Dean Smith

Don't forget you have to have somebody be the shot clock operator. Some might volunteer to do so, but most of the time you have to pay that person too. So that's an added cost. Just have the guy who runs the possession arrow take care of the shot clock. He's already sitting there getting paid. You don't need a whole separate guy. That guy is already running the clock and keeping score

That certainly wouldn't be a bad place to start... Because there is nothing better than bad basketball played faster? Pace and lack of success are not one & the same. I'm not talking about success. The better the player the faster you can play. The games seems slower to those who have a high skill level. There are very few D & C teams that are ready to speed up their game. And while I'm at it there are quite a few A & B as well. I saw a little bit of Aurora this year and they certainly are not ready to play any faster. I'm not talking about success. When two bad teams play one of them has to win. Players and teams with lower skill levels do not need to be pushed to play faster and I would say that would cover the majority of high school teams in the state at all levels.

That certainly wouldn't be a bad place to start... Because there is nothing better than bad basketball played faster?

I can't fix his shot but he can. That's the Catch-22. He's not making buckets because he lacks confidence. With confidence he will be shooting fine. He needs to make buckets to gain confidence. Hence, the catch. But maybe we've created this problem in our own minds. I could look it up (but won't), is his shooting percentage really that much lower than last years. Might he just not be taking near as many shots?

Life is not all or nothing. We weren't great yesterday and we aren't terrible tonight. Ray's playing great defense and is always one of the hardest workers in the motion offense. For one thing he is not getting anywhere the number of shots as last year, partly because he isn't getting any sets run for him this season. That is not his role this year. It would be great for him to have a break out game. It may or may not happen, he has always been a streak shooter. Ray can play a bit. He has his weaknesses but I'm sure he could destroy anyone on this message board. He has dealt extremely well with going from being the go to guy to accepting his role off the bench. Most, and I mean most D-1 players couldn't deal with that. I'm sorry you feel bad about THEIR loss tonight, but insulting Ray is just childish. If you ever played I'll bet you were a finger pointer there as well. From what I can see, Ray is a great teammate. I'm sure he feels much worse than you because he is physically, mentally and emotionally invested as part of the team. As a fan I'm sorry they lost as well. Ray plays hard. He plays with heart. He is one of our guys. I'm rooting for him. Us Always.I stand by my statement. Right now Rey is not good. And hasn't been for some time. I realize we don't really have any other options and are just going to have to hope he can hit a few shots down the stretch. No you don't stand by your statement, you sit behind it at the key board with a fake name. Standing by it would be saying it to his face. I would never call anyone "not good" unless I could personally beat them. If I can beat you, you aren't good. You can't beat Ray. Ray is a D-1 basketball player on what we hope is a bubble team. They don't let "not good" players play on those teams. He knows his role because it has been spelled out to him by his coach. I'm not part of the team but I take exception to someone who obviously thinks putting the ball in the hoop is the only thing that makes you a good player insult a team player on what I like to think of as my team.

Life is not all or nothing. We weren't great yesterday and we aren't terrible tonight. Ray's playing great defense and is always one of the hardest workers in the motion offense. For one thing he is not getting anywhere the number of shots as last year, partly because he isn't getting any sets run for him this season. That is not his role this year. It would be great for him to have a break out game. It may or may not happen, he has always been a streak shooter. Ray can play a bit. He has his weaknesses but I'm sure he could destroy anyone on this message board. He has dealt extremely well with going from being the go to guy to accepting his role off the bench. Most, and I mean most D-1 players couldn't deal with that. I'm sorry you feel bad about THEIR loss tonight, but insulting Ray is just childish. If you ever played I'll bet you were a finger pointer there as well. From what I can see, Ray is a great teammate. I'm sure he feels much worse than you because he is physically, mentally and emotionally invested as part of the team. As a fan I'm sorry they lost as well. Ray plays hard. He plays with heart. He is one of our guys. I'm rooting for him. Us Always.

My son last Sunday, "Hey dad let's go to the Nebraska game." "No tickets" "We can just walk up" "Not any more. Nebraska is winning and tickets are now hard to get" "That's not fair. Anyone that watched Maryland-Eastern-Baltimore-Coast-State or whoever beat Nebraska in person should be able to get tickets to any game they want to go to."

