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Game Thread Nebrasketball Game #21: @ #3 Michigan - Tuesday, January 27th, 6:00pm Peacock
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Vibes to James Cameron.
James Cameron doesn’t do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because HE IS James Cameron. lol fucking South Park is incredible sometimes.
You’re not wrong. Down two players, we CAN’T miss several easy layups that should have been dunks if Berke had any balls tonight. You can’t miss those and expect to win this game.
But despite that, we STILL had a chance to hold on if it weren’t for the fucking refs doing everything they could to give Michigan a fighting chance to win it.
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I was busy tonight so could not watch.
Am I reading this right, 23-4 in favor of Michigan on free throws?’ What the actual living hell happened tonight?
Add on to that no Frager and no Mast and we lost by only three and led most of the game?!
Jesus Christ we could win the natty. I’m not kidding.
Am I reading this right, 23-4 in favor of Michigan on free throws?’ What the actual living hell happened tonight?
Add on to that no Frager and no Mast and we lost by only three and led most of the game?!
Jesus Christ we could win the natty. I’m not kidding.
Biggest positive from this game was Leo Curtis coming and showing legit development already. It's clear he's been playing hard against a great team in practice since his arrival. They honestly can rely on him in March.
Only caught the 2nd half cause I thought it started at 7. And last night was the first night of significant basketball that I’ve watched all season. So very uninformed question. If everyone is healthy come March Madness, could this team make a run for a natty? Seems we essentially let the game slip through our fingers in the last couple minutes against the #3 team in the land. Have not watched a lick of basketball all else this season so idk who or how good #1 or #2 are either.
Yes but I am trying to not hope too big and just enjoy the ride.
I have not woke up feeling this way in a long time.
Beat Illinois.
Beat Illinois.
You woke up pissed off?
No. The sad after feeling of so close but not winning a big game.
Honestly, the loss last night was disappointing. Normally I shrug my shoulders and move on at Nebrasketball if they lose, but it felt just a toooouuuuuccchhhhhhh like football letting a win slip away, and the same ballpark of disappointment. In a weird, different way, kinda nice to have some standards.
Sad? Maybe if we got blown out . We didn’t . In fact we win comfortably with mast and Frager even with the ref fuck job. Mich doesn’t play D.
On to Illinois.
Tampa’s top 5 B1G Power Ratings:
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2 ILL
3. Mich
4. MSU
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I don't think you are taking into account the degree of David vs Goliath last night was. A Michigan team built in the way a classic Big10 championship team is built, focused on bigs. A Nebraska team that has decided we can not build a team like that and go toe to to because we don't have the position or the clout to attract the bigs necessary, so let's build something completely different. Let's build a very talented "team" that plays clean, hard working, fundamental basketball on both sides of the floor. The world looked at that team and thought, cute, but not gonna work at the top end of college basketball. Then we went into Michigan's house, down our ONE big (and our best scorer,) and TOOK IT TO THEM for most of the game. We weren't lucky all those minutes. We simply outplayed them and made them look silly. Then we started to run out of gas which comes when you play that hard on both sides of the court and you are missing some 60ish minutes due to illness and injury. Even then, we had enough to win until the refs saw that we weren't gonna quit, and they started TAKING IT TO US. And, EVEN THEN, we didn't quit. We slugged and slugged and slugged, really, until we died on that last rim hitting 3. If you think a Husker football team has ever shown that kind of grit.. I mean EVER, even when we were good, you'd have to remind me the game in which that happened. This Husker team deserves a statue for the way it is representing.
Hoiberg has created a system where you can plug in the next man up and no huge drop off. Nebraska is here to stay.
That was about as a big as a moral victory as they come. Even with "Brenden" Frager out, we probably would have still won. Mast out too, I was thinking a 15+ loss. But to lead for 37 minutes, basically from start to last few minutes on the road, vs #3 team, that's impressive.
They problem wasn't necessarily points lost with those 2 being out, it's the minutes that Sam (39), Berke (35), Pryce (39) had to play. They started getting tired down the stretch, leading to an extra foul or two and missed shots.
Mast would have played 30+ minutes last night and given us minimum 10-15 points
Frager would have given another 25-30 minutes and and maybe 15-20 points.
I agree with this quite a bit, but you should be able to go one game logging those types of minutes and still be ok. It's not sustainable for a 3 or 4 game stretch, but gotta be able to do it for single night when you're underhanded. The fatigue showed in mental lapses defensively that led to bad fouls and shots that came up short.
As long as they can hit the 3 ball I agree. Defense is great regardless. Last nights second half was rough. Having Mast and Frager would have made a huge difference from not only a scoring threat but simply depth. We were gassed. Sandford couldn't get open. We got into foul trouble, and Jacobsen became our greatest scoring threat in the second half. And yet, still only a 3 point loss on the road to a very talented NC caliber team.
I don't know about staying at this level. But 3 straight 20 win seasons is a giant leap towards that indeed.
Going through some of the response by national media; they seemed more impressed by the game we played, without two starting players, visiting a team that many of them have already signed the check for winning a NC, and that Nebraska is a better team than they had in any way expected.
If we can get ourselves back together and rested enough for Illinois, and win, we won't drop an iota in the polls, and may even rise a few votes.
Can't afford a hangover from this game.
If we can get ourselves back together and rested enough for Illinois, and win, we won't drop an iota in the polls, and may even rise a few votes.
Can't afford a hangover from this game.
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