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His time with the Timberwolves may be …

His time with the Timberwolves may be edifying in what to expect from him as Knicks head coach, a job he was picked for last month. Thibodeau says he used the past year as a learning experience, visiting teams and friends around the NBA. Those close to Thibodeau say they haven’t discussed his Timberwolves days with him, nor see what made it go awry. “I don’t think anything went wrong,” says Eric Musselman, a longtime friend. “I think he did an incredible job.”

Joe, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, …

Joe, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, averaged 16.9 points and 4.1 rebounds last season. However, he missed six games in January and February due to a knee injury. Without Joe in the lineup, Arkansas went 1-5. With a healthy Joe, the Razorbacks were 19-7. “We are so excited to have Isaiah back,” coach Eric Musselman said. “He received incredible feedback from the NBA and got valuable experience with NBA interviews. We know how hard of a decision this was for Isaiah and his family. Zai’s goal is to have a long NBA career and we can’t wait to continue helping him reach his dream.”

Nevada Football:First Look At Nevada Vs Arkansas

Nevada Football:First Look At Nevada Vs Arkansas An early preview of Nevada’s match-up against SEC opponent Arkansas Contact/Follow @BrandonGBlake & @MWCwire A Preview Of Nevada’s Contest Against Arkansas On September 5th 2020, the Nevada Wolf Pack …

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Nevada Football:First Look At Nevada Vs Arkansas

An early preview of Nevada’s match-up against SEC opponent Arkansas

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A Preview Of Nevada’s Contest Against Arkansas

On September 5th 2020, the Nevada Wolf Pack travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks.

The contest between the Wolf Pack and the Razorbacks will be the first ever meeting between the two schools on the football field. However, the two schools do share some common history. The current head coach of the Arkansas men’s basketball team is Eric Musselman and Musselman was the former head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team. 

From 2015-2019, Musselman led the Wolf Pack men’s basketball team and his record during that time period was 100-39 while winning four conference championships (three regular season titles, one tournament title) and earning a Sweet 16 berth in 2018. Musselman left the Nevada job to take over as head coach of the Razorback men’s basketball program after the 2019 season. 

This is the third time Nevada has played an SEC opponent in the last six seasons. In 2015, the Wolf Pack played Texas A&M in College Station and lost 44-27. In 2018, the Wolf Pack faced Vanderbilt in Nashville and lost 41-10. Nevada is looking to snap a two game losing skid against SEC teams when they face the Razorbacks in Week 1.

This may be the best chance for Nevada to defeat an SEC team because this Razorback program is in bad shape. The Razorbacks have had three straight losing seasons and back to back 2-10 seasons in 2018 and 2019.

Arkansas is hoping new head coach Sam Pittman (formerly the associate head coach and offensive line coach at Georgia) can rebuild the program.  Pittman has a hard rebuilding job on his hands taking over for former Arkansas head coach Chad Morris. Last season, the Razorbacks were bad in almost every statistical category both in the SEC and in the country. 

Arkansas was last in the SEC in scoring defense (36.8 points per game-124th in the nation), run defense (221.5 rush ypg-122nd in the nation) and total defense (450 ypg-110th in the nation). Arkansas porous defense should provide an opportunity for the Wolf Pack offense to score plenty of points in Fayetteville .

This contest between the Wolf Pack and the Razorbacks is a great chance for Nevada to earn its first victory over an SEC opponent. Arkansas is a bad team that is breaking in a new head coach and its defense is terrible. Nevada does have the talent on offense to attack the abysmal Arkansas defense and come away with the victory and a 2-0 start.

Arkansas has had troubles playing against teams from the Mountain West recently. In 2018, the Razorbacks lost to the Colorado State Rams in Fort Collins 34-27. And last season, the Razorbacks lost at home to San Jose State 31-24. Safe to say that Nevada’s chances of coming away with a win over Arkansas are pretty good.

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Musselman was in the middle of his …

Musselman was in the middle of his first year coaching the Reno Bighorns, and his team was toward the end of a 110-96 win over the Idaho Stampede. Musselman’s squad was relatively loaded, featuring future NBA regulars in Jeremy Lin, Danny Green, Hassan Whiteside and Steve Novak. During his lone year in Reno, Musselman, now the University of Arkansas coach, led a team that still has its fingerprints on the NBA nearly a decade later, from the court to front offices.

Novak remembers Lin talking about how …

Novak remembers Lin talking about how Musselman let him play through his mistakes, and improve his point guard vision and offensive game. For Green, who came in low on confidence, that was all he needed to hear. “(Musselman) really vouched for me,” Green said. “He really let me play free. He really let me do my thing. The day I got in, he asked me how things were going, he incorporated me into a lot of stuff, but he was tenacious. He got after it. He talked his trash to opponents. He was a tough son of a gun.”