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Nebraska 80, Illinois 74 OT Postgame
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Whew! Fascinating. I think analytics are a great predictor of what will happen in a situation IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER INFORMATION specific to that particular situation. As a game progresses, you get more and more information, and I think pregame analytics will generally become less and less useful. If you are sticking with the pregame analytics, and not factoring in what you learn during the course of the game at hand, those analytics can become cement overshoes.
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Underwood cheap shot at Piper really didn’t sit well with me. It was just odd. The Piper family are good people. I was in the same class at centennial with Josh Piper. Great player, good shooter, smart, team player. Contributed to a state championship as a Sophmore.
Missing shots to try and get extra possessions is not a winning formula, Brad.
That was uncharacteristic of BU...he is teetering on exploding! I think Brad's fuse was lit last night......
Brad was obviously very defensive in the post-game interview. He has to know a lot of the issues with this team are very much his fault, and yet he can't admit it to himself or anyone else. (Issues other than Tomi's mono, KJ's arm injury, or the appalling bad officiating at MSU.)
For example, regarding a question about our guards' lazy, casual, too-cool-for-school turnovers, Brad appeared to (intentionally?) misunderstand: "I write it down on the board before every game! We can't have 17 turnovers!" (Translation: It's their fault, not mine!) But the question was clearly not about how many turnovers, but rather about how come we have so many bad (unforced) turnovers. I think that's when Brad cheap-shotted Piper: Brad was acting-out from a feeling of defensiveness, and tried to shutdown Piper (who was too nice to go after Brad with a pointed follow-up question).
For example, regarding a question about our guards' lazy, casual, too-cool-for-school turnovers, Brad appeared to (intentionally?) misunderstand: "I write it down on the board before every game! We can't have 17 turnovers!" (Translation: It's their fault, not mine!) But the question was clearly not about how many turnovers, but rather about how come we have so many bad (unforced) turnovers. I think that's when Brad cheap-shotted Piper: Brad was acting-out from a feeling of defensiveness, and tried to shutdown Piper (who was too nice to go after Brad with a pointed follow-up question).
I rewatched the second half earlier today while listening to the Mike Carpenter 200 level podcast where he does second half commentary. It wasn't a very fun experience, and his reactions in real time were very similar to what we have all been saying on the board.
Honestly the parts of the game that were bar far the most frustrating on the rewatch (aside from Ben starting the OT instead of DGL) was the careless turnovers and the defense getting torched frequently by simple back cuts and BLOB plays.
The poor three point shooting was a much smaller concern especially when there were 4-5 possessions in the final 6 minutes where we had the chance to tie or take the lead but instead dribbled off our feet or chucked the ball out of bounds. Didn't even give ourselves a chance to miss a three.
One other note is that Nebraska is frequently lauded for its tough home court and raucous crowd, but I don't feel like they affected the game at all despite the final result. Obviously we didn't play well at all, but I don't think it was the crowd rattling the team, just lack of focus and effort.
Honestly the parts of the game that were bar far the most frustrating on the rewatch (aside from Ben starting the OT instead of DGL) was the careless turnovers and the defense getting torched frequently by simple back cuts and BLOB plays.
The poor three point shooting was a much smaller concern especially when there were 4-5 possessions in the final 6 minutes where we had the chance to tie or take the lead but instead dribbled off our feet or chucked the ball out of bounds. Didn't even give ourselves a chance to miss a three.
One other note is that Nebraska is frequently lauded for its tough home court and raucous crowd, but I don't feel like they affected the game at all despite the final result. Obviously we didn't play well at all, but I don't think it was the crowd rattling the team, just lack of focus and effort.
It was the second half with maybe 12 remaining when the broadcast pointed out we had 8 turnovers in the second half and only 6 made field goals. I think the focus right now had to be effort and finding out who wants to win. Get KJ and Tomi healthy, get guys to find a stroke, and make the tournament. If those things happen, we could do win the big ten tourney and make a run. In March madness, rankings don’t matter, just who’s hot. Trying to be a little positive after all the stink, stank, and stunk. That was awful
Terrible take. There was only one team that was going to beat us last year and it happened to be the best college team probably in the last 20 years.
This team is flat out snake bitten with injuries. Let's get healthy (if we can), then see how the chips fall.
This team is flat out snake bitten with injuries. Let's get healthy (if we can), then see how the chips fall.
Did anyone hear why Brad had bandages on his hand? Guess his hand met a locker or something at half time?
I just hope he doesn't leave due to playing time. Brad needs to get his head out of his a$$ and give him what he deserves!
We are actually like the best team in the country at not allowing teams to beat us with the three for what that's worth.
I think that’s because our dribble drive defense is not very good
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