Wisconsin 17 - Manhattan 10 at the half

[77ncaachamps]

They're taking it throwback style.

[Pakuni]

They're taking it throwback style.

Is that a football score or 7th grade girls basketball?

I assume Gasser has 16 of Wisconsin's points.

[Nukem2]

Big 10/11/12 basketball at its best.....

[Pakuni]

Big 10/11/12 basketball at its best.....

I like to think of it as traditional basketball.

[Nukem2]

I like to think of it as traditional basketball.

I think I saw a peach basket out there.  Naismith would have been proud.

[nyg]

Jeez, the Pats-Lions game was 17-17 at half.  That must be just a terrible b-ball game to watch, which I will pass on.  

BTW, I hate the NE Patriots, but Tom Brady is just a complete stud QB.  He is going crazy in the second half.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I like to think of it as traditional basketball.

I think of Duke as traditional basketball...can beat you many ways....shooting, slashing, defense, big men, etc

[jaybilaswho?]

17-10... muahhahahahahaha

[wildbill sb]

17-10... muahhahahahahaha

Not to worry UW-M fans, your boys put 83 pts. on the board against IU,IU a couple of weeks ago.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Something tells me they will score more than 17 points on us in a half.

[madtownwarrior]

Even funnier with all the recent posts on the Bucky boards insisting that the badgers are not a slow grind it out team.

With future lottery pick Gasser, I would expect them to score 50 a half.

[groove]

yeah, used real old school rules. peach baskets and jump ball after each made shot.

[Lennys Tap]

I think of Duke as traditional basketball...can beat you many ways....shooting, slashing, defense, big men, etc

So a "traditional" team is one that's good at everything (slashing, shooting, defense, rebounding etc) and a non traditional one is one with one or more weaknesses? Strange definition of traditional, but if that's what you mean by it sign me up. Very few of them around.   

[Lennys Tap]

Wisconsin was 7-30 in the 1st half, 5-21 on 3's for the game. Defnitely need more "traditional" players.

[Ready2Fly]

We could have used some of Gasser's traditional 0-3 from deep against Duke and Gonzaga. Just what we needed in this recruiting class! Why didn't we send him a letter?

[ChicosBailBonds]

So a "traditional" team is one that's good at everything (slashing, shooting, defense, rebounding etc) and a non traditional one is one with one or more weaknesses? Strange definition of traditional, but if that's what you mean by it sign me up. Very few of them around.   

No, but a traditional team isn't what Pakuni made them out to be either....just playing the same game as he is.


I've clearly defined what I meant by traditional players, we don't have any (by my term of the definition).  I think that's going to cost us a few games this year because we don't have many that are fundamentally sound shooters.  We have a bunch of guys that do the same thing, but very few that can do some of the more "traditional" things in basketball, like square up properly and take a jump shot, shoot consistently from the free throw line, etc. 

That's what I mean by "traditional", but I certainly see how it's run off course and people have gone with a definition that isn't there.

Duke has "TRADITIONAL" shooters, and slashers, and bigs, and they play defense.  Somehow, they the think it's a good idea to recruit kids that can shoot the ball consistently from the outside. 

Of course some of you guys imply that I want 15 guys on the team that all they do is take jumpshots.  Not what I said...EVER.   I said we have too many guys that do the same thing, we need a bit of basketball diversity in terms of skill sets.  In other words, we aren't balanced enough in our skill sets.  I'm sure that will be warped to death by you guys as well.

[ChicosBailBonds]

We could have used some of Gasser's traditional 0-3 from deep against Duke and Gonzaga. Just what we needed in this recruiting class! Why didn't we send him a letter?

According to Lenny, we did send him a letter.

I sure hope Gasser and the Badgers don't beat us.  That may now be the only quality win opportunity we have out of conference the way things are going. 

[MU B2002]

Beating Vandy will also be a quality win.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Beating Vandy will also be a quality win.

Absolutely....I just don't see that happening at all.

I had us 4-2 at this point, beating UW hyphen madison and losing at Vanderbilt.  Don't see anything thus far to think otherwise, but it would certainly be a quality win against a solid Vandy team if the guys can pull that off.

[jaybilaswho?]

Not to worry UW-M fans, your boys put 83 pts. on the board against IU,IU a couple of weeks ago.

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[ChicosBailBonds]

Football score....UW hyphen madison 83, Indiana ??

[Lennys Tap]

Duke has "TRADITIONAL" shooters, and slashers, and bigs, and they play defense.  Somehow, they the think it's a good idea to recruit kids that can shoot the ball consistently from the outside. 

Sorry, there are no Josh Gassers or Scott Christophersons on Duke. Sure, they have guys that can shoot lights out like Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler, but those guys ALSO can slash, play D, etc. There is NOBODY on Duke that MU wouldn't think is a "good idea to recruit".

[Boone]

DJO was Novak like in his outside shooting consistency last season. I didn't hear any complaints about our recruitment of him. 

[GGGG]

Wow.  Really solid second half by the Badgers against Boston College. 

[avid1010]

Wow.  Really solid second half by the Badgers against Boston College. 

I didn't think so.  BC turned the ball over against a UW defense that wasn't pressuring the ball. Wasn't impressed at all...don't think you'll see many teams giving up right handed layups to uw this year like bc did.