[personal] Re: [Husker] Another loss for the basketball team

[Skylar Dodds]

I agree on almost all counts Nick, save the one part about the defense. I
thought we played pretty good defense for the most part last night.  The
offense...well, that was the worst showing I've seen this year.

I have to say, this is the first real 'disappointing' loss of the season.
Creighton is a rivalry and a decent team, Western Illinois at their place is
a decent team, but CU?  I think what's more disappointing is the opposite
feeling I took away from the KU game.  Versus KU I felt we played near our
best and just got beat by a better team, but last night was just the
opposite.

Oh well.  Doc's gotta figure out a way to get these guys a little fired up
on the road.


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Skylar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of
> Nick Chevance
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:07 AM
> To: Mike Nolan
> Cc: husker at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: [personal] Re: [Husker] Another loss for the basketball team
> 
> On Jan 16, 2008 12:37 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Road wins are never easy in conference play, and the Huskers made it
> > harder when they shot a season low 34% in Boulder tonight, scoring a
> > season low 51 points in a 55-51 loss to the Buffs.
> >
> 
> We were (fortunate???) to be able to see that game last night on TV here
in
> Omaha, and there is no kind way of describing that loss.  The general play
> was poor, the defense was lackluster for much of the second half, and they
> seemed pretty much out of sync on offense for much of the game.  This did
> not look like the team that stayed with Kansas this last weekend.  On too
> many occasions down the court, they'd go into the weave at the top of the
> key, but it seemed no one was flashing to the basket, no one was working
to
> get open for a shot, and that leaves your shortest guy (and on this team,
> that's significant) left with a drive to the basket with time running out.
> The first half looked pretty good on offense; some good ball movement to
get
> guys open for jumpers, or down in the paint to Alex.  But the second half
> looked more like a pickup game.  I just can't believe it was the sterling
> defensive play of the Colorado team, who looked just as disorganized.  And
> lets just not mention the rebounding deficit - rebounding is not ALL
height,
> a lot of it is desire.  Hmmmm.  Did the Kansas game take a lot out of
them,
> both physically and mentally?
> 
> That was a win they needed, and a win they should have had.  I don't know
> what Coach does for inspiration with this team, but I suspect they'll be
> reminded of several things today at practice.
> 
> Nick
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