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Is there a chance that we sign more for 2017? I was sort of under the impression that Kissinger was it. Maybe there are some JUCO players still out there.

Had Theriot stayed healthy, we would have had a better record. I should clarify that the above team "on paper" could be a top 20 team. Assuming the chemistry was fine (which it obviously wasn't and still isn't), I think having Romeo as threat at the arc, Doyle as a more than capable point guard, Nicea and Cayton (and Maddie) with their ability to shoot outside and drive the lane, would take the pressure off Shepard and Havers and open them up even more. One of those "who do you guard" teams where everyone is capable of scoring in several ways. Cinco would be able to have some good minutes as well as our other freshman. But, we may have also had a lot of "stress reactions" and boots and people sitting on the bench while we all wondered why they didn't get more minutes.

Amazing what a difference a year makes. Just for the heck of it - assume none of what went down in the spring had happened. Yori is still here, Romeo likely is still here, we keep Cayton and Doyle, plus we have Nicea, Hannah, and Grace. That is one kick ass team with what we return, at least top 20 team if not top 15 or even top 10 by year's end. So much talent and experience. Guess we wouldn't have RCJ, though.

Guess I can answer my own question. Hairline fracture of her left wrist this time. http://www.omaha.com/neprepzone/basketball/minden-s-taylor-kissinger-trying-not-to-let-injury-derail/article_9e2c8352-2980-588e-a40f-432e62dd2287.html

I saw a tweet that said Taylor injured her wrist in the first half of her game last night and did not return. Does anyone know the extent of the injury?

Are either of the transfers that will be eligible next year good ball handlers? We really looked like a middle school team trying to get the ball up the court on the press. And even if we did manage to get it across half court, we oftentimes would still turn it over with a really ill advised pass (sort of the panic mode pass). It's just shocking to me to see a Husker team struggle so much against the press. I gave Jess a pass last season coming off the ACL injury and not being conditioned for the season. But to me she just doesn't look any more conditioned this season and seems very slow about getting down the court and in position to not have to foul on defense. Nicea and Maddie have some athleticism that can be useful to us - just need to finish better around the rim. Might be a confidence thing with Maddie right now. She seemed much better in the second half compared to the first. Nicea was good the whole game. I expected to see more from Jess, Allie, and Cinco.

I guess I expected to see a big step forward in terms of play and leadership from Shepard this season. I realize this is the only time I've seen them play this season, but she really struggled. I think Anigwe was underrated coming out of HS.

Illinois and Rutgers are pretty bad. Not sure when/where we play them but hopefully an opportunity to pick up a few wins there. And then maybe Drake and San Jose State so I guess that equals 4 unless we play very poorly.

I do think there are some unresolved chemistry issues. Would have been nice to keep Cayton but I cannot blame her for going elsewhere. Freshman looking pretty good when compared to our more veteran players.

Jess cannot jump to save her life.

Nicea is our best guard. First time I've been able to see them play, and she is way better than the others.

I think we had 25 turnovers to their 9 turnovers.

Hopefully we can keep up the hot shooting. Anybody watching Ohio State/Miami? OSU looks bad. Not sure what is going on with them.

One thing I noticed yesterday is that Washington State gave Maryland a game and lost by 10 at the end. Maybe Wazzu is a bit better than we thought and Maryland not as good as their ranking. Wish we we could find that clutch shooter. Really thought Cinco could have stepped into something like that because she had some good games last year, but it's looking like it is a bigger adjustment to the coaching philosophy than I anticipated. Thinking at this point in time, we could hopefully beat Illinois in conference, but not counting on anyone else. Need to learn a lot in the next month and settle in to the new system. Coach Williams had some good reliable shooters at USD. Not so much with us right now.

I was concerned about this game.

Can someone give me their thoughts on what the issue is with their shooting? Are they just bad shots, bad form, not set, rushed shots, etc? I think we got pretty spoiled there for a while with Lindsey Moore, Hooper, Theriot (who we could always count on to get a bucket), and Romeo. We just don't have anyone like that right now - we don't have that clutch shooter (or ball handler either). We have Kissinger coming in next year and hopefully she can get up to speed quickly, and then the two transfers seem to have good stats, but will we have a ball handler? I agree that Shepard needs to stay inside and keep that inside game established. I always kind of thought that about Chatrice White when she played at Illinois - that she popped out along the perimeter way too much. That might be an OK thing to do if our guard play was more of a scoring threat, but as it is right now, our inside game is going to have to carry us for a while.

http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/womens-basketball/huskers-historically-bad-on-offense-in-loss-to-missouri/article_ea0e1844-3c9e-50b1-a992-513a3dbaa8f1.html

Can't throw the ball in the ocean tonight.

AWKWARD

Well, there's this little tidbit out there. Sure, we only won our exhibition by 2, but we went deep into the bench, and we have a new coach. Illinois' starters played over 30 minutes each, and still lost their game.

Thanks for the updates. I couldn't listen in the second half due to data limitations.

Sounded better second quarter. But I feel we should be blowing them out at this point and I don't think we are. Hopefully we will second half.

Listening to broadcast. Hopefully things start coming together soon, because it doesn't sound the best.

What I hope to see is everyone staying as healthy as possible, and improvement as the season goes along.

I would agree. It could very well be a rough year. Sounds like ISU played the bench a lot and we still got beat easily.