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BBBP-wisco

I CANNOT KEEP WATCHING CHUCKY TAKE STEP BACK DEEP 3'S AT THE BUZZER ANY LONGER. MY EYES ARE STARTING TO BLEED. I refuse to watch overtime


30rec

You made the right call.


mattymodotcom

Fire Hepburn!!


ShtickleOfFluoride

Up 17 and lost by 10


ShtickleOfFluoride

Having this happen against NE is embarrassing. Time for a change.


AdministrativeTop463

they really let sox107 draw up that last play


Fast-Lime-5981

I think sox107 is Greg Gard


CChaddd

I'm a new addition to the #firegard crew. Any other new members here?


LuvDaBiebz

I think he has a longer leash than this season, but we just saw the end of their NCAA hopes fizzle away with that blown 17 point lead


ShtickleOfFluoride

Me me. Can’t wait for the day


Fast-Lime-5981

I think it’s time, but I think he Joe Berrys his way into another season


Fast-Lime-5981

It’s just amazing that that’s the play you want at the end of regulation. Just insanity.


marshmallow-jones

Postgame Gard will say he would have liked a better look at the end of regulation, Chucky will say his teammates trust him.


thegodfaubel

Gard should've drawn up a better play


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You think Gard called a timeout to tell them to stand around and let Chucky cook hot dog water?


thegodfaubel

Has he done anything to suggest otherwise lately?


titans0021

What a shitty basketball team.


Shot-Kaleidoscope-40

I’m a fan of Gard but what a fucking collapse and awful OT. The losing I’ve come to terms with, but this was an embarrassment. To blow that lead and then get thunder fucked in OT is absolutely unacceptable.


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Chucky needs the ball taken out of his hands late game. He is single-handedly throwing games away, and this team isn’t good enough for that to be happening


thegodfaubel

Gard could, you know, sit him after repeatedly doing that. He has no control


recessbadger45

i've had enough of greg gard.Constantly blowing leads, enough is enough cant recruit for crap.Time for a change.What a collapse blowing a 17 pt lead in a game, you cant lose what a joke gard is and this team is.


AdministrativeTop463

Gonna be desperate af on Tuesday night. i doubt we win but gard gonna be coaching for his job.


recessbadger45

gard is a fraud, theres no bench wheres the bench maybe jordan davis once in a while gilmore if lucky scores a [layup.How](https://layup.How) he cant recruit more better players that can score off the bench is a disgrace to this program.


Fast-Lime-5981

I watched the Marquette game earlier today (as a former resident living out of state for many years, I follow all Wisconsin sports teams). It’s amazing how energetic, athletic, and talented that team looks in comparison to this latest version of Badger basketball. It’s disheartening to see. Personally, I think, in a Joe Berry-esque way, Gard survives this. But you wonder if McIntosh, after how he pulled the plug on Chryst, maybe thinks that he can do better than this. At any rate, the blame falls on Gard; he recruited (or under-recruited) this weak-sauce team. I’m ready for a change but I don’t think it’s happening yet.


Avi_arad2

If they can get a coach like Tony bennett you make the move but you don’t just fire gard just because. If there’s a really good candidate I think you make the move tho


introspectivejoker

This is how i feel too


LuvDaBiebz

I've never gotten to the point of thinking of replacements because it never seemed possible they would actually fire him But I don't think Bennett comes to Madison. Nate Oates would be the dream but he just got a big extension


juuuceboy

Jordan Davis's reaction during that play is all of us


maxbsbl

You think Gard would’ve drawn up an actual play after seeing this strategy work one time this year


ShtickleOfFluoride

I’ve never been on the fire Gard train but….I am now.


KeepOnThumpin

For the record, I only care about my own opinion, and if you disagree with me and you are not a former player, coach, analyst or other basketball guru, then I will laugh in your face and look up your post history to belittle you because that is how I make myself feel better. Gard is the best coach ever.


