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Thank you how we doing, everybody, and welcome to
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Wisconsin Sports on the go withTrage.
I'm your host.
Trage, it is Wednesday, afantastic Wednesday here in the
great state of Wisconsin, myvoice slowly coming back right.
Yesterday we had a little bitof issues with my voice coming
and going.
It's back kind of today, youknow.
So I mean we're going to getthrough it.
We're going to get through ittoday A little bit shorter.
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Today I have a couple guestsjoining me.
Tomorrow we're going to betalking about the NFL draft.
Tomorrow here on the show we'regoing to get more into the Bucs
tomorrow on the show and alsothe Brewers.
So lots to get into tomorrow.
A little bit shorter today here, just because, as you guys know
, I shoot this thing at night.
After all, the games are done.
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Game just got done here inWisconsin.
It's about 10.15 at night rightnow.
So I mean we're going to getthrough this, though we're going
to get through this, and I meansome of the games.
I mean it was a rough day, arough day for Wisconsin sports
in general.
I'm gonna be honest with youBrewers lost, bucks lost.
I mean you can't get much worsethan that, right.
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The only thing that could havemade it worse was the Badgers
lost, right.
But I mean, and to start it out, just getting into the Badgers
a little bit, right now I mean Iam just, I don't know, truth be
told, I'm waiting for atransfer to say I'm going to
Madison.
I mean, right now they I don'teven hear, like I hear a whole
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bunch of names that the Badgersare looking at, right, and I get
a million and one of thoseacross social media.
I'll be scrolling throughTwitter, I'll scroll through
Facebook, whatever it is, and Iget a ton of oh, the Badgers are
targeting this guy, oh, theBadgers are targeting this guy.
Great, fantastic, they'retargeting him.
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I mean we're targeting TyreseHunter.
He's heading off to.
Oh, I can't remember where theheck Tyrese Hunter is heading
right now.
I can't remember off the top ofmy head, but Tyrese Hunter
committed elsewhere.
We just saw Frankie Fidler.
He's going to Michigan State.
I saw Chucky Hepburn.
I saw his projections.
They have him projected forLouisville Interesting,
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louisville is actually throwingtogether a pretty good team
right now.
So I mean good for collegebasketball that Louisville is
back on the rise, because Ialways believe college
basketball was better whenSyracuse was good.
When Louisville was good.
College basketball was good.
But that turns us back to theBadgers right now.
Right, I mean, yeah, people andI see a lot of those out there
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oh, we're not worried, right?
Aj's Thor was this to us andConor's season was nothing.
And Chucky Hepburn all he didwas dribble too much and did
this and this wrong.
And everybody else who left,they're just mid-major guys or
whatever you want to say.
Okay, you lost half the roster.
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I mean, you lost what?
Connor Season, you lost Chucky,you've lost Tyler Wall and AJ
Storr, so that's four guys.
That's four guys right there.
You also lost a couple guysHurdle off your bench there and
Isaac Lindsley off the bench.
So six guys, six-plus guys.
I might have missed a guy inthere, but you've now lost
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six-plus guys in the room now.
So you have to replace that.
Yeah, you have two guys comingin Daniel Freetag, jack Robinson
, whoop-de-doo.
Right, you got two guys.
You're replacing a roster rightnow and I love what I see out of
Daniel Freetag, I love what Isee out of Jack Robinson, but if
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you guys truthfully look at themakeup of college basketball
now, you're not winning gameswith recruits anymore.
John Calipari is not winninggames.
Well, now, he's gone fromKentucky, right, but he wasn't
winning games with his recruitsat Kentucky.
That's just how it is.
Now you put together anexperienced roster.
That's the big benefit of thetransfer portal, right?
The big benefit.
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You can throw together theseteams.
Look at UConn they went from anational championship team to in
the next season they loaded upwith transfers again and they
ran that thing back.
That's just how they did it.
And now you look at Michigan.
You're going to see Louisvillein this upcoming season.
You're going to see even a teamlike Florida and Indiana.
They have three of the bettertransfers right now.
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I believe I was looking at therankings.
I'm pretty sure Indiana's nearthe top in transfer portal ads
right now.
I mean looking at the makeup ofrosters now to win.
Tom Izzo is a prime example ofthat, because Tom Izzo did not
touch the transfer portal.
That was not his forte, right?
Tom Izzo is an older stylecoach who he's going to bring
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you into the system.
He's going to work you for fouryears and then he's going to
dump you off.
Then he's going to send youwherever you go NBA, if you
somehow get to the NBA, if youend up in a GE league, if you
end up overseas, whatever it is,or you end up in the job force.
That's how Tom Izzo worked.
He's a four-year guy, but yousaw him go out and get Frankie
Fidler because he knows timesare changing.
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We got to work with thistransfer portal thing if we want
to survive, and that's what alot of teams have accustomed
themselves to.
So, yes, I love the additions ofDaniel Freitag and I love the
addition of Jack Robinson there,but they need something else.
They need a score, they needdepth, they need experienced
pieces.
Because you lost experiencedpieces, you lost Chucky Hepburn.
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Now, I'm not going to say thatChucky Hepburn was like losing
Frank Kaminsky, right.
I'm not going to say thatChucky Hepburn was like losing
Frank Kaminsky, right.
I'm not going to say that.
I'm not going to say he waslike losing Sam Decker.
But Chucky Hepburn was anexperienced point guard, an
experienced point guard in theBig Ten who played pretty good
defense and was a pretty darngood ball handler for you, and
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he's gone now.
Now you have to replace that.
Can Daniel Freetag do that?
I believe so, but is it goingto take him a hot minute?
I don't know.