There are lots or rope ladder and plyometric stuff but what gets overlooked a lot when discussing speed and quickness (two totally different things) imo is getter stronger. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You have to be able to drive your foot into the ground with force or you will get no return no matter how quickly you pick it up. Lots of SAQ guys are now talking about shorter strides so you can keep you foot on the ground longer to create more force. You feel slower but move faster. Bottom line is your right, there are lots of things you can do to improve speed and quickness.

Not all over AGAIN!!! For many Nebrasketball followers this tournament chasing thing is a first time experience. That makes it deja new

Part of the reason that he is being singled out is his dedication to watch the games. Practically none of our games are at a convenient time for him in Belgium. Yeah, Ubelgium is watchin' Nebrasketball at 4 in the morn on a regular basis... dedicated to his alma mater that's making him proud! GO BIG UBES! Impressive kid. I DVR games that start at 9:00 in the morning so I don't have to "rush" around. Honestly I prefer to be about 40 minutes behind real time so I can ff past commercials and half time.

We have some quality players here now but I'm not sure we quite have any "special ones", but the way we are winning games now like him we are saying, "Pay attention to me!"

The guy who invented weather? What's he got to do with this? btw - weather and climate are not the same thing.

Don't need to know who it is, but I am curious if he heckled the coach, the player or their team in general?! He legitimately thought the head coach was thrown out and not a player that he was yelling at until I told him no it wasn't a coach. I'm sure we've all had a night we regret and that's his tonight. He feels horrible. He's a die hard Husker fan that just had too much before the game. Trust me he was reprimanded later and that's it. I'm sure we've all made our share of mistakes but if he mistook Brandon for Chambers he had WAY too many before the game.

5 players in double figures. Don't see that often. OT - fauxpelini's last tweet: Why did the chicken cross the road? I don't know but Duke just lost.

Have you ever coached a jr. high girls team?

That was on the carrying call on Petteway (that I also disagreed with) but then they never showed the replay. #bigscreenproblems. Of course Miles will get to see the film and I won't. But the bad ref made that call and Miles might have wanted to pick up his 1st T if the replay had shown the call was a bad one. You were probably at the game Norm. I couldn't make it so I watched on TV and Miles leaned back and looked at the big screen on a handful of calls, not just the carry (which was a good call, btw, and one that they got Illinois for later as well). BTN showed him after every questionable call and he did it all the time on blocks/charges, handchecks, etc. It was pretty funny. Of course I was losing my mind, so kudos to him for being at least more patient than I am. Side note: last night was the first time I can remember this season our opponent getting called for an illegal screen. It seems to me that we get called for that at least once a game. I hate that call. No, it wasn't the first. There was at least one other. But illegal screens happen all the time. All the time. And it only gets called at strange moments. Like in the last minute against Oregon a few years back they called one on Brandon Ubel. Like really? They've been doing it to us all game and then you choose this moment to suddenly care about illegal screens?Minnesota was another game where they did it just all of the time. That Smith kid or whatever his name was who scored about 30 on us, Ray was chasing him around screens all night long and their screener would throw a hip into Ray or move over into him to give that guy just enough separation to get off a 3 pointer. And that's how they drew closer towards the end. Damn frustrating when they call us for that given how often it gets ignored. And we generally get the short end because our offense isn't predicated on curling shooters around screens to get them open for a catch-and-shoot 3. And when your chaser gets picked by a guy who throws a hip into him, freeing up the shooter, that's supposed to be a foul. Right? The sad part is, this is how it is with most calls. A lot of things will go uncalled until the coach asks for it to be watched, like 3 seconds. Refs will almost never call it until a coach says "Watch 42, he's camping in the lane all day." Sure enough, you'll get the call in the next couple possessions. Referees have so many things to watch for that sometimes it's all about the coach just making refs aware. It's a lot of politics. It sucks, but it is. You might be right but not about the 3 second call. Good officials just won't call it. Tell 42 to move out of the lane, he does & they gets to keep playing. Preventive officiating makes the call unnecessary.

