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[Realhoops]

Good to see the message board is already in mid season mode after a win where Ryan Kalkbrenner gave everyone an absolutely historic performance.

Historic performance that was absolutely needed in order to beat a team you led by 5 with under 4 minutes left and should beat by 25+ even without Pop is justifiable concern.

Yeah — talking more about bickering and name calling over precisely where in their conference UTRGV is being projected in random preseason predictions.

There are a million details that contribute to teams that are really good having issues in games like that one. Really good teams actually lose games like that not infrequently.

But carry on with the handwringing and petty arguing about utterly meaningless stuff instead of recognizing and appreciating what you had the privilege of seeing Kalkbrenner do. Do what makes you happy.

[drbluejay]

Kalk gets my standout player of the game along with MVP, defensive player of the game, and offensive player of the game. Kalk's game reminds me of the game Bill Walton had in the NCAA tournament vs Memphis over 50 years ago. The only difference was back then players weren't allowed to dunk. I liked what I saw from Davis who is only going to get better with time. Ash making 17 of 17 FT's was very impressive.

[Altmanforprez]

It's game one. And game one without the 2nd or 3rd best player on the team available, it helps to bring some perspective to the game.

Did it look great? Not really, the problems we were concerned about are still there, mainly backcourt size and perimeter defense. The defense can be better with time, it's a new group playing with several different rotations, and the communication piece will be a work in progress. Fedor's size will be beneficial, but it's hard to count on it with the unknown on the timeline.

Plenty of time to make adjustments, there are good players who didn't have their best game last night and we all know the teams that give Kalkbrenner led defenses the most trouble are the 5 out perimeter offenses. We're not going to see a player every night like 14 who can shoot 3's, dribble, and finish at the rim in the 5 spot.

[NUgradCUfan]

Good to see the message board is already in mid season mode after a win where Ryan Kalkbrenner gave everyone an absolutely historic performance.

Historic performance that was absolutely needed in order to beat a team you led by 5 with under 4 minutes left and should beat by 25+ even without Pop is justifiable concern.

Yeah — talking more about bickering and name calling over precisely where in their conference UTRGV is being projected in random preseason predictions.

There are a million details that contribute to teams that are really good having issues in games like that one. Really good teams actually lose games like that not infrequently.

But carry on with the handwringing and petty arguing about utterly meaningless stuff instead of recognizing and appreciating what you had the privilege of seeing Kalkbrenner do. Do what makes you happy.

Thank you for clarifying. And definitely appreciate what Kalk has done for us as well as enthralled with the awesome personal performance, while also recognizing that UTRGV was also without one of their best players last night and still pushed us.

[JacobPadilla]

Here's my gamer, touching on Kalkbrenner's historic performance, what Greg McDermott called "fool's gold" and the freshmen thrown straight into the fire.

https://hurrdatsports.com/creighton-men ... in-opener/

[#RollJays]

Kind of a strange night. Playing without 2 of your top 4 guys. We don't have much depth in the backcourt and Pop being out really amplified that. The offense just doesn't run as smooth without Steven and Pop on the court at the same time. Ball movement looked a lot better with Ty in the game with Steven. Jamiya is not a 2. The lineup with Jamiya, Mason & Green playing the 2-4 won't work in the Big East so I hope Pop's injury is more just maintenance related and we get Fedor eligible asap.

[Jaybird]

Good to see the message board is already in mid season mode after a win where Ryan Kalkbrenner gave everyone an absolutely historic performance.

Historic performance that was absolutely needed in order to beat a team you led by 5 with under 4 minutes left and should beat by 25+ even without Pop is justifiable concern.

Yeah — talking more about bickering and name calling over precisely where in their conference UTRGV is being projected in random preseason predictions.

There are a million details that contribute to teams that are really good having issues in games like that one. Really good teams actually lose games like that not infrequently.

But carry on with the handwringing and petty arguing about utterly meaningless stuff instead of recognizing and appreciating what you had the privilege of seeing Kalkbrenner do. Do what makes you happy.

Good to see the message board police are in mid-season mode, and the Chief of Police is on the job. Do you get a badge and all that cool stuff?

Somebody wondered about UTRGV's conference and standing and I answered. Then, some doofus with 37 posts suddenly popped up and said I made it up, that I lied in other words, so I answered that too. Was it obligatory that I mention Kalk at the same time? What he did was jaw-dropping, but it seems to me most game and post-game posts in this thread didn't focus on his play or mention him at all (I could count them all up for you if you'd like so you can call them out too, but it might take a minute because there are a lot of them), maybe because as amazing as he was, there were some other aspects of the game itself that were concerning, and this is the game thread. Seems like it might have been legit to talk about those things too---especially since the thread immediately below this one is titled RYAN KALKBRENNER.

[NUgradCUfan]

There are a million details that contribute to teams that are really good having issues in games like that one. Really good teams actually lose games like that not infrequently.

But carry on with the handwringing and petty arguing about utterly meaningless stuff instead of recognizing and appreciating what you had the privilege of seeing Kalkbrenner do. Do what makes you happy.

Good to see the message board police are in mid-season mode, and the chief of police is on the job.

Somebody wondered about UTRGV's conference and standing and I answered. Then, some doofus with 37 posts suddenly popped up and said I made it up, that I lied in other words, so I answered that too. Was it obligatory that I mention Kalk at the same time? What he did was jaw-dropping, but it seems to me most game and post-game posts in this thread didn't focus on his play or mention him at all, maybe because as amazing as he was, there were some other aspects of the game itself that were concerning, and this is the game thread. Seems like it might have been legit to talk about those things too---especially since the thread immediately below this one is titled RYAN KALKBRENNER.

+1 The gaslighting is off the charts

Be grateful for what you have in Ryan. Do not think about or even mention the fact that the defense was complete A-S-S

[HandDownManDown]

I don’t really want to hear about projections. In the NIL era they’re a wild ass guess.

They had NU on the ropes with five minutes left and had a game under their belt already. They also had a bunch of bullshit go in that kept it close.

Consider this: they took Kalk out and put Fred in and it screwed everything up and let them back in it at the 10 minute mark. If Mac foresaw this as any small piece of a losable game he wouldn’t have done that (and maybe shouldn’t have) and we would have probably won by twice the margin.

It’s our first game against a team of an undefined value. Frankly I’m more concerned with Green not doing anything at all for the second straight game and Fred reverting to looking lost than I am anything else.

[HandDownManDown]

Another couple of things: first we just beat Purdue and lost by 1 to Iowa State. Granted those are scrimmages and so they’re different to a degree, but they’re strong positive data points that the Debbie Downers on here aren’t factoring in.

The second thing is it’s easy to look terrible when their shots are going in. We of all fans should know that since we do it to other teams a half dozen times a year.

Not good, plenty of things to work on, Kalk looks faster and even more confident than last season, and onto Sunday.