Post Play Issues

[FrankWheeler]

I don't even see Azubuike on any of the mock drafts, who is talking about Roby in the NBA?

[Big red surfers]

Been like this every year miles has been here. No bigs and zero outside shooters. 5 guys that can slash and shoot 10ft jumpers 

[SUHperman]

6 hours ago, seaofred92 said:

there is no possible way you're serious with this comment. Maybe folks at the local barbershop in Nebraska who don't follow the NBA. But once again, if you know anything about basketball, you'd know that frail backups that are playing out of position in college aren't your typical NBA prospects...

An announcer who called one of our games this year, thinking Fran Fraschilla, said he thinks Roby has the tools to be an NBA player. It’s only one guy but he did say it. He has a looong way to go for that to happen. 

[teachercd]

4 minutes ago, SUHperman said:

An announcer who called one of our games this year, thinking Fran Fraschilla, said he thinks Roby has the tools to be an NBA player. It’s only one guy but he did say it. He has a looong way to go for that to happen. 

Fran!!!  He said the same stuff about Tai!

[SUHperman]

2 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Fran!!!  He said the same stuff about Tai!

Haha I actually almost included that in my last post. I’m not very confident in his NBA scouting ability. 

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, SUHperman said:

Haha I actually almost included that in my last post. I’m not very confident in his NBA scouting ability. 

Fran is just a really positive guy!

[HuskermanMike]

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

Fran is just a really positive guy!

I remember him saying on draft night that a guy was two years away from being two years away- which equaled to being 6 years away from being ready for the NBA. It was confusing and amusing all at once. 

 

He hypes up overseas guys a lot, but honestly, if they look good overseas why not tell it like it is? Anyway, Roby has a ways to go before we start talking NBA, let's start with getting him some points and a consistent jump shot before we start giving him NBA love.

[teachercd]

8 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

I remember him saying on draft night that a guy was two years away from being two years away- which equaled to being 6 years away from being ready for the NBA. It was confusing and amusing all at once. 

 

He hypes up overseas guys a lot, but honestly, if they look good overseas why not tell it like it is? Anyway, Roby has a ways to go before we start talking NBA, let's start with getting him some points and a consistent jump shot before we start giving him NBA love.

For awhile, not sure if he still is, he was the international scouting guy.

 

Roby has as much chance of playing in the NBA as I do...but anymore, playing overseas is a nice gig.  I had a coaching friend/teaching friend that played for KU in the 80's then played on two 10 day contracts in the NBA but played for awhile in Brazil.  He was making about really good coin out there plus all expenses paid.  Now, that was only during the season but still. 

[SouthLincoln Husker]

Roby is too thin to play center and should be playing forward.  Jordy is terrible & Okie is a def. replacement.  It is what we have.  I just get frustrated watching players stand around 6' from the basket not trying to get a rebound.

[Minnesota_husker]

I havent watched nearly as much Nebrasketball this year as past years, but that should pick up. 

 

I think Jordy will come around but we also need the coaches to be smart how they use him. I have liked what I have seen out of Duby so far, but the thing we lack down low is the guys who want the ball---What I mean by this is guys who will throw their bodies around to get rebounds. I disagree with a post above about Jacobsen being trash. He isnt trash and we miss some of that toughness he brought. He worked his butt off and honestly I wish that mentality was shared by some others. He was forced to play in a much bigger role than he was able to play but I still think he and Morrow could have helped this team.

 

We need to find athletic bigs and stop worrying about height. I will take a 6'8 guy who can chase down boards and be able to guard someone who moves around. 

 

I think Jordy has shown moments but with this offense, he just isnt built to move around and his skills down low are too clumsy to run an offense through him.

 

I like what Roby can do but like others mentioned his confidence and lack of "Killer instinct" will need to grow for him to be an elite player. I look at Shavon Shields as a good comparison. Shavon turned it on later in his career and I think Roby can as well.

I dont think we need to move away from Jordy or Duby but we need to pick the spots. When the opposition puts in their bench, lets give jordy a chance to "bully" those guys. In crunch minutes I dont trust Jordy and we need to be ok with Roby/Copeland playing those minutes but need to fix our rebounding woes.

[Bornhusker]

On 12/19/2017 at 1:36 PM, Cdog923 said:

 

Kansas and Creighton killed us in areas where having Ed Morrow would have helped by about a factor of a billion. 

 

and KU and CU are totally different teams this year compared to last year.

