Green Bay Press-Gazette all state team

[mcdadenets50]

College basketball: Marquette's Crean, Novak at head of class

They headline Press-Gazette's all-state college basketball team

By Rob Demovsky
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Two summers ago, Marquette coach Tom Crean began studying the Big East Conference. He dissected every team, every coach, every style of play.

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"He was the best player in our league," Kowalczyk said. "(Former Oklahoma coach) Kelvin Sampson called me before they played Milwaukee, and I told him everyone wants to talk about Joah Tucker, but Tigert is the best player in our league."

Calling poor man's coach k for coaching advice?!?!? Are you kidding me?

[dylanrocks]

I say kudos to pmck — who, lord knows, has taken his share of deserved criticism on this board — and the Press-Gazette for getting it mostly right. Note to the J-S: Sometimes getting it first means getting it wrong. Also, the idea for the "First Team" was certainly lifted from the P-G. These teams clearly should be determined after all the games are played. Very nice job. Again, Boo should make it over Kammron.

[JimmyLemke]

No way. Kammron Taylor is the glue that holds Wisconsin together. I like Boo as much as anyone, but an outside shooter who didn't find his niche slashing to the basket until late in the year doesn't prove to me he's worthy of usurping Kam Taylor, a complete point guard, on the first team. This is a great job done first and second team, I'm satisfied with it.

[dylanrocks]

Yes way. Boo shot 41.3 percent from the field to Kam's 38.5 percent, made 91 three-pointers to Kam's 67, is a far better rebounder (especially crashing from the weak side) with 157 to Kam's 91. In addition, Boo is simply a superior defender, always assigned to the other team's primary perimeter scorer. In short, I'm not going to take Kam for 25 assists and 6 percent (83 to 77) at the free throw line.

[PantherLou]

Jimmy,

Did you actually watch Kam Taylor play? Or just read press clippings?

The only reason he made this team is due to his reputation. Frankly, he was inconsistent AT BEST the second half of this season.

Boo was better. Just not as hyped.

[JimmyLemke]

If you have to make a case for a Panther to be on the first team, it is Joah, not Boo. You can't just pull out superior stats, because then you give Joah the nod without even mentioning him.

[coacheinerson]

jimmylemke said:

If you have to make a case for a Panther to be on the first team, it is Joah, not Boo. You can't just pull out superior stats, because then you give Joah the nod without even mentioning him.

Joah? Jimmy, did you watch a Panther game this year or are you going by Bobbi's press clippings?

[mcdadenets50]

jimmylemke said:

Kammron Taylor is the glue that holds Wisconsin together... Kam Taylor, a complete point guard...

No way. Taylor was the point guard on UW by default. I'm too lazy to check but I believe Taylor had the fewest assists of any "point guard" in the Big 10. If Taylor is the glue to that team no wonder they fell apart miserably at the end of the year.

[coacheinerson]

Remember Davis at the Kohl Center in December? He had that whole place in a stunned silence. No way that Taylor ever pulls out a performance like that. For awhile there, Boo could do no wrong.

How would Joah ever get a first team nod over Davis?

[ArtVandelay]

jimmylemke said:

No way. Kammron Taylor is the glue that holds Wisconsin together. I like Boo as much as anyone, but an outside shooter who didn't find his niche slashing to the basket until late in the year doesn't prove to me he's worthy of usurping Kam Taylor, a complete point guard, on the first team. This is a great job done first and second team, I'm satisfied with it.

Jimmy -- it is very possible that Kam won't even be the starter as we progress through next season depending on the play of Trevon Hughes. All my Badger friends feel that Kam is far from a "complete" point guard.

Art Vandelay

[halo]

Great job PG...........Rob Demovski.....

Evanochko is superior to Boo Davis and Kamron Taylor.....he outplayed both of them when they faced off..........

[mcdadenets50]

Kam Taylor's two tourney games (vs. Indiana and Arizona):

4 - 17 from the floor
6 turnovers
4 assists

Taylor is a two guard who fell apart at the end of the year playing out of position.

[dylanrocks]

With the numbers at one's disposal, this is an easy case to make. The NCAA selection committee is known to use a team's performance over its last five games as one instrument for selection to the big dance. Let's look at how our two players compared over each team's final five games. Remember, Wisconsin was vying for a Big Ten regular-season title, playing Indiana in the Big Ten tournament and battling Arizona in a first-round NCAA game while UWM was locked in a battle with Butler for homecourt advantage in the Horizon and then fighting for its postseason life:

Boo Davis: 169 minutes (33.8), 32-of-76 from the field (42.1 percent), 15-of-39 from the three-point arc (38.5), 17-of-22 from the free throw line (77.2), 39 rebounds (7.8), 13 assists (2.6), 12 steals (2.4), 96 points (19.2).

Now, Kam Taylor: 154 minutes (30.8), 15-of-53 from the field (I had to double-check this, 28.3 percent), 7-of-19 from the three-point arc (36.8), 8-of-11 from the charity stripe (73.0), 10 rebounds (2.0), 9 assists (1.8), 2 steals, 45 points (9.0).

I rest my case.

[dylanrocks]

BTW, Milwaukee was 4-1 over those five games while the glue's team went 1-4.

[Pantherholic]

jimmylemke said:

No way. Kammron Taylor is the glue that holds Wisconsin together.

good call jimmy, now if u only had any actual evidence to argue that point besides talking to other people. let's look at the last 11 games of the season for "the glue"...
11 ppg
33% FG
2.2 apg
2.5 topg
not bad for a guy who averaged 34 minutes a game during that span.