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Basically no Essegian, game 2, top 10 team coming in the nation. Seems like a perfect time to melt down and overreact like many of your replies seem to be doing🙄

I like this team. I like them more when Connor is back. I like them most because they’ll be better come game 30.

— Colton Wilson (@ColtonWilson23) November 11, 2023

Good balanced scoring, but bench didn’t give us much

FTs were God awful, threes not much better

Storr went to sleep in a crucial stretch

We got out-hustled on a lot of loose balls and rebounds

Refs did not help

But I like this team, we just got beat by a better one

— chuckwestover (@chuckwestover) November 11, 2023

If they just shoot a modest 33% from 3 and shoot a modest 70% from the line....Bucky wins the game against a top 10 opponent

Neither of those percentages are that extraordinary. This team will win A LOT of basketball games this season, when they shoot at just an average clip

— Ryan Antony (@RyanAntony22) November 11, 2023

I like this team and they’re fun again to watch. Good early learning lesson. Tennessee is also very good and Barnes is a great in game coach

— Ron (@RonFiki) November 11, 2023

Good:
-TONS of promise from new guys
-If you hit FTs+3s = win
-Wahl seems healthy?
-Decent Gilmore minutes

Bad:
-Crowl still has a 6" vertical
-Gard still can't call timeout plays
-Start 10-20 on FTs
-Very poor straight line defense

— Nick P Bassill (@NickPBassill) November 11, 2023

Badger bigs are soft at the rim on both ends

— Ben Bromley (@ben_bromley) November 11, 2023

Have to get the ball in Storr's hands more in the second half. Would love to see how the game flow goes if a few of the very suspect calls/no calls go the other way. Defense needs improvement.

FTs, how is it still an issue? Especially with Wahl?

— J.B. (@TheAntiHeroLife) November 11, 2023

Like how hard the Badgers played. Tennessee is physical & good defensively. Missed Essegian's offense. Knecht is a stud. FT's an issue again. Gave up way to many lay ups to big guys on the pick and roll again. Tough non-conference schedule, but this team looks promising

— Kirk Eastenson (@Eastyfor3) November 11, 2023

The defense was very un-Wisconsin like. The Vols were able to get in the lane at will.

— Craig Smith (@smithcp1) November 11, 2023

I think in general, they played well. Gotta hit the FT’s and 3’s. Storr needs to slow things down at times.

— Michael H. Hyman (@MCPSsportypsych) November 11, 2023

Tennessee is the type of team I would like Wisconsin to be. They are so solid and do all the little things well. With that said I think the Badgers will be just fine this season in the Big Ten.

— Alex (@breitfelder3) November 11, 2023

💯 on Gard. No Connor last 5 mins. He posts Tyler and Steve but they can’t make shots or FTs. They are not scorers. Took him 25 mins to put Tyler on their 6ft 9 guard. Team will be good this year but let chucky and store cook like first half

— ChazB (@chazb33) November 11, 2023

No surprise. If they can stay healthy it should be a good year. 5th-8th in the conference. 8 or 9 seed in the NCAA.

— Pat Heffling (@wurstbrewerfan) November 11, 2023

They were solid. No worries.

— Más Tequila (@JoRy_MaMa) November 11, 2023

Wisconsin looked pretty good, Tennessee was just better. Their defense is really tough. They're the real deal and will go far this year. It's not a bad loss.

Missed FTs sealed our fate - that's the only obvious thing to fix.

— Dakota Chambers (@DakotaChambers) November 11, 2023

Me vs Wahl in a FT contest. We each shoot 100 and I’ll shoot 50 of the 100 left handed just to even it out. Confident I’ll win easily

— Tyler Morgan (@tyler_morgan28) November 11, 2023

Tennessee is a very good team with size and scoring all over. Still, we had a chance and fell into the old 'smash out heads against the wall' patterns.

If Storr can reign in the hero ball and be more than a cone on defense, he'll be all B1G.

— 𝖂𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖓.𝖏𝖕𝖊𝖌 (@Ouisconsin) November 11, 2023

I just want to be an average 3 point shooting team instead of absolutely trash.

If we’re gonna have a deficit in athleticism every game, need to hit shots

— Robinson Muff-Potter (@thonnius_maker) November 11, 2023

A lot to be encouraged about with this team. Could be a fun season!

— Wisconsin Nation (@Wisco___Nation) November 11, 2023

Free throw awareness month is every month.

Have to figure it out

— Jeremy Wojtecki (@jwojPAC) November 11, 2023

Not good, but what’s the answer ? Fire Gard and bring in some hotshot from another conference with no connection to Wisconsin? How’s that working out for football.

— Steve Schuster (@SteveSc84123682) November 11, 2023

Not mad- good effort, a little early in the season for a top ten game like this. The threes will drop when they get a little more comfortable and then the Badgers will be a force

— A J K (@ajknick) November 11, 2023

Frustrating. But will be a much better team this year than last. Need to figure out how to shoot free throws though

— ryan veglahn (@RyanVeglahn) November 11, 2023

Stagnant offense + missed free throws - defense stops = frustrating loss

— Randall Kohl (@crandallkohl) November 11, 2023

defend better. if Wahl can’t be better at FTs I don’t see how we run our post game through him in a late game scenario…

I remember when the badgers getting into the bonus was free candy. didn’t have that last year and still an issue.

But room for growth - we will get better

— CoachLaFleurious (@tylertichenor84) November 11, 2023

I forgot they were on, I was watching the Badgers women's soccer team beat Milwaukee 2-0.

— Brad Affeldt (@BA_14) November 11, 2023

Missed opportunities and lot to learn from this game. Losing to the #9 team in the nation is nothing to be ashamed about though.

It’s the second game of the season, I’m not worried.

— Elliott B (@SconnieFanBoy93) November 11, 2023

Stat that needs to be added in basketball is how many of the misses are front ends of 1 and 1’s. Really should count as 2 misses which would be more accurate in calculating how much it hurts teams. Like us.

— john berg (@BadgerJohnBerg) November 11, 2023

Feel like I’ve seen this movie before. With a minimum of 10 losses this year it’s already tougher to see making the tournament. With no improvement in FT shooting it’s going to be a disappointing year.

— Michael Burger (@Burgscom) November 11, 2023

I really think this team is 2nd best in the B10

— Chris (@cgwilcat30) November 11, 2023

Call it early season optimism but I can see this team as high as a ten seed

— Aben_glibb (@GlibbAben) November 11, 2023

I think we’re NIT bound

— MJ (@MikefromWisky) November 11, 2023

My thought is stop putting the games on Peacock

— Todd Moroney (@toddmoroney) November 11, 2023

Angry pic.twitter.com/GXhd2MJeWg

— Justin D. Hein (@jdhein22) November 11, 2023

New year, same issues. Not enough athleticism, stagnant O, missed FTs. I can save myself the heartache and check back in with this team in March.

— Mark Wolfgram (@markwwolfgram) November 11, 2023