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Dean Smith

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  1. You don't have the BTN app? I do but I don't like watching it while out. I prefer to sit down when I can give the game my full concentration. Now that my eye's are burning from watching that I wish I would have been distracted.
  2. I go to my son's game and dvr the Huskers. Get home and my recording ends with 10 seconds left in the first OT. I look online and don't understand why there is no final score posted anywhere. Then it hits me, the game's not over. I turn it on just in time to see Benny drop the rainbow near the end of the second OT. I have to admit my first thought was, "Crap, I'm not sure I can stand to watch anymore of whatever this two group of guys in shorts are calling whatever they are doing." It's great that we won and hopefully we can start to make strides but I have come to this conclusion: I am a fan of the game of basketball played well and a Nebraskaball fan. It's a shame that I can't watch both at the same time.
  3. You are correct, but we put ourselves in a position where the official could make a bad call. Close out properly from the correct angle and they can't make that bad call. We can worry about a blown call(s) that we can't do anything about or we can focus on what we can control which is closing out to the ball properly. "Don't make the ridiculous mistake of thinking that your particular brand of excuse is somehow more valid than the last 20 million that have been uttered. Excuses are the domain of the mediocre." Dick Devenzio "A few points, a couple of plays, a low percentage shot someplace instead of one more pass and a higher percentage shot. Such a tiny thread in 32 or 40 minutes of basketball separates championship teams from those that struggle to win even half of their games. If you have you ever wondered how some some people win consistently while others lose consistently (often only by a few points), look no further." http://www.pgcbasketball.com/how-this-tiny-thing-separates-good-teams-from-bad-ones/ The guy had most of the answers to any problem you could think of on and off the court.
  4. Because you can't steal the ball every time. Your man defence needs to have a focus to build around. If your goal is to steal the ball, that requires some gambling and you will give up a higher number of easy shots. If you just want to disrupt the offense, you will still give up some easy shots but less. If your goal is to not give up easy shots, (which is what the pack-line defense is designed to do) you don't create near as many turnovers but you don't give up easy shots. The goal is to force the offense to continue to work and force a bad shot out of frustration or near the end of the shot clock. As part of my philosophy on no easy shots, I think you need to double the post every time unless he is a complete stiff.
  5. Tai needs to find his confidence and put the ball in the hoop or maybe a short-term coach imposed exile to the bench would have the same effect it had on Rivers last year. Pitchford or someone else needs to start hitting from the outside on a consistent basis. Petteway needs to be FORCED to improve his shot selection. The whole team needs to rebound better. We cannot ask our posts to defend 1-on-1 right now because we don't have anyone that can do it especially with Moses' hand right now. Incarnate Word should have been a great lesson learned from a close victory that we have some serious issues to address. Fouling a jump shooter should be a cardinal sin for basketball players and the fact that we fouled two three point attempts in a row at the end of the game - unexcusable in the basketball world. Once we inbounded it to Shields, why would he quickly give it to Tai? He didn't want it, hence the turnover. Hold the ball and make free throws. We worked very, very hard down the stretch to lose this game and deserved to lose based upon our end game play. I believe the sky fell in after the UMass game last year but we managed to right the ship if I can mix my metaphors. Just like at that time last season, we are now at a major turning point for this year. We shouldn't be in crisis mode yet, but you can get there from here. We still have the potential to be a much worse or a much better team than we were last year. I'm anxious to see how things play out from here.
  6. I know the backscreen you're talking about (i think) and I wouldn't call that a secondary break. It seems to just be a quick hitter to me going into the motion. The secondary focuses on getting your wings to run wide and if they don't get the ball to get to the baseline to flatten out defenses. I hear the"no easy baskets" in the B1G but both wings shoot FT's at a high percentage. You make the defense focus on sprinting back all game and they will wear down and you will get easier baskets. But that's just philosophical differences on how different people think the game should be played.
  7. Great question Dimes and thanks for the opinion Dean. My thing is there's a massive difference between running a secondary break, and just kicking it ahead more often to wide running wings who can attack the hoop. Big difference.I would imagine we have lanes to run in transition. Doesn't necessarily need to be a secondary break. You're right, but you do know the KU secondary began at UNC. Kind of a favorite of mine.
  8. You can break under control without giving up too much in the defensive rebounding if your focus is on a secondary break. I think we have enough guys who can ball handle that we should be pretty interchangeable at who is running the wings & who is pushing it up. That sort of thing would also benefit our starting big men. Rivers would beat a lot of other bigs down the floor to the block and Pitchford is made for the trail post hitting the three. Now having said all of that, I don't think Miles wants to run a secondary break.
