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Title: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 12:13:56 PM
a sold out octogon and a cats team searching for their identity in this mid-December match up of two of college basketball’s most storied and successful programs.

reasons to hope:  the cats have won 5 in a row

reasons to mope: nebraska beat michigan state in their last game

i’m a little nervous about hoiberg leaving the little apple with a win
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 12:22:53 PM
Losing to Nebraska in basketball is simply not something that is done.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: wetwillie on December 17, 2023, 01:14:28 PM
Hoping for a eff dick lint chant
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 02:10:24 PM
Let's get this done!
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 02:15:35 PM
#51 is straight out of nebraska basketball central casting
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 02:17:11 PM
cookie belcher ain’t walking through the door
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 02:31:38 PM
No doubt this is a storeyed husker program taking the hardwood today. I think once the boys in purple can get past the intimidation factor of that an historic red N on the shirt they will settle in and play their brand of roundball
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 02:34:03 PM
If we could take advantage of turnovers we'd be up by double digits right now
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: IPA4Me on December 17, 2023, 02:37:21 PM
Appreciating that early run from Nubbs.

Put the hammer down, Cats. Let's get that 10.5(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231217/aaaec813c58f9e38ebef5fe5519cf4f9.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231217/30d1306848fbb25b7030f9adb59779c3.jpg)
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: nicname on December 17, 2023, 02:50:24 PM
I don’t know why Buddy Rich doesn’t play much. He seems to do good things a lot.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 02:54:35 PM
I'm all for stomping the bugeaters thru the floorboards in the second half
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 03:06:34 PM
Probably shouldn't refer to them as Nubb (on account of one of their assistants only having 1.5 arms)
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 03:11:13 PM
Well not the ideal start to the half
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 03:14:43 PM
Their one armed assistant would be outrebounding us if he was on the floor
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 03:16:33 PM
This is ab embarrassing display of effort.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 03:22:00 PM
This ain't good
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 03:24:05 PM
They might have more orebs than we have total rebs
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 03:25:20 PM
I thought we would be tune in today. Sleepwalking out there.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 03:26:42 PM
Doesn't seem like they can't do anything well this half
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 17, 2023, 03:28:05 PM
Kaluma is our guy. We will go as he goes.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 03:28:34 PM
They're going to get in the bonus and this game is over
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 03:30:27 PM
Just play to take this to OT
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 17, 2023, 03:31:37 PM
Our bigs kinda suck and the refs are letting everything go down low.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 03:32:46 PM
This seems over
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 03:34:02 PM
We might not make it to 50pts
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 03:34:30 PM
No effort or energy. Cam and McNair MIA. N'G playing brainless. Sad.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 03:34:34 PM
We're not playing very well.

I hope this game doesn't come back to haunt us in March.

Any loss to Nebrasketball is bad.

Let's come back!
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 17, 2023, 03:34:50 PM
Nearly 6mins since we scored
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: wetwillie on December 17, 2023, 03:35:13 PM
Damn, Tang already checked out.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 03:42:27 PM
Nearly 6mins since we scored
8 minutes
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 03:43:43 PM
the viking shaq is unstoppable
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: Watershed on December 17, 2023, 03:45:25 PM
Perry is overrated. Guy hits a couple shots every game for fans to keep sucking him off but is avg athlete, not explosive off the dibble. Ames is so much more explosive and can create more. DNG should never shoot unless it’s a layup. This was Tomlins spot but should now be Rich’s. Ivan Drago is abusing McNair. Dick Lint is a Dick.


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Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 03:46:06 PM
This seems like a bad omen for conference play.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 03:46:44 PM
They ain't this bad but they definitely can be
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 17, 2023, 03:48:55 PM
Ppl are leaving. I’ve never seen this many ppl leave a game in progress before.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 03:51:51 PM
A 20 point loss to Nebraska will drive away fans. 
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 04:06:43 PM
As they should. I mean you ask for support and they give it, you gotta also give a product. That being said, it was a bad game, they happen. Don't let it turn into 2
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CHONGS on December 17, 2023, 04:06:50 PM
That was rough to watch.

It's hard to have a lot of confidence that this team can really make much noise in March (or even make it to the tournament) after that.

