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    How long can the youth excuse be used?

    You need multiple options on offense. Buie and Kopp are not enough. When your 2 4-star forwards, Beran and Nance get you only two baskets, it is tough to close out teams. The top teams have multiple scoring options. For example, Gonzaga has 7 guys averaging double digits.
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    CCC cost us this one

    Anyone notice that Nance, Young and Turner went 2 for 17 and Young’s turnover cost NU a chance to win the game. Nance needs to take his game to the paint. Young needs to play with the physicality needed in the Big 10. Turner was supposed to be leader off the bench and make some key baskets...
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    Robbie Beran

    Collins in the post game interview on WGN radio said that was proud of Beran for giving some minutes because of his leg. Didn’t give any other specifics. Beran’s failure to play substantial minutes hurt our offensive punch.
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    Where would we be if we had Bill Carmody still?

    LOL! Time for Styre to be permanently removed from this board.
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    Where would we be if we had Bill Carmody still?

    My only response to losing a 18 year old Bamisile is, “Who’s Next?”
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    Where would we be if we had Bill Carmody still?

    Carmody was not a Power conference coach. He had no fire, did not recruit well enough to compete (eg Kaminsky failure and recue Vic Law’s dad’s quotes) and he copied his coaching strategies from Pete Carrill. There were no deviations or in-game adjustments. Carmody’s defense would never gotten...
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    South goes West...to Cal

    Two years ago NU was hoping that underclassmen like Rapolas and Falcon would step up with the departure of Lumpkin and Taphorn. That did not happen as injuries to Rapolas and Falzon’s physical inability to get back to 100 percent hurt along with having to not having their home court. No one...
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    Shouldn’t we be hearing about transfers fairly soon?

    The facts were that Ash was never a point guard. Injuries derailed Falzon’s development after his successful freshman year and Benson never lived up to the hype around his recruiting and was never able to play enough minutes as Pardon’s game got better and better every year. Benson also was a...
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    Beran talks about NU

    Oh Bobby. The one who thought Isaac Haas was a definite first round pick. Deep basketball acumen. Not. I get those two rambling wrecks mixed up.
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    Beran talks about NU

    This clown was a huge fan of JA who was not the starting point guard of his own high school team. Glynn Watson was. Larry Nance Jr. was a late bloomer also and that is why he went to Wyoming. He is doing pretty well on the Cavs following in the footsteps of his dad who was an NBA all-star...
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    Bruce Pearl

    Kelvin Sampson, Johnny Calipari and Will Wade cut from the same cloth. Any trends there?
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    DP tweet on Izzo

    Collins is extremely competitive, emotional, and wants to get the most from his players. As he learned from Coach K, he can be harsh and very blunt with his players. My guess is that he met with Falzon and Ash before the end of the season and told them that if they came back they would have...
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    Where would we be if we had Bill Carmody still?

    No Vic Law, Bryant McIntosh or Derek Pardon who have been all-time NU performers who never would have been at NU but for Collins. No NCAA tournament appearance and 1 NCAA tourney win. No 45 year old head coach who is willing to recruit and get to the plate on 4 star recruits v. a 69 year old...
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    Basketball has become a game where the primary strategy is to get a foul call

    Iowa has been successfully using this strategy this season as Garza has been very successful in drawing fouls. Against UM this weekend, he drew quick fouls on Teske and then went 8 for 12 in the Hawkeyes’ upset win. Remember the Iowa at NU game and the myseterious non-call when Garza’s raised...
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    Time for Collins to go

    Calm down. Some experts on the NCAA tourney are predicting 9-10 Big 10 teams to make the tourney. That is a record high. That proves that NU is playing one of the toughest schedules in the country and a tougher conference schedule than the former regime with 20 conference games. Also, NU...
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