Super inferior opponent so keep that in mind. Chicago state was athletic but really undisciplined.
Top two players easily are Audige and Buie. Don’t quite understand why there was debate about that on the basketball board.
Need to box out more. They were very bad about getting a body on someone in the 1st half.
Berry lost his man a few times leaving open 3’s
Audige and Buie penetrating then finding an open man seems to be the offense. Some nice passes by both as well as bad decisions by both. A few lazy passes where if they put some pace or did a bounce pass it would have made it there. Not too many bad shots by either. They seem to realize (at least against an inferior opponent) that they need to get their teammates involved and their looks will come.
It’ll be interesting to see how the 5’s do against better competition as both seemed to be in position defensively and make nice plays. Big Matt had some nice hands on few plays where as Verhoeven bobbled a pass down low which if got cleanly would have been a nice dunk.
Defensively this team isn’t that bad by B1G standards. Offensively leaves a lot to be desired. Team will go as far as Audige and Buie carry them. NU will need them both to play very well to win games a well as someone else to step up game to game.
Not gonna find too many positive takeaways as it’s hard to gauge from the level of competition. These games just win big and avoid negative takeaways.
Top two players easily are Audige and Buie. Don’t quite understand why there was debate about that on the basketball board.
Need to box out more. They were very bad about getting a body on someone in the 1st half.
Berry lost his man a few times leaving open 3’s
Audige and Buie penetrating then finding an open man seems to be the offense. Some nice passes by both as well as bad decisions by both. A few lazy passes where if they put some pace or did a bounce pass it would have made it there. Not too many bad shots by either. They seem to realize (at least against an inferior opponent) that they need to get their teammates involved and their looks will come.
It’ll be interesting to see how the 5’s do against better competition as both seemed to be in position defensively and make nice plays. Big Matt had some nice hands on few plays where as Verhoeven bobbled a pass down low which if got cleanly would have been a nice dunk.
Defensively this team isn’t that bad by B1G standards. Offensively leaves a lot to be desired. Team will go as far as Audige and Buie carry them. NU will need them both to play very well to win games a well as someone else to step up game to game.
Not gonna find too many positive takeaways as it’s hard to gauge from the level of competition. These games just win big and avoid negative takeaways.
