1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: December 7th, 3:25pm - Keys for Nebraska/Michigan

Episode Date: December 7, 2021

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It's beat Michigan Tuesday. And there's lots there. Nick, if you would, kind of, sir, you found that clip. Could you run it for us, please? I wanted to ask you about your three-point attempts in the fourth quarter. A lot of times in close games, I feel like you take early shot-clock threes. When do you do that, what do you exactly see? And do you feel like at the time that that is the best decision for you guys?

Oh, which one? One, there was one at the eight-minute mark. It led to a fast break. They came down and got an air. How much is on the shot clock? I mean, I don't have the- Yeah, I mean, I know. I mean, I feel your question.

I wish you had a better, more stat to it and knew what the shot clock was and the game clock was. Because I mean, whenever it's as a basketball player, when it's nine seconds or 10 seconds left, and it's you gotta make a play. And it's guys standing there and you want to make a play. You got to, I mean, you got to do something. Sometimes throughout the game,

when you go into the basket, continue and continuing, sometimes you just gotta, I mean, believe in what you worked on. I mean, that's just how I play. So when you do take those shots, you do feel like that is the best outcome for you guys as a team? I wouldn't take it if I didn't think that. Yeah, Connor? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't mean that the player is always right or anything like that. But that's an example of a guy where you might watch it during a game and say, man, that guy takes a bunch of bad shots. and, you know, we have to trust that a lot of the times he knows what he's doing, right? And he's your best option even if it's not, like, if there's one guy I want taking a bad shot. If you're going to get a bad shot, like just because you take a bad shot doesn't mean there was a good shot available. Right. Maybe they all could have been bad shots. And Trey Young is probably the guy that I want taking the bad shot.

You know what I mean? Like it's... Steph Curry made a warm-up three from the tunnel, 10 rows up behind the hoop. And that would be a bad shot under every universe, in every universe other than Steph Curry. Yes. Like literally, you go, okay, would there ever be a time

where that's a good shot? He practices it. No, unless it's Steph Curry. Like, that's how it works. And you're right. Nebraska puts itself or ends up in situations where they need somebody to get things going, to make things move. Yep.

And if it's Verge or Bryce or now Tominaga, right? Because if Kese decided to take a circus shot, I wouldn't be upset. As a matter of fact, I'd only be disappointed that it didn't go in. It's all timing and circuit. Like, I'm glad Trey asked the follow up of like, hey, you know, okay, what time? Well, it's time on the clock. was situation. It's all circumstantial. It's completely all circumstantial. But I do occasionally feel like when Nebraska is in that moment where the drought has begun and, you know,

you're three or four possessions deep and they're putting together a couple good ones on the other end, they do tend to at times get a little bit like, I got to be the one to break this. So that's, that's all situational, right? And that's what you don't like. And maybe there's better ways for as a coach to, you know, maybe you call timeout at that point to settle people down or whatever it is. But Fred's taken the approach of the last couple of years to say we trust our guys to work through it. We trust the offense to produce a good shot at the end of this. And they haven't been able to break off those runs quite as early as you as you want. But I understand the frustration.

I get it. We don't want to see, we don't want to see them not. hit a field goal for four minutes. You know, he and Derek Walker are the big brothers on this team. So when things are stagnant, and that could be through no fault of anybody, other than the fact that you just,

you didn't hit shots. But if Derek Walker sitting in the paint and pivots and looks towards the basket and needs to kick it out to somebody, if he's got shooters who haven't made shots, who aren't making shots, then he's going to need to try to make something happen. Yeah.

Verge is in the same boat. Yeah. Either you go that way or you keep passing it to the shooters who haven't made shots, so you know. So you lose one way, you lose the other. And every coach in the country. Ultimately, you're not making shots. There's nothing you could do to make it look good. Everything becomes easier if you make shots.

Right. Literally everything in basketball on a college level is better if you make shots. It's easier if you make shots. So we understand it. Take Kobe Webster, for example, in that Creighton game. Yeah. He comes in and starts throwing fireball. in and I wouldn't tell you that any of them were quote unquote good shots but he made them all they're

going they're going they're going look that whole you know oh man bad shot oh sweet right well well yes yes yes no yeah you go through no no no yes yeah you go through those processes but every coach in the country once a guard or a wing and or both who can break down a defense off the drip yeah right stopper every single coach in the country once a guy who was one dribble better than his defendant. And when you get that guy, you also have to give him

the freedom, one, to finish and make plays, two, to make the decision on whether he trust himself more than he does his shooter on the wing. And through all, through every metric we can think of, Virges had a right

to be questionable about making that additional pass. He's got a lot better at making decisions too. I think there was a point in the first couple games where they had to really work with them. And I feel like they've done a pretty good job. I have little to no complaints about Verge over the last couple games. I think it really comes down to... Except for the three-point shot.

