Sad Trombone

[tower912]

1.   No #1 regular season ranking any time soon for MU. 
2.   I knew it was going to be a long afternoon when they said that the officiating crew is the same one that worked the Northwestern Purdue game.    They sucked in two consecutive games.   Combined with Wiscy at the Kohl hole. 
3.   Wisconsin played like a vintage Bo Ryan team.    Stayed in front of everybody, cut off passing lanes, cut off driving lanes.    Craftily physical.  Complaining on every call.   Efficient on offense.       A little Sparty flavor on defense, too.   Presenting a large wall.
4.  Rebounding hurt a lot.    I look forward to future seasons with frontcourt depth.   
5.   Klesmit was Jean Felix today in the first half. 
6.   I want more Stevie Mitchell, less Chase Ross/Sean Jones/Tre Norman.   I know this goes against the board zeitgeist (I've done it before), but to my eyes the team is better with him on the floor.
7.   No quit.   The hole was too deep.   And the rebounds too few.   
8. I think Wisconsin won the turnover battle.    Well, MU not dominating it was a win for Wisconsin.
9.   Wiscy won their super bowl
10.  Let the other game dictate how the game is played, lose.   Only thing to do now is learn, bounce back, and not let it become a losing streak.     

[GB Warrior]

11. Jop would have pay someone for the rights to his NIL

[Tyler COLEk]

Back-to-back years where Marquette's worst performance of the season by a mile is Wisconsin. Sucks for now -- who cares in a month. Or three.

[wadesworld]

Need more from the 4 spot. I know Shaka's standing on the portal. But when you have a legitimate chance at a national title, you have to do everything you can to put the best roster out there. Ignoring the portal is not the best approach in that situation.

[Herman Cain]

Mr. High Steps =Bad Guy

[Pakuni]

It's cliche, but Wisky wanted it more. Sure seemed better prepared. Executed way better. Played harder.

[GB Warrior]

Need more from the 4 spot. I know Shaka's standing on the portal. But when you have a legitimate chance at a national title, you have to do everything you can to put the best roster out there. Ignoring the portal is not the best approach in that situation.

Think the portal would tell the team minutes are earned. Jop doesn't deserve to be out there

[mugrad_89]

11.  Sean needs to turn down the open threes. 

This is a bad loss - Bucky will more than likely end up as a bottom half Big 10 team.

[NolongerWarriors]

Back-to-back years where Marquette's worst performance of the season by a mile is Wisconsin. Sucks for now -- who cares in a month. Or three.

Nonsense.

The weaknesses that Gard exposed will resurface early in the tourney, as they did last year.

[mu_hilltopper]

[5DollarPitcher]

Shaka not being able to win this rivalry is becoming an issue for me.

[21Jumpstreet]

It's cliche, but Wisky wanted it more. Sure seemed better prepared. Executed way better. Played harder.

This is how I felt. They were very well coached for most of the game, we had them on the ropes and our coaching let us down. Hurst most cause it's UW, hopefully they respond well vs Texas. David Joplin should never start.

[Tyler COLEk]

Nonsense.

The weaknesses that Gard exposed will resurface early in the tourney, as they did last year.

I support you on here! I'm the one looking after you, apologizing for your poor crack at bring a father. But please, redirect your energy away from these posts and towards your children. They still need you.

[HowardsWorld]

It's quite possible although hard to admit that maybe Wisconsin is a bit better than we all thought.

Not going to blame the refs one bit for this loss. The terrible effort on 50-50 balls, terrible 3 pt defense and terrible 3 pt shooting is why we lost. Joplin being 1-8 is basically 7 turnovers when he shot. Let's move onto Texas

[Boone]

Shaka HAS to reconsider transfer policy. Joplin clearly not worthy of starting role

[Tyler COLEk]

I could think of a fireable moderator offense right about now.

[Dish]

Surprised no one brought it up, but the Maui hangover is real. Purdue/Tennessee/MU all lose their first road games after Maui, just like Arizona did a year ago.

[mugrad_89]

Shaka HAS to reconsider transfer policy. Joplin clearly not worthy of starting role

He needs to go back to the sixth man role.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

It's quite possible although hard to admit that maybe Wisconsin is a bit better than we all thought.

Not going to blame the refs one bit for this loss. The terrible effort on 50-50 balls, terrible 3 pt defense and terrible 3 pt shooting is why we lost. Joplin being 1-8 is basically 7 turnovers when he shot. Let's move onto Texas

Terrible 3 pt. defense? One guy got hot for one half and overall the Bagders shot 25% from 3. Hardly the problem.

Kolek, Oso, Joplin, and S. Jones were all far below average today = the problem

[statnik]

Back-to-back years where Marquette's worst performance of the season by a mile is Wisconsin. Sucks for now -- who cares in a month. Or three.

I kind of care, basically my whole family (who all live in the Milwaukee area) are Badger fans, so I pretty much have to watch with them, and now when I'm invested in the team we have to lose every year to the critters.

[MuggsyB]

When we got it to a one possession game, early in the 2H we were beyond bad, almost indescribably bad.  Kam missed two wide open looks but we basically never went to Oso the entire gane.  We got terrible shots for the most part after a solid 4 mins.  Tyko took over the Illnois game, he was very passive today. 

[The Sultan]

For an offensive philosophy that favors the three, there just aren't enough shooters on this team.

And Ben's awful defense means you can't really ride with him either.

[5DollarPitcher]

You can't lose this rivalry and disappoint in the NCAAs. Those two are mutually exclusive. Regardless of the rest of the regular season.

[NolongerWarriors]

Terrible 3 pt. defense? One guy got hot for one half and overall the Bagders shot 25% from 3. Hardly the problem.

Kolek, Oso, Joplin, and S. Jones were all far below average today = the problem

LOL, like Joplin hasn't shown you he's crap over  and over and over and over and over again.

[1SE]

Really concerning from Jop - something in his head right now ' hope he gets it sorted soon