Honest Question

[ProwlingPanther]

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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 of 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.

Greg still needs to prove that he can win at Creighton with his own recruits not Jake's.

[UNIChippewa]

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Greg still needs to prove that he can win at Creighton with his own recruits not Jake's.

Not just the post of the day. Not just the post of the week, or even the month for that matter. This gets my nomination for post of the year so far.

[06panther10]

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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.

Hello! We were a team that was supposed to finish mid-pack, in what is a very good MVC this year. As of now, we are right were most people thought we would be coming into the year. We are only 1 game out of 3rd place.

We had to try and replace two of the best players in the Valley coming into the year, with the loss of Kwadzo and O'Rear. We are trying to replace those guys with Freshman and Sophomores for the most part.

[run&blade]

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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

Deep with guys wanting to chuck 3 pointers for sure. Lets hope the can find Tuttle some help inside.

[Luckycat]

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Deep with guys wanting to chuck 3 pointers for sure. Lets hope the can find Tuttle some help inside.

Do you kick your dog?

[hoopfan]

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Just don't agree with the "young team" excuse anymore. These guys have played nearly 30 games together since the summer. I'm sure all of them played AAU ball against top level talent. They played in the PTL against good players. I just don't buy the young excuse. Especially when Seth is emerging the way he has. Sonnen is seeing a large amount of significant minutes for 1st time in his career, but he has stepped up and played well. If we are "young" this year with 2 freshman playing, what is it going to be like next year. We could potentially have 3 freshman on the court next year. Are we going to use this excuse again next year? The year after when we may only have 1 senior(Chip) and 2-3 juniors playing and the rest fr/so? When can we put this excuse to bed?

[jnutt]

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Do you kick your dog?

i actually did LAUGH OUT LOUD on this one. Well played, sir

[jnutt]

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the first few minutes...this is run&blade. Rooster Teeth!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CuY0i2v_4

[D Panther]

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The thing that is lacking is that go to guy when we need a bucket. That guy was signed but ended up at CU. The upper classmen on the team were requited before the 2 conference tittles and the the sweet 16. They were not getting a lot of love from the better programs. They were typical of programs like ours was at that time where we were trying to develop them to make a competitive team. 3 of the Juniors redshirted as did Morrison as a way to develop them. This is not a knock on them they have become solid players, good students, and represent the University that makes us proud. But it is what it is. We tend to forget that the sweet 16 run was really just the beginng of where this program is going. It is still in the intfancy and growing. I can't wait to see how far and good this program can be as it continues to grow. As long as Jake is here the cieling is extreamly high.

[run&blade]

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I looked at the shooting pct. Stats from last year to this year and they shot better last year for the most part. The defense was better last year also imo.

For those saying that many players have improve by astronomical amounts I am not seeing it.

[KansasCityPanther]

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I know that this isn't the most approved statement on the nation, but I am starting to agree, he hasn't shown emotion, happy, mad, angry, surprised, anything.

I know different people have different personalities but he needs to show something.

Just my opinion.

This crap! He knows he has a young team and is thinking beyond this year. It is surprising how some people revert back to coach not knowing how to coach. If he didn't believe this, he no has chance of getting his team to buy in.

[KansasCityPanther]

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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.

Three years ago WSU lost almost every conference game;played well in St. louis and has a good run ever since. Next year they will be down with all the seniors graduating.

Your a fool to think UNI is going to win, or finish second or third every year. If that were the case Coach Jake would be the next coach at Duke.

[run&blade]

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Why do you people think this team is young? Sonnen Moran Koch and James play the bulk of the minutes and they are all well seasoned. The green horn Tuttle is the best player on the team right now. Jeez if I guess if it isnt five seniors than just cry "we are young".

Since the shooters are all shooting no better or worse than last year what exactly does that mean?

[clenz]

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Why do you people think this team is young? Sonnen Moran Koch and James play the bulk of the minutes and they are all well seasoned. The green horn Tuttle is the best player on the team right now. Jeez if I guess if it isnt five seniors than just cry "we are young".

Since the shooters are all shooting no better or worse than last year what exactly does that mean?

I've posted it before....I'll find the actual numbers again if you really want....but...

Only 4 players currently seeing any PT have played more than 10 min a game before this season, and only Johnny and Jake have played more than 10 min a game before last season.

Not only that, but team is playing 4-6 people who saw no time on the court last year...or were in high school.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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This team is pretty young and has had good success in comparison to their average class-per-minute http://statsheet.com/mcb/stattracker...issouri-valley

Not the youngest in the valley and not much younger than CU, but one of the youngest in the league. After the season I'm going to take an indepth look at experience and hopefully get a better idea of how experience affected success in the MVC over the past decade or so