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

[jon johnston]

Regarding high hopes...... we have one Senior - Aleks Maric. We have a  
freshman point guard.

Bottom line - young teams are going to be inconsistent and last night  
you saw the immaturity factor. Hate to say it, but I believe it's  
worse with this generation. Not maybe so much of a "it's all about me"  
attitude as much as a "why bother" or "i worked hard yesterday"  
attitude.

Why has Nebraska basketball been this bad for this long? How many Div  
IA players does Nebraska put out in a given year? One or two?

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Nick Chevance wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the  
> impurities in
> our air & water."
> D. Quayle
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jon johnston
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