Wisconsin Badgers Thread

[Mtsportsfan]

This drives me nuts , they call a offensive foul on Blackwell for backing his guy down, Edy uses elbows,forearm shivers with no call. Officiating is not the reason we could lose , but it doesn't help!
Purdue just hits open shots and we can't! It seems in forever that we had a guy that can hit clutch shots, hell, wide open shots consistently!

[neiLz]

Refs are so bad in college. Like some of the worst calls I've ever seen. It's legit cheating at how bad they are.

[Kerb Hohl]

Let me preface this by saying I don’t even care if it’s true and I have my tinfoil hat on, but it’s always in the conference’s favor to tilt some calls to have one of their teams get a #1 overall seed in the NCAAs or playoff berth in football. And again, even if true, it’s a 7 point loss instead of 12 or whatever it ends up being.

[jute2003]

They were losing for sure with how awful they shot but the refs have been real bad the last 4 or 5 minutes.

[jute2003]

Ps. Crowl is soft AF. The scrawny freshman showed more fight

[Mtsportsfan]

Officiating flat out sucked today , but you can't win a game the way we shot today, down right embarrassing! Then you watch Purdue hit almost every open shot and contested shot ! What is it with Wisconsin lately and not being able to shoot consistently!

[Mtsportsfan]

Ps. Crowl is soft AF. The scrawny freshman showed more fight

Yep, that's a fact! And then have Chucky basically a no show. ! Didn't expect a win , and win did play well most of the game , couldn't shoot, but did hustle their butt off.

[MVP2110]

Wisconsin lost but imo that's the best they've looked in awhile. Considering the foul trouble Crowl & Winter were in the entire game and the fact Wisconsin got out shot 50%-21% from 3 they should have lost by alot more than 8. Let's hope we get more of this version going forward

[Kerb Hohl]

The annoying thing with Edey is his leverage reaching down to box guys out or whatever. He initiates the hook of the arm but it looks like the defender does. Defender’s arm is being pulled upwards and it’s very hard to get out of the elbow lock.

He just leaves his arm there and gets a foul most of the time, occasionally a flagrant. Several today, saw one at the end of the recent MSU game they had as well.

[Diggr14]

The annoying thing with Edey is his leverage reaching down to box guys out or whatever. He initiates the hook of the arm but it looks like the defender does. Defender’s arm is being pulled upwards and it’s very hard to get out of the elbow lock.

He just leaves his arm there and gets a foul most of the time, occasionally a flagrant. Several today, saw one at the end of the recent MSU game they had as well.

Edey fouls about 20 times a game. Rebounding alone, if he isnt getting it he swipes across the top alot and generally rakes arms. Never gets called. He commits that foul they called on Blackwell nearly every time he touches the ball.

[chonestown]

When Purdue's big man gets busy in la cocina with the oils and the spices and the cutlery, that is when I refer to him as Edey, Gourmet. Feel free to use, no big deal.

[ReddoverKobe]

Refs are so bad in college. Like some of the worst calls I've ever seen. It's legit cheating at how bad they are.

I can't watch anything but march madness anymore and the refs are a large part of it.

[MVP2110]

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[DingleJerry]

If he says so, I'm sure we'll have other transfers to free up spots for a PF if so.

Side note, I know we mentioned in another thread about the NBA ASG not being in MKE anytime soon. But if MN can host the B1G tournament there is no reason Milwaukee can't. I'd assume they're going to get weird with it going forward with the Pac 10 teams, so Vegas, LA, etc will be happening instead.

[Diggr14]

Im glad Essegian is staying, he could make huge jumps next year with a new coach. The back injury and Gard destroying the kid with his quick hooks and sporadic PT killed this kid this season. The badgers have so many terrible perimeter/wing players doing nothing on the offensive and defensive ends that it makes no sense they didn't try to re-establish him as a scorer. AJ Storr is a big reason behind this. The guy is a black hole with the ball. Bo Ryan would have ran this kid out of the gym until he got it. Gard has tried to bench him briefly, after ballhoggery, but it just keeps going and going. he doesnt GAF. He wants his and is moving on.

Ilver, Hodges I dont see why they stay. I'd say they go.

Storr will go portal or NBA Draft. He needs a good BT tournament and NCAA tournament to get NBA attention I think.


Gard needs 1 or 2 wins here at the end of the season to save his job.

