By the looks of Twitter, I would say there is some drama on the team right now. Check out the Twitter feeds of some of the players. Hopefully nothing serious, but it's an underrated part of coaching to manage the locker room.

Twitter over past few hours. These are copied and pasted verbatim. No editing. NOT SURE OF CONTEXT, Just posting for all, so that you can draw your own conclusions.

Stevie (3 hours ago): Things have to change.

Nature Boy (3 hours ago) (Retweeted by Stevie): Wish I could go home and get away from Basketball.

Treg (3 hours ago): Drama drama drama smh

Stevie (3 hours ago): Gotta clear my head for a couple days.

Stevie (3 hours ago): A fresh start is needed.

Stevie (2 hours ago): Enjoyed my time here in Hawaii! Time to get back home and a start fresh awaits me.

Antonio (2 hours ago): Doesn't feel like Christmas!!

If you did a 360, then you went, right?

I'm not too worried about the social media stuff. They went on a trip that didn't work out well on the court. There appears to be no leader on the court. They're just pissed off about losing games. I think the team has a really good coaching staff. They'll figure it out and continue to get better as the year ends. The advantage in basketball is that you are still alive in March no matter what. A hot week or two can make all these losses forgettable.

Unrelated, but quite a few tweets that their plane ride to leave the island was particularly rough.

Yesterday was my first look at this season's Bobcats and one game isn't necessarily an accurate assessment tool. That said, what struck me most about yesterday's Bobcats was a collectively wanting Basketball IQ. Soooo many bad choices. A couple examples: #1 Bobcat has ball at top of key, his back is to basket, is covered by two Huskers - and tries to dribble between them. #2 Bobcat has ball down low to right of basket. Tries a short pass to teammate even closer to basket, but that teammate is blanketed by two Huskers. One intercepts and seconds later another Husker converts the turnover into an easy lay-up. And on and on...

What I saw yesterday was Bean trying to do too much and some others not trying to do enough at times (let me stress at times). Bean as point guard doesn't work well. He's a shooting guard. He was looking to shoot first and not looking to run an offense. Maybe because he feels he has to carry the team.

Trouble may be that Saul doesn't have enough confidence in the other guards to let them take the point. Stevie needs to step up and gain Saul's confidence. I don't think he likes his current role, but only he can change it.

Some others were looking to pass instead of shoot when they had an opening, which wasn't often because Neb played really good D for most of the game. The one that sticks in my mind was toward the end of the 2nd half; Ndour had an open shot but tried to pass to Campbell underneath and it was stolen away. There were others; I'm not singling out Mo.

Liked what I saw from Campbell. He's suddenly become dangerous from outside as well as inside. That'll keep the opposition thinking.

This team still seems to be finding itself, and they have one more game to do it before MAC play starts.

Nature Boy is Maurice's nickname. I'm not as down on this team as many, but someone has to want to run the PG spot efficiently. Borna says it often. The PG has to run the show, not be the show. Until Saul talks a guy into embracing that role, this team's success will rest solely on jump shooting, which is a dangerous game plan.

The only one of these that worries me is Ndour's . He has played this year a lot like he wishes he was home and not in Ohio. IMHO, he has not been the same Mo this year that he was last year. He seems to lack the fire in the belly he had last year. My impressions certainly could be wrong, but this tweet certainly is more of a confirmation than a disconfirmation.

I know it's tough for the young mens who are right in the middle of it. It's so intense and immediate

But wasn't this year likely to be middling, finding-ourselves early on with hope for improvement and a reasonable showing in the MAC?

We fans need to step back a bit and hope for that bit by bit improvement that a few have posted that the good coaches preach and provide.

This year? Hope for entertaining and reasonably competitive in growth is probably a fair expectation. Building a base for the future after years of turnover.



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whatdya do?

Thought this might need bumped. I don't know anything personally, except the team does not appear to be playing as one.