Honest Question

[jnutt]

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We need someone to grow some bad@$$ sideburns, and not take anything off of anyone.

[achrist70]

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I don't know maybe the top one, he looks like a potential all star, but the bottom one appears to not have the athletic ability to play any sports well.

[Kyle]

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Who on the current roster has improved?

Sonnen and James are 5 times better than they were as freshman.

Morrison has also improved by leaps and bounds.

[BCPanther]

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Austin Pehl is approximately six billion times better than when he walked on campus.

Chip Rank had also made great strides in one year.

['70 Grad]

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From the Prime Time league & non-con., I expected Chip to be doing more. He has made some bad decisions lately (easy for me to say in the stands) and his shooting has cooled off. Lack of playing time?

[jnutt]

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Lack of playing time?

wait until next year....for everyone. We're going to be so deep it will be insane. Maybe we can add another period so everyone gets minutes

[achrist70]

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I think that Chips minutes have been down a little bit lately due to Seth playing better, when Seth had a rough stretch there for 4-5 games Chip was playing a lot more.

[CF84]

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The only reason Doug was going to come here to begin with is because his Dad knew he was toast at isu. If things had gone well at isu i think Doug would have played there. Uni was a place to plant him and poach him. The issues that brought him to uni are the same issues that took him away. They probably had a gentlemen's agreement all along.

Greg McDermott was UNBELIEVEABLY lucky the Creighton position opened when it did and that he had contacts in place there. If that position hadn't opened, he most likely would have been fired from ISU by now and who knows where or if he would be coaching today.

Oh, and not only did he have a horseshoe in his rear in stumbling onto the coaching position, he was able to ask his buddy if he wouldn't mind releasing Doug to play for him and make him look like a great coach again and the savior of Creighton basketball. At the same time, damaging one of his now greatest conference rivals. He must be pinching himself on a daily basis to make sure it's real......

You can't help but be a little jealous of a sophomore post player scoring 24 points a game who was yours until his father hit the lottery and then went and robbed the bank on top of it.

[Luckycat]

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Creighton got the coach they wanted and his All-American kid while screwing over a top tier conference rival.

Iowa State got rid of the coach they didn't want anymore and $850,000.

UNI got screwed in epic proportions. We were the only losers in the deal

That's why we are where we are. People that say we have to let the situation go just don't realize how much damage it did. May have cost us two or three tournament runs and all the money and prestige that go along with them.

So explain to me how "NOT letting go" accomplishes anything! Yes we DO realize how much damage it did. All of us are angry about what HAD to happen! Please explain to me how beating that dead horse is going to bring us back to life!!!

[jnutt]

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Echinique is JUST as important as Doug is. He allows Doug to do the things that he does. If Doug were the only post presence on that team, it would be entirely different.

[TommyT]

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I think that Chips minutes have been down a little bit lately due to Seth playing better, when Seth had a rough stretch there for 4-5 games Chip was playing a lot more.

Also, when the team gets behind in the second half, we don't subsititute That's another reason Chip and the rest of the bench don't get minutes at the end of games.

[desertcat]

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All the anger toward Kock is very frustrating to me. He is second on the team in scoring and steals. He leads the team in rebounding and assists. Without him we would be struggling even more than we are. Just because he has occasional off nights (just like everyone in the sport) and doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve people hate on him. If he wasn't trying coach Jake wouldn't play him.

[run&blade]

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I dont buy the thought that this team is young. Koch Sonnen James and Moran have been at UNI a long time. Throw in post season play and Brazil and this team is loaded with playing time in the bank. Next year the will be ancient so you dont go from young to ancient in one year.

Plus the guy playing possibly the best right now is a true freshmen.

I say you are wrong when you toss out "young team" .

Who has improved since last year?

[06panther10]

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I dont buy the thought that this team is young. Koch Sonnen James and Moran have been at UNI a long time. Throw in post season play and Brazil and this team is loaded with playing time in the bank. Next year the will be ancient so you dont go from young to ancient in one year.

Plus the guy playing possibly the best right now is a true freshmen.

I say you are wrong when you toss out "young team" .

Who has improved since last year?

We are young. You can try and argue that as long as you want, but it will not change the fact of the matter. We are a young basketball team, and that is indisputable.

Who has improved? More like who hasn't improved? Mark Sonnen is twice the player he was last year, Chip is much better, Matt Morrison is 10x better than he was last year, Pehl got better, heck Tuttle has vastly improved since the beginning of the year.

The only player you could argue that is not a better player is Johnny, and lest we not forget that he had a pretty serious injury that required surgery in the offseason.

[run&blade]

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That is a lot of improvement for a team fighting to be mediocre in a mid major conference.

I dont think the defense is better that past years. I guess one could look up shooting percentage and rebound stats to have some tangible analysis vs last year.