Skip to main content

Grateful Red

After watching the first three Wisconsin Badgers basketball games of the seasons, I thought it to be necessary to divulge number one, my love for them, and number two, the fact that they are the underdogs of NCAA men's basketball. Last night, the boys took an L against a very good Xavier team. But, if you watched, you learned a lot. Here's what I took in. 

  1. Brad Davison can take literally any shot he wants and he'll probably make it. You may not know that he's a freshman from Minnesota and was a quarterback of his high school football team. The kid is insane. He's something special and I can't wait to see what he does for Wisconsin basketball. 
  2. If you double Ethan Happ, he'll find a way to make an assist. If you double Ethan Happ, he'll also find a way to score on you, even if he's under the glass. 
  3. Khalil Iverson is the silent dunk assassin. 
  4. Aleem Ford can come off the bench, shoot the 3, and make it more than once. He'll be important come March for that reason. 
  5. Kobe King...he's got some work to do, but he'll be extremely effective down low and on the 3. 
  6. Ethan Happ sucks at free throws in the game. BUT he works really hard at practice on them and you can see in pregame that he's trying. Hopefully this improves before March. 
  7. The defense never quits and forces turnovers on plays that should turn into points for the other team. Brad Davison is big with this one, as is Khalil Iverson. 
  8. WE NEED TO MAKE OUR DAMN FREE THROWS, GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY. 
  9. Andy Van Vliet is effective, yet needs more confidence in his shots. He also has to be careful tossing up the 3 when it might not be his best shot. 
  10. D'Mitrik Trice is a great play runner. His fake with Ethan Happ is incredible and part of the reason why he's so effective. 

We may have lost, but we proved that we can be competitive against ranked teams. I can't wait to see what happens this season!!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

"Hooray sports! Do the thing! Win the points!"

If you've come here because I shamelessly requested you read my blog, then welcome! If you're here by chance and chance only, then welcome to you too! My name is Kayla, for those of you who don't know me, and I'm a Chicago sports fan living in Wisconsin, which is as painstaking as you think it might be. I'm writing this fresh off of a Cubbies loss in the NLCS, but I have no words so we'll just go ahead and skip that take (other than we had no bullpen so...). I decided that there aren't enough women involved in sports blogging, so I wanted to go ahead and start my own.  I interpret the quote "Hooray sports! Do the thing! Win the points!" as satire. If, like my mom, you're unfamiliar with this or the term "sportsball" (I'm talking to you, Super Bowl party goers that don't actually like or enjoy football), they are often used by people who are not necessarily educated on the sport they are watching. Or, if you're like some...
4 comments
Read more

Barstool Sports vs. Everybody Else

This weekend I had full intentions to go to the Red & White Scrimmage at UW-Madison to get a general idea of how the basketball team will be this season. So I could, you know, write about sports. Well, a hangover from peach bellini vodka and cranberry juice won, and I napped on the couch for basically the whole day. I had been thinking I was going to have absolutely NO content to discuss this week, since I slept through all the football games, the World Series isn't set to start until today, the Bulls don't give me much to talk about right now, etc., etc. Then, much to my surprise, the sports gods answered and my favorite blog site (besides mine duh), Barstool Sports, was done dirty by ESPN by cancelling Barstool Van Talk  (you'll see me refer to this as BVT throughout the post) after one episode. For those of you who don't know, Barstool Sports  is a multifunctional sports blog. I say multifunctional because their content has expanded from creating content sole...
Post a Comment
Read more