Wisconsin Thoughts

[tower912]

1.   Great win.   Mmmmm, crow.    Tastes like rodent.   
2.   All hail the twin towers.
3.  Make your bleeping free throws.
4.  Haanif is a complete player.    Great, game changing defense on Koenig.
5.  Better team without Traci or JJ on the floor today.
6.  Quit giving up so many bleeping offensive rebounds. 
7.  Down to a 7 man rotation today, and basically 5. 
8.  Got away from feeding the bigs when Wiscy made its run.    Getting the bigs a touch in the post needs to be made a requirement.   
9.   Best defensive effort of the season.
10.  A win over Wisconsin is the best early Christmas present possible.   
11.  Well done, Warriors.

[mileskishnish72]

Put a bullet on #5.

[forgetful]

One big thing.

Sandy, JJ and Cheatham combined to hold Koenig and Hayes to:

18 pts on 7-29 shooting

That is huge.

[mileskishnish72]

Hell, put a bullet on #3 also. Haanif played a great game, but that free throw at the end was ugly - his upper body was actually moving away from the hoop.

[WarriorFan]

12.  Well coached game by wojo.  Had a plan, executed well.

[bilsu]

4. Haanif had at least two turnovers when WI made ther run at the end. A bad pass and a travel. He is going to be really good, but he still makes freshmen mistakes.

[Mutaman]

1.   Great win.   Mmmmm, crow.    Tastes like rodent.   
2.   All hail the twin towers.
3.  Make your bleeping free throws.
4.  Haanif is a complete player.    Great, game changing defense on Koenig.
5.  Better team without Traci or JJ on the floor today.
6.  Quit giving up so many bleeping offensive rebounds. 
7.  Down to a 7 man rotation today, and basically 5. 
8.  Got away from feeding the bigs when Wiscy made its run.    Getting the bigs a touch in the post needs to be made a requirement.   
9.   Best defensive effort of the season.
10.  A win over Wisconsin is the best early Christmas present possible.   
11.  Well done, Warriors.

great as usual. traci had a tough night, but I think #8 was due to him not being out there.

[mileskishnish72]

Bullet #10 & # 11 as well. Merry Christmas, Bo.

[BossplayaOtto]

Put a bullet on #5.

Captain obvious on Traci. Disagree on JJ. He had some nice contributions throughout the game.

[brewcity77]

Sandy made Hayes his bitch. I remember earlier in the week Wojo mentioning how Sandy would take on the opposing team's best player and they always put up below average numbers. Today was no exception. Don't care about his stats or lack thereof, Sandy was a stud today.

[PGsHeroes32]

Lumping JJJ in with Traci today is like me comparing Michael jordan and Mark Madsen.

JJJ played some great D on Hayes. Made some nice buckets and few good feeds and Hayes got all the no calls.

He wasn't great but you act like he almost lost us the game by playing.

[DJO's Jaw]

I'm not surprised we let the rodents back in the game just based on being in the road and being so young. That said, I love beating UWM more than anything else in sports. Mmmmmmmmm.

[RushmoreAcademy]

Oh those free throws. They took a year off my life.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Just a massive win. Best game Ellenson has played yet. He is an impressive beast.

As an aside, I thought the Marquette fans they showed during the broadcast were much better looking than the Wisconsin fans.

[CAGASS24]

As the announcers said- best scouting report of the year by wojo and staff- congrats

Henry- two baskets under 2 are huge - big time player making big time plays at big time moments

Impressive without traci in first half

Make your free throws

[tower912]

Lumping JJJ in with Traci today is like me comparing Michael jordan and Mark Madsen.

JJJ played some great D on Hayes. Made some nice buckets and few good feeds and Hayes got all the no calls.

He wasn't great but you act like he almost lost us the game by playing.

JJ had a JJ game.   Some good, some head-scratchingly bad.   Taken as a whole, the team was better with him and Traci sitting today. 