 

https://www.bloggingthebracket.com/2017/11/1/16424558/big-ten-non-conference-schedules-college-basketball-2017-18-analysis-rankings-wisconsin-purdue

 

 

 

National Ranks

Team	Average Schedule Strength	Natl. Rank	Known Schedule Strength	Natl. Rank	Maximum Schedule Strength	Natl. Rank	Minimum Schedule Strength	Natl. Rank
Wisconsin*	4.389302554	56	3.698536892	68	4.427659631	67	4.350945477	43
Ohio State*	3.548867189	87	2.220681536	144	4.5527438	62	2.257192915	130
Purdue*	3.51992873	88	2.111937991	147	4.913804454	49	2.177598195	138
Indiana	3.441463289	93	3.441463289	79	3.441463289	106	3.441463289	77
Michigan*	3.241056079	101	2.084600071	152	4.219853964	74	2.524124675	115
Michigan State*	2.394448173	137	0.5998064477	247	3.424499494	107	1.131515518	210
Northwestern*	1.50196788	201	1.271222623	204	1.83996946	195	1.1639663	207
Minnesota	1.166929382	220	1.166929382	208	1.166929382	228	1.166929382	206
Maryland*	1.034234893	229	0.6674110406	240	1.154829788	229	0.913639999	220
Nebraska*	0.8423410885	238	0.2553877443	262	1.883598226	191	-0.1125622548	281
Iowa*	0.2856039548	265	-0.4445270591	296	0.9336655846	248	-0.1742475404	283
Penn State*	0.1549882173	274	-0.7935564417	316	0.0810929385	288	0.2288834962	257
Illinois	-0.6602639212	314	-0.6602639212	308	-0.6602639212	320	-0.6602639212	300
Rutgers	-2.415899092	346	-2.415899092	345	-2.415899092	346	-2.415899092	346
Average	1.60321203	189.2142857	0.9431236073	215.4285714	2.068853357	179.2857143	1.142377603	200.9285714
Conference Rank	21st	of 32	29th	of 32	18th	of 32	25th	of 32

 

 

 

238. Nebraska Cornhuskers

*Exempt Event: AdvoCare Invitational

True Home Games (8)	Semi-Home Games (0)	True Neutral-Site Games (0)	Semi-Road Games (1)	True Road Games (2)
Eastern Illinois (252)	None	West Virginia (11) or	UCF (136)*	St. John's (102)#*
North Texas (303)		Marist (312)*		Creighton (34)
North Dakota (223)		St. John's (102) or
Boston College (160)^		Oregon State (135) or
Kansas (5)		Missouri (150) or
UTSA (301)		Long Beach State (156)*
Delaware State (338)
Stetson (325)

Record against returning opponents from 2016-17: 0 wins and 2 losses (@Creighton, Kansas)

The Cornhuskers haven’t finished above .500 since their last NCAA Tournament season in 2014—Tim Miles’s second in charge. Heading into year six, Miles is on the hot seat. And while this schedule, featuring five home games against teams in the bottom 100, is designed to get Nebraska off to a winning start, it might take some upsets to get the Huskers back to March Madness. Nebraska’s exempt tournament is particularly tricky, as for the second year in succession, they’re participating in an ESPN event that features a local participant. Complicating matters, the Cornhuskers will play UCF on day one of 2017’s AdvoCare Invitational—while in 2016, their game with UCLA didn’t occur until the semifinal stage.

 

 

 

 

https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/non-conference-sos-by-other

 

Another sites take for this year..

 

Home Advantage: +4.0

Season: 2017-2018

Date:

 

111

Nebraska (8-4)

0.7

64

325

110

 

 

Last year..

 

Home Advantage: +4.0

Season: 2016-2017

Date:

 

52

Nebraska (6-6)

3.9

18

347

52

 

 

 

KU this year..

 

26

Kansas (10-2)

5.7

20

256

25

 

KU last year..

 

5

Kansas (15-2)

10.3

1

19

5

Edited December 27, 2017 by Bornhusker

[ScottyIce]

Any concerns still? I’m loving this team.

[Mavric]

13 minutes ago, ScottyIce said:

Any concerns still? I’m loving this team.

 

You mean when our starting center's best game features one more rebound than foul?  What's not to love?

[GBRFAN]

19 hours ago, ScottyIce said:

Any concerns still? I’m loving this team.

 

19 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

You mean when our starting center's best game features one more rebound than foul?  What's not to love?

 

Yeah and we have played the 1st and 3rd best team in the conference and haven't beat either.......  Good point Mav i hear that ratio discussed almost nightly on ESPN

Edited January 10, 2018 by GBRFAN

[ScottyIce]

47 minutes ago, GBRFAN said:

 

 

Yeah and we have played the 1st and 3rd best team in the conference and haven't beat either.......  Good point Mav i hear that ratio discussed almost nightly on ESPN

So we aren’t top 3 in the B1G? I can live with that.