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Yup, hit the nail right on the head as usual. Others here on the board have suggested it is coaching or lack of effort, but when you can't shoot ,you can't shoot.
Best reply to our problems I have seen! ThanksWell, Chris Collins, Joey Meyer and Clark Kellogg all seem to disagree with you. NU can control shot selection, trying to get to the line to disrupt runs, cutting harder, running some offensive sets to set up easier shots, increasing defensive intensity to create offense off defense, pounding the offensive glass for easy put-backs, etc. Any of these things can create higher percentage opportunities and help reverse momentum.
It seems that you are often content to say, "Welp. Just wasn't our night."
This team (coaches and players) needs to learn to win when things aren't clicking if they hope to get more than a few more wins this season.
Well, Chris Collins, Joey Meyer and Clark Kellogg all seem to disagree with you. NU can control shot selection, trying to get to the line to disrupt runs, cutting harder, running some offensive sets to set up easier shots, increasing defensive intensity to create offense off defense, pounding the offensive glass for easy put-backs, etc. Any of these things can create higher percentage opportunities and help reverse momentum.
Well, Chris Collins, Joey Meyer and Clark Kellogg all seem to disagree with you. NU can control shot selection, trying to get to the line to disrupt runs, cutting harder, running some offensive sets to set up easier shots, increasing defensive intensity to create offense off defense, pounding the offensive glass for easy put-backs, etc. Any of these things can create higher percentage opportunities and help reverse momentum.
It seems that you are often content to say, "Welp. Just wasn't our night."
This team (coaches and players) needs to learn to win when things aren't clicking if they hope to get more than a few more wins this season.
Well, Chris Collins, Joey Meyer and Clark Kellogg all seem to disagree with you. NU can control shot selection, trying to get to the line to disrupt runs, cutting harder, running some offensive sets to set up easier shots, increasing defensive intensity to create offense off defense, pounding the offensive glass for easy put-backs, etc. Any of these things can create higher percentage opportunities and help reverse momentum.
It seems that you are often content to say, "Welp. Just wasn't our night."
This team (coaches and players) needs to learn to win when things aren't clicking if they hope to get more than a few more wins this season.
Collins said many of the same things after the game...
Collins said many of the same things after the game...
That's the point I was making in my first sentence.
Yep. Just wanted to throw the direct quote out there.
And it was lower than that up to the last couple meaningless minutesNorthwestern shot just 26.8 percent from the floor and got blown out on the road by Indiana, 66-46.
Ice cold
The team is what the team is. And while they did say getting to the line is a way, the way the team is made up, we do not really have the personnel to do that well. Maybe Gaines and Brown and to some extent Pardon but others, not so adept.Well, Chris Collins, Joey Meyer and Clark Kellogg all seem to disagree with you. NU can control shot selection, trying to get to the line to disrupt runs, cutting harder, running some offensive sets to set up easier shots, increasing defensive intensity to create offense off defense, pounding the offensive glass for easy put-backs, etc. Any of these things can create higher percentage opportunities and help reverse momentum.
It seems that you are often content to say, "Welp. Just wasn't our night."
This team (coaches and players) needs to learn to win when things aren't clicking if they hope to get more than a few more wins this season.
While your point is good, to be fair, did you see many opportunities to get it inside to Pardon or Benson early in areas where they could be good offensively?I think this is more on the players than the coaches. This team has three seniors and a red shirt junior playing most of the minutes. They shouldn't need to be reminded when missing shot after shot after shot that they need to work it into the post or take it strong to the glass to drawl a foul.
Really, how many long shots in a row do you need to miss before you work to open up the inside game? Pardon (or Benson) didn't take one shot the first 15 minutes of the game. In that same timeframe NU took only three layups and missed them all...Falzon, Gaines and Lindsey.
Collins also said in his post game presser that he was totally disappointed in they're offense effort. He specifically stated that they didn't run hard cuts or set strong screens. if you watched the game he was constantly urging the players to pick up past the center line on defense. The under 30 % shooting is a real problem, especially from Lindsey and I still feel that the major problem right now is mostly mental. Either guys are playing with injuries or they just aren't getting along with each other or the coaches.FWIW, Brian James mentioned all of these things in his halftime interview on WGN Radio. He also bemoaned the fact that we kept taking 3-pointers beyond the NBA 3-point line and said that we need to work harder to get closer and take those shots from the actual arc.
If you can't shoot, you are me. I can't shoot either. Of course, I don't make the stupid fouls either, mainly because I can't get anywhere close enough to make themYup, hit the nail right on the head as usual. Others here on the board have suggested it is coaching or lack of effort, but when you can't shoot ,you can't shoot.
Or maybe all of the above and even some things not mentionedCollins also said in his post game presser that he was totally disappointed in they're offense effort. He specifically stated that they didn't run hard cuts or set strong screens. if you watched the game he was constantly urging the players to pick up past the center line on defense. The under 30 % shooting is a real problem, especially from Lindsey and I still feel that the major problem right now is mostly mental. Either guys are playing with injuries or they just aren't getting along with each other or the coaches.
Yup, hit the nail right on the head as usual. Others here on the board have suggested it is coaching or lack of effort, but when you can't shoot ,you can't shoot.
Wasn't picking on anyone. There were countless shot attempts we missed that were open with zero defensive pressure. Sometimes, you do have off shooting nights. You don'the win many games when you miss that many open looks. We even had more shot attempts than Indy and lost handily, an extremely telling stat, imo. We had those same shots vs. Minny, we just made a bunch more of them The only shot Scottie made was a dunk-- we just don't have the margin for error for that to happen.Well, I think the coach calls plays. I think the coach subs players. I think the coach recruits players. I think if we were harping on the players you cry unfair to pick on these guys giving it their all...and the coaches contribute...
It seems that you are often content to say, "Welp. Just wasn't our night."
This team (coaches and players) needs to learn to win when things aren't clicking if they hope to get more than a few more wins this season.
About 10 years ago, I used to live next door to an assistant coach at one of the Chicago D1 schools. He knew I was an NU alum, he was friendly with BC so he followed our program, and we'd talk hoops if we ran into each other in the elevator or in the hallways of our building.
After one particular NU loss to Iowa in which we couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and Iowa seemingly couldn't miss, I made the "sometimes it's just not your night" comment to him without really thinking about it. I got a (polite) 5 minute lecture about how you can never think that way, how there are always things you can change up to increase your opportunities and decrease theirs, and how it's a failure of both players and coaches when you have a night like that.
I do still think that there's only so much you can do in a given situation. I don't think there was any way NU was going to shut down Trae Young last month, for example. But it was a great example of how coaches think and how they want their players to think, because if you're out there thinking "it's just not our night" you're never going to play hard enough to have any chance of winning. To use the Oklahoma game as an example, maybe you're not going to shut Young down - but if you shut everyone else down, you're still going to have a chance.