WISCONSIN GAME DAY THREAD

[NUtball]

Potts saves the day.  Lackadaisical play all around and very poor situational awareness.  A win is a win, though.  Hope they flush this one out of the system quickly.

[Cazzie22]

I cannot praise Potts enough.  Heady ball player.  Wisconsin’s big girl getting a T for taunting is the decisive point of the game. We are escaping with a W!

[Red Don]

Husker Ladies find the intensity in Q4, that they lost in the third, and recover to win by 12 pts; 69-57
Particular Thanks to Natalie Potts, Alexis Markoswki and Darian White.

Huskers start B1G Play 3-0 for the first time since doing it the first year they joined the conference in 2011/12.

Final Stats:

 

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https://huskers.com/news/2024/01/4/huskers-beat-badgers-start-3-0-in-big-ten

Final Stats (PDF)
Madison, Wis. - Natalie Potts scored all of her game-high 16 points in the second half, while Alexis Markowski produced her 30th career double-double to power Nebraska to a 69-57 Big Ten women's basketball road win at the Kohl Center on Thursday night.

• With the victory, Nebraska improved to 3-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since NU's first season in the conference (2011-12), while moving to 11-3 overall. Wisconsin slipped to 7-6 and 0-3 in the league.

As a team, Nebraska hit 43.9 percent (25-57) of its shots from the field, including 9-of-27 (.333) three-pointers. The Huskers also won the turnover battle, 14-11. NU held Wisconsin to 36.1 percent (22-61) shooting for the game, including 7-of-33 threes (.212). UW won the war on the boards 38-36, including nine rebounds to go with 16 points from Serah Williams.

Edited January 7 by Red Don

[Bugeaters1]

The refs were garbage.

[mwm89]

Really glad to get the W on the road and get off to a 3-0 conf. start.  Wins on the road don't come easy against anyone.  We didn't seem to have the same sense of urgency as UW until about 5 min or so left in the 4th Q.  Again we see Potts step up and saw hustle from her and Hake as well as White down the stretch.  Fortunate to have that T called on them to help us pull away a little.  Quite a bit that can be pointed out as critique but don't want to bore people with endless words.  Hopefully we will execute better on Sunday as obviously we will need to.  GBR!!

Edited January 5 by mwm89

[All About the Corn]

Potts was tonight’s MVP.

[HUD]

Efficiencies listed on Live Stats:   Potts 21,  Shelley 13,  Markowski 13  and White 5.

[Huskerpapa]

Well, not pretty; but effective.   Good win ladies!

[Bugeaters1]

The B1G Ten graphics and score bug sucked. They could never get anything right.

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[Gamafn]

Serious question: what is Jaz’s role?  We seem to have taken our most skilled overall offensive player, who has demonstrated she can score inside and outside, and turned her into a passive pass-only point guard.  She rarely looks for her own shot and we even more rarely run a play to free her up for a shot.  Her go-to play now seems to be a drive into the paint followed by a no-look pass out to 3-point shooter.  Yet I thought White was our primary point guard and Shelley our most proven 3-point shooter!  

[Huskerfanzzz]

55 minutes ago, Gamafn said:

Serious question: what is Jaz’s role?  We seem to have taken our most skilled overall offensive player, who has demonstrated she can score inside and outside, and turned her into a passive pass-only point guard.  She rarely looks for her own shot and we even more rarely run a play to free her up for a shot.  Her go-to play now seems to be a drive into the paint followed by a no-look pass out to 3-point shooter.  Yet I thought White was our primary point guard and Shelley our most proven 3-point shooter!  

I have felt like there is still some ambiguity in the roles as well. It does seem like they are pushing White to be more of a distributor, wanting her to get paint touches and kick the ball out, but then Shelly often looks like she’s doing the same thing. They can’t both be the primary distributor. Sometimes I feel Jaz takes unnecessary shots, but then last night I was wondering when she was going to step up. I’m most comfortable with White handling the ball, but when Hake, Shelly and White were all in, I saw Hake wave off White and Shelly more than once and bring the ball up herself. I wonder why those roles haven’t been solidified yet. 

[12dozen]

+/- boxscore

 

Based on this simple metric, sure looks like the first 5 are a good fit (at least tonight).

 

https://storage.googleapis.com/huskers-com-prod/2024/01/05/b660Qv20Qds8XCHOwFXu7XB2O8QqSi14RHym4OYe.pdf

[12dozen]

When KM came in during the 2nd half, it seemed our team defense picked up a bit.  Nothing scientific, but it seemed we were more athletic, quicker as a unit.  I thought she gave us a nice bump in the short time she played.

[Bugeaters1]

+/- boxscore
 
Based on this simple metric, sure looks like the first 5 are a good fit (at least tonight).
 
https://storage.googleapis.com/huskers-com-prod/2024/01/05/b660Qv20Qds8XCHOwFXu7XB2O8QqSi14RHym4OYe.pdf

You do know that the plus minus is up like twenty minutes after the game that's over.

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[12dozen]

1 minute ago, Bugeaters1 said:

You do know that the plus minus is up like twenty minutes after the game that's over.

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You, or anyone, feel free to post it.   It won't upset me.  I watched the news, then hit the rack after the game.  Just turned the computer on a bit ago.

[Redhac]

The 3 starting guards scored a total of 14 points.  They did some other things including Shelley's 6 assists.   However, Shelley is underperforming in my opinion.  She still needs to work on her jump shot as well as drive to the basket.  Krull is only averaging 3 points a game.  The only effective drive to the basket last night was Potts.  Can she be cloned somehow?  The Y-ball substitution pattern actually worked out with a number of lesser players getting a score or two.  Seems like Petrie could add more but she does get to play a lot.  She is too short to be a center.