But you never know... They play the games for a reason
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: IPA4Me on December 17, 2023, 04:07:23 PM
Rebounds and threes. Yuck.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: wetwillie on December 17, 2023, 04:08:53 PM
This might have been more embarrassing than losing to FHSU during the Weber era
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: Super PurpleCat on December 17, 2023, 04:09:14 PM
Oh no we suck again.jpg
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 04:11:48 PM
We might not make it to 50pts

Really wanted to be wrong here but when you only score...<checks notes> 12 points in a half, I suppose that will happen
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: nicname on December 17, 2023, 04:13:25 PM
Truly an epically bad performance. 12 points in a half is nearly unheard of. I’d love to see second half stats
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: nicname on December 17, 2023, 04:18:20 PM
Either 4-25 or 4-26 in the 2nd have. Lol
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: KST8FAN on December 17, 2023, 04:18:23 PM
Everyone calm down.  This is sqaurely on me.  Unfortunately, I have tickets to the Wichita State game too.


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Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: cfbandyman on December 17, 2023, 04:45:52 PM
Either 4-25 or 4-26 in the 2nd have. Lol

Yeah, I mean Nubs only scored 62, it's not like we let em get away, we just could not score/finish. Literally going 12-25 from the field which is reasonable and this game is either tied or we win depending on the 3's. It was an off day.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 17, 2023, 05:04:02 PM
Maybe Tang needs to rethink the offense. Nebraska (ffs) pushed us out beyond the key and has us completely bewildered. God awful response. The failure on the defensive boards was fatal. Once they hit us with that second-half blitz on the boards when they got shot after shot after shot, it was like the team just knew it had no legs for the game.
We can point the finger at a lot of players, but why oh why does a sub-30 percent FT shooter feel the need to launch three 3s in like a 10 minute span and at least once very early in the shot clock?




Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: IPA4Me on December 17, 2023, 05:23:11 PM
Our defensive rebounding was atrocious
Title: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 17, 2023, 06:02:28 PM
nebraska isn’t a bad team, did you idiots not read the first post in this thread??

we played bad, they played well.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: wetwillie on December 17, 2023, 06:13:47 PM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 17, 2023, 07:34:52 PM
I've reviewed the tape and here's what I've concluded:
The octagon of love. Like, pure agape level love, it's unconditional. It doesn't care what logo is on your jersey. What I'm getting at, is this was practically a neutral court game for the 'skers. We need to figure out how to make that love conditional.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 17, 2023, 08:08:21 PM
I would be all for bringing back sandstorm and bringing back anger.

We should do a “eff (insert current opponent)” chant.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: MakeItRain on December 18, 2023, 12:17:47 AM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.

Bullshit
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on December 18, 2023, 08:41:42 AM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.

Bullshit

Which part?
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: MakeItRain on December 18, 2023, 09:42:22 AM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.

Bullshit

Which part?

That they gave up. It's such an ironically lazy and stupid narrative. Nebraska had their second worst offensive game of the season. If we weren't giving effort, don't you think that effort translates defensively more than offensively? We quit on offense but not defense? That's really stupid. The dudes just missed shots, that happens and it's going to happen again. We lost that game because we got shut down in the paint. Our two bigs couldn't score and Nebraska stopped Kaluma and Cam from driving the ball. If we were able to hit some shots then we could have unclogged the lane, we didn't, we scored 12 points in 20 minutes, you'll lose every single game ever when you score 12 points in a half.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on December 18, 2023, 09:48:13 AM
It feels like the last few weeks of KSU sports have been a roller coaster of emotions.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2023, 10:14:26 AM
I am really surprised that Colbert didn't get a shot last night given our paint difficulties.  Not that he is a cure all, but when nothing else is working, you have to try something.

Also, our offense looks like a jumbled mess that takes place outside of shooting range.  I know that it's intentional to draw the d further from the basket and clear out the mid paint for drives and cuts, but god it looks so rough ridin' ugly. 
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: wetwillie on December 18, 2023, 10:21:02 AM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.

Bullshit

Which part?

That they gave up. It's such an ironically lazy and stupid narrative. Nebraska had their second worst offensive game of the season. If we weren't giving effort, don't you think that effort translates defensively more than offensively? We quit on offense but not defense? That's really stupid. The dudes just missed shots, that happens and it's going to happen again. We lost that game because we got shut down in the paint. Our two bigs couldn't score and Nebraska stopped Kaluma and Cam from driving the ball. If we were able to hit some shots then we could have unclogged the lane, we didn't, we scored 12 points in 20 minutes, you'll lose every single game ever when you score 12 points in a half.

