Game Thread: Nebraska v. Penn State
Not each play has to clear the fence. Make certain you hit these singles and so they’ll add up.
That’s not from the pencil-necked scribe however somewhat Fred Hoiberg as his Husker crew will get able to host Penn State on Saturday.
“Those were the things we were really good at early in the year at making simple plays and we’ve taken a step back in that area,” Fred Hoiberg stated Friday. “Trusting. Hitting singles. That’s what it’s all about for our team. We have enough weapons out there. We got to get back to making the right play 100 percent of the time.”
Nebraska’s 4 losses have all come to high quality groups. Three of them are within the high 7 within the NET and Iowa is twenty fifth. Important to in all probability emphasize to anybody dropping their wits a couple of difficult stretch of the schedule Hoiberg’s crew simply confronted.
That stated, the Huskers have locked in on just a few issues that weren’t attribute of them early in constructing this 22-4 document. I’ve identified varied objects like figuring out a double crew is coming and making an attempt to separate it. Or guys simply carelessly not figuring out the place their ft are and stepping out of bounds. “That’s just a stupid play.”
As Nebraska’s coach stated, you additionally do not reinvent the wheel simply since you had a disappointing 57-52 loss at Iowa in a highly-charged setting.
“We’ve lost four of six, I get it. We’ve lost four games to Quad 1A teams at the end of the day and have been within two possessions on three of those,” Hoiberg stated. “We’re playing really good basketball teams right now. Would we like to be on the other end of it? Sure. We had chances in every single one of those games. Now, again, the attention to detail, and I talked to our team about this yesterday…. is our goal still 100 percent achievable? Absolutely. But we can’t kid ourselves and say that we’re playing the best that we have all year.”
Saturday is an opportunity to get again on the profitable path with an NCAA Tournament seeding of three or larger nonetheless very a lot in attain, plus an opportunity to be one of many high 4 groups within the Big Ten who obtain a triple bye on the convention event.
The Huskers additionally do not actually have any dangerous losses on the resume, which is what you do not need to have occur on this Saturday at PBA. Teams Nebraska have misplaced to are Michigan (1), Illinois (4), Purdue (7) and Iowa (25).
That does not make dropping simpler and Nebraska needs to hit its stride in these weeks forward.
“There’s a lot of things that we need to get better at and get back to where we were early in the year when we were finding a way to win those games,” Hoiberg stated. “The confidence I have in this group is still sky high. I love these guys and they’re out there putting it on the line every time we step on the floor.”
Let’s arrange Saturday at PBA.
