Badgers are currently taking on Nebraska. Game is on B1G Network. Currently with 1:00 left in the 1st half Badgers 25, Nebraska 22.
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I'm getting tired of ugly basketball. Happ gets doubled, no one steps up. The leaders have almost as many fouls (2) as points (4).
31% shooting... can't keep playing like this.
They're not working hard enough without the ball- just jogging around, no real purpose. No hard cuts, lazy screens... no one getting good looks and now Nebraska is building momentum
They'll win or lose a close game tonight, but it's pretty obvious this is a not a top 10 team in terms of talent. They've overachieved by gutting out a lot of close wins. If Koenig isn't on, they don't really have a guy who can consistently knock down outside shots. Someone's wrong with Bronson. Hopefully whatever injury he has is just a tweak and doesn't linger.
This is some bad ball, can't shoot, unable to get out of double teams, no spacing, butterfingers, to mention a few deficiencies.
What a stupid play by Koenig on a 10 second call. Wiping his fricking shoes for 3 seconds in the backcourt.
Nigel has played well tonight. No forced outside shots. 15 points on 7 shots.
A guy shooting 14% for 3 for the year hits a 3 to put it into OT.
That's off Koenig. This is likely a loss. Just a dull performance overall.
Poor free throw shooting will eventually bite them. It didn't tonight.
Ugly, NW up next, they are pretty good. My guess is Buckey will need to be a bit better on Sunday
Well as much as I have been down on Nigel taking 3-pointers, his 3 pointer at the end there was a good decision and a clutch shot.
Someone had to do it, he was open and he drained it. Good job Nigel.
They need to sit Koenig... he's hobbling around, he can barely run. Let him get healthy...
Finished the game on TiVo. Glad I had recorded the show after for an extra 30 minutes or I would've missed the last 3.3 seconds.
Agree with most posters here about the game. But, can anyone explain why EVERY SINGLE Badger was constantly wiping their hands to the bottom of their shoes. It wasn't just BK (who stupidly did his in the backcourt)....others were constantly doing it. Was something on the floor that made it slick or were their hands so dry that they kept trying to get moisture on them? What? No humidifies in the AC unit at Nebraska?
It would usually be to get any dust off them so the rubber grips the floor better. That is the 'squeak' sound you hear so much in hoops. I didn't notice but it must have been a dusty or otherwise slick floor.
Maybe that's how they got the bricklayers dust on their hands.
As poorly as they shot last night and with Bronson clearly not 100% and Happ struggling with double teams, and having a 14% shooter hit a 3 to put it into OT - they still won.
Is there any way the Badgers tenacity can be transplanted into the Bucks? The Bucks find ways to lose (even before Parker's ACL essentially tanked the season) and Badgers seem to find ways to win.
Maybe it's just Gard >>>> Kidd?