That was on the carrying call on Petteway (that I also disagreed with) but then they never showed the replay. #bigscreenproblems. Of course Miles will get to see the film and I won't. But the bad ref made that call and Miles might have wanted to pick up his 1st T if the replay had shown the call was a bad one. You were probably at the game Norm. I couldn't make it so I watched on TV and Miles leaned back and looked at the big screen on a handful of calls, not just the carry (which was a good call, btw, and one that they got Illinois for later as well). BTN showed him after every questionable call and he did it all the time on blocks/charges, handchecks, etc. It was pretty funny. Of course I was losing my mind, so kudos to him for being at least more patient than I am. Side note: last night was the first time I can remember this season our opponent getting called for an illegal screen. It seems to me that we get called for that at least once a game. I hate that call. No, it wasn't the first. There was at least one other. But illegal screens happen all the time. All the time. And it only gets called at strange moments. Like in the last minute against Oregon a few years back they called one on Brandon Ubel. Like really? They've been doing it to us all game and then you choose this moment to suddenly care about illegal screens?Minnesota was another game where they did it just all of the time. That Smith kid or whatever his name was who scored about 30 on us, Ray was chasing him around screens all night long and their screener would throw a hip into Ray or move over into him to give that guy just enough separation to get off a 3 pointer. And that's how they drew closer towards the end. Damn frustrating when they call us for that given how often it gets ignored. And we generally get the short end because our offense isn't predicated on curling shooters around screens to get them open for a catch-and-shoot 3. And when your chaser gets picked by a guy who throws a hip into him, freeing up the shooter, that's supposed to be a foul. Right? The sad part is, this is how it is with most calls. A lot of things will go uncalled until the coach asks for it to be watched, like 3 seconds. Refs will almost never call it until a coach says "Watch 42, he's camping in the lane all day." Sure enough, you'll get the call in the next couple possessions. Referees have so many things to watch for that sometimes it's all about the coach just making refs aware. It's a lot of politics. It sucks, but it is. You might be right but not about the 3 second call. Good officials just won't call it. Tell 42 to move out of the lane, he does & they gets to keep playing. Preventive officiating makes the call unnecessary.

spot on. And i could see trey starting if Tai doesn't improve by next year. I love the way we talk about real people who sweat & bleed like they're disposable like Klenex. Take one, use it up, discard it and look, there's another one to use up. I understand boards need things to talk about & us fans can't develope the personal relationships that players & coaches do, & sometimes typed words can be misconstrued, but man can some posts sound cold.

Funny how we've gone from "he's a selfish player, coach needs to sit him" to "what are we going to do if he leaves early for the NBA?" We need more games to watch/dissect. Off days are brutal for our psyche. My thoughts are that I don't remember anyone ever saying sit him. I think that is a technique referred to as a straw man argument. He had shown terrible shot selection and there were times early it was really hurting his team and it needed to improve. Coach Miles addressed this issue (partly by giving him a quick hook at times) and for the most part his selection has gotten much better. I think almost everyone saw right away he was going to be key to our success this year. I think Coach Miles addressing this issue as soon as he did was crucial and it says something about Petteway's character in the positive way he has responded.

I think the idea of coaches intentionally getting technicals to fire up the team is overhyped. I'm sure someone at sometime has but the vast, vast, vast majority of T's are unintentional.

Martin & Huggins are the same person? Frank is charming. but they both cheat. and ask his players how charming he is.

Martin & Huggins are the same person?

He has taken some bad shots & Miles has immediately pulled him from the game. I really don't know Petteway but he seems to really care about his team. Between his attitude and Miles direction, I think his shot selection has greatly improved. He is always going to have the possibility of letting a questionable shot fly, but together he & Miles have found a pretty good sweet spot.

That was my point. For fans the win is all that matters. I always worried more about the execution. Makes wins like these a lot less fun for me and that sucks. I'm sure it's not all that matters for Miles either, but he is getting paid well to worry about how poorly we played. I don't get anything but a bad feeling in my stomach.

OK - good win, nice comeback and all that. I realize we won and had a really nice comeback so why am I so depressed having watched that mess. Playing Indiana made me think about how Bob Knight cared more about how the game was played and how his team performed than wins and loses. We won because we stepped up as a team in the second half but it seemed more to me that Indiana couldn't stop turning the ball and bank shots aside, can't shoot the rock. I'm glad we won but we had more poor plays than good ones. It just seems to me that Indiana deserved to lose more than we deserved to win. This is one of the many reasons I don't have my own team anymore. Big win and I'd have to fake the big smile with the parents post-game. Put on the happy face with the team and then boy do I need a couple beers to get through the game tape. Not trying to rain on anyone's parade or first two conference wins in a row party, but we were not a good basketball team tonight. It is always better to learn from a win than a lose (losing tonight would have been crushing) but we go a lot to learn. Plenty of positive highlights to emphasis but we have a long way to go to be a consistently good basketball team.