Up Next: Milwaukee

[Kyle]

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If you are really a believer in superstitions, you need to ask Jeg to come on here and declare us a lock for Thursday in St. Louis. This is usually good for at least a 10 game winning streak.

[unipanthers8907]

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This team is a work in progress, that hopefully comes together in full around the 1st of the year, the coaching staff knows what they are doing, and I have confidence in them.

If in the future I post something like Fire Jacobson! it is only due to superstitions, and winning streaks that came after posting such a comment in the past.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this could turn out like that Indiana State game in 2008-09, but probably wishful thinking.

[ClivePurple]

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Seems like we play with little pride, toughness or resilience. Shots not dropping is one thing, but defensive breakdown the entire 2nd half is another.

[06panther10]

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It's amazing to me how many terrible post players we have on scholarship.

How is it possible to have 7 post players and only 2-3 show a D1 skill set.

Honestly, I'm not trying to pick on Friedman, but he might be the worst post player I've ever watched play meaningful minutes in a UNI basketball game. He might very well develop into something great, but right now he is completely useless.

We probably have 3 big men playing meaningful minutes on this team who would not have ever checked into a game in 2010.

Its pretty frightening actually. Our best hope is that one of the young guys on the bench or redshirting puts on a ton of muscle and drastically ramps up their skills and maybe they might be good in a few years....lol

There was a poster on here a few weeks ago, who I assume had some sort of personal/inside knowledge, that said that the Tiby (JUCO kid from Urbandale) would have jumped at a UNI offer but we had no interest.

He had 19 points tonight.

[hoopfan]

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For me, this was a disaster in the making right from the start. From the opening press conf on media day Jake alluded to the idea that we were going to run more this year and play faster to get more transition buckets because that's what our personnel lent itself toward.

And then, the day after our 2nd exhibition Jake comes out and says something to the effect of "these next few days (before our first game) is when our staff/players have to decide how we are going to play this year"....What??? A few days before we are playing real games, and we have no idea what style of basketball we are going to play?

This is kind of an identity crisis type thing IMO. Are we going to run or are we going to play D? Apparently we can't have both as indicated by how bad our D has been thus far. Jake and the staff went too far away from their bread and butter if you ask me and they are a little lost right now.

If we are going to play fast, we need to do it on both ends of the court. Personally, I would love to see us pressure full court. If this means Max, Marvin & Morrison all play a couple more minutes to keep people fresh than we need to do it. We need to pressure full court defensively on defense and try to get some easy buckets. We put up 72 points tonight and shot the ball as well as a 3rd grade team. The offense hasn't been the issue. Defensively we need to step up and get it done. Wes and Morgan are better athletes than we have ever had and are both good individually on defense, but as a team, something is missing. Giving up 10+ offensive rebounds every game isn't making our defense look any better either.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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I don't want to beat a dead horse. This comes up every year and but there's got to be a juco out there who can help us next year. I'm sure people will respond, like they have in the past, that juco success stories are few and far between and finding good ones is not as easy as it seems. But this guy was sitting in our backyard the whole time and I'm sure he would have loved to come here if we would have offered

and 06 beat me to it.

[OhNewby]

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Morgan. Jeremy played pretty well with some athletic plays of his own. Doesn't have Wes' jumping ability but a better shooter and still had some nice drives, steals and rebounds. He is going to be real good

I agree Morgan will be good. Not sure why he played 12 mins in the first and 5 in the second. It's also curious that Friedman didn't play even though UWM had a couple of "true" post players.

[Kyle]

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Its pretty frightening actually. Our best hope is that one of the young guys on the bench or redshirting puts on a ton of muscle and drastically ramps up their skills and maybe they might be good in a few years....lol

This sounds bad, but I think our best hope is one or two realize how overmatched they are and transfer.

We've had really good luck lately picking up a spring transfer each year, and I'd really like to see what the staff could do with one or two open scholarships this year.

[06panther10]

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All of that said, we should be able to beat teams like Milwaukee/Ohio/Mason, etc more often than not. Despite the obvious lack of quality post depth, we still have some VERY GOOD players. Deon, Wes, Jeremy, Tuttle...these are good players and, with all due respect to our opponents, our talent should be able to overcome some of our shortcomings and beat these teams.

Giving up 17-0 runs, and giving up 50+ points in a half to teams like this? C'mon...

That's what's most disappointing.

[unipanthers8907]

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All of that said, we should be able to beat teams like Milwaukee/Ohio/Mason, etc more often than not. Despite the obvious lack of quality post depth, we still have some VERY GOOD players. Deon, Wes, Jeremy, Tuttle...these are good players and, with all due respect to our opponents, our talent should be able to overcome some of our shortcomings and beat these teams.

Giving up 17-0 runs, and giving up 50+ points in a half to teams like this? C'mon...

That's what's most disappointing.

Absolutely. That's the worst part. I dont remember the last time we gave up a run that big where we didn't score and it sure shouldn't come at the hands of UW-Milwaukee.

[Kyle]

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There was a poster on here a few weeks ago, who I assume had some sort of personal/inside knowledge, that said that the Tiby (JUCO kid from Urbandale) would have jumped at a UNI offer but we had no interest.

Run and Blade's head just exploded.

[RallyKat]

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The most frustrating loss in quite sometime. Over the past two to three years I am just really disapointed in the lack of physical and mental toughness. It is time for the coaching staff and players to have a long hard look in the mirror and determine what direction they want this to go. Who is going to step up and play strong defense, who is going to own the glass, who is going to dive on the floor and get a loose ball.

If Jake is willing to pull an Izzo, I would get the shoulder pads out.

To inject a little humour into a bad night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcOw8LK55c

[GoPanthers33]

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Great game tonight guys.

It was fun playing you guys the last four seasons and interesting to see both teams winning their two home games.

I hope we sign another series with you guys or play you in a tournament of some sort in the future.

Good luck the rest of the year!

[UNIPNTHR]

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Absolutely. That's the worst part. I dont remember the last time we gave up a run that big where we didn't score and it sure shouldn't come at the hands of UW-Milwaukee.

Scoreless stretches were a big problem last year as well. I was hoping Wes and also Deon plus the foul changes would prevent that issue from cropping up again this year. Giving up a run, just put your head down and get to the rim.

The 5 starters combined for 9 free throw attempts on the game. Needs to be higher, especially when the 3PA's are not converting into 3PM's.

Edit: Also gave up 12 offensive boards. I know the team lacks both post depth and height, but we all watched the game… you don't need to be 7' to grab defensive rebounds, need better effort and position.

[Kyle]

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Great game tonight guys.

It was fun playing you guys the last four seasons and interesting to see both teams winning their two home games.

I hope we sign another series with you guys or play you in a tournament of some sort in the future.

Good luck the rest of the year!

Despite the minor melt down Panther fans are displaying, I also hope we continue the series. It (usually) provides a good quality opponent, gives us a home game we can count on every other year, and the travel isn't difficult.