MU/UW !

[Murffieus]

As  I predicted----the game would be decided in the half court (usually is in competitive games)--------UW jammed the middle and their bigs intimidated our guys on any successful penetrations, forcing off balannced/difficult shots. Meanwhile, we DID NOT jam the middle which allowed them to get inside way to much-----if it hadn't been for the ineptness of Butch, Steisma and Chappel-----we would have been run off the floor.

I said before the game that the keys were a lot of steals resulting in layins (we only had 2)-----also said that we had to keep UW outside and force a perimeter game
(we didn't do that well)--------also said that we had to front their postups like in other years (didn't do a good job of that at all)------and finally i said we had to continually double Tucker (we did this at times, but most of the time allowed him to manuver one on one).

In the second half Tucker was very effective off the wide post-----if I coached him he'd get a lot more touches there as
he can't be stopped there one on one.

I didn't think outside of Tucker and Taylor that UW is a particularily good team----Butch is awful and Chappel & Steimsma (espceially on the perimiter) very close to being "awful"------Although Steimsma passes very well).

Our trey shooting is horrendous----our one on one position defense is bad, IMO too much emphasis on defections and
not enough emphasis on one on one position defense! Also when playing tight off the ball looking for deflections we leave the middle exposed.

I'm looking for positives here----but alll I can see is 5 offensive rebounds by Hayward (impressive)----------but as I stated a few months back, his trey shooting form needs overall----shoots the ball on the way up (premature release) and needs plenty of room to get it off which he had today----and still couldn't hit it!

[muhswarrior]

Typical in this series to see the team with the best upperclassman win.

Poor shot mechanics = inconsistant shooting and that is what we haev with this team.  Lazar's shot seems to be the easiest to fix so I have hope he will turn things around this year without a complete overhaul of his shot.  Most of his misses are a little short or just long.

I think i would have forced Tucker to his left.  Very weak going left and the few times we did this he turned it over.

[NotAnAlum]

Several threads have talked about what a great job Ryan did coaching this game.  I'm sorry but I don't see it.  It seems to me he just kind gave it to his star (Tucker) and he did the rest.  With Marquette's front line in terrible foul trouble  Ryan made no attempt to dominate the low post.  He could have fouled out the remaining Marquette front line players and basically ground Marquette into a pulp.  Instead when Marquette was forced to go small Ryan went small himself.  His big boys hardly played in the second half.  Of course Ryan looks fine since he won but it sure seems to me he threw away a big advantage and allowed Marquette to stay close.  Had Marquette hit a couple more 3s late or Wisconsin failed to convert a couple of tough jump shoots people might be talking about Bo's gaff.

[muhswarrior]

funny isn't it how when a coach wins he is good but when he looses he is horrible.  I agree, I did not think Bo did anything better than TC today his kids just made a better % of shots.  If we knock down 25% of the I think everyone is a little happier tonight

[muhoosier260]

i can't even count how many times marquette cut it to 6 or 4 and wisconsin comes down and taylor or tucker hit just tough, tough shots on the baseline, just absolute daggers. i think the guards played good defense, however their one big fault was giving up easy open 3 pt looks. which brings me to a point: when is MU going to stop allowing so many easy Gd 3 pters?!?!?! its disgusting! difference in both the losses one could argue.
other point: MU was dominated inside 8 feet this afternoon. Our post defense (more often than not it was due to forwards, not barro, falling asleep and getting backcut or playing kitten foot, don't wanna break my nails D down low) killed us, resulting in too many uncontested dunks/layups.
If MU cuts down on their atrocious post defense and wake their asses up on the perimeter, i see an easy 10 point difference. now, despite playing basketball for 15 years, i've never coached. these obvious pointers might sound stupid, but thats exactly what marquette needs to focus on....FUNDAMENTALS. they take for granted how good they really could be if they would just meld their athleticism and some fundamentals. MU can still be a top 15 team and shoot 35 percent from the field....its really quite amazing how good this squad could be if they all come off cloud nine and play the game how it was intended

[MUinOH]

Murff is right on the inside game.  And where was Barro?  5 pts.?   20 minutes???

[CWSKeith]

Murff is right on the inside game.  And where was Barro?  5 pts.?   20 minutes???

Where was Barro?  On the bench.  Why?  Foul trouble.  One foul was called 80 feet away from our basket, and was totally unneccessary to call (could have been making up for calling two offensive elbow fouls on Wiscy's big men), and the other came when Oose was whistled for diving for a loose ball.  Not that I think Barro would have changed the course of this game, but it would've been nice to have him down low.

[MU71]

Several threads have talked about what a great job Ryan did coaching this game.  I'm sorry but I don't see it.  It seems to me he just kind gave it to his star (Tucker) and he did the rest.  With Marquette's front line in terrible foul trouble  Ryan made no attempt to dominate the low post.  He could have fouled out the remaining Marquette front line players and basically ground Marquette into a pulp.  Instead when Marquette was forced to go small Ryan went small himself.  His big boys hardly played in the second half.  Of course Ryan looks fine since he won but it sure seems to me he threw away a big advantage and allowed Marquette to stay close.  Had Marquette hit a couple more 3s late or Wisconsin failed to convert a couple of tough jump shoots people might be talking about Bo's gaff.

Bo's coaching is great because he teaches fantastic defense and his players never deviate from a very simple offensive game plan.  Bottom line - his teams execute.  He doesn't do anything special on the sidelines.  TC tries a ton of different thinks (I think too many) and is great at pumping up the team. 
In a nutshell, Tom's team was "up" for the game...Bo's was "prepared" for the game.   

[MikeyT42]

when you talk about getting the ball to your star and letting him take over.... to me thats good coaching. Thats taking advantage of something the other team can't and won't stop. Dieners senior year he went off against UW, why? because we worked to get him open look after open look.

Isolating Tucker one on one in the (wide) post against matthews was smart on bo's part. When burke was on him for a few possessions tucker read that and went out on the perimeter.

UW took advantage of MU's inability to play help defense and got lay up after lay up

[Murffieus]

Yes----IMO we are too obsessed with creating the deflection and therefore get caught to far to the outside to "help" inside. Going for the steal where you leave vulnerable other areas of the defense is OK if you are desperate to get the ball (late in the game and behind)----but getting into the passing lanes leaves the middle open and vulnerable to a good inside gamelike UW  (NDSU too).

We've had success against Tucker and UW in the past by jamming the middle and doubling Tucker consistently in the past-----I tought we would do that again yesterday----if we had ----we win!