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Dean Smith

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  1. It depends on who your audience is. Unless you're a fan of college recruiting then you don't know either of them. I'm sure there has to be lots of people that know Bol and would have no idea who the football guy is. Obviously, a football recruit is going to be more well known than a basketball recruit in the state of Nebraska.
  2. Sam could do a lot but he was not good at creating a shot for himself at the end of the clock.
  3. It can be coached. Today's terminology referrers to it as creating a culture. It starts by weeding out the "bad apples" regardless of their talent and then it helps to bring in a couple that do have it on the inside and they can help create that culture where it is more than expected but demanded from all involved. Having a roster that is competing for time can also create a greater work effort over all but I guess that would be on the recruiting side.
  4. ChatGPT is not connected to the internet so none of its info is current. It thinks it’s two years ago.
  5. All the studies show the sooner a kid specializes the greater chance they drop out all together and the number of injuries skyrockets due to the continuous and repetitive stress that comes from playing the same sport year around. I know lots of college coaches that would recruit a two-sport athlete over one who only plays "their" sport when all things are equal. If you are going to specialize, wait until after your sophomore year at least. The benefits far outway any negatives. I was a small school, three sport kid but I guarantee you that I managed to get my basketball skill work in year around.
  6. https://www.on3.com/teams/nebraska-cornhuskers/news/nebraska-guard-quaran-mcpherson-enters-ncaa-transfer-portal-2/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-04-18&utm_campaign=BREAKING+Nebraska+guard+Quaran+McPherson+enters+NCAA+Transfer+Portal
  7. I’m going to share my best tip and trick - practice it. As the year goes on and you have the packages in you want, I always did more and more situational play. From an entire OT to 1 sec left. Every special situation play from any inbound point, to needing a 2 or a 3, being or not being in the bonus all needs multiple reps I always thought. So they never saw anything drawn up in a game, just reminded of what they had repped many times. It also allowed you to run stuff without a TO. You can’t duplicate the pressure but you can cause chaos. Give them a situation. Team down 4 with the ball and 30 seconds left. Offense scores and takes a TO. Me - “Technical foul. You’re out of time outs. If they say they didn’t know I would say you didn’t ask. Team needs to foul to stop clock so player fouls - “that’s five, you’re out.” Didn’t know - should of asked. The hope was to get players thinking about the information they would need to be successful instead of the situation itself. It worked with some groups. I did have a team that would come in the huddle after regulation and the point would start talking beginning with number of time outs both teams had, whose in the bonus or double bonus, ask, “whose got fouls trouble?” And even a how about we do “A” if we have to get a bucket. That team saw 5 over times that year. I felt I had truly done my job that year when they showed they didn’t really need me any more. We had over come a 19 point deficit with 2 minutes left with the ball but no timeouts left. Point made a call that basically meant nothing but a layup, at 1 minute switched into the closest thing we had to a delay and at 15 seconds he set up the last shot play they knew was just what we did in that situation. Got the shot we wanted and even a follow up but neither went. In the huddle before the start of OT they ran through all the things they needed to know with out me saying anything. At the first horn my point says to me, “A” has been good to us tonight, start with that? I just nodded and told them to keep doing what they’ve been doing and sent them out. I knew we were going to win that one because we were focused on the what’s and they couldn’t get past the situation of giving up a 19 point lead to have to play overtime. Good times. Did I mention that game was a conference tourney semi against our school’s biggest rival? Thanks @basketballjones for giving me a reason to stroll down memory lane. Those were the days.
  8. I'm old. It's much less physical today then it was in the "old days."
  9. I know various groups are working the concession stands as a fund raiser. Not sure how that works.
  10. It doesn’t sound like It was a miscommunication. The phrase that seems to have been used is “role will be limited.” It appears to be blame on both sides but Greg why would you do that?
  11. I find it hard to believe that GB expects to be back the way he threw Gio under the bus. There seems to be blame to go both ways but you can’t coach a team that doesn’t trust you and no one’s trusting him at this point. He has to go. And why would you tell one of your very top players your role will be limited?
  12. Japan all time worst shootout, making only one of 4 pens. Spain - hold my cerveza.
  13. Flo Balogun - 21 years old Has played for both US and England youth teams. Also eligible to represent Nigeria. Currently playing for Reims in league 1. 8 goals in 15 appearances this season. On loan from Arsenal. Good finisher, good techinical ability, can take people on off the dribble and has a very high work.
  14. He is young in his defense, but I think the frustrating part of his game is his decision making. He seems to make up his mind on what he is going to do before he catches the ball and it leads to ugly plays. He plays hard, that's a fact. Like all of us he will learn with time and hopefully stop with the fouls and the out of control dribbling. When he knows he is going to attack the basket when he catches it, whether its there or not, his ball handling makes Lat look like Curly Neal.
  15. If you watched the games before Walker came back like I did, I'm afraid to say they did NOT learn how to play without him. Really hope they don't have to for the rest of the year because they are becoming kind of fun watching them with him.
  16. That was Van Gaal’s strategy. That’s what I said. I just don’t think we got carved up. For all three goals you can point to a very simple defensive mistake. We didn’t take our best chances. If we were clinical we had at least three goals as well. Van Gaal is miles better than Gregg. (Not being disrespectful - can’t spell his last name) Blind is 30 something. Couldn’t run with Dest or Weah but we spend 90% of out time trying to go down the other side?
  17. It broke. They did nothing special. Last goal had 5 defenders guarding 3 and our FB was ball watching, had no idea what was behind him. That’s a U12 mistake. Pulisic and especially Wight missed sitters. Out managed. They knew we would struggle in possession to break them down so they allowed us to have the ball and hit on the counter. While our manager finally put Aaronson and Reyna on the field together but knows so little about his own team that he had them each playing the other’s position compared to what they do for their clubs? Need a 9 badly. Google Flo Balogun. He’s the obvious answer. Throw the kitchen sink at him to convince him to play for the US and remind him Harry Kane ain’t going anywhere.
  18. If you can play Reyna 7 minutes then he’s fit enough to play half an hour. And he says he’s 100%. Really strange situation going on there. Lots of contradictions. He has to get real time vs Iran. England quickly picked up on Zimmerman’s lack of technical ability. They laid off Ream but started pressing Zimmerman second half. You have to have the players with the technical ability if you want to play out from the back. Ream’s fine but the other US center with ball skills got left at home. Adams did a nice job of checking to the ball to help him out but he still gave away too many dangerous balls in our third. Adams was a baller but Turner for me was man of the match. After just part of a season with Arsenal and he’s dribbling out of his box. His distribution has improved drastically. This performance just makes bottling the Wales game even more painful. It’s must be the Husker fan in me that makes me fear for the worst against Iran. The Wales game proved being the better team is no guarantee of the result. And the tie means we go home. I fear for the worst and hope for the best.
  19. I think they are quite a bit ahead on goal differential. That’s the first tie-breaker
  20. I take it you’ve never seen Southgate manage before then. He doesn’t have a different strategy. And like Greg, he doesn’t believe on playing all his best players at one time either. English players outclass their manger but so do ours.
  21. I’m not using hindsight. When the team was announced I felt Jordan Morris should be back home and if Gio is at 80% he starts. Whatever Morris’ strengths are, he’s simply not good enough to be on the national team. Sargent on the bench and Pulisic as a false 9 and Gio out wide. Brooks is our best ball playing CB. I don’t know what he did to Greg to get on his bad side but he should start with Ream and he’s not even on the team.
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