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

[Nick Chevance]

On Jan 16, 2008 9:21 AM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.


Skylar - All I can say is that pretty good defense is what I saw on Saturday
against KU.  What I saw last night was some pretty slow feet, and just plain
lackluster effort.  Slow to the ball, slow to react.  In the second half a
few CU layups were the key to giving CU a short lead and helping them hold
on to it (though NU not scoring at the other end helped a whole bunch too).
And with CU with the lead, NU couldn't slow the tempo enough to let Alex
rest on the bench.  There were at least three or more drives by CU where the
player took a long rebound and simply drove up the court and no one picked
him up at the top of the key.  They weren't pretty plays but they were all
CU needed to force tempo and keep the lead.  I think if NU stopped those
drives, CU on offense is just plain....offensive.  NU stays close, no 7
point spread with 3 minutes to go, and they're in striking distance.  Heck,
they even managed to narrow it to two points, and then allowed CU to score
twice easily at the other end.

But I can't agree more about our offense.  When some of our scorers, guys
who you think you need to count on to get points, get their first points of
the night with 5 minutes left in the game, there's a problem.  Where was
Anderson in the second half?  Did he even take a shot?

Grumble.  I agree with other posters on this - I had some pretty high hopes
for this year.  A decent team (and I'm not talking about NCAA wins). I'm
talking about playing good basketball, showing effort each night, being
close against superior teams, winning the ones you should.  Let's hope last
night is the abberation, not the norm for the rest of the Big XII season.
They really are better than that.

Nick
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