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Dean Smith

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  1. I don't need to repeat myself, but beyond the future he is working with players right now. Ubel & Talley will not be able to help the team next year but they are here right now and you want a coach that has your back, treats you like a human being and not a commodity, and has loyalty to his players. If this years' players and those two in particular want to keep playing then we should keep playing if given the opportunity.
  2. Logically that makes no sense. All it takes is a raise of the fist to call timeout. Doesn't take a full second to do that... I don't know what the rule is now but that is what it used to be when I coached. They goal was not to bail out the offensive team. I haven't heard or seen anything involving it in a long time, so I don't really know anymore.
  3. It happened too fast for me to record. As soon as you came on I said out loud, "That's Noah!" My kids said, "Who?" Sorry, I guess you're not as popular with the younger crowd as you are with posters on the board.
  4. I remember the night the place was packed and chanting my name. All those close enough to individually speak to me were begging me to take the head job at Nebraska. The place was electric as I lead my undefeated girls onto the court for the under 8 girls' world championships.......no wait, that was Kidney.
  5. I was watching Sports Nation on ESPN2 & Noah was picked in one of their video match ups as "Having the Best Moves" while dancing at a NW game. Anyone else spot this?
  6. Where is Webster in all of this? He's one of the etc. I only listed guys on the current roster. I didn't list any recruits -- other than a potential big man whom we desparately need to come in and start -- just because it's too difficult yet to fit them into a spot per what Big Tex described. Need to know more about whether they can defend a particular spot in order to have an idea where they'll be placed. Is Fuller quick enough to defend the opposing 3? Is Hawkins more of a 3 or a 2? I dunno. But going with what Tex was saying, we'll call Peteway a 2 or 3 and Pitchford ideally a 4. You play to your strengths. You would love to be able to have the match-ups go in your favor, but you can't carve that stuff in stone. On the old Chicago Bulls teams, Steve Kerr wasn't there because he could guard the 2. You have to be able to guard but the ball has to go in the hole if you're going to win games. Wisconsin plays some defense but those guys were also dropping bombs. You need athletes of course, but its easier to teach a scorer how to play D than a defensive player to score. If you end up with a bad match up you have to count on good team defense to make up for it.
  7. Heard Saunders in a couple of clinics - sharp. I think I still have a Sioux Falls Skyforce notebook somewhere in the house. Broz spent a preseason with him at the Timberwolves and sent me his entire play book. Thorough would be an understatement. He had six ways to guard the pick & roll that could be called out during the action of the pick. You have to be smart to play for him. If he gets the Minnesota job maybe Miles would want to glance through it?
  8. I don't know what's best for the program overall, but If I'm Talley or Ubel I don't give a damn about B1G history or reputation. Let me play as many more games in a Husker jersey as I can get before I have to take it off for the last time. If we do get an invite anywhere, those two have earned the right to decide if they want to keep playing.
  9. So, exactly what kind of screen is it that Ubel sets at the :05 mark? The way Nebraska sets screens just bugs me. They don't even bother trying to hedge the screen because they know Ubel won't really hold it and that he'll roll off of it before the on-ball defender even gets there. On the bright side, Talley hit the shot, so ... we're all good. Its called a slip screen. Just saying, that is what's its called.
  10. Kent - "And nobody left early today. And no one left early today."
  11. 5 players for 20 minutes the second half
  12. There may be truth to what you say, but I watched the Illinois game and saw no sign of them guarding Shields any different than any other player. For whatever reason (maybe the athletic ability of the opponent) he scored far fewer points but he was not keyed on.
  13. She said that she had a loose finger nail that got caught on her nose as she was shooting.
  14. He'll go all Demba Ba on them. Oh sorry, soccer reference.
  15. Possibly, but I promise not to slap any injured players and instead of the American flag it would have to be a giant N
  16. If losing builds character then we have enough character to last us for awhile. It is about time we start helping other teams build their character.
