Yeah I saw that, too. They must of watched two different games LOL
Nebraska 83, Illinois 80 Postgame
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The issue with this team is that it’s just not a well-constructed team. And what well-coached teams are doing is taking advantage of our major weakness by hunting mismatches with our slower big guys which puts so much pressure on the rest of the defense. That’s something we’re gong to see all year and I think that makes us a very good team but not in the upper echelon of teams.
It’s kinda crazy that the slogan is still “everyday guys” Hell we can’t even get “40 minute guys” let alone everyday. Underwood went from having teams that were tough as nails to now we only care about analytics.
How many minutes did mirk sit in favor of Jake and Ben 2nd half? 15? It seemed like Mirk hardly played in the second half.
I just can't appreciate losing games we have no business losing. Maybe that is just a flaw I have
Someone else mentioned it above but Nebraska was the better team today save for a handful of minutes.
Hoiberg's a tremendous college coach
Hoiberg's a tremendous college coach
LOL I guess we did cause I don't see how he think the man defense was good. Sandfort had 26 before the half and 32 for the game a career night.
Nebraska is decent but my lord this performance scares me for the best teams in the Big Ten and beyond. I'm not sure what the gameplan was today but it didn't work. Give credit to Nebraska for hitting open and tough shots. To have a chance at the end for overtime was actually shocking. Safe to say a better opponent doesn't let it get to that point.
Yes Sir, those two calls were atrocious in a close game! The free throw disparity has nothing to do with those two amazing calls on the road. Illinois was not fouling, the Huskers were simply driving by us for easy layups. When you get easy layups and open threes you don't need to get fouled.
Time to free Petro
Longtime lurker here, figure this is a fine time to make my first post
This was a truly fun basketball game to watch. I believe both teams are top 15 as of now. The season is far from over after that loss. Nebraska’s offense was fantastic and that last shot…they earned it tonight.
Some takeaways:
Need to come out with fire to open first/second halves.
Need to take the hot shooter out of the game before the second half.
Did finish both halves with fire, good to see.
I think Andrej was the team’s leading rebounder today, love to see it.
Tomi is not 100% yet, he’ll get better as the season goes on
The soft tech on Z really killed the momentum, we never recovered from that
This team is going to win a ton of games this year, losses like this happen. Just have to make it the only such loss. I think it stays quad 1.
Beat mizzou, ILL!
This was a truly fun basketball game to watch. I believe both teams are top 15 as of now. The season is far from over after that loss. Nebraska’s offense was fantastic and that last shot…they earned it tonight.
Some takeaways:
Need to come out with fire to open first/second halves.
Need to take the hot shooter out of the game before the second half.
Did finish both halves with fire, good to see.
I think Andrej was the team’s leading rebounder today, love to see it.
Tomi is not 100% yet, he’ll get better as the season goes on
The soft tech on Z really killed the momentum, we never recovered from that
This team is going to win a ton of games this year, losses like this happen. Just have to make it the only such loss. I think it stays quad 1.
Beat mizzou, ILL!
Thank goodness he barely played. He was putting the defense in terrible situations with issues when to/not to switch and was giving nothing on offense.
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Brad said in the postgame he was "unplayable". One of the few Underwood takes I didn't disagree with today. Mirk needs to figure out what he can and can't do. Getting a defensive rebound and dribbling up the floor into traffic is not very smart.
First game since @Michigan State in 2024 that we shoot 30% from three, 70% from the line and still lose.
Nebraska shoots 46.2% from 3 (which is ballistic). Sometimes a team just makes every shot, and there’s only so much you could do. I know Thornton going off was frustrating, but just for comparison, OSU only shot 32% for the game. Nebby played their A++ game, we played our B game… they still needed a contested 25 foot buzzer beater.
Tomi and Ben had zero points each before their threes. They weren’t great today, but takes some big time guts to knock those down in the final minute.
Nebraska shoots 46.2% from 3 (which is ballistic). Sometimes a team just makes every shot, and there’s only so much you could do. I know Thornton going off was frustrating, but just for comparison, OSU only shot 32% for the game. Nebby played their A++ game, we played our B game… they still needed a contested 25 foot buzzer beater.
Tomi and Ben had zero points each before their threes. They weren’t great today, but takes some big time guts to knock those down in the final minute.
I just don’t think you can consider a team that is about to be ranked above you a trap game. This wasn’t USC from last year. If you don’t come to play at the top for these games you got a lot more losses in your future and may just not be as good as you thought going in. Still hopeful for a second weekend if we get to work but these are games great teams win and we didn’t.
-11 in the plus minus by far the worst on the team. Very unfortunate.
I watch a lot of College Basketball, like most of you. I watch Hoibergs offense and defense today. The movement, the cutting, the curls, the spacing, the efficiency. Where would we be with his coaching and our players? Undefeated? 1 loss? 2?
Ill take what I saw out of red every night with our players.
Ill take what I saw out of red every night with our players.
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