Dean Smith

10:00 and my son is still perfect

But not about his brackets. He has done very well every time so far.

I found a Husker re-tweet on his feed.

obviously a typo but even then if you got on the ball on Sunday or even early yesterday morning the tickets were out there. Its not like when Omaha hosted and the tickets were sold out before even going public. I got three seats 12 rows up at center court after they went public?

I agree. During this week this thread does seem to be extemporaneous. I felt and still do that the level of snarkiness has gone up a little since the success. If others have not noticed or disagree that's fine with me. If snarkiness is what you get with success, I'm fine with a little snarkiness. Please let's get back to discussing how we are going to beat Baylor. Sorry I started the whole thing.

How exactly do you define a new poster? I haven't really noticed much difference in the discourse on this site since it came to existence from the Rivals Basketball Board. I've never been to the Rivals board so I can't help you on that one.

No one was harsher on Kidney than me. I don't really mind going off on trolls. It just seemed that there wasn't anyone in particular but some if the new posters seemed to shut down discussions quicker than things used to happen.

Heard a lot of talking heads & the bookies on FS1 pick Nebraska. One of them said we were the lower seed worh thw best chance to Make a deep run. So much love is scaring me.

1-3-1 has long rotations - perfect for the skip and drive into the gap at the elbow. My favorite zone to run picks against. 1-3-1 asks the backside wing to cover a lot of ground.

This is were I was looking to put that picture. It's not cursing if you are talking about a hat

It really didn't make any sense, did it? It's not cursing if you are talking about a hat.

I don't think he meant officials, but fans like us don't understand what a traveling is - possession of the ball and establishment of a pivot foot before you can travel stuff.I believe he specifically said officials...and opinion and interpretation differ from his....but I could of heard it wrong.I have been from time to time been known to be wrong as well.

I don't think he meant officials, but fans like us don't understand what a traveling is - possession of the ball and establishment of a pivot foot before you can travel stuff.

I don't mean hard or negative towards the team or players, but to other posters.

or since we've been more successful has the board become more negative? It appears to me that there are a larger quantity of mean-spirited posts. Maybe there are just more posts so its not the percentage but the overall number. It just seems to me that there is less free flow of discussion because someone seems to jump in with a completely insulting post which kills the thread. Things got ugly at the end of Doc's tenure and some did get spiteful, but the majority seemed to have reasoned discussion of differences of opinions. Not so much anymore.

I'm not understanding you because what it sounds like you are saying doesn't sound like a travel to me.

Bobby Knight said you have a system that you modify to emphasis the strength of the players you have in the system right now. He played man but adjusted his pick up point based on the players in the program. Quick feet he picks up at 92 feet, slow feet and he picks up at 18 feet. Sort of the pack-line defense before there was an official pack line.

You seem to be missing some vital details after how you plan on lining up.But I have complained to a co-worker all year it isn't just our inbounds vs a full court press - it is every time we have to inbounds the ball. We seem to have one BLOB play that is effective and everything else is please let us get this in before the 5 count. btw - still thrilled to death with the way the season has gone. http://www.coachesclipboard.net/4AcrossPressBreak.htmlNot all the details and I prefer to move them to the top of the key....lots of variations off this line up...it forces spacing, and allows you to attack not be passive. I like the four across press break (but not really any of the options on your link - IMO unecessairly complicated.) I preferred just teaching them how to break a trap instead of a specific press breaker. Find out where your opponent wants to trap and get someone under the trap, one splitting the trap & one over the trap & the goes to your basket to spread them out. I taught how to split traps & things like the reverse x-over dribble to get traps going the wrong way but it appears to me that Nebraska's trouble is just getting it in which your four across is good at fixing. If they match up it is now a m-4-m press at least on the inbounds. I like just a point breaking hard to and then through the baseline on an arc. If they defense ends up behind even slightly the point can get the ball on the dribble already attacking. If they hold the full front stop right at they baseline & lock them up for the throw over the top. If they don't guard the ball & deploy that defender to take away this over the top pass then I would have my point stop right on the oob's line. That puts the defender out of bounds. Hit him with the ball. The rules read that coming in contact with the ball across the line can result in a technical. I realize getting hit in the butt was not the rules intent but it still counts. There was a coach who loudly proclaimed this action unsportsmanlike as we walked down to shoot the technical foul with 2 seconds left and a tie ball game. See, I have always been a little bit of an asshole.

Really??? I hate Craft but have to give the kid his due as he is a very good defender. He finds a way to defend and not get calls against him for some reason. You can't blame him for that. I hate Craft and Grant Gibbs the most of anyone else in the country but Benny is not about the same as Craft. Craft is absolutely an elite defensive guard, but that doesn't mean he isn't getting away with murder... Getting away with murder can make a good defender an elite defensive guards. He's elite, period. Good use of the "period" I guess that means the discussion is over huh? Craft is bigger and stronger than Benny and that gives him a big advantage but it has been my observations that Benny has better feet and and should receive fewer blocking calls than Craft but he doesn't. Craft is allowed to bump ball handlers on the drive and get away with it on a consistent basis. I'm sure you can find posts I made last year whining about the same thing. Michael Jordan was a great defender made even greater by the fact he was allowed to reach put his hand on players hips and was strong enough to bring people to a stop that way. He also used it to great effect on offense. (ask Bryon Russell ) That doesn't mean MJ was made by the officials. He made himself and then the officials began to give him every questionable call making him even better. There is no doubt Craft is a very good defender. He is made better by the fact that for some reason the refereeing gods have decided he can get away with murder.

You seem to be missing some vital details after how you plan on lining up. But I have complained to a co-worker all year it isn't just our inbounds vs a full court press - it is every time we have to inbounds the ball. We seem to have one BLOB play that is effective and everything else is please let us get this in before the 5 count. btw - still thrilled to death with the way the season has gone.

Really??? I hate Craft but have to give the kid his due as he is a very good defender. He finds a way to defend and not get calls against him for some reason. You can't blame him for that. I hate Craft and Grant Gibbs the most of anyone else in the country but Benny is not about the same as Craft. Craft is absolutely an elite defensive guard, but that doesn't mean he isn't getting away with murder... Getting away with murder can make a good defender an elite defensive guard.

So a rumor we have one committed or a rumor we want one? Swan might be talking about a hint dropped by Brian Rosenthal a while back at a time when the Georgetown kid -- Wittington? -- was still a possibility. I think most people assumed that's who he was talking about. But I haven't heard anything further about that rumor since then. Certainly nothing appears to have gone anywhere with Wittington. I don't know if perhaps Swan had someone else in mind or a different rumor in mind, but that's the last of anything I've heard. Whittington committed to Rutgers but from what I heard didn't enroll for this semester. The goal was spring and summer sessions so he would be eligible right away next year but he will have to sit somewhere now I think.

I was reading this on my phone and if there is a way to down arrow on the mobile site Idk how. I don't think I've ever given a down arrow on purpose (sorrry to the two who I accidentally hit the wrong button on) but I had to find a computer as soon as I could just so I could give it my first on purpose down arrow.

Which is why I drug my hungover ass to buy 20 breakfast burritos. Only to find no one there. At least my house is fed this morning. Way to take one for the team. Get a plus in the good karma column for that one.