Hot off of Twitter....Seth Davis anonymously interviewed a coach from all six major power conferences and had them express their "true" feelings on each one of the teams in their conference. Not surprisingly considering Seth's general distaste for Wisconsin, the "coach" he interviewed absolutely slammed the Badgers including some harsh comments on Jordan Taylor, see for yourself;
I don't really respect the way they play. Jordan Taylor likes to run and grab you, and then throw his head back and try to get a call. If you set a pick, they take a dive. They cheat the game. Everybody raves about this defensive juggernaut, but that's bull. They dribble the clock out and mug you out of the building. Part of the reason they lost to Cornell and Davidson is because when you get into the tournament, refs outside the Big Ten don't fall for that. Taylor is kind of struggling, but they're always going to be in the game because they're not going to shoot until there are six seconds left on the shot clock. Then they give it to Taylor. That's their offense. They don't even run the swing as much as they used to. Taylor plays no defense because he's trying to save his energy. Jared Berggren, Josh Gasser and Mike Bruesewitz have all had fabulous seasons, and Ryan Evans has really taken his game to the next level. They're going to be in every game because of the way they play and the fact that they have a lot of weapons.
This looks like bush league reporting to me....way to go Seth!
You stay classy, Seth! If a coach really made those comments, my $$$ says it's Tom Crean...
Posted by: StJamesCourt | Mar 05, 2012 at 08:24 AM
the anonymous coach could not be more right. The badgers "tough nosed defense" is just fouling a lot.
They are bad for BT basketball.
Posted by: nick | Mar 17, 2012 at 05:32 AM