Navin R. Johnson

I was thinking the same thing, until I realized Williams was not in that five.

Yup. I was expecting a guy that can shoot and pass from the high post area. Like you said, it is still early.

I wonder if Morgan is becoming the odd man out. He only played about 7 minutes and Meah did not play. Meah will get some minutes and looks like Berke is settling in to his spot as well. Things will probably change when we start playing teams with more height and post players that actually post up. Bigs always get in foul trouble so there might be a few more minutes for Morgan in those situations.

He went to Pacific after NU. Not sure after that. We should have gone after Dru Kuxhausen, a teammate of Green at Western instead.

Someone tell Handy not to go back and re-read this thread!

I blame Satterfield.

Michigan State beat Niagara 96-60. Frankie Fidler (B West, UNO) started and had 11 pts and 4 rbs in 18 minutes. State looks solid and played well together but might lack that one go to guy. The game went about 15 minutes into the start of the Husker VB game against Oregon and my wife was complaining. I told her this is what it is like being a Husker basketball fan for about every TV game!

He was 20 of 22 from the field. It was a five point game with a little over two minutes to play.

My thoughts after one game: The hero ball talk and some guys going one on one I think are a combination of first game jitters but also the coaching staff knowing we would have mis-matches and telling the guys to exploit those. It's always a fine line between getting your points through your offense and not forcing but at the same time taking what they give you. I never really feel Brice forces shots. He takes shots he can make. He obviously will be the go to guy, like Petteway a few years ago, and could put up big numbers but I don't see him scoring in the same way Petteway did. I think the staff is not giving away any sets for Conner E yet, but I can see him getting the same treatment like KT did last year (as one poster pointed out) Brice is the consistent guy and CE can get hot in a heartbeat. If Conner is off, we need GG to hit shots. If both are off, we will struggle, if both are on we will be tough. Meah is probably better coming off the bench but coach likes to get him a quick bucket off the tip with a low post iso. He ended up playing the same minutes as someone off the bench. I like what Morgan gives us and like his aggressive play but he won't be able to power over people in the Big Ten like he did last night. I hope the team starts to click soon as far a running the offense smoothly. Might have to play Sam a little more just to get the proper movement and back cuts. Overall the team looks a bit slow but we are bigger. I have no idea how good we are (or bad we are) right now. We have a lot of potential and a lot of questions.

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Yup. A great example would be Indiana's football team. Where were all the expert predictions for them to be having the season they are?

I also hoped we would be better on the glass with the additions this year, although with the offense coach likes to run it can be difficult to hit the O boards as everyone is spread out on the perimeter with that 4 out, 1 high post set. We do need to control the defensive glass better this year, or you might as well go back to a smaller lineup with shooters.

I wonder if Coach H told the officials to make us play through contact.

Probably going off potential