Maybe I was too obtuse. I am a big fan of Belo and I don’t criticize or apologize for his screw ups because I enjoy his innovative contributions and his pure love of the game.
Significantly better? No they aren't. They beat Houston by 2 and St. Marys, I'm not sure how really good either are because they play in very inferior conferences, big deal. That's not significantly better. Pre conference is such a crapshoot being that it's early in the season when teams are still shaping themselves. I know that Wisconsin's losses in conference are Signifcantly worse than ours when teams are already in a good rhythm.
He was the second best player on the floor until the 3 minute mark of the second half. At that point, he had 14 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 1 TO, and had shut down Perkins in the second half defensively (1 for 5 from the field with 3 TOs, also missed 5 of 6 FTs, so maybe he was also tired). He basically took Plummer/DMW's minutes in the 2nd half.
I stand by my jersey in the rafter prediction above. If he had been healthy all year, we would be a more consistent and diversified offensive threat, but it is what it is.
Belo, Trent, and Plummer all drive to the basket at least occasionally with a lot of success.
Same for me. I thought he BU should have subbed DMW for him just before his 5th foul, then put him back in for offense.
You just have to learn to ignore Lunardi.
I'm also unsure of having DMW and Kofi in knowing Wisconsin had to foul, but the only other options were freshmen so......
It is, but the gap tightened significantly yesterday, IMO. A home loss to Nebraska is WAY worse than anything on our resume, and we picked up another Quad 1 win vs. Iowa (a team the computers absolutely love). If Wisconsin were to lose in the BTT quarterfinals and we were to make the finals (beating IU/Michigan and then presumably Iowa/Rutgers), I think we'd have at least as good of a resume. The Committee does consider some things beyond the hard numbers, IMO.
Yeah that’s crazy. They should be 3 seeds.
I'll give you a like just for the laugh.
But what would those same critical eyes see in Wisconsin's offense?
I saw it as a need for D and rebounding, which worked out to perfection on that final play.
He is probably penciling them into the B10 title game. Even so, top 8 is a bit much.
As to Belo, I thought he has played well but has shot the ball poorly. You have to take a few TOs with what he brings in ball movement. Last night his shooting was the problem - 4 of 12 IIRC. For the team to be successful going forward, we need him hitting 50% of his shots as he is the one guy on the team that has no problem getting open looks. But think BU has to give him playing time now to get him up to speed for the dance, even if he is not 100%.