 

Relative to all the discussion on the +/-   It looks to be largely a BS discussion, as some of the time it largely makes no sense for what really happened in the game!!

[HUD]

Statistics are fine to give a partial evaluation of team and individual performances.  All you really need to do is watch the game a couple of times to realize we are one starting guard away from having a really good team.  When you have a weakness like that you allow the other team to concentrate on our only good starting shooter from the outside (Shelley).  

[NUtball]

15 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

The refs were garbage.

Very inconsistent, for sure.  Wisconsin was allowed all kinds of contact against the Nebraska ball-handlers in the 2nd half and then Nebraska got whistled for a few calls where an out-of-control Wisconsin player just ran over the Nebraska player standing in the way.  Though they're changing the charge/block calls, I would think the defensive player still has the right to a spot on the floor when they've established position prior to the offensive player bowling them over.

[NUtball]

3 hours ago, 12dozen said:

When KM came in during the 2nd half, it seemed our team defense picked up a bit.  Nothing scientific, but it seemed we were more athletic, quicker as a unit.  I thought she gave us a nice bump in the short time she played.

It was nice to see both the Kendall's come in and provide some decent minutes.  If they can continue to bring positive play, that can only help the team, giving some of the others a few minutes of rest.  Hopefully Stewart can do the same.

[Red Don]

4 hours ago, 12dozen said:

+/- boxscore

 

Based on this simple metric, sure looks like the first 5 are a good fit (at least tonight).

 

https://storage.googleapis.com/huskers-com-prod/2024/01/05/b660Qv20Qds8XCHOwFXu7XB2O8QqSi14RHym4OYe.pdf

 

  I find it difficult to interpret the +/- numbers.  Looking at them you'd think the game was a runaway.  Nowhere do they reflect it was a 2 point game at the end of the third quarter, and a one-point game @ 7:23 in the 4th, and 6 pts @ 1:13 left in the game (Anybody's Game at that point).  Not until Jazz made the 2 FTs of of William's Technical did the Huskers start to pull away, when Wisconsin was forced to foul, and we Made our FTs.     Maybe the +/- numbers are a reflection of who Wisconsin had on the floor as much as who we had on the floor.

Edited January 5 by Red Don

[Bugeaters1]

4 minutes ago, Red Don said:

 

  I find it difficult to interpret the +/- numbers.  Looking at them you'd think the game was a runaway.  Nowhere do they reflect it was a 2 point game at the end of the third quarter, and a one-point game (anybody's game) @ 7:23 in the 4th, and 6 pts @ 1:13 left in the game (Anybody's Game at that point).  Not until Jazz made the 2 FTs of of William's Technical did the Huskers start to pull away, when Wisconsin was forced to foul, and we Made our FTs.     Maybe the +/- numbers are a reflection of who Wisconsin had on the floor as much as who we had on the floor.

It is in fact how you are suppose to look at it.

[Bugeaters1]

3 hours ago, 12dozen said:

You, or anyone, feel free to post it.   It won't upset me.  I watched the news, then hit the rack after the game.  Just turned the computer on a bit ago.

I started posting them. then told I was wrong. So now you can do it.

[Bugeaters1]

7 minutes ago, Red Don said:

 

  I find it difficult to interpret the +/- numbers.  Looking at them you'd think the game was a runaway.  Nowhere do they reflect it was a 2 point game at the end of the third quarter, and a one-point game @ 7:23 in the 4th, and 6 pts @ 1:13 left in the game (Anybody's Game at that point).  Not until Jazz made the 2 FTs of of William's Technical did the Huskers start to pull away, when Wisconsin was forced to foul, and we Made our FTs.     Maybe the +/- numbers are a reflection of who Wisconsin had on the floor as much as who we had on the floor.

If you look at the game as a whole. you will see that if team 1 went on a 10-0 run then the players on the court at the time for team 1 will show a plus 10 if the game was tied. iif tweam 1 was down six with the 10 - 0 run it would be a plus 4 for the players of team 1 that were on the court at the time.

[12dozen]

9 minutes ago, Red Don said:

 

  I find it difficult to interpret the +/- numbers.  Looking at them you'd think the game was a runaway.  Nowhere do they reflect it was a 2 point game at the end of the third quarter, and a one-point game (anybody's game) @ 7:23 in the 4th, and 6 pts @ 1:13 left in the game (Anybody's Game at that point).  Not until Jazz made the 2 FTs of of William's Technical did the Huskers start to pull away, when Wisconsin was forced to foul, and we Made our FTs.     Maybe the +/- numbers are a reflection of who Wisconsin had on the floor as much as who we had on the floor.

 

15 minutes ago, Red Don said:

 

  I find it difficult to interpret the +/- numbers.  Looking at them you'd think the game was a runaway.  Nowhere do they reflect it was a 2 point game at the end of the third quarter, and a one-point game (anybody's game) @ 7:23 in the 4th, and 6 pts @ 1:13 left in the game (Anybody's Game at that point).  Not until Jazz made the 2 FTs of of William's Technical did the Huskers start to pull away, when Wisconsin was forced to foul, and we Made our FTs.     Maybe the +/- numbers are a reflection of who Wisconsin had on the floor as much as who we had on the floor.

The 1st page reflects game totals.  If you want to look stats by quarter, scroll down.  Page 14 reflects 3rd quarter stats (not cumulative).

[12dozen]

9 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

I started posting them. then told I was wrong. So now you can do it.

The boxscore stats were questioned, not the person who posted it.   Similar to this thread.  People are questioning the +/- stats.  No problem.  I just posted the pdf link. Why would I be offended?