What happened to the early season version of Essegian? Big ten opponents know how to shut him down I think.
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Perhaps we need to be thrilled finishing in the top half of the conference if we can do it every year it would be nice. No more cellar dwelling.
That would be a start. Considering where we typically finish. Then from there we can continue to build. Now If Fred goes backwards from last season then we should look for change.
It's not a difficult concept. Build from the bottom, seek improvement, create a consistency, win winnable games, finish at or better than previous season. If that can't be done? Then look for the next White Whale.
We aren't there yet.
Hopefully MSU and this last one end up being out outliers. Can’t have Gary and Williams both struggle.
Struggling to shoot on the road is pretty common. It’s partly sight lines which affects your confidence. With Williams and Gary struggling no doubt Essegian was forcing shots. Pressure was on him.
I don't have enough basketball knowledge to put my finger on it, but something is way off compared to last year. The offense doesn't look anything like, well, an offense. It's back to the bad old days of dribbling at the perimeter with not enough passes. Obviously there's no one that can run a high post offense like Mast did. I'm not sure how bad our guards really are because we simply don't get good shots against anyone with a pulse on defense. Someone with the supposed offensive brilliance of Hoiberg should be able to make his team run offense to get a guy like Essegian shots.
So just accept the average teams we see, or below average mostly until last year?
Its ok because we have always been that way right?
The last several games have been a let down for sure. Last night, the only hope in beating them was our home court advantage and we let that slip through our fingers.
I hope Fred is here to stay, because the next flavor of the year hasn't worked very well for us in any of the men's sports. But he really can't afford to not win 20 games this season.
I honestly have no idea where we would turn next or how to get better talent to nebraska.
Wishing for 20 wins is like trying to build a following for your MySpace page.
If that's the benchmark for NU basketball coaches, the non-conference schedule will never get better.
This season has the potential to unravel very quickly, especially if we don't beat USC at home next week. Because after that we have a really tough stretch of likely losses:
@ #24 Wisconsin
vs #19 Illinois
@ #13 Oregon
@ Washington
@ #24 Wisconsin
vs #19 Illinois
@ #13 Oregon
@ Washington
@maryland this weekend looked gettable back in November
Now looks like very tough sledding
Such is life in the 3rd best P5 bball conference
Well to do that they will have to win 8 of the next 14 which would put them 20-11 and 10-10 in the Big 10 I believe. Not great but it would end on a pretty good run.
Im not sure why we would think that the benchmark should be any higher when we look at our last 20 years of Basketball. I certainly don't think it should be what we are shooting for in the end....but at a minimum it should be the expectation for now.
Yeah Maryland has only lost one home game so far this year and it was to #7 Marquette. They've won all 3 of their Big Ten home games so far by an average margin of 16. Meanwhile we have lost all 3 of our Big Ten road games by an average margin of 27 points.
They are 12-5 now, far ahead of usual so it’s not ground hog day at this point.
3 really BAD losses. Those blowout losses on the road hurt their ranking and then this loss to Rutgers at home was disastrous for their tourney hopes....
It will be fine, maybe lucky enough to be in a play in game and get that first tournament win?
Actually it’s not that the losses are bad, it’s the lack of quality wins to offset them. Jays just won at UConn - a game they probably don’t win if they play a soft schedule leading up to it.
And while I know there’s no love for Creighton here, man it’s fun to watch Danny Hurley lose.
How many AD's have we been through in the last 30 years. How many BB coaches? How many FB coaches? Maybe its not just the AD. Maybe it's Nebraska? Who knows? But our track record has been pretty poor since the mid 90's.
Not sure about that. I agree that I don't lose my mind over losses like I use to (football wise), so maybe that's "accepting."
As I said. If Fred can't get this team to 20 wins which means getting in the top 1/2 of the Big 10 this season then maybe it's time to go. Im just not sure we can do much better and stay off of probation.
Or maybe we just haven't hit that homerun hire yet. All I know is that someway somehow, we have to get the best kids interested in coming to NU on a consistent basis. And right now that isn't happening in very many of the mens programs.