'The State's Top Talent Would Love To Play For Wisconsin, But Not In That System' - Tyler Herro, Murdering The Badgers One Last Time
So Wisconsin hoops has been in the news cycle for college basketball, oh the last 48 hours or so. It started with Brad Davison doing Brad Davison things by trying to/hitting a dude in the nuts for the 2nd time along with all the other dirty shit he's done.
And then Kobe King, a redshirt sophomore and second leading scorer on the team decided to transfer yesterday.
There have been plenty of takes thrown around. You had Andy Katz on BTN last night completely ripping the kid. Mind you Katz graduated from Wisconsin, wink wink. You had everyone submitting a take on whether he quit on the team or if it was Greg Gard's fault. Personally I think it's a combo of both. King tried gutting it out, hit a breaking point with Gard/the coaching staff/the program and left. I just don't really care what a kid decides to do, it's their decision.
And then last night, Tyler Herro, perhaps the most famous guy to decommit from Wisconsin chimed in as former Badger Zak Showalter had his take.
Goddamn Tyler. That's cold-blooded. It's also not incorrect. The smartest thing Tyler Herro ever did was not go to Wisconsin and instead decide to go to Kentucky. It turned him into a lottery pick. It turned him into a household name. It also let him, be him. You know, shit like saying he's a bucket.
Herro is 100% right. Why would you want to go play in Wisconsin's system? The swing offense that is predicated on slowing tempo, typically feeding the post to someone like Ethan Happ and then going from there. It's not like Tony Bennett/Virginia, where there's also a track record of dudes being successful in the NBA recently. Wisconsin hasn't really been able to showcase anyone besides Dekker and Frank when Bo Ryan let them attack in ISO sets more through the swing offense.
If you're a top player in a state you're typically thinking about how you can get to the next level. That's not going to Wisconsin as Herro says.
Yeah, you can argue that Wisconsin has been successful to a degree under this system, but it's also 2020. They aren't really successful now. You have to adjust a bit at some point. You can't just keep running the same system if you're not consistently a top-20 team.
Just updating the scoreboard quick:
Tyler Herro - 142 (conservatively speaking)
Wisconsin - 0