Next up: Northern Colorado

[unipanther2154]

This is a head scratching coaching job today. Terrible sets run at the end of the game and poor decisions on what plays to run. Austin was doing a good job, feed him more. You keep feeding him and the 3’s would have been more open.

[sevelev711]

I never want to see this team up by 10 ever again. Ever. I like our chances better if we're down 5 rather than up 10 at the half.

[orangetennis]

That Bears announcer was terrible

[sevelev711]

Takeaways:
Feed Phyfe. Always
Spencer found his groove finally, AJ needs to find his in the next couple games.
I know I said I wouldn't complain so long as there's no injuries and we win them all but Christ and Muhaamad having brunch I want to stop losing 15 point leads. Pleeeease. Through four games we've played four decent halves of basketball and not once have they been in the same game.

If we combine the first half of today's game and the second half the Bakersfield game we'll be a force in the Valley. But so far that hasn't been shown.

[sevelev711]

There was a stretch of six minutes where UNI only scored 3 points. We can not have those patented dry spells this year. Can't do it. You can get away with it (by the skin of your teeth) against Northern Colorado. Not West Va, not Colorado, not any of the Valley teams.

Oh well. It's over. W. Onto the next.

[Mudrafan]

I am incredibly confused by Green's slow start to the season. It wasn't like he was just some high school prospect that struggled in college, he played well last year. Just nothing really working for him this year so far.

He shot 41% from the field a year ago and had nearly 100 turnovers. Slow start? Yes. But it’s also not like he was a dead eye shooter a year ago. He flat out wasn’t. His scoring was more indicative of taking a lot of shots and taking a lot of shots doesn’t make you a great shooter. He’s a very good player and is going to be even better if used off the ball and if the offense wasn’t so perimeter oriented.

[panther-state]

I like it when we feed Phyfe. That seemed to work...let's do more of that

[Mudrafan]

That last possession with 20 seconds was ridiculous.

Why would we not have the ball in Haldemans hands and let him go drive to the basket with 10 seconds on the shot clock and get fouled.

Make a FT and the games over.

Running the clock down and throwing up a 30 footer. Just silly.

Haldeman was not happy about it and I cannot say I blame him. I predicted this a year ago. The green factor at pg and with dad on staff and with not being over.500 three yrs in a row, very tough scenario. Lot of pressure on green. Dad and son. And jake with the situation for that matter. The fact he’s tightened the rotation from day one and is trying to stack wins early is very interesting. There is zero chance for an at large bid with no quality wins so I don’t agree with the approach so I really don’t understand the point of it all. It’s conference tournament title or bust these days

[Mudrafan]

There was a stretch of six minutes where UNI only scored 3 points. We can not have those patented dry spells this year. Can't do it. You can get away with it (by the skin of your teeth) against Northern Colorado. Not West Va, not Colorado, not any of the Valley teams.

Oh well. It's over. W. Onto the next.

If the offensive philosophy is to jack threes from 25 ft away every time down the floor like the last three seasons when we’ve never finished above.500, there will be a ton of those stretches. Just like years past

[Mudrafan]

That Bears announcer was terrible

fixed it for you - Bears announcer was turrible

[sevelev711]

If the offensive philosophy is to jack threes from 25 ft away every time down the floor like the last three seasons when we’ve never finished above.500, there will be a ton of those stretches. Just like years past

You didn't watch today's game, which is fine, I'm not saying you have to in order to have an opinion. But, "jacking up threes" wasn't the problem. We only shot 15 today. That painful stretch of 3 points in 6 minutes? We only tried 2 three pointers, one of which got wiped out because of a foul, and actually resulted in three points. Here's what that stretch looked like, bookended by the makes, in order:

Made Layup
Turnover
Missed Midrange
Missed Layup
Turnover
Missed Layup
Missed Three pointer but fouled, makes all three free throws, 3 points
Missed Midrange
Turnover
Turnover
Missed Three pointer
Made three pointer to end the run

Of the 10 events that ended a possession, two were threes, and technically only one was. 0/5 on shots, 0/1 on threes, 4 turnovers.

I get that you have your hill to die on, and on some days you have a good point. Sometimes the problem is terrible three point shooting. Some times you are right, but not today. "We can't just jack up threes" doesn't work when the team went 5-15 in 45 minutes. It didn't show up today. It could in the future, and you'd have a point on that day. But today there were other problems.

[achrist70]

That Bears announcer was terrible

What did he do?

[Panther'73]

He shot 41% from the field a year ago and had nearly 100 turnovers. Slow start? Yes. But it’s also not like he was a dead eye shooter a year ago. He flat out wasn’t. His scoring was more indicative of taking a lot of shots and taking a lot of shots doesn’t make you a great shooter. He’s a very good player and is going to be even better if used off the ball and if the offense wasn’t so perimeter oriented.

He’s also in love...

[CyCarp]

I don't understand the lineup today. 4 guys played 40+ minutes, Trae played 35, Pickford 17, then Betz, Dahl, Kimmons played 2-3 each. The guys had to be feeling it late in the game. I can't understand why some guys barely/didn't play.

[Mudrafan]

You didn't watch today's game, which is fine, I'm not saying you have to in order to have an opinion. But, "jacking up threes" wasn't the problem. We only shot 15 today. That painful stretch of 3 points in 6 minutes? We only tried 2 three pointers, one of which got wiped out because of a foul, and actually resulted in three points. Here's what that stretch looked like, bookended by the makes, in order:

Made Layup
Turnover
Missed Midrange
Missed Layup
Turnover
Missed Layup
Missed Three pointer but fouled, makes all three free throws, 3 points
Missed Midrange
Turnover
Turnover
Missed Three pointer
Made three pointer to end the run

Of the 10 events that ended a possession, two were threes, and technically only one was. 0/5 on shots, 0/1 on threes, 4 turnovers.

I get that you have your hill to die on, and on some days you have a good point. Sometimes the problem is terrible three point shooting. Some times you are right, but not today. "We can't just jack up threes" doesn't work when the team went 5-15 in 45 minutes. It didn't show up today. It could in the future, and you'd have a point on that day. But today there were other problems.

I’m not talking about today. I’m talking about three years plus in regards to jacobsen’s perimeter focus and the past year in regards to the green factor. I was in and out of today’s game as was more preoccupied with football. So very little about today other than the end and a scrub of the stats. Clearly, we didn’t find Haldeman when he finally found the hand and we continue to burn the top 6-7. Makes zero sense