I'm not convinced we watched the same game if you think we gave good effort on defense. 
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: MakeItRain on December 18, 2023, 10:56:28 AM
We played bad against USC and Miami, we gave up against the Nubbs.

Bullshit

Which part?

That they gave up. It's such an ironically lazy and stupid narrative. Nebraska had their second worst offensive game of the season. If we weren't giving effort, don't you think that effort translates defensively more than offensively? We quit on offense but not defense? That's really stupid. The dudes just missed shots, that happens and it's going to happen again. We lost that game because we got shut down in the paint. Our two bigs couldn't score and Nebraska stopped Kaluma and Cam from driving the ball. If we were able to hit some shots then we could have unclogged the lane, we didn't, we scored 12 points in 20 minutes, you'll lose every single game ever when you score 12 points in a half.

I'm not convinced we watched the same game if you think we gave good effort on defense.

Every single offensive metric that Nebraska had, outside of offensive rebounds, in that game and particularly in the second half, were well below their season averages and they were either their worst or second worst metric of the season for them. If your emotion leads you to believe that we quit, that's a you problem, I'm certainly not going to waste effort to try to convince you otherwise. Objectively Nebraska had a terrible offensive game,. If you think the defense was lazy and had no role in that, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. Of course that makes absolutely no sense, but my days of trying to convince emotional college sports fans to be rational and objective is long over.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: nicname on December 18, 2023, 01:03:34 PM
According to K-StateSports.com the 12 points scored in the second half of the Nebraska game were the second fewest scored by a KSU team all-time. The 1991-92 Wildcats scored just 11 points in a road loss to Oklahoma State that season.

I remember that game.

I’m assuming that by “all-time” the SID means in the shot clock era.

 
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on December 18, 2023, 02:08:14 PM
It's hard to watch a team give up so many offensive rebounds and think that they are putting in a lot of effort. It's probably wrong to say they gave up, but they definitely need to get back to the fundamentals of figuring out who to box out and executing.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: CNS on December 18, 2023, 02:12:58 PM
It's hard to watch a team give up so many offensive rebounds and think that they are putting in a lot of effort. It's probably wrong to say they gave up, but they definitely need to get back to the fundamentals of figuring out who to box out and executing.

2 fundies needed badly:
1. Boxing out
2. Actually setting an actual pick and then actually rolling the correct way afterwards.

It’s not just us, though. It’s everyone. It’s why I assume there are reasons they don’t do it.

Rebounding, I get to an extent.  Some have a responsibility to get back to stop a transition, regardless of where the board goes. Others?  No clue.

I have no idea why a 6’-9” young adult that plays D1 ball isn’t a pro at a pick and roll though.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: EMAWzifried on December 18, 2023, 04:48:49 PM
Defensive players don't have a responsibility to get back to stop transition on the defensive boards. Perhaps our guards were trying to take off early with the hopes of a fast break, but they should have stopped that when it became apparent we weren't getting any break opportunities.
I do think the team got demoralized for the absolute asskicking they took on the defensive boards at the start of the second half and it translated to their effectiveness on offense. Truth is, they got manhandled and they knew it.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: Powercat84 on December 18, 2023, 05:44:15 PM
It feels like the last 55 years of KSU sports have been a roller coaster of emotions.

FIFY
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: MakeItRain on December 18, 2023, 11:26:30 PM
We've been bad at defensive rebounding all year. We were 191st in defensive rebounding going into that game didn't even check to see how bad it is now. This is the one place where we're really going to miss Tomlin. N'Guessan and Kaluma are the only rebounders we have, we're getting nothing from anyone else. Dummies are calling for David to be benched even though he's shooting 67% from 2 point range and is like fifth in the conference in offensive rebounding and seventh in total rebounding. I think Buddy will ultimately be a good rebounder but he isn't playing enough, right now.
Title: Re: CATS VS CORN - CBB Blue Bloods - MASTER THREAD
Post by: pissclams on December 19, 2023, 11:31:13 AM
buddy will have all the minutes he wants next year if he stays.  i have to assume every player on every roster is considering portaling now.