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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Jan 20, 2024 20:05:53 GMT -6
Broken record alert: you can't consistently surrender 90-plus points and expect to win. Defense notwithstanding, WHERE HAS OUR OFFENSE GONE? We're back to having shooters that CAN'T MAKE SHOTS. They scored 81 points on 47% shooting.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jan 20, 2024 20:06:32 GMT -6
Lundy is now 26-22 against D-1 teams as the head coach at Milwaukee.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jan 20, 2024 20:17:25 GMT -6
Defense notwithstanding, WHERE HAS OUR OFFENSE GONE? We're back to having shooters that CAN'T MAKE SHOTS. They scored 81 points on 47% shooting. And 8 of 20 on 3s. Yeah, I'll pass on that narrative.
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Post by GoPanthersGo23 on Jan 20, 2024 20:50:01 GMT -6
Not really sure what to say at this point. The defense is horrible and I am not sure we can fix it this late into the season (or even have the personal to fix it). I guess we will need to win every game scoring in the 80s and 90s.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jan 20, 2024 21:12:07 GMT -6
Not really sure what to say at this point. The defense is horrible and I am not sure we can fix it this late into the season (or even have the personal to fix it). I guess we will need to win every game scoring in the 80s and 90s. We will need to win scoring in the 90s.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Jan 20, 2024 21:32:08 GMT -6
I would be more worried about the defense if Lundy didn't address it in the post-game.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jan 21, 2024 0:37:48 GMT -6
I would be more worried about the defense if Lundy didn't address it in the post-game. Great point. Bart has already proven this season he can make successful in-season adjustments. No reason to believe he cannot make more.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jan 21, 2024 0:42:27 GMT -6
Lundy is now 26-22 against D-1 teams as the head coach at Milwaukee. Thanks for the much needed perspective. That's pretty good considering the state of the program when he got here. Of course, moving forward, I will be looking for the winning percentage to improve.
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Post by tyrunner0097 on Jan 21, 2024 0:49:54 GMT -6
Lundy is now 26-22 against D-1 teams as the head coach at Milwaukee. Thanks for the much needed perspective. That's pretty good considering the state of the program when he got here. Of course, moving forward, I will be looking for the winning percentage to improve. Don't tell Matt that.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jan 21, 2024 0:58:14 GMT -6
UWM’s defense falls apart again as Wright State hands Panthers second straight loss Curt Hogg Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It wasn’t a kind road trip for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee — especially on defense.
Two days after a porous defensive effort in a loss at Northern Kentucky, the Panthers offense went from high-octane to stalling in a 95-81 loss at Wright State on Saturday night.
“We’re not guarding anybody,” Panthers head coach Bart Lundy said. “We’re giving up 90 a game and don’t seem to have a lot of pride on the defensive end. Poor coaching, poor defending. Something has to give.”
Things fell apart in the second half fell apart for Milwaukee, which led 44-43 going into the break.
A 20-4 run by the Raiders across 6 minutes, 34 seconds turned a four-point deficit for the Panthers into a blowout. Wright State opened the second half by making 16 of 17 shots across the first 12 minutes, with the lone miss coming on a three-point attempt with just under 14 minutes to go.
“In my career as a coach and a player I’ve never seen that,” Lundy said. “So give Wright State credit. But at some point we have to do a little soul-searching and figure out who we are as a basketball team and what we want to be about. Because that’s not going to win many basketball games.”
The Panthers have allowed at least 80 points in seven of their last nine games. Opponents have hit the 90-point mark in the three of Milwaukee’s last five games in Horizon play — in which the Panthers now dropped to 4-4.
When all was said and done, the Raiders scored 52 points and shot an almost-unbelievable 78.6% from the field over the final 20 minutes.
BJ Freeman led the Panthers with 17 points while Kentrell Pullian had 15 and Erik Pratt added 13.
Brandon Noel had a game-high 23 points for Wright State, which also got 20 points from Tanner Holden.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jan 21, 2024 1:04:20 GMT -6
It will be interesting to see if the two Milwaukee area freshman, Murchison and Davis, will play more as the season progresses. They both played almost entirely against Wright State's starters and looked pretty good.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jan 21, 2024 1:12:47 GMT -6
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Jan 21, 2024 9:07:15 GMT -6
Thanks for the much needed perspective. That's pretty good considering the state of the program when he got here. Of course, moving forward, I will be looking for the winning percentage to improve. Don't tell Matt that. What the hell are you taking about? There’s like 4 posters here who post actual basketball takes outside of hur dur the refs suck and you’re trying to go at one of them? Maybe spend less time yelling and flipping off the refs and more time focusing on the game and what our team can do better and you’ll be able to formulate actual takes on the game. The fact of the matter is our defense the worst it’s ever been for Milwaukee basketball and even a below average defense would make us contenders in this crap league. There is literally no defensive system in the half court. We overhedge on bad shooters, don’t rebound the ball consistently, and coupled with lack of effort it means we end up getting buzzsawed routinely.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jan 21, 2024 9:24:44 GMT -6
Just coat-tailing on Reggie's point: this is factually our worst defensive season since Steve Antrim's Panthers surrendered 2,171 points (80.4 per game, 266th in the country out of 302 teams) in the 3-24 debacle of 1994-95, one of the worst two seasons in our D-1 history along with the 1997-98 team coached by Ric Cobb. Making matters worse is that the team scored only 67.6 points per game, 259th in the country.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jan 21, 2024 9:35:24 GMT -6
To expand on our defensive woes, we are now allowing a whopping 81.8 points per game against our 17 Division 1 opponents. There are now 12 regular-season games left to straighten this out. Are we capable?
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