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After today, he is probably scared to death about fighting Brimah for minutes.

Seriously, though, does anyone look at this year's Kentucky team and still think we can beat a team that loaded because we have beaten previously hyped UK teams? Same with Duke. Just because our collection of 2, 3 and 4 year players, who were not as hyped, managed to beat younger and more talent loaded UK and Duke teams in the past doesn't mean they will in the future. At some point, the talent divide will be too great. From what I have seen of Duke an UK so far, that day may have arrived. The staff needs to take an escalator or two.
 
2015 big Diamond Stone (@Diamond_Stone33) had a game-high 33 pts and 22 rebs in a win Saturday. Wisconsin, UConn, Maryland, Oklahoma State.
 
Paesano said:
After today, he is probably scared to death about fighting Brimah for minutes. Seriously, though, does anyone look at this year's Kentucky team and still think we can beat a team that loaded because we have beaten previously hyped UK teams? Same with Duke. Just because our collection of 2, 3 and 4 year players, who were not as hyped, managed to beat younger and more talent loaded UK and Duke teams in the past doesn't mean they will in the future. At some point, the talent divide will be too great. From what I have seen of Duke an UK so far, that day may have arrived. The staff needs to take an escalator or two.
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This year, we'd have a hard time beating them. But that day also arrived in 2012 - we just lost to Iowa State so we didn't get a chance to find out head to head.

We were better than UK in 2011, 2013 and 2014. This year, UK is better. Next year may be us again. We were better in 2009 and they were better in 2010.

Just because UK's more hyped and younger team this year is better also doesn't mean they will be better in the future. There's no permanent state of being, especially with their roster turnover.
 
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It will be interesting to see if Diamond will be in attendance for the Duke/Wisconsin showdown on Wednesday in Madison
 
David 76 said:
Why do people who don't want a recruit (or are sure it is a "no") keep following that recruit's thread to tell us that over and over?
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Because we have an illness. I don't know what it is but it is serious.
 
UconnHusk3's said:
Kaminsky's development into a college star has certainly helped Wisconsin's chances, one would think. Bad timing.
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There is zero chance this guy is not a troll.
 
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Haha. Can't have Stone at Wisconsin.

I think most people think Wojo is doing a good job with what we have this year... small team, inexperienced. He wanted to play man at the beginning of the year, but has since switched into zone and the defense has improved has seen a big improvement. Going to be a long year, but the fans know that and we have a great recruiting class coming in next year!
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
That Henry Ellenson pick-up was huge for them.

I thought they looked pretty good against MSU.
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Yeah, we've got some good young talent that look better and better each game. Duane Wilson dropped 30 the next game against Tennessee
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
That Henry Ellenson pick-up was huge for them.

I thought they looked pretty good against MSU.
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Agreed that should help sway a couple of other decisions in the near future. They play hard as expected, decent team and could get better.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
That Henry Ellenson pick-up was huge for them.

I thought they looked pretty good against MSU.
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I live about 1o min from Ellenson. There is a reason Wisconsin did not go after him as hard as some other schools did. He plays in a very weak conference and scores a lot of points and rebounds off his own point blank misses and that will not happen in college. I would be very surprised if he lived up to the hype. I'm not just saying that as a Badger fan either. I have seen him play nearly every home game for a few years.
Would MUCH rather have Stone!
 
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BADGERMANBV said:
I live about 1o min from Ellenson. There is a reason Wisconsin did not go after him as hard as some other schools did. He plays in a very weak conference and scores a lot of points and rebounds off his own point blank misses and that will not happen in college. I would be very surprised if he lived up to the hype. I'm not just saying that as a Badger fan either. I have seen him play nearly every home game for a few years.
Would MUCH rather have Stone!
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Wow, it's pretty crazy that none of the professionals who have scouted Ellenson have noticed this.
 
BADGERMANBV said:
I live about 1o min from Ellenson. There is a reason Wisconsin did not go after him as hard as some other schools did. He plays in a very weak conference and scores a lot of points and rebounds off his own point blank misses and that will not happen in college. I would be very surprised if he lived up to the hype. I'm not just saying that as a Badger fan either. I have seen him play nearly every home game for a few years.
Would MUCH rather have Stone!
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You need to admit there's a little Badger bias in this ? Not the part saying you'd rather have Diamond of course, but the fact you wouldn't want ellenson?:rolleyes:
 
BADGERMANBV said:
I live about 1o min from Ellenson. There is a reason Wisconsin did not go after him as hard as some other schools did. He plays in a very weak conference and scores a lot of points and rebounds off his own point blank misses and that will not happen in college. I would be very surprised if he lived up to the hype. I'm not just saying that as a Badger fan either. I have seen him play nearly every home game for a few years.
Would MUCH rather have Stone!
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More importantly what are you feeding those kids in Wisconsin! Two Midwest monsters
 
There is always a great excuse when Bo Ryan doesn't land a player. (crazy parents, not smart enough for Wisconsin, the player isn't actually good so Wisconsin didn't really try to land him, other teams are doing something shady in order to gain leverage in the recruiting process) You don't make the USA basketball team by beating up on bad D2 or D4 teams in high school. Neither Diamond or Henry national rankings in their class are predicated on their performance against high school competition.
 
pj said:
It would be nice if the "Diamond Stone commits!" celebration thread were the longest.
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Agreed. Though I expect the celebration thread in response to the announcement that we've accepted the B1G's invitation to beat em all.
 
Is this kid even gonna announce? What happened to all the talk of committing when the signing period ends. There were all the rumors of 11/12 and then it became 11/21 and now its a month later and I feel like info on this kid and the media's idea of where he is going is going backwards.
 
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If Stone wants to shoot five 3's a game, then he should definitely go to Wisconsin.
 
I think it's interesting that Stone is continuing to retweet Wisconsin, UConn and Maryland stuff with frequency now. Seems to be a response to people saying he's a heavy Wisconsin lean because he retweets a lot of Wisconsin stuff (he even retweeted a UConn fan's tweet to that effect).

At a minimum, he clearly wants to keep up the interest from all three schools and their fans.

The one that makes no sense to me is Maryland. Does he really see himself possibly playing for a B1G team other than Wisconsin? I have a hard time believing that.
 
8893 said:
I think it's interesting that Stone is continuing to retweet Wisconsin, UConn and Maryland stuff with frequency now. Seems to be a response to people saying he's a heavy Wisconsin lean because he retweets a lot of Wisconsin stuff (he even retweeted a UConn fan's tweet to that effect).

At a minimum, he clearly wants to keep up the interest from all three schools and their fans.

The one that makes no sense to me is Maryland. Does he really see himself possibly playing for a B1G team other than Wisconsin? I have a hard time believing that.
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At minimum, nothing. Can we please stop reading the tea leaves with his twitter retweets?
 
8893 said:
I think it's interesting that Stone is continuing to retweet Wisconsin, UConn and Maryland stuff with frequency now. Seems to be a response to people saying he's a heavy Wisconsin lean because he retweets a lot of Wisconsin stuff (he even retweeted a UConn fan's tweet to that effect).

At a minimum, he clearly wants to keep up the interest from all three schools and their fans.

The one that makes no sense to me is Maryland. Does he really see himself possibly playing for a B1G team other than Wisconsin? I have a hard time believing that.
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Maryland is THE Under Armour school. Not a bad program either, but I think that is one of the major factors keeping them in the game so long.
 
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