Wisconsin has absolutely gagged this away. Ugh.
Wow, brutal play by Wisconsin the last 12 minutes.
M moves to a shitty 7-3-1 record ats in conference play. You can just see they donât have it.
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Nebraska playing Hack a Happ and it is working.
I would literally lose my mind if a UM player missed as many FTâs as Happ missed tonight. Terrible.
Hey, donât listen to me. Read the comments in the open thread. Do you see anyone remarking on our impressive play? Not reallyâŚmore concern and hand-wringing than anything else.
And Iâm not sure I see a real difference between âalways has a slow startâ and âstrugglingâ. Just because you win, it doesnât mean you won comfortably and didnât struggle. Youâd think once in a while, they could manage to get out of the gate fast.
Do you agree or disagree that we struggled for pretty much the entire first half?
Do you agree or disagree that this does not look like a team hitting their stride?
Unlike you, Iâm going to keep the discussion about basketball, instead of resorting to personal attacks and insults.
Read the open thread comments. Do you see a single one saying anything like âweâre really playing well tonightâ at any point?
Associating oneself with comments made during a game thread is definitely a sign of reason.
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100% disagree, given that youâre objectively wrong about that. They scored 5 points over the final 13 minutes of the half. 0 in the final 7, including a 10-0 run.
If youâve ever read an open thread here you know how dumb it is to use it as a source for anything.
I swear to God thereâs a 90% chance youâre mpbear/prattd concern trolling the board again. Same exact style.
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Iâm surprised thereâs so much pessimism going forward about our record. Not blowing teams out is one thing but their winning games. Thereâs been plenty of games this year I thought they were due for a loss and they passed the test. Iâm feeling pretty good here. Hell 3 of our 4 losses were against good teams and we were there for each one. We shall see but I think our defense changes things this year.
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Well, âso muchâ meaning one person whoâs giving zero rational arguments⌠If youâre going to go 1 on everyone with the hottest of hot takes you better have something to back it up. If not⌠well it turns out like this.
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I guess I meant not just this thread. Iâve read a few other people who seem to be nervous or feel like weâre not playing well. I usually am very pessimistic and nervous but I feel really good right now.
Iâm still pretty nervous on a nightly bases about this team. However very happy with the overall season so far and potential. The offensive inconsistency keeps me from feeling great about this team definitely winning any given game. But you canât ignore the defense and rebounding at this point, which means the team is gonna find ways to win games.
Wolverheel, I donât â100% disagree.â I do, generally, disagree with most everything Inmycourt has been saying, however. We did, as you point out, play excellent defense for pretty much the entire game. Yes, NW took that 14-5 lead early, but we werenât playing horrible defense in my opinion, they just hit some shots. THEN, at the 13 minute mark we REALLY clamped down and played outstanding defense, albeit against a rather inept offense, for the remainder of the game.
Offensively, we did struggle in the first half, especially early, but there are legitimate reasons for that. 1. Coach B likes to run through his offense in the first several possessions of the game. He wants to see what the defense is doing, how they are playing. The genius offensive mind of Coach B is figuring in his mind how he will effectively attack that defense. I think thatâs part of the reason we sometimes start slowly. 2. When you have not faced a zone defense hardly at all during the season and certainly not since before Christmas, it can be difficult for young players to figure out. In last nightâs game, however, we did miss some open looks (Duncan especially), and it wasnât until we got some live ball turnovers and run outs that we really started making an impact offensively. Defense leading to easy buckets, as a way to beat the zone, what a concept! 
By the way, for anyone who would, somehow, say we werenât prepared to attack NWâs zone, it is extremely hard to prepare for a defense you almost never see and that you donât play yourself. Our scout team simply canât replicate what NW is able to do in their zone, so it takes a while. Fortunately we have Coach B helping the kids figure it out, and a defense that kept it close until we did figure it out. The second half was a testament to Coach Bâs coaching and to the kidsâ ability to adjust and to perform.
Coach B talks of having a âplay listâ that they use during the first half, but at halftime they made the kinds of adjustments weâve come to expect and appreciate under John Beilein. I thought we attacked the zone very well in the second half, and, again, if a few of Duncanâs threes, and that one of Zâs that should have gone down, if those had gone in we would have blown NW out in the second half. As it was, we were pretty much in control the entire second half. Free throws? Well, that could become an issue. I hope not.
Finally, I donât even read the open thread comments during the game. 1. At my age Iâm just not technologically adept enough, 2. I canât multitask as well as you kids can. And, 3. I just donât have either the time or the inclination to get involved in that stuff while Iâm trying to watch the game. If I had participated, however, I would have probably been screaming for Coach to get Isaiah back into the game after Duncan missed about his fourth open three, and Iâm a huge Duncan fan. Between that and comments like, âI HATE officials! I HATE officials! Freakinâ refs!â Well, just suffice it to say I do struggle to remain calm during our games! And Iâm a really old guy who should know better than to get his BP up! My point, what we may say during the course of the game, when emotions are running rampant, is often entirely different than what our rational minds will think when sanity returns. Sorry, this was so long.
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I have been keeping away from game threads lately too, because they tend to be all emotion and low on insight. Not really productive. I prefer to follow the box score on line.
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Nebraskaâs next game is a week from today against Minnesota. Between then and now Minnesota has 2 games.
Although it will help them record wise, Iâm sure Nebraska wishes they didnât have single plays against the top 4 teams in conference for resume purposes.
The waterboy for Ohio Northern is back? I was thinking it might be MattD
Hey, I was beginning to suspect this as well. Maybe itâs the whole âEveryoneâs entitled to their opinion, but your opinion is wrongâ vibe heâs laying down.
Eh, IMO Matt had legitimate opinions, just unpopular ones that he was kinda an asshole about pushing. This is more along the âclear trollâ lines of mpbear/prattd and his MSU fandom.
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