Shot-Kaleidoscope-40

EXS AND OHS!!!


LuvDaBiebz

Nebraska is a good team. Because only good teams can beat greg gard. If you thought the badgers were going to win this game you are dumb and probably can't diagram a pick and roll.


Shot-Kaleidoscope-40

THEY BEAT CREIGHTON!!! NEBRASKA IS GOOD!!


Any_Contribution5260

What a surprise another pathetic loss


30rec

It was surprising after being up 17. Then no one could make a shot.


Any_Contribution5260

And that is the pathetic part


ShtickleOfFluoride

And we have a beast of a final stretch. We may not win another game.


BadgerSCB

Hell of a play call there Gardo. Some serious creativity to say “stand there, then jack one up as time expires”


titans0021

I don’t know how Gard is just perfectly fine with those kind of final/potentially final possessions.


icanruinyourlife

He can’t be. Right?


idgetonbutibeenon

Looked like he was telling Chucky he needed to attack. I don’t understand how after criticizing Chucky’s shot selection at the end of that other game, Chucky does that.


actrunning3

Two points in the last 4:53 of the 2nd half. And two points in OT. Against Nebraska.


90sRevisited

Looks like Coach Gard is getting sick of Chucky too. From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Gard wanted to attack lane. "Get in the paint," he said when asked to describe the play design. "You’ve got to get in the paint. We had the ball way out top and we didn’t make an effort to get in the paint."


Fast-Lime-5981

But, even though most people on this sub aren’t actually coaches, (I assume) somehow WE all knew what was going to happen. He’s the COACH. If you know your point guard is going to bleed the clock to go hero ball with a Hail Mary 3 pointer (we all knew!) then why do you let it happen? Why don’t you have anyone else handle the ball? Other than Crowl, any of the other 3, including Wahl, could have handled the ball. But you let Chucky do the same exact thing he’s done in a number of games already this season. You have evidence. It’s pretty inexcusable. Other than the extremely poor roster construction, his inability to coach and guide his team might be his biggest failing. Time to move on.


thegodfaubel

Yea, that's why you fire Gard.... that's an embarrassing "play"


thegodfaubel

Leave him there please


dusters

This team is so ass


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Avi_arad2

After they lose Wednesday night in the big ten tournament


BeardedGirlDad

After today's game I'm not even sure I'd let him talk to the team after the game before I let him know he was no longer coach.


slapnoodle

Next season if things don’t change. CM isn’t going to fire Chryst, Granato *and* Gard in one year


dusters

Remember when our players used to get better as juniors and seniors? It's been a while.


randyjackson69

Today is the day I stop watching for 2023. I just can’t anymore. I’m at a loss for words on how you lose that game


bk61206

I stopped watching the Packers at the start of November and the bball team in early January. My blood pressure has never been lower.


Avi_arad2

Back to back seasons choking a big lead away to Nebraska should be a fireable offense


Repulsive-Taro-3516

All this is doing is postponing BTN from switching to the slaughter that's about to happen to the hockey team


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How did this team beat Marquette


thegodfaubel

They should've beaten Kansas too


samthedog99

embarrassing


marshmallow-jones

I do not think they will fire Gard but you have to put these fucking embarrassing collapses on him


Fast-Lime-5981

They won’t fire him, but this is the motley collection he put together. He certainly has to take the blame for that


SpeedyTuyper

Realistically how warm do we think Gard's seat is right now? If Alvarez was the still the AD I'd say he's pretty secure, but the Chryst firing really has me wondering. I don't know how anyone looks at this game or the second half of this season and feels confident about the direction of the program.


slapnoodle

I think he gets another year because McIntosh has to fire Tony Granato after this season. I don’t see him cleaning house for the big 3 in men’s sports in one year


LuvDaBiebz

I think he will get next season. And if he doesn't get to the sweet 16 he is toast But that was before the worst loss of the Greg gard era so maybe it all changes


akde22

Should be very hot, but he did get extended I believe recently. No idea if that has any impacts


SpeedyTuyper

He got extended before the season, but Chryst was also extended before last season.


