Diggr14 wrote:At this point I'd send a message.
You need to start Blackwell over Chuckles.
Essegian over Klesmit.
Winter over Crowl.
Wahl and Storr can round it out.
The effort given by Chucky and Crowl was atrocious. That kind of display says to me that they have regressed as players and really don't give a ****. Maybe it's an early season thing? I just rewatched the game, i dont know how I did, but the amount of lazy passes by the two of them were pretty high. The defensive effort and hustle was extremely low from these two specifically.
Hopefully Gus Yalden can make his way back. (He has a little substance abuse problem, and apparently a stupidity problem for getting caught in his dorm by the police twice.... you need to keep that on the DL as a college student, especially an athlete.) Probably just a maturity problem more than anything, hopefully.
Klesmit to me is a very clunky version of Zak Showalter / Brad Davison hybrid. He will try to be that energy D guy that can score a little, but he is just short of all three when it comes down to it.
For the love of god...this is the worst stage of Badger sports. Same thing with the, "play Evers" crowd of football fans.
They're playing the best players in both sports. I'll grant that maybe Blackwell is or could be a starter very soon. But sometimes teams just suck or are playing poorly for a stretch but they still want to play their best guys to try to win.
In the vast majority of cases, different does not equal better.For example, Winter is one of the worst defensive players I've ever seen play for Wisconsin. That's not to say I don't think he's going to be a spectacular player down the line. But he will get absolutely throttled out there if he plays over Crowl right now, instead of Crowl who plays below average defense.
The above paragraph - you can basically apply it to Essegian, though I wouldn't put "ever" on the qualification. I have no idea what to make of this, but he shot 28% on 3s in February and March last year. Either he ran out of gas or defenses putting even more attention on him have nerfed his shooting ability.
