I take less joy in this since fRed and Jay and Doc are no longer around. I like Miles and he has done and will continue to do a great job. But you have to kind of wonder if that 8 or so game stretch last year was a little "lightning in a bottle". Pettaway can fill it up be he takes a lot of bad shots. Shields disappears at times. And NU seems kind of like a one trick pony....Pettaway or shields driving to the rack. NU STILL needs a sniper. A Wragge kind of guy. Make defenses pay for helping against the drive. A post presence would be nice but anymore basketball has gone away from a true post type player on offense. And what's with Pettaway's occasional weird perimeter shot where he shoots and snaps his hands back...he doesn't do it every time though. Odd. What happened to Pitchford. What happened to nick fuller...thought he was supposed to bring some perimeter game...is he hurt?
Anyway, NU needs to get back to the "hunter" mode because they didn't handle the hunted role very well.