Hoiskers 5.5 favorites over Arizona St in the crown tournament
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Quite astonishing how many Husker fans will openly claim they don’t watch basketball and don’t care about basketball. Then go right ahead and voice the worst nuanced take on basketball you’ve ever heard, and stick to that take like it’s personal.
Fvcking comical 🤣
I think we closed at about a 6 pt favorite. It opened at -5.5
He played pretty damn well in the PG role. Actually pushed the pace a bit and made some good passes. Broke the defense down, passed to the corner for an easy 3. Wonder if he just progressed during the season or if he could have helped us out earlier.
Most likely progress from the time we lost out last game and practice’s leading up to the tournament.
Nebraska can play much better when they don’t have to play one of their centers. I wish I knew who told Morgan to squat down all the time making him a 6foot player instead of 6’10”.
Don’t know if this was talked about yet, but 3:10 left in the game ASU ‘s Basheer is shooting the free throw, and Connor Is in the background 🤣😂🤣
Some of us watch Husker basketball, realize our limited upside and probably because of that don’t give a sh# about the NCAA tourney.
Heck of a read for this thread! Entire season-long opinions about a guy completely changed from half to half lol. Needed Conner to step up last night to win that one and he finally did. Cale brought a different flavor to the offense and a “try-hardness” to the floor that ended up working against a bad team..
Onward to Georgetown tomorrow at 8:30pm Central! We should be a slight favorite. G-town is ranked statistically worse than ASU but I always give a bump to the East Coast for basketball. There’s at least some historically good basketball schools in this tourney. Then there’s Dear Old Nebraska 😁
Onward to Georgetown tomorrow at 8:30pm Central! We should be a slight favorite. G-town is ranked statistically worse than ASU but I always give a bump to the East Coast for basketball. There’s at least some historically good basketball schools in this tourney. Then there’s Dear Old Nebraska 😁
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My opinion didn’t change on Essegian. I need to see more than just one good game to believe he can be the scoring threat we need him to be. But I’m sure glad he played well last night!
He has issues creating shots, has potential to be a very good shooter but very inconsistent..
He is terrible defensively.
Yeah that was brutal for the line
If you bet Nebraska
- 8 seconds left when Nebraska was up 82-76 and Williams got the wide open dunk to make it 84-76
You said Thank You Lord!
If you bet Arizona State... I'm sure there were some pro not so nice words to be had.
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If you bet Nebraska
- 2.8 seconds left and Nebraska allowed that drive and easy layup to make it 84-78
You said F this **** it has to be rigged
If you bet Arizona State... You said Thank You Lord!
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If you bet Nebraska
- 0.7 left and Arizona State fouled Williams
You said Thank You Lord! However that seemed really fishy, but I'll take it
If you bet ASU... You said (and I quote) "I am never betting this rigged **** again!!!"
15 minutes later... "What's the over/under on that Washington State/Georgetown game again?"
It was great was Essegian did in the second half but my opinion on him didn't change yet. He's a streaky shooter that isn't hot often enough to be a difference maker unless something changes. On the other hand, what was different about him last night was that he was active all over the floor. I'd love to see more of that going forward.
No that is NOT Fred ball... they did not play isolation last year when they had multiple scoring threats. You tell me what kind offense you'd run with wjat Fred has to work with this year
I could give more detail but I am going to keep these short
We play isolation, because...
Berke - Is a below average shooter... terrible passer... has terrible footwork.
Essegian - Not sure what his game is, and he is a streak shooter. He just didn't work in this offense, because of how easy he was to defend. No other threats for a 3 ball outside of Williams
Gary - Pretty sure he is below .500 on open layups this year, and he is our second best scoring option. Just sad!
Hoiberg - He is good at one thing and that does not involve the offense
Meah - He is what I like to call an offensive black hole
Morgan - He was good at two things backing up defenders and put backs. Hard to get a guy that is good at nothing else involved in an offense.
Ulis - He could dribble and pass, but was also an offensive liability
Worster - I plead the fifth
What we saw last night IMO was what can happen when you have a guard who can drive in dish...and is willing to dish when he drives. Too often Brice forces shots when the D collapses on him. Gary is kind of a black hole if he drives and he turns the ball over too much on his drives even if he tries to find an open guy. We did a better job last night of finding Essegian when he was spotted up. Some of that was that ASU's defense maybe wasn't up to snuff. Essegian has had other good games this year.