  17. I agree with you that refs can't help but be biased. Skinny kid gets knocked down by the better athlete and it's, "Get in the weight room son." Overly demonstrative players will get a rep and a very few officials will intentionally let's phrase it, "not give them the benefit of the doubt." With most officials its not a conscience decision, but when you have a call that can go either way and one of the players involved has just tried to show up the officials statistically speaking they are not going to get the call very often. Winning coaches can get away with more than new or upstart coaches. I have to admit that unfortunately some of my coaching antics on the sidelines have cost players close calls. I just saw a coach (not me) question a ref's call in a 3rd grade game (that's right I said 3rd grade). It was obvious to those that knew the game that the official chose to take it out on the poor third graders. It became so obvious that the ref's partner started calling things the other way to make up for him. It was like 2 of the 3 stooges when the whistle blew as to which could make the call first because whoever made it was going to determine which way the call went. I tried to make up for my shortcomings by having my players be at the height of decorum. In-bounds, free throws, whenever the official handed one of my players the ball they had to respond with, "Thank you sir." I can't count the times officials complemented my team after the game on that. I even had one too close for comfort encounter in the men's room when a ref recognized me and had to tell me right then how much he liked that. I have to believe that at some time or another that was in the back of an officials mind when they decided a close call.
  18. Iverson Iverson Iverson Reggie Williams and David Wingate come later when Ewing is a Senior and they are upset by Nova. Starters were Ewing, Floyd, Brown, Eric Smith - 6'5, & 6'7 Mike Hancock (from D.C.) The last two were both seniors. Watched that back in the day when we got four channels counting PBS. Big storm and our TV kept cutting out as well as the radio call. Only got to see about 1/2 the game but unfortunately, did get to see Brown's pass to Worthy.
  19. There is difference between not giving a crap and having feet so bad it hurts to just stand. He definitely could have shown some more fire but to say he didn't care is very presumptious.
  20. Miles is trying to change the culture at Nebraska. That also means us. You can change a culture without throwing your team under the bus. If I'm a recruit I'm going somewhere I know the coach has my back publicly. Overthinking it, IMO I can see it both ways. I have called my team out publicly before. I once said at a post-season team banquet that we have never beaten team X and if you do exactly what you have been doing in the off season again this off season, you will lose to them next year as well. (beat them the next season - nothing to do with the story but I gotta get all the wins mentioned I can) Imo you can question their effort within the team, but I wouldn't call anyone out publicly during the season. I think the public attention will turn some players off and get them to shut down so to speak. Some may then refer to those as soft, but these are kids (high school and college) and they don't need that. NBA is a different story, it's their job. Story time. I was sitting in the faculty lounge with Tom Brosnihan & a couple other coaches when a faculty member sat down with us and eventually made a comment that he thought one of our starters was soft. Broz unloaded on him and the teacher got up sheepishly and skunked away. The JV coach said, "Broz why'd you jump down his throat? You call him a pussy all the time." Broz's reply was, "Ya, but he's our pussy." I've been taught that questioning a teams' or player's toughness/effort stays in house.
  21. I must have missed that four or five minute spell, because I thought, especially defensively, Benny played his best ball of the season. I also liked the play (although it was because of a mistake) that Talley and Shavon dived head first, giving up their bodies) in an attempt to pick up a loose ball. Dean, I am going to rewatch the game, I will try to pick up that spell you referenced. I say this because but for the first 7 minutes of the game, I didn't see anyone play terrible ball I think he ended up with 5 turn overs and 3 or 4 of them plus the missed lay-up were in that spell. I'm saying other than that he played well.
  22. "Benny played well today...but for the missed lay up, he played a good game. His quickness helped today." He had a 4 or 5 minute run where he was just terrible. We had 3 possessions in a row where he turned it over. I had just said to my son, "Benny is killing us right now, we got to get him out," when he made a steal and got a break away. He then, or course blew the layup. BUT other than that run I thought he played fairly well.
  23. Cip, It's quite likely she's a Monet. Looks good from afar but not so much when you get up close.
  24. Yes but...I hated it as a coach when there was an official right next to me and we both see a call and when I asked they responded, "That's not my call."
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