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USC Offers Meek Performance Vs. Nebraska

The demise of USC basketball continued Saturday afternoon at the Galen Center.

The Trojans led at halftime by five points but completely collapsed in the second half of their 82-67 loss to Nebraska.

USC made 4 of 21 shots from 3-point range. It got rebounded, 41-25.

“We did not rebound the ball,” Eric Musselman said. “Rebounding the ball is something that I thought at least playing Nebraska that we could do a goob job on.”

Can it afford any more losses in the regular season for its sinking NCAA Tournament hopes? At the very least, it would need a deep Big Ten Tournament run.

What about Musselman? He built this roster and it’s a team with little chemistry. And it seems worse now than early in the season.

The bottom line: The season has quickly gone pear-shaped.

22 thoughts on “USC Offers Meek Performance Vs. Nebraska”

    1. KAM: Watching the game, in the second half it appeared that NEB played with more pep and joy. It was like watching a good high school team that passed the ball and drove and made layups and put SC on it’s heels. No wonder they didn’t rebound.

      DON: SC looked like it had more talented players but they were going through the motions.

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  2. “The season has gone pear-shaped.”

    I know if can’t be good but I have never heard a season described in that way. It sounds like Scott is describing certain parts of a woman’s anatomy.

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    1. same old SC MO: stack early schedule with patsies, then collapse in the Big10!!

      who they playing next, Ganahl Lumber?

      #MucleManTriedItAlready

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  4. “a deep tournament run”?? wolfman, it’s sadistic to keep elevating the Dummies’ hopes and dreams only to see them crushed again and again!! Lew Alcindor himself couldn’t get this band of rag-tags thru the big 10 tourney, much less to the big dance!!!

    wolfman, if this team was a puppy, Kristi Noem would drag it the gravel pit!!

    #BruinsComingAndThey’rePissed

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    2. Oh sugah’ you forgot to resurrect grandpa Wooden out of his sarcophagus….if you do there’s a life scale copy of Sam Gilbert ready to drive him back to “….I’ve no regrets….I always played the wus…..have no idea what Gene Bartow experienced…..Sam ALWAYS had my boney back end on a leash…Nellie…Oh NELLIE!”

      “You leave my Jonnie alone!”

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      1. no one more bitter than the russians! the world has long ago cancelled all the crackpots who spewed fake news about the hallowed John Wooden who still has no many awards, trophies and courts named after him, it would take an entire day to list them!! the nuts are of no consequence!!

        #HAWR HAWR

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  5. KAM: Some get sad over the thought of death, but a poet described it this way– For death begins with life’s first breath/And life begins at touch of death

    DON: Maybe so. But this life is a sure thing so I am going to cling to it with everything I got

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    1. There used to be a radio program called the Bible Bus with Vernon Magee. He would go through the entire Bible word for word with commentary. One day he got sick and a listener approached him and said “I am praying that you get to see the Lord real soon.” His response was “I would surely appreciate it if you immediately stopped saying that prayer.”

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      1. Plow –It’s always been central to the western mind to value life. And fight to preserve it. But I like what Roberto Rossellini said when asked about an afterlife: “I believe in science…and I believe in spirit. I am a westerner. I believe in both.”

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  6. What are the ‘over and unders’ of ‘los Castros’ vaminos from Havana?

    “…issst ok…I got the bes’ lawyah’ in Me..ami….tomorrow mornin’ yer’ gonna’ be workin’ in A;aska sooo dress warm!

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