the dribble. But I think it can be called on the catch better, and while pivot foots are being utilized.

We were playing packline before Mollinari came.

Yes

Ok that's what I was wondering - Ed being on the bottom changes a lot. Typically, you put a quicker guard on the bottom that's tasked with going corner to corner. So I'm guessing the way the thwart leaving corner 3's open was Jacobson showing on the wing allowing our wings to recover?

@Dean Smith Care to provide a breakdown? It certainly didn't seem like a conventional 1-3-1. I couldn't rewind or replay any of it - what was the traditional personnel formation? What seemed unique about it was how much roaming room Jacobson had in the middle. Seemed like he was asked to do a lot and performed admirably in it. It was a very high extended 1-3-1 also. Edit: NO, I DONT THINK THIS SHOULD BE IN THE POST GAME CHATTER DISCUSSION BECAUSE ITS GOING TO BE SOMETHING WE SEE IN THE FUTURE.

Just another ho-hum Nebrasketball game

Why can't we seem to figure out how to switch that stuff? It's Horne and Jacobson, they should be able to relatively guard the same guys. Just switch hand offs.

I feel for McVeigh - can't seem to do anything right. Dove on the ball, got a steal, found it with his foot accidentally. Had that great drive and great move on the other end and accidentally dribbled it off his foot. And Maryland's been on nice run while he's been on the floor. He's kind of bad luck Brian right now.

It's worth restating

Psssst... I really enjoy watching Tom Crean lose