  9. I would like to make my first in game post to say - We're gettin' assists!
  10. I think this team four games into the season is much better than last years team four games into the season. I think we might be comparing this years early season version to our best memeries from last years team.For one thing, if we saw this version of Shields 4 games into last year, we would have all been dancing in the streets.
  11. Oh I agree cwg, just wonder why Petteway's shot for as hard as the kid works still drops at the same rate. Not speaking of Petteway specifically, but if you don't shoot properly all the work in the world won't make you a great shooter. Personally, I think he starts his shot way too high which gives it very little arch. That's why I think he shoots better with a hand in his face. That forces his shoulders back which raises the arm and gives him better arch. I'll take consistency over technique any day. If we have a player on our team that shoots granny shots, but gets 20 points a game and 80% shooting, I'll take it.So would I. That's the point though. Rarely can you find a consistent shooter who doesn't have good form. I also know you were making a point, but won't get a granny shot off in a game situation. Shoulders back gives you more arch and allows you to get your shot off easier.
  12. Oh I agree cwg, just wonder why Petteway's shot for as hard as the kid works still drops at the same rate. Not speaking of Petteway specifically, but if you don't shoot properly all the work in the world won't make you a great shooter. Personally, I think he starts his shot way too high which gives it very little arch. That's why I think he shoots better with a hand in his face. That forces his shoulders back which raises the arm and gives him better arch.
  13. I know Tim feels that way, but I disagree. I really wasn't impressed with Rhode Island tonight. They will be a work in progress this year and will finish the year outside of the RPI top 100. Rhode Island may have some talent but they tried like hell to lose this one. The second of the "big" threes in overtime was a terrible shot. Going in does not make it a good shot. They continued to foul when ahead, including on a three point shot. They tried to give it to us but we didn't want it. They did so many not so smart things during the end game and Nebraska just didn't take advantage of them. Pettaway is good enough to go early in the NBA draft but that doesn't change the fact he needs to cut down his turnovers and have better shot selection. I HATE the forced three when you are down two possessions. Attack the basket, get the two (the defense will almost always give the layup because they are taught not to foul - but this team would have fouled. (Did I mention they were just absolutely stupid down the stretch?) and extend the game.
  14. Technically there is no such thing as a necessary thread. This is a sports board, nothing here is necessary. People post here for entertainment or lots of other reasons (there's a thread for that). I'm not sure what point you were trying to make?
  15. I believe the tweet says reserves not newcomers. It may just be a matter of semantics but there is a difference. It is not likely the first part of the scrimmage would be played with just the 5 starters so it is very possible that some newcomers would be in that first group. Though it is unlikely due to his lack of eligibility this season that White would not be playing with the reserves.
  16. We are miles ahead of where we were at the start of last year. Contrary to historical revisionists, I don't think anyone said Petteway shouldn't be playing but his shot selection was hurting the team. Between his mature response to team meetings and the deletion of Biggs from the team, they worked out the kinks and developed tremendous chemistry. Its possible things could change but I think we don't have to go through those growing pains early in the season this time around. I don't think anyone would disagree that if we could avoid the end of the universe created by some space-time paradox the Huskers from the end of the year destroy the Huskers from the beginning of last year. So whether the win column shows it or not (and I think it will), this team will be starting from a much more advanced position.
  17. They are right, he didnt exactly say commit to Nebraska as a freshman. He used a pronoun, but since the noun gave up its armature status he can't play at Nebraska anyway.
  18. Estimated numbers from memory based on my son reading it off his phone 2 hours ago: Nebraska's national recruiting class rank on 247 went up like 35 places from 50 something to 22nd after this signing. Morrow will put us up to?
  19. Tai showed some ability to score recently putting up 21 including 11/13 from the line in NZ's upset of Serbia. Good sign.
  20. Nic at night brings that joke to the masses
  21. Hammond looks like Maynard G. Krebs little brother .
  22. Your mean "den ganzen Tag träumen von Fußball"?
  23. The last pair of basketball shoes I bought were Nike but I prefer Adidas. From the department of random stuff: Just like everyone mispronounced Nike when it first hit the market, the Adidas name is still being butchered in this country. Its pronounced AH-dee-daws.
  24. I am OK with the signing and I don't have a perfect memory but I don't think anyone was writing off Petteway. There were legitimate questions raised about things such as shot selection which pretty much everyone involved including Petteway acknowledged. Solving such major issues as team chemistry is one of the many reasons I feel Miles has proven his judgement can be trusted. So I hope for the best with the signing and try to stay grounded in reality.
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