Badgers @ Minnysoda

Third loss in a row tonight boys and girls! 11-7 in B10 play this year.

10 minutes in and again on pace to give up 80 points...

getting tired of hearing Matt LePay say "and the layup's good". No interior presence, out rebounded badly again.

 

So the only teams Bucky can beat are the no nothings prior to the Big 10 conference.....  *sigh*  Come on Badgers.  

What Goldie said is pretty dum

 

 

What has happened to our interior defense?

My thoughts.

 

I guess I would like to see the defense either offer more weakside help or box out better.  Inexcusable that teams both get to the rim easily and have access to offensive rebounds.  At least do one thing good.

 

It seems, based on what I saw today, that handchecks are OK again.  Bo needs to adjust.  Also, goaltending will not be called in the barn.

 

Trae Jackson.  You had me.  I was completely snowed by you early in the season.  Now I can see you get "the look" and I know with 95% certainty what is going to happen.  Not that there is a good time, but Trae seems to find the most opportune momentum stealing moments of the game to turn the ball over. 

 

I'd like to see Dekker take a game over.

 

Hayes impresses me more and more. 

 

I go back and forth, and I get why it happens, but Frank needs to be on the court.  Him in foul trouble was just a killer.  Not certain (and I can't find +/- for college BB), but Frank barely playing was half the problem.

 

Dukkan.  No more dribble drives please.

 

Gasser still doesn't look like he has it.  Fatigue maybe?  Not the same player he was a month ago. 

 

It also seems, when we need to foul, this team doesn't know how to do it

As good as Frank is with the ball, he's just a bad defensively. He's slow, and from time to time he'll get there to alter a shot or even block it, the rest of the time he's late. And compounding this is how awful this team is with on ball defense. They don't have a single guy that can stop a G from blasting by him. Like EKB said, Gasser has lost a step this month. No one else has stepped forward.

Also a problem- their bench is 3 Freshmen and Dukan. They're making mistakes. They get lost on switches, don't rotate- stuff Freshmen do. You can see that Bo is exercising patience, he's not getting down on them. He knows there's limits to what they understand at this point.

So he'll have to coach them out of this funk they're in. Just learn- take your lumps now, get better, learn. Learn how to hedge the pick, get back, get out on shooters, recover, rotate, help... Better to go through this now than in Late FEB. They have tried to shoot their way out of deficits 3 games in a row, now. Need to defend...

This game was different than Michigan in that the Wolverines made a lot more jumpers but the Gophers just took it to the rack again and again and again and converted easy layups.   They also got killed on the glass which isn't good.

 

I don't really know what the answer is at this point but right now this team is not very good and I think teams have figured them out.  Maybe they need to play more zone.  Maybe Dukan and Koenig need to play more too because I think those two can defend. 

 

 

Great, the Badgers made a USA Today lowlight....sheesh.

 

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Oh, and EKB..... what you said was pretty stoopid.  

Hollin's dunk was sick.  It should be a top 10 highlight.

 

1.75 ppp in the second half.

 

amazing

I thought it was hilarious that this team was seen as a Final Four team a few weeks ago. Bo needs to recruit some athletes.

care to point out who isn't an "athlete?"

 

No team gets more praise for recruiting athletes than Illinois.  They should be the model. 

This.

My main thought goes back to the hysteria when UW was climbing up the charts.

 

Relax boys and let's see where they REALLY belong.

 

Looks like easily out of the Top 10, maybe Top 15.

 

Did anyone REALLY think Wisconsin was the third best team in the country?

Absolutely.

 

An athlete is someone who can have the ball and if not covered tight from the outside, can jack a jumper.  If covered tight, he can create by going by his defender and:

 

1) Jacking a mid-range pull up jumper

 

2) Taking it to the hole if that is what the defense gives

 

3) Or penetrating and dishing to the open man.

 

That is what athletes that know how to play basketball on offense do.

 

And that is what Wisconsin perpetually has a dearth of.

 

Go through Wisconsin's roster and qualify each and every player according to how well he can do 1-3.

so you want us to rate the "jacking" of a bunch of young men...

How about people wondering if Dekker would go pro after this year? Really?

people are stupid!

 

keep preachin' brother!

 

 

I don't recall one poster on here saying Dekker was good enough to play in the NBA next season. Not one.   I do recall the yappers on ESPN and BTN saying Dekker could turn pro. But that is their job. That way if he would try the NBA they can say they were right. And if he stays at Madison they can say he needed more college experience.  They are never rong.

Next loss is Saturday at Purdue!

 

Is this like icing cookies?

You don't add much here do you. But I get it now, you dislike the Badgers because Greg Timmerman was a bust.

because he wasn't athletic

Do you guys disagree with the substance of my post?

 

The reason I used the word "jacking" is because I think it can connotate taking matters into your own hands.  That's all.

 

But, perhaps it was a poor choice of words.

 

Regardless, I would have hoped more posts would pertain to the substance of what I wrote and less to what may have been a poor choice of words.

yes, we all felt you meant taking matters into your own hands

Perfect. 

Don't see too many wins on the remaining schedule.

I don't see a schedule, just white space.

Unnecessary 

Phaedrus you are on crack, put down the pipe and pickup the DVR remote and go back to the non-con games ... Bucky played some "athletes" and kicked their arse.

 

Young team, different team, more offensive team, not a very big team. We are going thru some growing pains and obviously the D side of the ball is a train-wreck project in progress. Its affecting the O-side of the ball right now IMO and the PG position is the first culprit.

 

I trust in Bo, I know Bo knows the PG position better than most coaches and when he gets that Defense at the PG position figured out, the defense will start getting better overall. Teams are coming down the floor at the PG and setting up to do whatever they want, that needs to stop or at least minimized.

Too bad George transferred, I think we might be missing him a bit right now ...

JMO.

Not concerned.

 

It's all about March.

The problem I see, is there are too many good players. Bo is going to have to learn to coach guys that are actually basketball players. He usually just has guys he has to make into players.

 

The above and T Jackson just isn't very good.

trump,

 

Yeah, maybe so as I have not seen much of the Badgers and so am basing this on limited exposure.  One thing that tilted me in the direction of thinking the Badger's lack athletes was ammo's summary of the last few exchanges in I think the Indiana loss.

 

Every single time UW attempted a 3.  I think it was something like the last 8 trips where a 10 point lead vanished.

 

Unusual for a team of athletes.

Absolutely I do.  You qualify athletes based on offensive skills, well this team is not hurting for offensive skills at all. 

 

Wisconsin is 12th in the nation in points per possession, so by your standards, they are one of the most athletic teams out there.  Scoring is not the problem, getting shots is not the problem, athleticism is not the problem.  Crappy defense is the problem. 

 

If, like Goldie, you think they did all this playing a cupcake schedule before bigten play, Bucky's RPI (currently 3rd in the nation) all season has been very, very high. 

 

I think these two comments go together, and I disagree with your assessment.

 

Those attempted 3's that missed when they lost the 10 point lead were all good looks. I don't recall any of them looking like a desperation shot.

 

 

Jacking is for the playground and undisciplined offensive teams. I see this UW squad as quite disciplined offensively, but not so much defensively. That is where their problem is right now, and I expect Bo will get it right by March.

 

 

My complaint was not they were not athletic enough to hit long range jacks but the failure to drive inside, draw a foul or get an offensive rebound and easy basket. They needed to score to help the D out by getting back to set up, not trying to get into transition D which they were sucking at at that time.

 

They have plenty of athletes. Dekker and Hayes in particular. Hayes step back jumper has been deadly.