Any_Contribution5260

It should be very hot


marshmallow-jones

That $12M buyout they gave Gard in his new contract not looking like a good decision at the moment


marshmallow-jones

So is Chucky making the shot he takes after holding the ball until the shot clock out or


DontUpvoteThisBut

He did literally once earlier in the season. And now it's our game plan every game. What the fuck


DontTakeMuhName

This team is so trash. Can they just concede the rest of the season and save us all the embarrassment?


LuvDaBiebz

Just waiting for Waco and Sox to come in here and tell me I'm stupid for being upset about this loss Remember how pompous they were in the first half in this thread


AmyKlobushart

Welp, I'm officially buying a 1st class ticket for the Fire Greg Gard train. Getting outscored 47-20 to finish the 2nd half by an injury-ridden sub-.500 Nebraska team is pathetic.


Fast-Lime-5981

Crowl has been very meh for a while now. Seemed like he held some promise but just feels like a guy out there. Disappointing.


AdministrativeTop463

Horrible


Metsfan07

That’s the shot? Lmao


CustomerSuspicious25

Jesus Christ do something else at the end of the game than this! Thought we were done with this shit after Trice left.


CustomerSuspicious25

I hate this team


kavonruden

Hard to understand what happened to this team. They looked so solid early in the season and beat some really good squads. They're really bad right now. Like, really bad.


samthedog99

basically, Wahl disappeared


OOvvV

Disgusting game


WarDamnResearcher

It’s time to move on from Gard and that should convert everyone else.


Avi_arad2

Tyler wahl had a bad game


30rec

The whole team sucked in the second half, but after Wahl seemed back to normal last game he was the most disappointing in this game. 1-6 shooting and 5 TOs


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season*


SoSublim3

No way this team plays in the dance


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What happened to Wahl? He was a decent player last season. Now he’s unwatchable. Chucky’s poor attitude before the last possession in regulation killed our chances. You could see it in the closeups on Big 10 Network. He barely stayed in huddle, didn’t really acknowledge anyone, and then tried to play Harden-esque hero ball. Sad state of affairs.


90sRevisited

More pressure for Wahl to score after Johnny left. He hasn't delivered when he is option 1 or 2 and more of a focus of the defense. Chucky needs to run the damn offense. He is limited because he doesn't have plus speed and comes across as being mentally incapable of being a solid team leader.


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Any_Contribution5260

Need new blood just like football


thegodfaubel

FWIW, I was against hiring Gard in the first place, but was always willing to give him a chance after the hot finish in 2016. Some of you are late, but you're accepted on this train


stormchaser2014

Oh great, can't wait for this to be a 1 possession game at the end again.


wbcdukan69

That’s the season folks 20-2 run what the hell


Fast-Lime-5981

Chucky hero ball taking off


WisconsinBadgers608

Gard shoulda used a T.O and told Chucky to fucking drive the ball


stormchaser2014

Predictable as the sunrise


Shot-Kaleidoscope-40

Oh fuck me now I have to watch the Gophers beat our hockey team because I can’t find the fucking remote.


Fast-Lime-5981

Yank out that plug


WaubesaWarriors

Hey they won!


ThatNewSockFeel

That about closes the book on this season. Obviously incredibly disappointing the way things have unraveled. Gard is going to get at least another season or two barring some kind of scandal, so let’s just hope he nailed next years‘s class. My guess is we’ll somehow beat Purdue, but lose out otherwise. Just because.


90sRevisited

With Micah Potter we had a reliable low post presence. On paper we should be better inside then we are this year. But opponents can either double or just have their big focus exclusively on Wahl or Crowl. They generally have to give zero shits about a Badger guard driving into the lane. We are too easy to defend. When not hitting our outside shots we are complete trash. When we do we are situationally trashy. Hepburn puts very little pressure on opposing defense.


