UNI v. Creighton

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

Re: UNI v. Creighton

am i the only one who thinks Jordan and Eric COULD be a force in there together?? Koch does not need as many mins as he is getting, he is a turnover waiting to happen. Take some of his mins, keep Jordan and EC in there more!!!

This works until the other teams' threes start raining in...

[Matt Trump]

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There were some lineups that were favorable to UNI. The offense looked well executed more often than not when they didn't turn it over at half or back court. There were plenty of open looks but nothing but iron was found.

There were defensive lapses, however, that were very troubling to see.

[strike00]

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This works until the other teams' threes start raining in...

you mean like they are doing anyway?


why not just try a three big lineup? its like we have much to lose at this point.

[SteinPizza]

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am i the only one who thinks Jordan and Eric COULD be a force in there together?? Koch does not need as many mins as he is getting, he is a turnover waiting to happen. Take some of his mins, keep Jordan and EC in there more!!!

I see no reason why Koch can't play some 3 w/ Jordan and EC. Koch is easily the most athletic big we've had in awhile, but only a sophomore. Look at how explosive his first step is on a drive. I didn't agree with those who thought either Stout or EC could guard smaller players last year, but I think Koch could. That's not the reason we lost tonight though...this team seems to lack some intangible that brings it all together.

[Newsbreaker]

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It was HD on ESPN2 - 831 in Des Moines.

It was on ESPN2HD, but it wasn't shot in HD. In fact, it wasn't even shot in 480p.

[UNI MadCat]

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It was HD on ESPN2 - 831 in Des Moines.

Not really. Newsy (or someone) can describe it I'm sure but I know its not an actual HD feed. ESPN typically "cheats" us out of it on games they consider of less importance. I flipped-flopped a couple of times during timeouts to OSU/MSU and the difference is huge.

[UNI MadCat]

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It was on ESPN2HD, but it wasn't shot in HD. In fact, it wasn't even shot in 480p.

Holy crap!! I swear I did not read this before I posted mine!!

We're on the same page today.

[Newsbreaker]

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Holy crap!! I swear I did not read this before I posted mine!!

We're on the same page today!

Apparently! Ha!

HD feeds require a TON of bandwidth, and it requires HD equipment and cameras, of which there is a limited supply. They do a lot more in HD than they were doing a year or two ago, for example last year the Big Ten game on ESPN wouldn't have been in HD, so it is getting better.

[unigriff]

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sighs.... what a depressing night...id love to have coleman and josten beat those basta...ds..before i graduate...0-7 is grrr!!!!!

[Panther'73]

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passes are still floaters - I remember only seeing 1 bounce pass - so sad
got outrebounded 36-30 - lots to work on
Missouri St beating Ind. St - great

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

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Apparently! Ha!

HD feeds require a TON of bandwidth, and it requires HD equipment and cameras, of which there is a limited supply. They do a lot more in HD than they were doing a year or two ago, for example last year the Big Ten game on ESPN wouldn't have been in HD, so it is getting better.

Listen, any game not on the Mediacom Connections channel looks HD to me...

[Kyle]

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Coleman was a perfect 5-5 and had 12 rebounds.

PS- The season is over half over and he is officially averaging less minutes per game than he did as a Freshman

[UNI MadCat]

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I dont know about other people but I'm not really that disappointed in this one. Based on what we saw the past 3 games, I think it would be tough to not have thought an outcome like this was possible.

I think what bothers me most is that I dont see a high level of "coaching" going on during the game. Now, I'm obviously limited by the camera angles but one thing I look for in coaches is how they continue to teach young (ok, all) players during the game. We have a lot of young guys who make mistakes. We also seem to have a young coach with a quick hook. That's fine if every time they are pulled the coach and/or his staff is going up to them and explaining to them what they did wrong and how they can improve the next time (ie... you know... coaching). I just dont see that very often. Instead I see guys who continue to make the same mistakes over and over again, and have a lot of confusion on their faces.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong... a very outside observation to say the least. And maybe I'm just nitpicking here but when I continue to see guys take bad shots, or make ridiculous turnovers, or blow defensive assignments, I feel like some of that is coaching. This team isn't that far off talent-wise... they just dont seem to be picking up on a lot of the the little subtle things that perhaps could be improved upon.

I liken this to two different types of parenting. One type might put the kid into time out every time they do something wrong, but once time out is over the kid's punishment is over and they move on. A second, and I would argue more appropriate type, is a parent who may scold a child when they did something wrong and even put them in time out. But before letting them off the hook, they take the time to explain to them what they did wrong and even listen to the kid to figure perhaps why they thought they could do what they did. The former will likely continue to get in time out... the latter should "improve" their behavior.

I see a lot of the former when I liken it to this team.

Just my .06 cents.

[MeOW!]

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Why is it that every team has a three-point shooting clinic against UNI?

[UNI MadCat]

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Why is it that every team has a three-point shooting clinic against UNI?

Simple. They are wide open.