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I'm fine throwing the ball there, but throw to a safer route!

Horrible pass, can't be throwing that, kick the field goal.

Awesome....another receiver out, if we win this game we should get a TON of credit (we won't though..get the credit I mean).

Safety!!!! Just keep making them long snap it!!!! Second one already!

Idiotic to throw three passes to start the game, Stein over thinking it as always, obsessed with throwing to the perimeter. RUN THE BALL!!!!

I will add, the team did perform better, Shelsted adds a lot to the team, and the offense will get better as they begin to play with each other more. Altman still is a great coach, and I expect him to continue his tradition of having his teams perform towards the end of the season. We have had games like this in the past, and we've also lost some stinkers, so it isn't like this is unheard of to struggle in the first couple games. It's a different type of team, we will defend better than some of the previous seasons, and I do think we will rebound better. I just wonder if we'll be able to score enough. Simpkins and Evans are the key to everything, they have to shoot better in order to open up the inside. Simpkins had a bad shooting night, but he's probably the one best suited to being an option to either get shots for Shelsted or providing a out ball to Shelsted or Bittle. Lindsey was terrible at the line, but looking at his past he has shown some ability to shoot from the outside, so there's some hope there. Simpkins was a 37 percent 3 point shooter last year, if he can just bump that up a little bit it would be big for us. Pryor will hustle, he'll defend, but he can't shoot, and I'm worried that will be a big downfall for us.

Horrible horrible shooting once again. Oregon has one shooter who is above average behind the 3point line which is Shelsted, that is pathetic, absolutely pathetic, and that's on Altman not recruiting players who can shoot the ball reliably. I know I'm a broken record, but I just don't understand how you don't see that when you have a point guard like Shelsted and big man like Bittle, you have to surround them with snipers from the outside, not a bunch of slashers. We don't have one guy who is just a dead eye from outside. If I were an opponent I would sag off everyone other than Shelsted and make Oregon shoot 25 to 30 3s because it looks like this might be Altman's worst shooting team ever. It is early, but we don't hit open shots, it's not like all of these 3s are contested. Our defense will be decent, but to win we'll need to convert that D into fast break points and we'll have rebound better on the defensive glass. I do think we have the potential to be a better rebounding team than last year. I really hope I'll eat my words, but it doesn't look good. I like Stewart, that guy needs to start. I would play a big lineup with Evans at the 3.

This year has been a bit insane with the number of mid-year firings. The big jobs (PSU, LSU, UF) are all interesting, I could see some surprises at those jobs since I don't know if they are jobs that are going to attract as big names as they think. Penn St for instance could be really interesting if they went off script and picked a guy like Hartline (I don't think he'll go there, but still). Florida is a complete crapshoot as to who will go there after all the misses they've had. Who knows where that job is going (Brent Key would be a guy to look at I think). LSU is such a dumpster fire with the state government getting involved and seeming to focus on getting someone who understands Louisiana culture. As for Oregon, I think it might be the right time for Stein to go, where he'll end up could be determined by who leaves a job for one of those jobs I mentioned. Seems like he's ready for it. Tupoi is also someone who I could see making the decision that it's time to throw his name in the hat. It also might depend on how Oregon does the rest of the season. If Oregon makes a run in the playoffs that might make those coaches more appealing or it could encourage them to take the next step in their careers. If our coordinators leave I have a lot confidence in Lanning to pick coaches who will be successful here.

I actually liked Bamba more than most. He drove to the rim pretty well, and he was probably our best defender. Simpkins will score more than him, but he won't offer the same defense and he's also much smaller. Bamba could get a rebound as well. He's a very different player more of a combo guard than a wing. I would like Pryor a lot more if he had a shot, but he's a pretty poor shooter, but he'll provide defense and athleticism, he might be a very good cutter to the basket. Stewart is probably the wildcard, former 5 star, very highly regarded when he arrived at Duke, he showed a stretch in the game where he bullied his way too 3 straight baskets. Could be a very good player at the 4 could also play as a small ball 5.

The only way that Moore is coming out is if he gets injured, he throws 5 interceptions, or the Ducks are up by 35.. Brock Thomas is most likely a below average college QB. He had 4 passes in the game against Wisconsin one of which should have been a really bad interception that the Wisconsin defender had go off his hands into the waiting arms of a receiver. I'm sure Brock is loved by the team, but he hasn't shown anything to show he can beat a team like Iowa on the road in any way.

Very much so, unfortunately I don't think DA has the NIL funds to really go after the premium transfers. We also never seem to get impactful freshman even when they are 5 stars. Last year was frustrating mostly due to TJ Bamba forgetting how to shoot, if he had just shot as well as his averages from the previous 3 seasons we would have been a vastly better team. We haven't upgraded anywhere on the team, and we might have regressed in multiple spots. We don't have a good backup point guard, we don't have a dynamic wing who can light it up from deep, our backup center looked worse than Cook (it's early though). I do think we have more depth at the 4 with Evans and Stewart. We'll know a lot more after the Player's Era tourney. Auburn almost lost to Bethune-Cookman so that's something to consider when we play them in the post-Bruce Pearl era.

I really want him to be good, he's a fun player to watch, he has flair to his game, but he just doesn't look like he has had much high level coaching. I was at the game and every time he did something wrong I was looking at Altman who looked like he wanted to throttle him.

