Wisconsin Badgers Thread

HaroldinGMinor · Post #1841 » by **HaroldinGMinor** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:44 pm

Tonje is like Willie Simms except good at basketball

chonestown · Post #1842 » by **chonestown** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:46 pm

Bus ride and back to Neenah Foundry for the first shift for Klesmix.

Keep grindin', doughboy.

MikeIsGood · Post #1843 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:51 pm

soboMP3 wrote:This is the first game I’ve watched this season. Just haven’t had interest in slow, boring Badger basketball for a few years. Wow, what a treat!

Oof, you been missing out. This year's team is anything but. Tune in from here on out!

neiLz · Post #1844 » by **neiLz** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:03 pm

Tonje is legit. don't think anyone expected this level of production from him. Makes everyone basically their own role and play to their strengths... Blackwell is going to be another great. Every part of his game has vastly improved. His shot making is what sets him apart tho. He can make every shot and make it through contact.

Lastly - GILMORE IS THE GOAT.

On Wisconsin.

coolhandluke121 · Post #1845 » by **coolhandluke121** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:56 pm

Man, it kinda sucks that they're good yet again so they can't fire Gard and have a chance to be good again.

Mtsportsfan · Post #1846 » by **Mtsportsfan** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:22 pm

soboMP3 wrote:This is the first game I’ve watched this season. Just haven’t had interest in slow, boring Badger basketball for a few years. Wow, what a treat!

Then you didn't watch last year either, we just have guys who can make a shot with people in their face!

Mtsportsfan · Post #1847 » by **Mtsportsfan** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:30 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Extremely impressive second half

So glad we won and don't have to talk about how stupid the refs were! Plain and simple , officiating today was terrible. Shouldn't have been a flagrant one, half time guys saying that it was a shot to the groin, didn't mention that Mcgee was about a foot shorter , if he was 6'5 it would have been a shot to the stomach and a play on! Seriously , if that's not a flagrant on the break away then I don't know what is!

These guys are so fun to watch, nice to have a go to guy when we need a bucket! Once again I'm going to apologize to Gilmore , a couple of nice blocks and did some things that don't show up in a stat sheet!

skbucks1985 · Post #1848 » by **skbucks1985** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:12 am

The 2nd half was offensively the ceiling of best case scenario. I was skeptical that Purdue would be able to stop Wisconsin when they attacked the basket and that wound up playing out as UW was 20-22 on 2-pt attempts.

They've obviously had really good wins before, really good road wins, but I can't think of how many times I've watched them play where I thought they both played really well but also still had plenty of reasons to think they could play better. Expecting a game like this regularly out of Tonje isn't realistic but conversely Crowl was largely a non-factor, they shot 22 2's and 30 3's and in this game those numbers probably should've been flipped, McGee gets the egregious ejection and only plays 7 minutes and Klesmit continues to shoot poorly from outside (but continues to do everything else well). I don't know how this season ends but one thing I'm pretty comfortable saying at this point is that this team has a ceiling that we haven't seen from a UW team in a while.

Post #1849 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:50 am

3-0 against McCaffrey and Painter. Now need to add Izzo.

Post #1850 » by **ReasonablySober** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:56 am

Watching Utah and Kansas. I wonder if Storr is still cool with his decision. Probably, is my guess. It's still Kansas. But he went from being the main dude to the 4th guard on a worse team.

MikeIsGood · Post #1851 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:02 am

ReasonablySober wrote:Watching Utah and Kansas. I wonder if Storr is still cool with his decision. Probably, is my guess. It's still Kansas. But he went from being the main dude to the 4th guard on a worse team.

He got a cool $1M supposedly, so I'm guessing he's not too upset by anything. Probably quite a bit more than he'll be making professionally overseas anytime soon.

No sour grapes, but man, in retrospect am I oh-so-happy he decided to leave. I don't think Tonje would be here otherwise, and we know how that's turned out

midranger · Post #1852 » by **midranger** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:18 am

Storr was fun, but he’s just not a good basketball player.

Tonje’s game is less “exciting”, but he’s just a ton better.

RiotPunch · Post #1853 » by **RiotPunch** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:05 am

midranger wrote:Storr was fun, but he’s just not a good basketball player.

Tonje’s game is less “exciting”, but he’s just a ton better.

Storr is dripping with athletic ability and potential, but just never figured out how to be a student of the game. Tonje is more skilled and miles ahead in the BBIQ department.

This is a very unselfish, cohesive team we've got. You don't know who might kill you on any given night. If Blackwell/Tonje/Klesmax all click in March, this team could legitimately go the distance. Super fun to watch.

jute2003 · Post #1854 » by **jute2003** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:32 pm

ReasonablySober wrote:Watching Utah and Kansas. I wonder if Storr is still cool with his decision. Probably, is my guess. It's still Kansas. But he went from being the main dude to the 4th guard on a worse team.

He got his bag which I'm sure is all that mattered..and that's fine. Though if the rumors of him asking for a raise mid-season are true than it's quite a bit less fine.

He's more athlete than basketball player

MikeIsGood · Post #1855 » by **MikeIsGood** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 1:20 pm

What’s funny is that Kansas fans nothing Storr. $1M means nothing, and they had no expectations for or of him. OTOH they haaaaaate Hunter Dickinson, which is hilarious. Their team makes no sense; it’s like everything that can go wrong when you just buy guys.

Bernman · Post #1856 » by **Bernman** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:51 pm

If Storr declared, I imagine he'd have been a late 1st, or at worst early 2nd, to compel a guarantee of several million over a few years. So he ultimately lost $ coming back to college for NIL (which fittingly Europeans use to represent zero in sports scores).

skbucks1985 · Post #1857 » by **skbucks1985** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:54 pm

Tonje has more points this season than Storr has minutes played

My guess is Wisconsin will be ranked somewhere between 10-13 tomorrow. They'll be ahead of Kentucky, Arizona and Purdue, they might be ahead of MSU, might be ahead of St. John's (definitely will if they lose today) and might jump Memphis (will definitely be ahead of them if they lose today).

MVP2110 · Post #1858 » by **MVP2110** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:55 pm

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skbucks1985 · Post #1859 » by **skbucks1985** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:21 pm

One of the other reasons yesterday's win was so big is that it increased the likelihood they play their first round in Milwaukee. Right now they're competing with Iowa State, Purdue and Marquette to get one of the 2 spots to go to Milwaukee and now I'd say they're probably 2nd in that pecking order behind Iowa State and would probably be in Milwaukee if Selection Sunday was today

MVP2110 · Post #1860 » by **MVP2110** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:54 pm

skbucks1985 wrote:One of the other reasons yesterday's win was so big is that it increased the likelihood they play their first round in Milwaukee. Right now they're competing with Iowa State, Purdue and Marquette to get one of the 2 spots to go to Milwaukee and now I'd say they're probably 2nd in that pecking order behind Iowa State and would probably be in Milwaukee if Selection Sunday was today

Marquette can't play in Milwaukee. Teams aren't allowed to play in their home stadiums for the 1st round