Hoiberg at one point was leading the team in 3 pt %. Ended up that he shot 78 % from the line and over 35% from 3. Might have led the team in steals per minutes played. Not sure about that one.
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Hoiberg is an interesting study. I'm as guilty as anyone for being critical of how many minutes he plays. He did shoot 37% from 3, but the issue is that he made 17 all year. Will he look to shoot more next year? Would that be a good thing? I know what I think (no). I still say we're not serious about winning at B1G basketball if Sam is a starter, even though he can provide valuable minutes as a role player.
Last year was the first time I thought we looked like we knew what we were doing on the court. This year we regressed
Too many times when Essegian comes into the game he immediately forces a low percentage shot and then another one shortly after. If he would just let the game come to him and take the higher percentage shot available he and the team would be a lot better off.
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I think you need to blame it more on Fred's recruiting than his in game coaching. Having Mast this year instead of the 3 bigs we had to work with would of made the whole team a lot better. The bigs we had this year were all extremely limited
In either case, not a good look. I've always said, atleast a college coach can recruit the type of kid to their philosophy.
Brice has way too much put on his shoulders due to the limitations of the other four on the floor with him. Hoiberg should be a role player but because of the weaknesses of our current 8-9 player rotation this year's roster forces Sam to play way too many minutes. We have no other options. If we put blame out there it is Fred's roster creation, not his in game or x's and o's. Let's hope for a significantly improved roster. Some seriously improved NIL assets would help!
That’s the problem your last sentence. As other posters have stated Boosters just don’t care about Basketball that much and don’t want to spread their NIL contributions thin.
Sam shoots 37% from three for the same reason Christian Braun does so for the Nuggets - because the other team doesn't guard him.
Last night he didn't have as many dead-end drives into the lane, which was a positive. Seemed to drive with more purpose, which led to some assists. Jacobsen also played well last night and was actually a good fit filling in for Worster, because his skill set is similar. But like you, I see these guys as 10-12 minutes-per-game spot players if the team is going to have any chance of cracking the upper half of the Big Ten. Will need to score big in the portal for that to happen.
Berke needs to go its that simple. Truly awful basketball player. Meah can't play and as others have said Sam is a good role player but can't be starting. Glad Ess had a good game and hope he continues it but we can't have him anywhere near the floor next year if we want to improve.
You can't convince me that every team in "the dance " has more NIL than we do. If it were all just a matter of how much $ you spend =results, we should be much better because salary is upper tier
Every p4 team in the dance absolutely has more NIL than we do doesn’t matter what Fred makes that doesn’t change our NIL.
This. Wisconsin doesn't bench 3 point assassins unless they are terrible on the other end. He got off to a hot start here at NU and once coaches saw the film, they just glued a guy to him and he could never get open. Nebraska couldn't even draw up a play to get him open
That was hysterical. Think he was having a good time out there?
Last night was the first time I've seen him use his rep as a shooter in order to get loose for easy buckets in the paint. Which, I'm sure we all remember, was exactly what Tominaga did all the time. Essegian needs to watch a lot of film on how Tominaga just ran his guy ragged on the offensive end.
I separate the two. I try to watch as many Husker men’s and women’s games as I can. Went to the men’s game in Seattle in February and looking forward to watching the women play there next season. Even though the Huskers are never a factor in the tourney It is still one my fg how that’s gonna work
Berke and Morgan just do weird things for big men. I think Berke's game is too rigid like a lot of European big men. Last night he did a nice reverse pivot that had him facing the basket. If he would have taken one dribble towards the basket he would have had a wide-open dunk. Instead, he dribbles back away from the basket thus requiring him to take a bad turnaround jumper. Morgan got the ball on the right side of the basket with a defender on his left shoulder. Again, instead of going up strong on the right side of the rim for a lay in (bank it off the glass) or hey maybe even a power dunk, he compacts his body to make himself small and tries to do a up and under shot on the left side of the basket that barely got to the rim. Both these shot attempts illustrate how Berke and Morgan pass on a high percentage shot to go for something that has very little chance of getting the ball in the basket. Meah is not a basketball player. He is a tall guy that everyone assumed because he is tall, he would make a good basketball player. Last night he went up for a dunk. The only problem was he was dunking nothing but air because one of ASU's guards cleanly and easily stripped him of the ball. He must have small hands.