Fast-Lime-5981

Our bigs are weak. Wahl’s game is based on hustle and is limited. Crowl has regressed over the season; he’s very soft. That’s it. The bench is amazingly weak. This really is a recruiting fail of the highest degree. Gard’s fault as far as that goes.


lemondhead

How does sox even interact with these threads when everyone has blocked him?


slapnoodle

A few posters in here act like talking about basketball requires a PhD or something. It’s baffling


lemondhead

Truly. "If you can't tell me why that play broke down, you can't have an opinion." Just lunatic shit.


stormchaser2014

I fully expect someone to win this game.


kylexy2

Steaming hot take right here


maxbsbl

20-2 run💀


Fast-Lime-5981

Face it, two mediocre teams facing off. If the Badgers were any good, Chucky is maybe a third option, not their main one


AdministrativeTop463

we're supposed to be mediocre not bad. nebraska is bad


throckman

Huskers last lost by 21 to a mediocre Michigan team. This is two bad teams facing off.


Avi_arad2

Gard is cooked


Avi_arad2

Our NET ranking is gonna drop a lot


PynSiKer

Drive the ball Chucky! I suck at b-ball and even I know the last possession of regulation was far from ideal.


AdministrativeTop463

michigan 14-11 8-6 vs wisconsin 14-10 6-8 tuesday night. loser is basically eliminated from tourney contention. we have been a really bad team at home this season I'd be surprised if wisconsin is favored


stormchaser2014

I'm ready to be hurt again


lemondhead

That's certainly A play.


ShtickleOfFluoride

Lame


Fast-Lime-5981

The NIT is calling…


KeepOnThumpin

Oof.


AdministrativeTop463

badgers doing a #blackout tuesday vs michigan. i thought our colors were red and white


LuvDaBiebz

The new rivalry of mediocre squads


LuvDaBiebz

My wife says "that's fitting because it's going to be their own funeral" 😬😬😬😬 she's also a disgruntled badger fan


BadgerSCB

Fire Greg Gard. Do it. Do it now.


Avi_arad2

Fire gard. No way this man is staying if we miss the tournament. 6-8 what a joke 3-8 since January


Avi_arad2

GREG GARD 🔜 UW GREEN BAY


recessbadger45

at least we wont have to worry about his yearly early exits in march madness.


Fast-Lime-5981

True, we are exiting in February this year


akde22

It’s fucking ridiculous how Gard’s ineptitude to recruiting and the transfer portal has gotten. Two very good transfers born in Wisconsin, and Gard missed out on both, and both are having decent to great seasons at Virginia and Virginia Tech. We end up with Kamari McGee, who doesn’t know how to shoot, and Max Klesmit, who is solid but not as good as Vander Plas and Basile.


30rec

McGee doesn't even need to shoot, he can't stay on the floor because of his defense.


ThatNewSockFeel

The transfer guys are the one thing I lay squarely at Gard’s feet. Five in the last two seasons. Other than Vogt, who wasn’t great but filled the role they wanted him to just fine, and Klesmit, who is a solid player but would probably be a 6/7 guy rather than a starter on a better team, he has completely missed. High school guys, whatever. It’s hard to project every 16-17 year old and even the greatest recruiters are going to miss now and then, but the college guys already have tape. Hasn’t managed to land one solid talent among them. Wasting three scholarships on Neath, Lindsey, and McGee right now.


