(02-02-2012 10:36 AM)chihuskie Wrote:  Hey, there was a game yesterday. Huskies led most of the first half against a top Easy opponent (Ohio U). Unfortunately, Ohio came out hot in second half and took a 20 point lead! Yikes. Huskies came back strong, but the clock ran out on their come-back attempt and they fell short by nine.

Storm seemed to have a good game, along with Bolin and Christian.

(02-02-2012 10:43 AM)GeorgeBorkFan Wrote:  Was a sad game.

Nader needs to get a lot smarter. And, fast.

(02-02-2012 10:47 AM)chihuskie Wrote:  

(02-02-2012 10:43 AM)GeorgeBorkFan Wrote:  Was a sad game.

Nader needs to get a lot smarter. And, fast.

Bork Fan, I wasn't at the game. I am just going off the highlights on the website. Can you elaborate a bit?

(02-02-2012 11:11 AM)High On NIU Hoops Wrote:  Actually, from what I saw and also read in the post-game comments, the first half was very good. MM said it was their best basketball of the season. Ohio is a pretty good team (not just by MAC standards, either). The Huskies did some good things. When they are older, more experienced, better and bigger these same players will be doing some very good things on the court. We started 4 freshmen and a sophomore again. We can't expect to hang for an entire 40 minutes with our youth and slim bench (Miller out still, maybe for season and Toler gone). We had some major foul trouble guarding their longer and athletic posts and their quick guards, but a 9 point loss is somewhat admirable.

Storm had a good game and finally looks like a healthy player. He has looked better the last few games and it's been good to see that. Wonder what he would look like if he had been healthy all along and had actually been developed the last couple of years. Glad he stuck around but almost wish for him that he had left for somewhere else. Nixon played a lot and didn't score but did some good things. Grady actually did some good things too in his limited minutes (took it to the basket strong). Christian had a good scoring day with 15 and Bolin started strong and had his moments. Those are our only non-first-year players.

As far as Nader, I think what everyone sees is a freshmen who still doesn't know high % possessions from poor possessions (or maybe doesn't yet care if he causes a poor % one?). He probably got away with it in high school, but with bigger, stronger, better, and faster defenders than he had against him in high school he often struggles. That is to be expected. He has shown progress at times, and will continue to do so. I think he has a chance to be a very good MAC player. But, I would like to see him learn it faster. In his defense, some of his forced shots late came when we were down 10 or so with 3:00/2:00 etc. remaining and he was trying to get us scores. We couldn't waste a lot of time working for shots.

Quote:I think he has a lot of talent. He just needs to be smarter.

(02-02-2012 01:07 PM)7 Wrote:  You guys are killing me with the Nader stuff. He's a true freshman playing on an awful team. He's the opposing team's number one focus every night. He will be fine. He's the least of this teams problems.

(02-02-2012 01:07 PM)7 Wrote:  You guys are killing me with the Nader stuff. He's a true freshman playing on an awful team. He's the opposing team's number one focus every night. He will be fine. He's the least of this teams problems.

(02-02-2012 04:45 PM)cagy cager Wrote:  I think he is playing like a freshman with a huge upside. When the huskies bring in a true, explosive point guard (my goodness did you see Cooper???), Abdel, Axel, AC, Ford and the Grays will all be much better. Berg will get and knock down open shots off penetration dishes.

This team is fun to watch and will become more competitve when 6'8" Sam Bowie brings his big knive and Mad Sam Mader comes with his insider-outside skills and Mike Davis shows up with his winning scorer's attitude they will begin winning more than they lose.

The future on NIU basketball is as bright as the glow in 7's eyes when his mancrush on PJ was fulfilled when Doren finally hired the dude.

(02-02-2012 05:01 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  We still don't have anybody that can shoot. I mean, 2-pointers, 3-pointers, free throws, 8-foot shots. How can Grady make 4 FTs in a row and all the basketball guys can't? We need somebody that can drive the lane AND dish it off to somebody. We still don't have that. Nor do we have someone that can drive the lane and finish. They almost always look completely out of control in the paint. I was still pleasantly surprised that the game was close at half-time and that we fought back and made kind of a game of it at the end, against a very good team which, however, looked lackadaisical at the beginning and required halftime apparently to make an adjustment and shut us down.

(02-02-2012 06:00 PM)chazb2 Wrote:  

(02-02-2012 05:01 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  We still don't have anybody that can shoot. I mean, 2-pointers, 3-pointers, free throws, 8-foot shots. How can Grady make 4 FTs in a row and all the basketball guys can't? We need somebody that can drive the lane AND dish it off to somebody. We still don't have that. Nor do we have someone that can drive the lane and finish. They almost always look completely out of control in the paint. I was still pleasantly surprised that the game was close at half-time and that we fought back and made kind of a game of it at the end, against a very good team which, however, looked lackadaisical at the beginning and required halftime apparently to make an adjustment and shut us down.

These are many of the points I have made many times before. Saying that Nader at times looks bad because of the other players is just ridiculous. This team is not showing any significant improvement.

(02-02-2012 06:00 PM)chazb2 Wrote:  These are many of the points I have made many times before. Saying that Nader at times looks bad because of the other players is just ridiculous. This team is not showing any significant improvement.