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Did McGowens intentionally not throw it to Verge all alone under the basket?

We give up so much when Derrick Walker is not in the game.

No - I was screaming it at the time. Not because I was worried about him missing FT's but because he is by far our worst ball-handler. We really got bailed out when they called the foul on that play as he was turning it over. And FWIW I thought overall Lat played pretty well tonight. He does at least try to play defense - and did well at it tonight. But you HAVE to have Verge in the game. Cost us a TO to because with Verge in the game we get the ball inbounded the first time.

I hope McGowens' Dad's tweet is not a reference to what is going on at NU but the timing seems odd and the post is ironic given Bryce's recent play. If you wanted to name a player on our team that does not appear to have winning as a primary goal I think Bryce would be the one named by a vast majority of people. His lack of effort on the floor - particularly on defense - certainly rings of indifference toward winning basketball. Difference between the way Bryce and Trey play in that regard is pretty striking. On a somewhat related note - did anyone see Trey at the game last night? I looked for her around the bench a few times and did not see him there. Given he is not playing it might not be too unusual for him to have been excused given the time of year, but with Bryce playing you would have thought he would still be in town.

Maybe -but the problems with the team this year seem WAY more tied to lack of scheme and effort than to lack of talent.

Good post. I think to say Bryce's effort on D is "subpar" is a vast overstatement. Hard to think of anyone we have had that plays with less effort. Sad given that Trey does play hard most of the time. Apparently Bryce has always been able to get by by being more talented than the competition - but eventually that catches up to everyone. What is perhaps most disappointing is that Fred seems to be far too "patient" with the bad decisions and poor effort by the team generally. I believe in positive coaching - but there have to be consequences for some of this poor play. Sometimes I wonder if he is putting in the same effort to coaching the team as Bryce is putting into his defense :)

I actually remember that game - and thought about it when I made the post - but I was assuming that we did not play anyone the entire game back then. Jack and Andre were both warriors that season - but never coming out in a 4OT game is pretty remarkable.

Not sure what the Husker record for minutes played in a game is - but betting Bryce broke it tonight. Played 19 minutes in the first half - and don't think he came out at all after halftime.

If this game had been officiated this way in Lincoln - I probably would have gotten ejected from the stands

Really feel bad that it looks like we are going to lose this game. Players fought hard - battling 5 on 8 the whole game.

Can't believe Bryce missed that drive (and did not get fouled - although I did not expect them to call it)

WOW ! How do you look at a replay for 2 minutes and get it so badly wrong. You have to be doing that intentionally.

OK - I was taking the announcer's word on that one. My bad.

I think Edwards is till on the bench. McPherson and Andre are not - they clearly were kicked out - as was Oleg. The TV announcers have no clue - about that or really anything else connected to this game.

Can't believe they fouled Bryce - and did it so blatently it had to be called.

Wow - Bryce got a good look. We needed that to fall.

Easy to block shots when you have very little fear that a foul might be called.

How many 3's has Wlicher missed?

That was horrible. NC State has clearly looked at enough Duke film to really learn how to flop.

Guess not he is back in. I suppose he needed a rest

Did Walker foul out?

Wish Verge would have looked for a teammate on that last play - but knew he was not going to - and frankly we would not be in this game without him on the floor.

Fixed it for you.

Did we call that time out? We needed to inbound it first so we could take Wilhelm back out for offense. They put him in to rebound the FT - but I would really rather not have him in now.

Bryce got shoved about 3 feet on that drive.