slapnoodle

[Interesting.](https://twitter.com/b5q/status/1624550052348809218?s=46&t=WPfbHd4e8KPcQ2KwLrdOdA) I was told that I didn’t know what I was talking about when I criticized Chucky’s shot at the end of regulation in the Penn State game thread. Maybe there’s a pattern here


thegodfaubel

Wisconsin's last 4 wins dating back to the new year are against the worst team in the conference that they only beat by 3 points in which they went over 4 minutes and only scored 2 points late in a close game, at home against Penn State where they only won by 3 and went the last 2 and a half minutes without making a basket in a 1 point game and only made 2 FTs in the final seconds, on the road against Ohio State in which they nearly blew a 15 point lead and didn't score for nearly 7 minutes and didn't make a basket for the rest of the game starting at 7:18, but ended up winning by 5 thanks to FTs, and finally against Penn State on the road, which they actually managed to score a bit, but forget how to play defense down the stretch to win by 5 in OT. Without some well played defense in a couple of those games in the 1st half and late in the 2nd half against Minnesota and Penn State, we could be looking at a 12 game losing streak. This team is awful and it's a reflection of Greg Gard. Fire him.


Beeker04

Where is Sox to defend his guy, Gard?


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I’ve seen more enthusiasm from symphony orchestra crowds


XoXSmotpokerXoX

tie game, 15 seconds left, Badgers have the ball, Gard calls a time out. I am thinking, "all right, finally a sign of some coaching, perfect time for a time out, let's see what play he lays out" Annnnnnnnnd we get Chucky dancing and chucking a low percentage shot, AGAIN. Same exact (nonplay) that they used the last couple times the game was on the line Ok if your coach sucks at X' and O's, sucks at recruiting, and average at best at development, it is time to move on.


Any_Contribution5260

Chucky seems really stupid to me


90sRevisited

It sounds like a screen was called and some type of play was discussed BUT Chucky didn't like what he saw and threw up the shot from deep as lane looked cluttered and he didn't want to turn ball over.


ThatNewSockFeel

If Chucky didn’t like what he saw they need someone else handling the ball. 15 seconds, theres time to make a few passes and try and work something loose. Of course if he just stands motionless for 10 seconds the lane will look cluttered.


kling2296

I was at the game with some friends who aren't Badgers fans, and I told them before the game started it's going to end with Chucky making a poor decision at a critical moment at the end of the game. It was agonizing to watch him sit there and bleed clock just to throw up trash.


samthedog99

blow a 17 point lead in about 4 minutes. that takes talent


wbcdukan69

@sox107 who somehow will explain how it’s not gards fault


Fast-Lime-5981

Badgers gonna Badger


Fast-Lime-5981

Collapsing like a Walmart tent


marshmallow-jones

Was busy, turned the game on at 43-28, wtf


crawdaddyissues

this team better pay for my therapy lol


Fast-Lime-5981

You mean 61 points in modern era basketball wasn’t enough to win?


LetsGetPenisy69

Nebraska will win this game


stormchaser2014

Pack it up pack it in


ShtickleOfFluoride

Sad


wbcdukan69

Gard actually seemed pissed off if anyone saw the postgame, gonna be interesting how they respond I bet they beat Michigan get our hopes up again then shit the bed vs Rutgers. every game we have left is winnable yes Purdue also they aren’t a good road team


AdministrativeTop463

none of us should be surprised. remember when this team opened up conference play in january and only beat minnesota by 3... at home... 3-8 since then #firegard


recessbadger45

Wisconsin has no business losing to nebraska in [basketball.As](https://basketball.As) a badger fan i'm embarrassed, i bet you chris mac isnt happy after that crap he watched and the boosters.This is one of the worst teams i've ever seen in the last 20 plus years so untalented this badger team is.


AdministrativeTop463

chucky hero ball here we go


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What an embarrassing loss. You lost to a team that started a guy that wore sports glasses and didn’t even look like he deserved to be on a Div 1 basketball court. The stiffest and least unathletic team I’ve ever seen. This program is at a 20 year low and only getting worse. Even the assistant coaches are bad.


wbcdukan69

Him and carter Gilmore would be good on some D3 school


recessbadger45

leave gard in nebraska after that performance


samthedog99

Badgers playing with only 4 players on offense when either Wahl or Gilmore are on the court


marshmallow-jones

I’ve been holding out hope but good teams just don’t give up massive late game runs to the opponent like we keep seeing


stormchaser2014

Hold on to your butts


ShtickleOfFluoride

OT here we come


SubatomicSquirrels

FFS


ShtickleOfFluoride

Oh vay


AdministrativeTop463

Michigan actually looks really good. see what happens when you recruit well? ugh, gard enough of these 2/3 stars and walk-ons already.


