2016-17 mens bb begins journey

[Panthers to the Bone]

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We obviously don't know what took place. We know Wisconsin had their regular rotation, but who knows what UNI's rotation is. In fact, I could see a scenario where Brown and some of the guys that Jake is trying to figure out whether to redshirt or play more prominent roles getting a lion's share of the minutes, especially in the second half of the scrimmage (& remember it was 3 twenty minute 'halves'). It could have been Brown, McDonnell, Dahl/Friedman, Haldeman, and Roades trying to figure out who needs to be in that pared down rotation. Those obviously aren't our premium 5-7 on the court at any given time...especially against a well established, veteran Wisconsin team.

[claw]

We obviously don't know what took place. We know Wisconsin had their regular rotation, but who knows what UNI's rotation is. In fact, I could see a scenario where Brown and some of the guys that Jake is trying to figure out whether to redshirt or play more prominent roles getting a lion's share of the minutes, especially in the second half of the scrimmage (& remember it was 3 twenty minute 'halves'). It could have been Brown, McDonnell, Dahl/Friedman, Haldeman, and Roades trying to figure out who needs to be in that pared down rotation. Those obviously aren't our premium 5-7 on the court at any given time...especially against a well established, veteran Wisconsin team.

Seems most likely to me

Jake knows what he has in Morgan, Koch, Wyatt, Klimt and Ashton. Not a ton of need to throw them out for a bunch of minutes in a scrimmage. Grow the young guys into tough spots. See who responds and how

[panther1]

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48 points in 60 minutes of basketball is not encouraging, regardless of who played for us.

[06panther10]

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I actually thought it was kind of bush league for UW to post "scores" to this scrimmage and present it to oblivious people as some sort of actual result.

[claw]

48 points in 60 minutes of basketball is not encouraging, regardless of who played for us.

Yeah. 7 freshman and sophomores potentially roasting against a top 10-15 Wisconsin team at full strength shows we suck!

[panther1]

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Yeah. 7 freshman and sophomores potentially roasting against a top 10-15 Wisconsin team at full strength shows we suck!

Who said anything about sucking? Our offense will need work though based on the score.

[CincyPanther88]

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I really wouldn't read too much into this.

[SteinPizza]

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We obviously don't know what took place. We know Wisconsin had their regular rotation, but who knows what UNI's rotation is. In fact, I could see a scenario where Brown and some of the guys that Jake is trying to figure out whether to redshirt or play more prominent roles getting a lion's share of the minutes, especially in the second half of the scrimmage (& remember it was 3 twenty minute 'halves'). It could have been Brown, McDonnell, Dahl/Friedman, Haldeman, and Roades trying to figure out who needs to be in that pared down rotation. Those obviously aren't our premium 5-7 on the court at any given time...especially against a well established, veteran Wisconsin team.

Good points. It's a scrimmage, where the team could've been coached to work on various things, or Jake wanted a meaningless ecnironment to test various combinations of guys. You're not necessarily coaching to win at that point.

A good analogy may be spring training. Good pitchers will get lit up a lot, because they're working on throwing specific pitches only, not pitching the same way they would in an actual game.

All speculation by me, but I agree with others not to get too worked up about this.

[CyCarp]

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If you want to take a hard look at scoring, look at the D too. 78 points is 26 per half for a top 10 team. I'd take that against anybody. We don't know how much, if at all, they foul in these scrimmages, but that's a pretty good sign regardless imo. I think we all knew the O would be a work in progress, especially early in the season, and even more so in a scrimmage. Honestly I'm not too worried about it yet.

[sivert]

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Perfect wake up call. To me they looked a little slow and hesitant against ND. A lot of young guys on this team who will have one game against Coe, then a hugely important game against Arizona State.
So losing to a solid team will help these guys know how high the bar can be.

[UNIAlum2010]

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I looked around the badger message boards a bit and didn't find much information either but did find this. Not sure if Wisconsin was just hot or we need major work on our 3pt defense but you are gonna blow out with 3 point shooting like that.


"#Badgers leaders:
Showalter: 18p (4-4 3FGs) 25min
Brown: 15p (4-5 3FGs) 23min
Illikainen: 14p (4-5 3FGs) 16min
Hill: 13 p (3-5 3FGs) 18min"

[OhNewby]

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"3 periods featuring regular rotation" seems like a carefully crafted legal description; I wouldn't read much into this either.

[Panther Alum 83]

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I don't have a subscription, but if I recall from what someone posted on the WSU board he had 24-5 (15-3). That doesn't include the last two B4A MTE games. I think the only game WSU wasn't favored was @OU.

Does anybody remember what Pomeroy predicted for the MVC games in the NCAA tourney last year?

[Panther Alum 83]

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"#Badgers leaders:
Showalter: 18p (4-4 3FGs) 25min
Brown: 15p (4-5 3FGs) 23min
Illikainen: 14p (4-5 3FGs) 16min
Hill: 13 p (3-5 3FGs) 18min"

Yeah I don't know about that. They only scored 18 points on free throws and shots inside the 3 pt line?

[Panther Alum 83]

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Sorry I guess I misread that.