The win at tOSU last year and the win at Michigan the first year featured strong defense.
Rest of the season will determine Johnson's fate but hopefully a showing like last night will calm down the "fire the coach now" crowd. Let things play out and see what happens.I completely agree about withholding judgement. This could be a fluke or, possibly, the start of something. No bold predictions about this situation, especially after I finally threw in the towel on the Johnson era last week.
…but large feet.
Wondering if Ben hasn't been searching for this kind of passion and effort from his team all season long. Generally it's a pretty young team out there, or for some players, a big jump in competitive difficulty.
Well I shit my pants!
It was the worst of halves ; it was the best of halves.
Ben threw it back - it’s all goodThelyear featured strong defense.
I completely agree about withholding judgement. This could be a fluke or, possibly, the start of something. No bold predictions about this situation, especially after I finally threw in the towel on the Johnson era last week.
No victory lap. The statement was true win or lose.
Meaning when you hired a coach 3 years ago, you expected to beat NEB at home 3 years later.
Well statedI've been told in other posts sometimes its not the coaches fault the players just play bad, maybe the opposite happened last night.
Kidding aside, great game by CBJ and crew, they clearly had something click. The team from the 2nd half of the Mizzou and the first half of Nebraska goes winless in the big ten. The inverse of that team is a middle of the pack conference team who could get into the tournament. The likelihood is that they are somewhere in the middle of that meaning 5-7 conf wins.
I stand by my belief Johnson is not at all the right guy, but that 2nd half certainly gives me reasons to say I am wrong about that take.
Your in a trance. JOJ is not a role player. He's a Big Ten starter. Often we will have three guards playing, often we will not.
Teams seem to take on the attitude of their head coach and CBJ seems too laid back sometimes. I wonder if he finally snapped at halftime and the team responded accordingly?
Obviously, the most successful teams play with a high level of urgency and intensity more of the time than this team has this season.
That was DarthGopher. Also added how Gophers made Nebraska “their bitches” in the second half, if memory serves. (Seemed historical, colorful and….sleazy in one fell swoop).
While some worry about how many conference wins we will get and that Ben is not the right guy, there was a great game last night featuring a second half domination rarely seen in sports.
He was excellent despite four unforced turnovers. His greatest liability is his desire to dribble through the lane and heavy traffic trying to find a guy breaking to the bucket for a dunk. It is really neat when it works but low odds. Many of his turnovers are coming while passing in heavy congestion.
Most of these guys have been top dog on their high school team and league. Sometimes they square off against teams with a similar top dog, or maybe 2. If they wanted (or needed) to take over a game, they could, almost at will. At the college level, the entire team is made up of top dogs from around the country / world. The level of competition and speed of the game can be a shock to the system. Your quirks, tendencies and flaws will be laid bare on the floor, and equivalent if not better athletes will exploit them for everyone to see. Like you said, some adjust quickly. Some take a season or two. Some never do and flame out.
Yep and he's horrible if he's playing the wing and solid if he's not. I don't mind him playing a lot of minutes, if he's playing the right position.