Reasons:
1. Terrible rotations
2. Missing out on In-State/Regional talent. I know some of you dont believe in regional recruiting, but just take a look at their 2025 targets. They are mostly all regional. If you continually whiff on top 50 guys nationally in-state it is bad for your program. Gard has the personality of a saltine cracker. Head Coach is also CEO unfortunately in college athletics. He is a very bad CEO.
3. Players have not developed well under Gard as a head coach.
4. Soft - The teams have been getting softer and softer since Ryan left. They are charmin soft this season.

[Diggr14]

If he says so, I'm sure we'll have other transfers to free up spots for a PF if so.

Side note, I know we mentioned in another thread about the NBA ASG not being in MKE anytime soon. But if MN can host the B1G tournament there is no reason Milwaukee can't. I'd assume they're going to get weird with it going forward with the Pac 10 teams, so Vegas, LA, etc will be happening instead.

We will lose 3-4 players. Essegian really has no reason to leave. The wing/perimeter spots will open up more with Storr gone.

Likely gone
Ilver
Hodges
Storr

Possibly gone
Mcgee
Yalden
Hepburn

[DingleJerry]

Im glad Essegian is staying, he could make huge jumps next year with a new coach. The back injury and Gard destroying the kid with his quick hooks and sporadic PT killed this kid this season. The badgers have so many terrible perimeter/wing players doing nothing on the offensive and defensive ends that it makes no sense they didn't try to re-establish him as a scorer. AJ Storr is a big reason behind this. The guy is a black hole with the ball. Bo Ryan would have ran this kid out of the gym until he got it. Gard has tried to bench him briefly, after ballhoggery, but it just keeps going and going. he doesnt GAF. He wants his and is moving on.

Ilver, Hodges I dont see why they stay. I'd say they go.

Storr will go portal or NBA Draft. He needs a good BT tournament and NCAA tournament to get NBA attention I think.


Gard needs 1 or 2 wins here at the end of the season to save his job.

Reasons:
1. Terrible rotations
2. Missing out on In-State/Regional talent. I know some of you dont believe in regional recruiting, but just take a look at their 2025 targets. They are mostly all regional. If you continually whiff on top 50 guys nationally in-state it is bad for your program. Gard has the personality of a saltine cracker. Head Coach is also CEO unfortunately in college athletics. He is a very bad CEO.
3. Players have not developed well under Gard as a head coach.
4. Soft - The teams have been getting softer and softer since Ryan left. They are charmin soft this season.

Yea as good as Storr was and he was huge in the good start. His attitude after being the 'star' and nba hype talk is one of the biggest reasons they've cratered. Pretty much what you said on him is spot on. Too much hero ball to show you're the man instead of the team ball movement that was flowing at the beginning. In addition, his D effort is quite lacking. For someone who's real only chance in the nba is a "3 and D" he forgot about a key half of and probably should've realized showing out and clear hustle on D probably would go further than making a couple extra contested crappy jumpers.

[chonestown]

Im glad Essegian is staying, he could make huge jumps next year with a new coach. The back injury and Gard destroying the kid with his quick hooks and sporadic PT killed this kid this season. The badgers have so many terrible perimeter/wing players doing nothing on the offensive and defensive ends that it makes no sense they didn't try to re-establish him as a scorer. AJ Storr is a big reason behind this. The guy is a black hole with the ball. Bo Ryan would have ran this kid out of the gym until he got it. Gard has tried to bench him briefly, after ballhoggery, but it just keeps going and going.

Essegian has been a bad shooter since the second half of last season. I really have no clue if he recovers the stroke. Could happen. Still think he leaves provided Klesmax, Chuckie, Kamari and Freitag are there. Just not enough minutes for him.

If Bo Ryan would go hard-ass on Storrs, he'd send Essegian to the damn gulag. If Gard ruined his confidence, Bo would have rattled the core of his humanity.

I do agree on in-state talent retention. Ryan wasn't awesome on it but did keep Dekker and Keonig. If/when Gard goes, that has to change. Gard did keep 5 star in-state freshman Augustus "Gus" Yalden, so you gotta give him credit.

[neiLz]

Badgers gonna go full gard here and try and dribble out the final 21:47 of this game. Hopefully they don't go cold and keep pulling the trigger.

Been yelling that they just need to take the early open threes when they get the looks.

[midranger]

Let it fly big guy.