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It’s worth repeating!

HEART. TOUGHNESS. CONFIDENCE. All B1G road wins are great wins.

Kid can really play. Excited for this get. High IQ, B1G body, and can get buckets. He looks like he'd fit into this year's squad well.

Too little too late or not, Nebraska is a very well coached, smart, tough B1G team. That’s the highest scoring offense in the conference. We held them to 50. 50. And the last 10 were garbage buckets. Unreal defense.

The KSU matchup is a sneaky HUGE game for us this season.

Baye Ndongo is a great looking player. He'd be licking his chops seeing what we're doing with Walker. His high school team runs that exact set for him.

I'm liking the basketball I'm seeing on both ends of the court. The effort is there. That's a result of good coaching and a roster with high character, smart players. Will that be enough? I don't know, but I'm optimistic Fred has found a formula for success, and I'm not sure Trev will want to risk stopping that momentum.

I liked this without irony, humor, or shame!!

This is one of the reasons I hope Lawrence gets more live minutes. Guessing he is capable of becoming a better ball handler than both. He needs rep though because he’s not ready yet.

Love that you can see Strick in the background. I bet he's in heaven watching this kind of defense.

I'm sure they'll be relieved when conference play starts. The Big East sucks this year and they'll fart out enough wins on their home court to be overrated enough to make the tournament.

Obviously Griesel and Walker were great. But Gary was a monster on those 9 boards. He kept an elite athlete off the glass because he was a better athlete. Probably time to start giving our defensive guru on staff some serious recognition here. That was about as high IQ as I have ever seen from a Nebraska defense. Creighton will always be skilled and finesse basketball. That’s why you beat them by punching them in the fing mouth. The weirdest part is that game didn’t look like a fluke to me. We were bigger, stronger, and smarter. Kind of like a B1G team is supposed to look.

I was coaching today and cannot believe this score. I cannot wait to watch this repeatedly. That’s an insane defensive effort!!

My thoughts too. At least be good at something. Be big. Murder the glass. Be bullies. Keisei and CJ are very bad defenders. Any of Sam/Juwan/Bando can guard the perimeter better.

All of this is 100% true, and worse still… The truth behind that “health” hiatus he took is movie level insane. He really needs to stfu about Nebraska or some real shit is going to leak.

I am nearly 100% positive Lawrence is better than both players at this point. He can guard opposing D1 guards and make an open three. He should have been given an honest look today. Should be interesting with Walker.

This team is good defensively. There is an identity and buy in on that side of the ball. Offensively we have no choice but to keep the ball moving. When it stops so do we. We don’t have the luxury of a guy who can simply win 1v1 matchups. But they are an unselfish bunch and I think they’ll be slightly worse than average on O by mid season. I don’t have any high expectations, but if you play proper defense, you’ll beat the teams you’re supposed to beat like APB.

I'm surprised Oleg hasn't gotten more looks. I like what I've seen from him on offense better than WB of Keita.

He made some shots and was generally bad on defense. Once they pressured and played physical in the second half, he was in over his head. I’m happy with him this season so far though.

I didn’t realize until the game started that Anderson coached SJU. This was an absolute nightmare matchup. It was a huge mistake to not put as much athleticism as we could on the court to combat their speed. Lawrence and Dawson should have gotten all of the Wilcher/Tominaga minutes in the second half. The youngsters need to take their lumps but they are much more talented athletes and huge upgrades defensively. The best thing you can do to a pressure team is pressure them right back. No way can Witcher and Tominaga do that. I also think Kojenets is a better player than WB and Keita at the 5, at least offensively.

He's had nagging injuries essentially since he arrived. He has played a crapload of games already as a highly active AAU player. Hopefully he can get healed because the talent is obvious. He could really probably be a lot like SG if he shadows his game.

Agree with most of what you covered. I will say what I’ve been saying for awhile: the only position WB can play is the 5. He looked mobile and fluid and comfortable Monday. Walker’s absence has forced WB into that role, and he looks great at the 5.

After watching the game... We sorely lack an identity, but one could easily be carved. Here's who earned starting spots after two games, IMO: Griesel, Bando, Dawson, Gary, Walker. Want an identity? How about a team who won't get outworked? Maybe they won't win, but they won't get outworked. I don't even think it's close. I really, really like all five of these players. They play hard. They are athletic. They could be excellent defensively. They have enough skill to learn to score at the rim. I am tired of seeing Wilcher and Tominaga not be able to guard opposing guards. They give up so many more points than they score. They are not D1 defenders. Sorry. Lloyd looked much better than both of them defensively. Kojenets is severely underrated. He isn't a fluke out there. He's a Euro player with legit offensive skills and great effort. The offense was night and day with him in the pick and roll. He's the son of a pro and it shows with his knowledge of spacing and skill inside. He'd be first off the bench for me at the 5. Wilcher, Tominaga, WB, Keita can battle it out for the rest of the minutes. I think Wilcher has to play the 4 and WB has to play the 5. I'll include Lloyd here too but I'm pretty optimistic about him. He has great size and some good instincts.

It takes awhile to learn where to anticipate when rolling out something this intuitive. We were trying to speed up the ballhandler and force an awkward shot but fell asleep a lot in the first 25 minutes or so. We also went on a 21-0 run in the second half once we settled in. It helped when we had a more athletic roster on the court, but there's nothing like live action to see how philosophy is actually supposed to work and how hard to have to work to actually execute.