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Dean Smith

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  1. 2 hours ago, aphilso1 said:

     

    Wow, really?  He is such a dominant traditional big man.  I know that skillset isn't valued a whole lot today, but I would think if he wanted to turn pro that there's at least one NBA team that would draft him.

    I would think so. Now you are aware that not everything on Twitter turns out to be true? I just repeated what I saw. 

  2. 1 hour ago, dustystehl said:

    With Banton's departure, I think the only player on the roster we've seen play live is Jace Piatkowski. Walker was hurt during the scrimmage/Rick Ross "concert", but Banton and Stevenson scrimmaged that night. So very tough to even begin guessing what the rotation will look like. The talent/depth has been upgraded. I like that they staff has seemingly gone away from signing JUCO players (Tominaga was committed before last season, so no new JUCO recruits this cycle). I think things are trending in the right direction. I'm looking forward to getting back into PBA this winter. I think it could be a fun season.

    They have not - Blaise Keita. You take players where you can get players.

  3. 23 minutes ago, 49r said:

    I saw the other day where Des Moines is building a new stadium for an upcoming USL Championship team.  I'd imagine that will take a bit of a bite out of potential future attendance numbers for Union Omaha.

    I don’t see people driving from Des Moines to watch USL soccer. They have their own USL league 2 team now. 

  4. On 6/12/2021 at 7:15 PM, HuskerFever said:

    Just sayin'. Make a plan to catch a match some time.

     

     

    Went to my first on the 3rd. Playing in a baseball field had me worried. I have been to “Wizard” games in that ballpark back when Children’s Mercy Park was being built. That didn’t work. The field was way too narrow condensed play. Corners were ridiculous. And  having seats behind one of the goals, I almost lost a young child to an off target shot in warmups. Smashed the seat next to him. Four inches to the right and his hand probably has multiple breaks. 
     

    The Owl’s field seemed close to the width it was supposed to and sight lines weren’t horrible. Only one corner I couldn’t really see. The atmosphere was tremendous for the crowd size and the support group stayed energized through out. 
     

    The biggest difference I saw to higher level soccer was the keepers played very, very slow in their distribution and neither team really tried to play out from the back. All in all an enjoyable evening. I’m sure we’ll go back. 

  5. 7 hours ago, millerhusker said:

    The biggest surprise for me has been how inefficient (and flat out bad) the offense has been for most of the last two years, considering we have one of the brightest offensive minds in the basketball world as our head coach (I still believe this to be true). 
     

    We had a top 40 defense in the country last year. 

    The offense worked well in creating the shots we wanted. The players were very inefficient in making those good shots. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Handy Johnson said:

    I knew that one was coming as I was typing in my initial thoughts. Growing up in the sticks allowed AM radio from all over to filter in. Listened to lots of Spurs/Nuggets games as kid. 130-140 point games were not uncommon. The Ice Man & David “Skywalker” Thompson...!

    I was at a couple of Nuggets games during that era - David, Alex English, Dan Issel, and Kiki VanDeWeghe. They could score like you breath. Loved those Spurs teams as well. Didn't every kid from that era have the poster of Gervin sitting on the ice blocks? He was countered inside with Artis GIlmore and Billy Paultz. And Jonny Moore is a lost gem to history. I remember he had a couple of quadruple doubles in his career. And I'm probably combining teams from different years  but I know Mike Mitchell was in there somewhere.

  7. 2 hours ago, atskooc said:

    I saw it posted somewhere here that both Bryce and Trey are planning on going pro after this year.

     

    No idea how verifiable that is.


    At 12:05 Trey says team tourney run then  Bryce will be first team all big 10 and a first round draft pick - adds they will both be in the draft next year. 

  8. We created a bunch of chances early. I like that Reyna came out post game and said he should had two (1 for sure), if that early goal goes in it’s a whole different game. Honduras can’t sit 10 guys behind the ball or have guys calling for the stretcher ever 5 minutes. The game opens up and we get three or four goals. Not finishing when we had opportunities was the biggest problem.

     

    And yes, Musah should have started and so should the goal scorer who I am not going to try to spell his name. Sargent made a huge contribution with the back header off the line to save a goal but did not do near enough on the other end of the field. 

     

    Mexico struggled tonight vs Costa Rica - 0-0 shoot o on out victory. Make those two changes to the team plus Tyler Adams if he’s healthy and we got a team. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Cazzie22 said:

    I don’t understand what these veteran coaches have to prove.  Retire, enjoy life and your money.  Maybe Boeheim will get the clue but will probably stay until his son has finished his eligibility.  

    I would think it’s different for everyone just like any job. I’m sure some of them stay because they are really good at it and the love doing it, the teaching, the competing, the comradery, and most important for most coaches, the relationships.
     I’m sure some are still trying to prove something and some really like the money at that level. But to do it right takes a hell of a lot of work and it always comes with certain amount of shit. Maybe I’m naive, but I would think being willing to put up with all that and keep doing it most of them stay for the love of the game and all that comes with it. 

  10. 34 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

    You played on a greatly reduced sized field with different bats and balls, etc... that differentiate it from the actual professional, olympic level sport, in elementary school. And I can disagree with the committee, and would vote against 3 on 3 if I was on it. 

    My point was I wouldn't put baseball in but it doesn't matter. If the  committee puts it in then its an olympic sport like it or not. We could list lots of sports we  don't like, don't understand or feel that are not worthy (see the picture above this post for instance). And regardless of what you or I feel the winner of 3 on 3 basketball will be taking a gold medal home. 

  11. 31 minutes ago, basketballjones said:

    I would say that, yes, specifically because of the nature of being an elementary activity that grows into the actual adaption of the sport - it does make it less of an Olympic event. 

    They have an Olympic committee that decides what sports are in and what sports are not. When they decide to place a sport in the competition that, by definition, makes it an Olympic sport. I do not particularly like baseball and I did play it in elementary school. It was out, then in, then out, and now its back in. That makes it an olympic sport.

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