Davidson

[Loose Cannon]

I think you are going to have to stop thinking of it as who will have to step up to replace the Hausers. It will have to be a bunch of players to replace them not just one or two, and it will be different every game.

Take Jamal.  Seven boards last night and some great defense. He made one bucket but it was a big one as MU was sputtering. I think I have seen one poster comment on his play.

Take Sacar.  He hit that corner two (downgraded from three on review) in transition. Then got a big charge going the other way. That was the turning point of the game. No comments here.

Take our bigs and depth.  Not a stellar game in the box score but they were drawing fouls and attriting Davidson's depth, altering shots, drawing shooting fouls.  Comments here?  "Our bigs took zero shots". Ummm...no they were drawing fouls and free throws. 

Take the defense which posters here are taking for granted and only focusing on O. Early Wojo teams didn't play much of it but only Wisconsin has gone over 0.90 on Orating (damn Pritzl).  Maybe three or four call outs and most of those were "we were lucky Davidson had an off shooting night". Wtf???

Each game, especially to start the season, will have different players step up in different ways including other than shooting. The Davidson game was always going to be a slogfest. MU's strength is balance and depth this year. Think the Moneyball era and situationals.  Against USC, this may include shooting breakouts. 

If posters here are honestly expecting a Hauser to step up to fill the shooting void, you will have a long wait. If you are more patient, you might see a team's identity slowing evolving and the wins (and loses) will come in different ways than the last few seasons.

As of right now this is the absolute Big Picture.  Right on the mark.

[rocket surgeon]

  sacar used to be one of our best(if not the best) mid-range jump shooters,  he showed signs of that last night(5/9) if he continues to show, we win!

[bananahammock]

On the first Davidson flop, the call prevented what would have been a 5-on-4 fastbreak for us. On the second, Davidson actually would have gotten the ball had the arrow pointed their way even though the shot was awful and we easily would have had the rebound. So both times, the flops "penalized" the non-flopping team (although it was nice to get the FT on the second).



Wrong.  On the second flop (where a T was called), Jayce Johnson secured the rebound.

According to the announcers, after the technical free throw, the possession arrow was used to determine who obtained possession.