2015-16 UW Badger Basketball Discussion Thread

KidA24 · Post #541 » by **KidA24** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:55 pm

humanrefutation wrote:Two of my best friends learned Spanish in high school and are fluent today - but what boosted their fluency was taking classes in college, traveling abroad to Spanish-speaking countries for semester-long exchange programs, and practicing with their spanish-speaking friends constantly. Now, they can move fairly easily between English and Spanish.

Practice and immersion makes people good at something.... go figure

El Duderino · Post #542 » by **El Duderino** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:51 am

humanrefutation wrote:
JayMKE wrote:These foreign language classes really are an undue burden, its already pretty much too late once you get to high school or especially college to expect any fluency at all from most people imo. I took plenty of Spanish classes and I pretty much only know my numbers and colors, perhaps if I took these classes starting back in kindergarten or 1st grade it would of had more effect.

I disagree that it's too late to learn a foreign language once you get to high school. Rather, learning any foreign language comes down to the frequency in which you use it.

Think of our native languages - we learned them by being forced to - our families spoke the language, our friends spoke the language, our communities spoke the language, etc. We had to learn in order to communicate with those closest to us.

It's a similar concept with foreign languages. If you only speak Spanish in class, you're not going to take much with you going forward. But if you immerse yourself in the language, you can learn it fairly well. But you have to keep up practice.

Two of my best friends learned Spanish in high school and are fluent today - but what boosted their fluency was taking classes in college, traveling abroad to Spanish-speaking countries for semester-long exchange programs, and practicing with their spanish-speaking friends constantly. Now, they can move fairly easily between English and Spanish.

So, it can be done. I think it's a useful skill. But it requires a lot of practice, IMO.

My brother who is a Captain in the Army took German in high school and after a tour in Iraq the unit he controlled got stationed in Germany. He spent about two years in Germany and he said that simply by living there and being around German speaking people every day, much of what he learned in high school gradually came back.

Kinda like that great bar scene in Inglorious Bastards though, he did say German was a very tricky language because how you enunciated certain words could mean different things depending where in Germany you are.

That said, i question why knowing a foreign language should impact admittance into a college, much less for an athlete? To me at least, knowing a second language should be an elective choice unlike other core science, math, history, etc courses which should be required.

Johnlac1 · Post #543 » by **Johnlac1** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:04 am

trwi7 wrote:
RiotPunch wrote:Solid get. Now for the Diamond.

Bo was at the Dominican game last night. Stone had 28 points (10-19 shooting), 15 rebounds, 5 blocks. The 28 points and 10-19 was especially impressive considering how bad the rest of Dominican's team is. Every time Stone touched the ball there was an immediate double or triple team.

Stone has a lot of talent, but he's going to have to show a little more effort...especially on def. He certainly didn't look like he was playing hard to me in the game mentioned. On more than a few possessions he loafed down the floor on defense.

Kerb Hohl · Post #544 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:14 am

Nice to see a quick start in a spot where the Badgers have struggled before in.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #545 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:20 am

Kaminsky and Dekker look locked in tonight. We're going to need them to play like 1st round draft picks come tournament time.

tski1972 · Post #546 » by **tski1972** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:22 am

Every time these two play against each other, all I remember is 36-33.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #547 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:28 am

So used to Gasser knocking down the majority of the open three's he gets. It's been weird to see him struggle with his jumper lately.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #548 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:39 am

Really glad we decided to score 20 points and then pack it for the night on on offense.

tski1972 · Post #549 » by **tski1972** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:39 am

Bucky is ice cold.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #550 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:40 am

Gotta work it inside more, this team is not built to chuck up three's and mid-range jumpers.

Kerb Hohl · Post #551 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:40 am

Just seems like nothing is dropping after the straight fire we opened with. They're taking mostly good shots.

Turk Nowitzki · Post #552 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:44 am

You **** kidding me with that shot from the Penn St. big guy? How on earth did that go in?

Kerb Hohl · Post #553 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:55 am

Turk Nowitzki wrote:You **** kidding me with that shot from the Penn St. big guy? How on earth did that go in?

I'd have been less surprised if the last shot of the half that was 3/4 of the court went in.

PSU is doing some interesting things. Trying to wall off the inside and make the Badgers live or die outside. That double of Koenig late and other things were shrewd moves.

midranger · Post #554 » by **midranger** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:12 am

This version of Sam Dekker looks like a lotto pick.

Post #555 » by **ReasonablySober** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:16 am

Badgers making a bunch of uncharacteristically bad passes tonight.

trwi7 · Post #556 » by **trwi7** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:51 am

Lmao at the overrated chant in a game you're losing. Hit the showers.

Kerb Hohl · Post #557 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:56 am

**** game, but a win that moves the magic number for conference title lower, everyone stays healthy, one game closer to Jackson returning for depth.

I'll take it.

One negative that was well known, teams that have a guy that can get to the basket often can beat them if he gets hot. The Badgers are only going to make him shoot over and won't be very physical.

midranger · Post #558 » by **midranger** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:02 am

I can live with Bo never double teaming the one guy (always a guard) who can singlehandedly beat you with scoring (has bounced us grow the tourney a couple times).

I can't live the the consistent and continued inability to inbound the damn ball against pressure. We've seen it for a decade at the end of every close game. I've never seen a jv middle school team have more trouble with it.

StickeeFingaz · Post #559 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:43 am

midranger wrote:I can live with Bo never double teaming the one guy (always a guard) who can singlehandedly beat you with scoring (has bounced us grow the tourney a couple times).

I can't live the the consistent and continued inability to inbound the damn ball against pressure. We've seen it for a decade at the end of every close game. I've never seen a jv middle school team have more trouble with it.

I've been thinking this for weeks. It may cost us a close game.

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Kerb Hohl · Post #560 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:00 am

midranger wrote:I can live with Bo never double teaming the one guy (always a guard) who can singlehandedly beat you with scoring (has bounced us grow the tourney a couple times).

I can't live the the consistent and continued inability to inbound the damn ball against pressure. We've seen it for a decade at the end of every close game. I've never seen a jv middle school team have more trouble with it.

Getting the ball in can be maddening. All they needed to do was get the ball in bounds successfully to a player of ours against Zona and it nearly cost them a trip to the Final 4.