Penn State is Back in the Win Column with Dominance Over Nebraska
Penn State is Back in the Win Column with Dominance Over
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Basketball Penn State is Back in the Win Column with Dominance Over Nebraska
- Thread starter Richie O
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Hate to say it but I will....broken clock right twice a day or a blind squirrel finds the acorn.
- Nebraska played horribly.
- Ace seems a bit healthier the last two games.
- Dunn > Kern as a starter.
- Konan matched up well vs Nebraska who was playing without Buyuktuncel.
Penn State is Back in the Win Column with Dominance Over Nebraska
Penn State is Back in the Win Column with Dominance Over
You can't miss your conference's tournament yet make the NIT.
In post game BTN analysts were very positive about the Lions. Said this is team everyone expected if they had been healthy. Praised them for fighting through it,
With puff and fully healthy ace, the team would have 2 more wins at minimum, but probably 3 and still on the bubble
Yeah, a season of what could have been. Hopefully the dismal season is more injuries than coaching. But you do have to wonder about the coaching and all the close losses.
Oregon and Washington games will be our kryptonite.
Hot Tub Time Machine last night- looked like the team that whipped Purdue but Neb<Boilers and State is not as good without Puff.
Good to see Ace more fluid and forceful.
Considering that almost every preseason prediction have this team finishing in the bottom three of the conference, my guess is said it’s not coaching. It was pretty universal amongst the writers and line makers at Penn State, Northwestern, Washington, and Minnesota were going to be the bottom four in the conference. There was some hope after the Purdue game that they could get to the 11 or 12 range in conference and potentially jump on Nebraska or Iowa and it looked like they were on their way to doing that before the injuries.
Yep those were the two and I would throw in Michigan. We had that game. I think up by 5 with maybe 90 seconds left or less.
At the end of the day we were missing the Dance either way as a 4-16 or 6-14 or 7-13 conference record is still lousy but at least the latter would have gotten us into the BTT.
Maybe 5%. Talent on this roster is well below the top 5 teams in the conference and below at least 12 of the teams. Lack of depth and how would Konan fit in at the 5 were the main issues. Konan has been an overachiever compared to initial projections but untested freshmen and the injuries have brought out the lack of depth.
Who did the recruiting the last two years? 100% of the roster
If roster talent is 95% of the game then maybe you should have supported the coach who was the best recruiter.
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I believe the current coach has brought in the best class ever including the highest rated recruit ever so I do support him. Chambers was the worst X/O coach that the school has ever had and maybe in the entire NCAA. They never ran a baseline or sideline play to score on outbound situations. He regularly effed up two for one situations and called timeouts at poor times. He wasn’t that great of a recruiter. He got lucky with one class. Shrewsbury was a better recruiter, and a much better X/O coach, I think if he would’ve stayed this team would be in the tournament by now, but he chose to leave.
They definitely should have won three more Big 10 games (Oregon, Michigan and Washington). That would've made this season somewhat better. Also, they basically didn't show up against OSU at home, which is a very medicore team that just lost last night at home to Northwestern by 21 points.