I'm probably being harsher than I should, but it was a really ugly game, I also just hate watching teams who don't shoot well. Some of it was bad ball movement, some was just bad shooting. Shelsted will help a lot. One positive was Drew Carter, I don't think he has much offensive potential, but he does understand his role, got the ball moving, and generally played smarter than any of the other guards. I will also say that Simpkins and Lin aren't scared of the moment, they certainly try to make things happen, and I think Simpkins could be decent as a 4th option Really hope Evans isn't out for a long time, but it didn't look good.

Extremely ugly basketball, listen just now to Dana and he was pissed! Horrible ball possession, horrible effort on the boards at times, once again Altman has recruited a lot of guys who might have athleticism but they can't shoot the ball worth a lick, I really don't understand how he can keeps recruiting these types of players who can't hit a open shot. I know we're missing Shelsted, but this team looked like a team that will struggle to get to 18 wins and a NIT berth. Simpkins at least tried, and he came up big with the winning shot, I'm not wowed by him, he looks like another slasher who can't shoot, I'll never understand why we bring in transfers who aren't high 30s or 40s 3point shooters when that is what we are in desperate need of. Wei Lin was a liability tonight, awful job being a PG, looked like he had no idea what he was supposed to do, just playing street ball. Looks like Evans will be out for a while. I like Stewart, he should get some more run. Demir is a project, obviously is a hoss, but he's a bull in china shop right now. If Hawaii could shoot at all they would have won by 10.

Very much appreciate not having a 9:00 game. Thank you to the football gods (which of course means the TV execs).

I think part of it is the structure of the defense, the first priority as I have read it with the Mint defense is shutting down the short-intermediate passing game, we don't really stack the box quite as much as other teams do. Wisconsin has some decent O-linemen, they will win a battle or two, and I think their freshman RB had some juice. Our run defense wasn't what I would term bad in this game, it was just a little inconsistent. The LBs can sometimes make the wrong read and get out of position. Our line is very good, I'm not quite ready to call it great, the LBs are simply good, but the secondary is elite imo, and it will get better next year even with replacing some guys as I think we have incredible amount of depth there. I think it's hard to judge our defense, they haven't played many teams that have a pulse offensively. They played well against Indiana and Penn St. who despite their issues have NFL players on the roster and were in a much better head space during our game with them. Rutgers and Northwestern are difficult to judge compared to the rest of the nation. In general I struggle at times to compare B1G teams with the rest of the nation, there is such a divide between the haves (Indiana, OSU, Oregon) and everyone else. The Iowa game will tell us a lot I think about where we are as a team since that team is starting to figure it out it seems, I'm hopeful we'll put in a B+ or above effort.

I'm going to say it, it is a nightmare if it happens, it's not THE nightmare, but it's certainly something I don't want to see. That program doesn't deserve it compared to us, they haven't suffered all the times we have come so close only to come up jusssssttttt short. It would be a joke to see a program come out of nowhere, whereas we have been scrapping for it for 25 years. We are now probably the biggest program to not have won it. We are the most successful program this century to not have won a title. It would devastate me to see Indiana just waltz in and win it. The good news is that it isn't happening, the win against us was not flukey, but I don't think that team will be able to overcome the talent gap over the course of three games in the playoff. Indiana's entire season was their game against us, they got us, I'm confident we'll beat them if we get another shot at them.

Stanford loss isn't a big deal, it's an exhibition, I do like that teams are now playing these types of exhibitions instead of playing Willamette or Southern Oregon. Oregon will be a weird team, I'm not really sure how all the pieces fit together, I'm honestly not expecting a whole lot from Stewart or Pryor, we seem to once again not have a very good 3 points shooting team. Shelsted and Bittle can hit from deep, but I'm not seeing anyone else that will be able to hit 3s on a consistent basis to help open up the lane. I'm pretty worried we'll see what we've seen for a lot years, teams sagging off, and we'll just start firing up bricks.

There is nothing more that I like to see from an offense than a big bruising running back that will punish a defense for 4 quarters. You just know you are getting positive yards while softening up the D for either a big run where the RB breaks a tackle and is gone, or setting it up for the change of pace back to break one on the outside. I have been crying out for a back like Davison since we had Freeman. I always feel like you need that 225+ bruiser. Davison has become my favorite offensive player this year with his ability to either run the ball up the middle with authority or being a blocking back to free up his RB teammate. He should be getting 15 carriers at a minimum each game.

Certainly will take the win, the weather was horrible, but we have to be better on offense, Moore has to read the defense better, our O-line has to be more consistent, Stein has to have better game plans. Defense was fine, this Wisconsin team is an abomination on offense, I would like to see us hold the running game better, but it is what it is. Should drop in the polls. I see about 3-4 SEC teams that will beat us if we play them, disappointing, but this was step back compared to the previous week, Wisconsin is bad team, and we struggled in this game, even if it never seemed like Wisconsin had a serious chance.

Obviously a much better drive, Davison should be the featured back, he's the one that is most consistently getting decent yardage. Hill used as a change of pace. If we have 20 rushes I would be giving 13 to Davison, 5 to Hill and two to Whittington. This half though is still throughly frustrating to watch, if Wisconsin had a decent QB we would be in major trouble right now.

Now our defensive line it getting blown off the snap, it's not a good look.

I'm extremely confident it will get better, but this is awful and has to be called out, we aren't ready to play on offense, that's on the coaches.

Atrocious offense right now, this is a bad team we are playing right now, and we are getting beat everywhere.

I would like to see Moore start to actually look to become more a gunslinger, he's too conservative, that last throw was an atrocious decision, no chance to get the first down, he looks scared to make a decision.