We thrashed these cheeseheads last year in Madison in our only meeting. They were down two starters today. They have been outrebounded by their opponents on the year. They list the Porter kid at 5'4" but she looks significantly smaller than Cook or Bryant. She had 12 rebounds today and Wisky beat us on the boards by a dozen. However, where the game was lost was at the free throw line. Wisky 19 of 25 to our 4 of 6. They outhustled and outtoughed us today. In 34 minute, Shoup-Hill and Peebles gave us 2 points and 1 rebound. I don't know how we fix this team this year. Gotta keep plugging.
Think we are a one trick pony this season unless we have any transfers/recruits outside of Hobby contribute off the bench
Same stuff from last year is killing us this season and it looks worse
We are a perimeter team that is very average from outside. Bryant is shooting well and think Cook will be ok after a slow start due to injury. Outside of them there is no consistency from the perimeter.
No consistent low post offense/defense outside of Bostic.
Inconsistent rebounding both ends. This isn't just a height thing but teams are aggressive on the boards against us. Yesterday 5'4 Porter, 5'7 Copeland and 5'8 Leuzinger had 9 offensive rebounds combined against us. I mentioned earlier in the season if we can't make shots than we need to hit the boards because Bostic and McKenzie are the only consistent ones on the offensive glass. Bostic/McKenzie combined for 7 of the 10 offensive boards(Hobby 2). Time for a guard or any big outside outside of Bostic/Hobby to occasionally hit the glass.
Free Throw attempts. Officials will make mistakes but it goes both ways. Lack of FT attempts will happen when we settle for jump shots. Once again Bryant/Cook took a combined 30 shots and only 2 FT attempts(6 in the game).
Bench or not too bench. We have 4 starters we know what we are getting and Shoup-Hill/Hobby split playing time at 5. Peebles contributes off the bench at times. Might be time to expand the bench and throw some of the raw talent on the court for experience outside of last second minutes if results continue. Injury bug hasn't hit hard yet, but might soon if we keep playing heavy minutes on our top 4 players.
This season could end up being a speed bump. I am still very excited about the future of this program!!!