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PTHUSKER

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Wise idea to change the subject.

While Iowa has had mixed results with their QBs, Huskers haven't exactly lit it up.
Difference is Iowa's defense can win games...Nebraska's, meanwhile, nicknamed "the sieve".😅
Better than your nickname “man like it in butt”
 

Redscarlet

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Wise idea to change the subject.

While Iowa has had mixed results with their QBs, Huskers haven't exactly lit it up.
You’ve only had one good QB in the last decade and that was last season.

So don’t flatter yourself thinking you know something about this subject.
 

RBigredMax1

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Wise idea to change the subject.

While Iowa has had mixed results with their QBs, Huskers haven't exactly lit it up.
Difference is Iowa's defense can win games...Nebraska's, meanwhile, nicknamed "the sieve".😅
Not changing the subject - your team literally did the same thing last year with Gronowski. Hopefully Colandrea doesn’t crap his pants like Gronowski did against Iowa State … Ames what a tough place to play😂

Colandrea hasn’t spent his entire career at UNLV so “big boy football” will be nothing new for him.
 
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mgbreeze

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Idk if we see the same defense this year. What they played last year worked because of pieces. Sam was the best perimeter defender we had, and it wasn’t even close.
Nebraska will play a very similar defense to last season. I'm kinda opposite from you, I see it as a system defense more than individual pieces. As long as they get buy in and understanding from whoever's on the floor, it's all about taking away what the other team wants to do.
 

Big bo fan

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Nebraska will play a very similar defense to last season. I'm kinda opposite from you, I see it as a system defense more than individual pieces. As long as they get buy in and understanding from whoever's on the floor, it's all about taking away what the other team wants to do.
Yep .OPs right you still need good defenders but as you say I think Nate’s defense setup is more a system defense. It doesn’t take a great player to help double the baseline it just take a by in by that player so he is in that spot at a certain point regardless of what he wants to do himself.
 
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Nebraska will play a very similar defense to last season. I'm kinda opposite from you, I see it as a system defense more than individual pieces. As long as they get buy in and understanding from whoever's on the floor, it's all about taking away what the other team wants to do.

I think both of you are correct. The defensive system will remain the same. Double team on the post and force to the baseline. But Sammy My Boy had a special knack for being in the right place at the right time or being able to anticipate the ball movement and being a touch quicker to where he needed to be. He also had good hands and didn't foul much down low. Will NU be able to replace that, even with total buy in from the entire team?
 

mgbreeze

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I think both of you are correct. The defensive system will remain the same. Double team on the post and force to the baseline. But Sammy My Boy had a special knack for being in the right place at the right time or being able to anticipate the ball movement and being a touch quicker to where he needed to be. He also had good hands and didn't foul much down low. Will NU be able to replace that, even with total buy in from the entire team?
I see Jacobsen filling Sam's "effort/tough as nails/always in the right spot" role this year. But no, I don't think we can totally replace Sam. We'll miss him a lot.