[wadesworld]

At about 12:30 left in the first Half Cheatham scored a bucket on a 1 on 1 transition play finishing through Koenig's D.  After he made the bucket he turned to run back on D but turned his head back and said something to Koenig real quick.  Not one bit intimidated by a junior who started in a National Title game.  Love that kid's attitude.  He'll get used to the speed of the college game and the turnovers will go down.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Always good to beat Wisconsin, especially in their place.

I think they have 11 non-conference losses there in the Bo era, and I swear we have like 4 of those but I'm not sure.


Free throws...Jeebus.
Henry and Luke were solid.
Worst Wisconsin team in at least 10 years, but they will still knock off a few teams and are dangerous there.

Overall, just good way to start the Holiday season.

Peace

[wadesworld]

Just a massive win. Best game Ellenson has played yet. He is an impressive beast.

As an aside, I thought the Marquette fans they showed during the broadcast were much better looking than the Wisconsin fans.

Of course they are.  Rodents are disgusting.

[keefe]

Always good to beat Wisconsin, especially in their place.

I think they have 11 losses there in the Bo era, and I swear we have like 4 of those but I'm not sure.


Free throws...Jeebus.
Henry and Luke were solid.
Worst Wisconsin team in at least 10 years, but they will still knock off a few teams and are dangerous there.

Overall, just good way to start the Holiday season.

Peace

As long as they defeat Tanned Tommy every time it is a great season for them

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

At about 12:30 left in the first Half Cheatham scored a bucket on a 1 on 1 transition play finishing through Koenig's D.  After he made the bucket he turned to run back on D but turned his head back and said something to Koenig real quick.  Not one bit intimidated by a junior who started in a National Title game.  Love that kid's attitude.  He'll get used to the speed of the college game and the turnovers will go down.

Saw that too. That was phenomenal. Aside from 2 wide open 3s. Koenig sucked today.

[nyg]

Free throws were just brutal.  6 for 14 with two frontend misses under five seconds. 

Got crushed on offensive boards, 14 to 6, but some of them were missed threes that just landed in Wisky's lap

MU only took five three pointers.   

Carter, well..... 0 points, 0 assists, 4 turnovers.  Get em next game.

Cohen/Cheatham played awesome defense and Cheatham will be very, very good in few years.

Skill set of Ellenson is just remarkable.  He will be a very rich kid next year. Start looking for a PF Wojo.......

Great learning experience for a young team today.

[wadesworld]

Always good to beat Wisconsin, especially in their place.

I think they have 11 losses there in the Bo era, and I swear we have like 4 of those but I'm not sure.


Free throws...Jeebus.
Henry and Luke were solid.
Worst Wisconsin team in at least 10 years, but they will still knock off a few teams and are dangerous there.

Overall, just good way to start the Holiday season.

Peace

We definitely have 3 of the last 5 at their place.  2007 with Dom James swatting the crap out of Hughes at the buzzer despite us being up 5 or 7.  2011 with Derrick Wilson starting as a freshman in place of Cadougan.  And today.

[brewcity77]

Always good to beat Wisconsin, especially in their place.

I think they have 11 losses there in the Bo era, and I swear we have like 4 of those but I'm not sure.


Free throws...Jeebus.
Henry and Luke were solid.
Worst Wisconsin team in at least 10 years, but they will still knock off a few teams and are dangerous there.

Overall, just good way to start the Holiday season.

Peace

Non-conference losses, I believe you are correct. This was our third win over Bo at the Kohl Center. 2007 and 2011 were the others. So...pencil in a win in 2019?

[BossplayaOtto]

JJ had a JJ game.   Some good, some head-scratchingly bad.   Taken as a whole, the team was better with him and Traci sitting today.

Can't win with 5 guys playing 40 minutes each. JJ had multiple positive contributions off the bench, as Haywards pointed out. You are reaching lumping JJs game and play today with Traci.'s  Team had some nice stretches with JJ on the court. But its your "game thoughts" post, so carry on...