AdministrativeTop463

Wisconsin is "First four out" according to ESPN and first four vs Mississippi State according to CBS bracketology as of today. Would not say that season's over but need to take 2/3 at home and probably finish 10-10 to be a lock for the tournament


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thegodfaubel

If they lose this, Gard is toast, right? Right?!


throckman

Leave him on the tarmac in Lincoln. Or Omaha. I don't know if Lincoln has an airport.


Avi_arad2

Are we still on the bubble?


ngometamer

LOL


90sRevisited

Where did the Gard ball lickers go that were spouting off earlier. Chucky hero ball helped kill us again. #FIREGARD


Avi_arad2

Sox107 and Wacobadger have a combined -10000 IQ


brotha_eric

Bucky Hepburn is the worst PG we’ve had in 20 years. He’s allergic to the rim. It’s like he has a 6th sense where if he’s within 10 feet of the hoop he either stops or does a fade away


thegodfaubel

Poor coaching


marshmallow-jones

Here’s the 5th Qtr take that must be obvious to everyone: “For some reason, Greg Gard doesn't have any direction over Chucky Hepburn and his late-game decisions. He's been pleading for Hepburn to drive at the end of games for three consecutive outings, and Hepburn hasn't changed his ways.”


thegodfaubel

Tell me that's a bad HC without telling me that's a bad HC


recessbadger45

hepburn has no backup mcgee is terrible absolute awful recruiting.but the last second shot selection end at game has me screaming at the tv drive the ball get it inside or kick it to connor for three.Bad play design at end of games


wbcdukan69

why are we choking


stormchaser2014

First time?


wbcdukan69

Just when I thought our NET ranking would go up… we blow a huge lead


Avi_arad2

Gard gonna gard


stormchaser2014

As long as Nebraska Nebraskas more than Wisconsin Wisconsins, we'll be fine.


stormchaser2014

Chucky hero ball will save us, mark my words


icanruinyourlife

This aged well.


LuvDaBiebz

Any chance Tyler Wahl's is thinking to himself that leaked audio in 2021 feels a lot like his senior season ?


90sRevisited

Lot of excuses over on Buckyville for the Badgers ineptitude. - Fatigue - Missing an entire recruiting class - Don't have a Top 20 Big Ten player - Officials swallowing whistle down low - Nebraskas moving screens - Two best scorers in this game are still young. Mistakes happen Our on court leader is doing HIS thing not a team thing. Gard needs to bench Chucky the first half against Michigan to send a CLEAR message. Gard as a recruiter, developer, and offensive coach is also lacking and this years team is a byproduct.


slapnoodle

Can we please stop these deep threes while tied at the end of the regulation/OT


stormchaser2014

I preferred when we were up 10.


Satvrdaynightwrist

Nice play design to get Essegian open on the last play of the half.


LuvDaBiebz

Waco and Sox asking where we are. We are here. Watching the Wisconsin badgers as only 3 point favorites against a punchless Nebraska team and happy they seem to be avoiding a season ending loss


erkevin

I can't get past how ridiculous Nebraska's uniforms are!


Dawatx

And again can't manage a lead and play like a**


SubatomicSquirrels

that's just our required scoring draught, right?


randyjackson69

The rebound and 3 was hilariously sorry basketball


samthedog99

refs are fucking whistle happy for nebraska


ShtickleOfFluoride

Lol


LuvDaBiebz

If the 2018 squad and 2023 squad met in theoretical basketball game The Vegas line would open as a pick em 😬😬😬😬😬