Gimme F'ing Butler

[tower912]

1.  Oso was bad today.  It happens.
2.  First half, Omax does not switch off Lakosius, they never said his name.  Second half, switches started and Lakosius heated up.
3. Brian Butch: "Just sloppy on offense for Marquette." Really can't be said better.  Two straight games of uninspired offense. 
4.  Gold got more run. I like his defense. I love the take and finish with his left.
5.  MU's defensive rankings continue to improve.  So many steals and forced turnovers.  Stevie ruled in the last minute.
6.  TKo just keeps doing TKo things
7.  I hope y'all pounded the under.
8.  Chase Ross was the most consistent, productive player today.   Good for him.
9.  Butler brought MU down to their level and MU let them.   Ugly.
10.  I forget, am I allowed to mention free throws?
11.  So, the last two games have been ugly grinds.  MU has managed to win them both at home.   Is this a product of the opponents' style or is the Big East coming up with adjustments?   Is making it a grind the adjustment?

[mugrad_89]

Worst thing to happen was going up 16-3.  They lost all focus after that.  Fortunately, the defense , errr Stevie, stepped up at the end.

[Ellenson Guerrero]

Glad we purged that from our system...

[PointWarrior]

Barf of a game.  Oso take butler and the points?  Does not exactly shut the door on the "Feb Fade" crowd. 

[Dish]

I had mentioned in the Nova recap that at Butler was going to be the toughest of the "gimme" games left. Didn't think it was going to be at home instead.

There was nothing really fun about this game at all. Take the dub, hopefully no injuries, move on.

[MuMark]

I'm tempted to vote Stevie for stud of the game because of that one defensive possession

Man that was ugly

[CountryRoads]

Gritty win. Won't help the metrics but glad they pulled it out. I give Butler some credit and they did a good job of making the game ugly. I thought their defense was pretty good.

[wadesworld]

Good things about this game: we won, Chase played well, Ben Gold played a lot.

Bad things about this game: just about everything else. Ugly game.

Take the win. Now time to find ourselves again at UCONN.

[lawdog77]

Barf of a game.  Oso take butler and the points?  Does not exactly shut the door on the "Feb Fade" crowd.

These last two games would  have been losses under Wojo, IMO.
Take the win, plently of teaching moments,, and pummel UConn.

[Goose]

Ugly win. Better than an ugly loss.

[HowardsWorld]

Every team has a bad game. Typically in a wojo coached year we would have found a way to lose.

Put this one behind us and move on to UConn and pretend today didn't happen.

If nothing else it can get this team refocused that not every game no matter how bad the opponent is going to be a cake walk. 19-4 let's go boys.

[Herman Cain]

Teams are starting to get chippy with MU. Sign of respect .

Butler has talented players and a very good coach. So I am delighted we were able to avoid a home upset and get the win.

Wondering if there were a lot of pro scouts at the game ? Sometimes that creates an extraordinary pressure on a player .

[NickelDimer]

Back to back games with half court struggles is mildly concerning. We also switched too liberally and over helped way too much on D

[Judge Smails]

Ugly, but a W nonetheless

[Uncle Rico]

Every team has a bad game. Typically in a wojo coached year we would have found a way to lose.

Put this one behind us and move on to UConn and pretend today didn't happen.

If nothing else it can get this team refocused that not every game no matter how bad the opponent is going to be a cake walk. 19-4 let's go boys.

19-4 in 2019

February swoon confirmed

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

#10 - I miss the days of Howard or Hauser at the FT line when it was pretty much automatic.

[cheebs09]

Ugly win. Better than an ugly loss.

I can live with an ugly win to get to 11-2 in the Big East.

[Uncle Rico]

I can live with an ugly win to get to 11-2 in the Big East.

Problem is, not a win by a single possession so Shaka still hasn't passed a test

[muwarrior69]

These last two games would  have been losses under Wojo, IMO last year.
Take the win, plently of teaching moments,, and pummel UConn.

The February fade is fading.

[nyg]

Teams are starting to get chippy with MU. Sign of respect .

Butler has talented players and a very good coach. So I am delighted we were able to avoid a home upset and get the win.

Wondering if there were a lot of pro scouts at the game ? Sometimes that creates an extraordinary pressure on a player .

Butler has one talented player and he did not play today.

Matta has a long way to go, they are 3-10 in conference and before this game, lost their last four each by 20 points.

Pro scouts???  Must have made the whole team worried and looking in the stands as where the scouts were seated.  That's why Oso had six turnovers, Jones missing two front ends, etc.  crazy.

[barfolomew]

Box score to print and use for kindling in the fireplace tonight:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401485248

That said, glad Ben got some run and had a good afternoon.
Got blown by on defense a time or two but also had some really nice defensive possessions.

Nice all-around game for Ross as well.

[JakeBarnes]

Dropped to 3 on offense.

But now 50 on defense for kenpom.

[MU24]

Watch Stevie guard the Butler player with the ball 3 straight handlers was amazing.

Tough game to watch during some stretches, hopefully they got the bad offensive tendencies out of their systems

[MUfan12]

Man y'all got spoiled quick by this team.

This is all part of their growth. Teams are gonna pack it in and make it ugly. So far they've done well enough to win.

[rocket surgeon]

Butler has one talented player and he did not play today.

Matta has a long way to go, they are 3-10 in conference and before this game, lost their last four each by 20 points.

Pro scouts???  Must have made the whole team worried and looking in the stands as where the scouts were seated.  That's why Oso had six turnovers, Jones missing two front ends, etc.  crazy.

lukosious can be pretty solid, forgot motta was their coach-give him a couple more years