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Message: [QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 238740, member: 237"] I have watched about 9 wisconsin games this year and noticed a couple of things from a matchup perspective that I believe we are built to exploit. The first is that they do not have a true bread and butter low post threat. They have some guys who can make a move but not really seal their man and back a guy down to then allow for an easy kickout. The movement of the zone will make any baskets around the rim very difficult and will eliminate the need to suck in the zone at all. The second thing I noticed is that they really rely on ball movement off screens to get their shooters in the flow of the game. The only guy who creates his own shot well is Taylor. And as good as he is he can get overzealous and throw up a lot of poor shots. Against the zone he will not have a lot of opportunities to use the dribble to get himself a shot. The flip side is if he can penetrate the zone.. that will cause some trouble. We will have to expect he will get himself into the lane or try to often. This is where the turnover statistics become important. If Evans does not hurt us from the FT line.. wisconsin will be forced to use Taylor to penetrate. Otherwise they will throw up 50 contested 3's all game. If Taylor penetrates, scoop/dion will have more opportunities to strip the ball than wisconsin is used to giving up since they play on the perimeter so much. The third thing is watch how they get back on d. Off of misses they collapse their d into the paint. On misses our guys leak out to the wings. If wisconsin does not crash the offensive boards, the outlet pass will be their for scoop/dion. Attack from the wings will give our guys a better angle to the basket while trying to push the tempo. It will also force wisky to react quickly to shooters as our break spaces the floor. The final thing I noticed in games this year and especially against Vandy.. is they do at times struggle to react quickly to the PNR. They do a great job getting to shooters but are vulnerable on the pick n roll. The lack of footspeed along with our guys athleticism may give us an opportunity to run a decent halfcourt set with Rak/CJ/James off the PNR. Now I noticed this more in their losses than in their wins so its not consistant. They gave UNC some trouble.. but UNC's athleticism did bother the badgers and I hope we can do the same. I think these 4 items will even up some of the percentages and help reduce the effect of the charges that wisky takes. I am by no means saying this wins us the game.. just saying while its a tough matchup against a big physical well coached squad, I think we will be problematic for them just as much. The most important part of this game is the first five minutes. If we make a quick run.. they are in for a long night.. if they go up early getting hot from 28 ft.. visa versa. With the game in Boston, our advantage in depth/athleticism and with the zone, I think we win a tight game with a couple of key runs when the badgers hit a dry spell. Either way it will be a war.. and possibly even more so than the next game if we make it there. [/QUOTE]

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