Shooter's now making shots. The three-point shot are late in the first time. In the Indiana game? Yeah, that's the Troy Youngwood. You just go, okay, well, what was the situation? You know, go ahead and take it. He can get away with one, I guess. Right, we can look at.

I don't have much from Virge over the last few, though. I really don't. There are people who want to, you know, they call him a hot dog, they want to call him ball hog, all those things. I'm like, you know what? That dude's an elite-level basketball player. Leave him alone. That happened.

Leave him alone. That happened so fast. I was frustrated about that. That guy is your starting point guard. He's playing his first couple games here. It's been a few weeks now, but he gets a ball in his hands. And it's like he can't dribble three times without people going, you know, Verge giving up.

It's the same crowd, right? And the crowd, this is why I give the guy some time. I am curious about, I'm cautious about the crowd, I'm curious about tonight's crowd. If they get into that early harumph mode. Yeah, you can't get them out of it. You just can't. And the players notice it. Oh, yes.

Right, and it's a little different. Like, look, I'm out here busting my hump for you. Like, help me out. Like, help me fight for you. So that whole boo thing I don't quite get. TechSine says, asks the question, why does it always seem like it's only Nebraska that goes multiple stretches without scoring every game. No, that's not true.

Just look at Indiana's first eight minutes. It seems like Nebraska's stretches are longer. They don't have a consistent enough stopper. Nobody that stops the run. That guy that you were just explaining, a guy that can break down his defender in a one-on-one situation because you can't rely on the, you know, on the offense creating you a good look every single time. It could be your base. It could be the biggest part of what you do.

It's not going to work every single time. And especially it doesn't work in late game situations. You know, everybody's got a, there's a weird buzz in there. There's a minute left. You know, you can't just have guys running around like robots trying to do the offense and pretend like you're going to get a great shot every time. No, there's the human element to this thing. And when the human element comes in, it's just five guys playing against five other guys.

you know, so you have to have one that can that can stop it at the end of the day. I think in a couple weeks we're probably talking about that being Bryce McAllen's. I would hope. Well, he has the ability. I need him to assert himself a little bit more. He has the ability to not only stop the run, but he can do several ways. Like he can take it to the basket and get filed. Now, if he's getting the calls, Bryce gets in a rhythm at the free throw line.

That's the reason I say, because he's got the tools. Right. He's the guy on the team who has the tools for it. I trust Verge with the ball, but I want him to make a play for somebody else rather than him trying to score simply because of his size. I think Bryce can do it all. Will Bryce get those calls at the rim in the Big Ten conference? I don't know.

It looks odd. I think he needs to be a little bit more, like I said, aggressive going at the rim at times. But he's such a smooth player that it doesn't look like he, at times it doesn't even look like he gets fouled or there is contact because he's like just the way he finishes and he has really, really good body control. Like it doesn't look like he's getting fouled at times, but he's getting smashed, you know? He's trying things that he's the only person in the building can try. Right.

Right. And I'm fine with him trying to finish at the room. So I guess I don't know what the answer to that is. I want him to be more directive. I want him to finish at the room rather than on the glass. Yeah. Yes. And he had one against Indiana that got blocked off the backboard.

that was easy. I want him at the rim. Yeah. Because at the rim, you'll get the whistle. Go at it. You'll get the whistle if you go to the rim. If you try to finesse off the glass, then they're like, oh, you're trying to steal a bucket. It's like running a, it's like running an inside zone rather than a power.

Yeah, just line up and have somebody compete. Well, and that may be the word tonight, compete. Because if they're willing to compete on the boards, if they're willing to compete defensively, look, give the crowd a chance to get in the game. Give them a chance to be loud and be PBA as folks have talked about it. Yep. Right? We'd love to hear it.

It would be wonderful. Yeah, I still don't feel like you're believing that this crowd's going to be. I'm curious. They need a few things to go right for them, I think. People are lukewarm, I think, right now. There's a whole lot of PTSD. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of that going on in this athletic department.

That's a statement of truth. So they need one. They need one day to bring them back a little bit. They need the case. Okay, so can we, in the next segment, can we make a list of the things we want to see that will get this crowd into it? Yes. Right. Bobaroski calling double tech in the first two minutes.

I'm telling you, nothing gets the crowd going. I don't know if it's Boberowski today, but nothing gets the crowd into it like a bad ref call. I think we'll both have our list when we come back. We'll throw it to break on one-on-one. we're alive at Barry's until 6 o'clock. Come on down, say hi, you're listening to 9-37 the ticket.