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I have a feeling Bucky wins this one relatively easily. This MU team is the exact type of team they feast on... Not great shooting, and one that shoots quickly. That feeds the beast. Seen it so many times over the years. Toss in the rebounding advantage, and it could be a rough one. We'll see what happens, hope like hell I'm wrong.
The day of the Rowsey game I called a big rout W for MU. I am predicting MU wins by 10+ on Saturday. I think Shaka finds a way to control the tempo and we will convert on quick transaction baskets early. I am going with the Shaka factor being the difference in this game. He has won over a lot of fans this far and spanking Bucky would be a great signature W in his first season. Again, Warriors by double figures on Saturday.
Wisconsin struggled against ball screen action and also when tech was able to push the ball in transition. Uw was able to control tempo for the majority of the second half. Davis is just an awesome player and Davison is annoyingly solid. No one else on the team is scary, but they all fit in the system well. It’ll be a tough game.
Well said panda. How do we eliminate Davis?
If we score and can set up the press, his impact will be nullified. They do a really good job of getting him in good spots in the half court.
I think it’ll be interesting to see how Shaka decides to defend Davison and Davis. Davis is certainly a major threat but I wouldn’t sleep on Davison. Davison scored 27 points out of the 70 points the badgers scored in their last game which was against Georgia Tech.I think there are multiple viable options to guard Davison and Davis. One scenario that would be interesting is for Morsell to lock up Davison and to have a combination of Lewis, O-Max, and Joplin to guard Davis. It would be interesting to see Morsell face guard Davison and to run him off the 3 point line and make Davision a non-factor and then have size and athleticism gaurd Davis with Lewis, O-Max, or Joplin.
Morsell will be guarding Davis.
Lastly, I think the badgers will get a maddening amount of offensive rebounds which may be the difference late in the game. I hope our guys are ready to fight for the boards. We’ll need them.
I agree with your post but this part has me pondering as Bucky typically doesn't attack the offensive boards as they are taught to get back on D in the Pack Line. They are typically mid to lower end on the OR% spectrum.
On Shaka's weekly radio show last night, the Homer asked him if Morsell would be the guy guarding Davis. Shaka said yes, but that there would also be several other guys guarding Davis at times. He wants to mix it up a bit.
From the game preview on jsonline:They are averaging 11.0 offensive rebounds per game, up from 8.3 per game last season.
Davis is a talent, but Davison is the leader of the badgers and Davison can score a lot of points if he's in a rhythm. For example, Davison scored 27 points in their last game which was against Georgia Tech. If Davison goes off tomorrow, the bad guys win.
Davison has scored over 25 points and hit 5 3s. He's done that 4 other times in his decade long Badger career. I'm pretty confident in thinking he won't do it in back to back games. I'm fine letting the guy shooting 31% from 3 on the year, and 9/38 in his last 5 games before GT, bomb away
I'm pretty confident that Shaka's defensive strategy won't include letting Davison bomb away.I would be shocked if MU doesn't attempt to run Davison off the three point line and make him as uncomfortable as possible.Going into this year, Davison had the following career statistics at UW-Madison:• 4th in school history - 124 career starts• 5th in school history - .832 career FT%• 5th in school history - 222 career 3FGs• 12th in school history - 132 career steals• T-19th in school history - 1,363 points• Just the 12th player in school history with 100 career starts (100th start vs. #23 Louisville, 12/19/20)• The 43rd Badger in school history to reach 1,000 career points (2/23/20 vs. Rutgers)