Are the Badgers going to go intothis sort of a rebuild, as you
would almost say, because nowyou look at the Big Ten, it's
getting bigger.
Right, it's getting bigger, andthe competition is getting
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stiffer inside the Big Ten.
So how does that work out?
Now?
I mean, I am waiting right now.
I am waiting, waiting, waitingfor some news to come across my
social media that says theBadgers have gotten blank and
blank in the transfer portal.
That's what I am waiting forright now, because right now all
I'm seeing is targeting,targeting this guy, targeting
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that guy, fantastic, fantastic.
I try to shoot at the targetall the time.
Doesn't mean I hit it right,and that's where the Badgers are
at.
They're targeting a lot of guys, but they're missing wide right
.
They're missing wide left,nothing, nothing there.
So I mean, that's just where Iwant to start for the day today.
Was this Badger team?
I mean they are right now.
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This is going to be a bigtestament to what Greg Gard can
do, because he told us and Iheard that's what I saw was that
they've tripled the NIL money.
So is money still the problem?
If it is, then what the heckwere we at before?
Were we at one?
Now we have $3.
Like, what are we at?
You know can.
Are we at?
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Can we afford the Big Mac mealor are we stuck on the dollar
menu?
Where are we at right now as aprogram?
That's what we really need tohear.
I didn't hear numbers.
I don't know if there was anumber out there.
I just heard that they addedthree times the NIL money.
Where is it?
Because if it's all about moneythese days and if that's what
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gets transfers in the door, thenwhy can't we get them in the
door?
That's the biggest question.
Does it come down to coaching?
Are guys looking at greg guardand saying I don't think I could
play for that coach.
I don't think he's gonna put meover the edge.
To where I want to be, I don'tknow.
I I truthfully don't know.
I don't want to sound like Idon't think greg guard can do it
and to where I want to be, Idon't know.
I truthfully don't know.
I don't want to sound like Idon't think Greg Gard can do it
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and I don't want to sound likehere that I think Greg Gard can
do it.
What I'm saying is that I don'tknow.
You know what is the mindset ofthese players.
I want to hear from FrankieFidler why Frankie Fidler did
not go to Wisconsin Now, maybebecause Chucky Eppern left, but
I believe that Fiddler, heknocked out Wisconsin in his top
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four before he announced, likethis was a week before, because
Chucky Eppert he transferredLike a week before.
I believe it was almost a weekbefore we saw Frankie end up at
Michigan State.
So it leads me to believe thatChuck Yepper knew he wasn't
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coming and maybe that was it.
Maybe that was it for Frank orfor Chucky to say I'm out, I'm
done, I'm done.
You can't get this guy, youcan't get.
You know, one of these kind ofguys.
I'm, I'm out of here.
I don't know.
I I truthfully do not know whatthe heck is going on behind the
scenes of Madison right now.
But man oh man, they got tofind something.
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They got to find something outthere in the transfer portal
right now, because it is gettingit's.
I mean, I shouldn't say it'sgetting late, but there's a lot
of guys committing already andthe Badgers aren't in on them
right now.
So how deep into the barrelwill the Badgers, this Badgers
team, have to dig before theyfind a guy?
Will it be a five, will it be afour star, will it be a three
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star or Will it be a five?
Will it be a four star?
Will it be a three star or willit be worse?
Where are you looking in thetransfer portal right now?
I don't know.
I truthfully don't know.
I see a lot of names aretargeting.
I don't see a lot of actioncoming into Madison right now.
So hopefully, hopefully, we getsome good news coming out of
this Badger team coming up herein the upcoming weeks, some good
news in the transfer portalfront there that the Badgers are
finding somebody out there.
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But with that I want to get intothe Brewers here.
The Brewers did drop game twoof that series last night and it
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wasn't due to the pitching.
It wasn't due to the pitching.
Right now the Brewers' offenseis going a little bit stagnant.
It's going a little bit cold onus right now and it ain't
looking too hot.
I mean, you look at Brewerspitching.
Last night Tobias Myers made hismajor league debut and he
looked good.
I mean outside of the firstpitch of the game that he threw
to McCutcheon, that McCutcheonput into the seats for a solo
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shot to lead off the game.
I'm telling you what today inthe game against the Pirates, I
would not be opposed to themintentionally walking Andrew
McCutcheon, because he's wentback-to-back days with a lead
off home run there on Monday andTuesday.
So I'm done with pitching tohim to start the game here.
If he plays you intentionallywalk him, I'll put a guy on to
start the game there.
But Tobias Myers looks good.
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I mean he looks good.
The fastball I mean everybodywas talking about his fastball
coming up.
The off-speed stuff for TobiasMyers was working in this one
and he I mean there was a lot ofat-bats where they got extended
.
You know he wasn't like he wasover the top, overpowering guys,
but he did what he had to do toget out of innings and that's
what we wanted.
That's what we talked aboutyesterday here on the show.
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We need inning eaters right nowin Milwaukee and Tobias Myers
if you know, it's one start Ihave there's a lot of people out
there on social media who arefreaking out and they're like,
well, yay, now we have fourstarters, blah, blah.
I get it.
I mean I'm hoping for the bestout of Tobias Myers.
I loved what I saw.
What I'm saying is is that pumpthe brakes?
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We got to see what he does inhis next appearance right.
Pump the brakes off.
We appearance right, pumped thebrakes off.
We've seen guys come out forfantastic.
It's like Joe Ross, right?
Joe Ross has pitched fantasticfor this Brewers team so far
Better than what was expectedout of Joe Ross.
But it's just one of thosethings where you got to pump the
brakes with it.
Pumped the brakes because we'veseen the flip side, right,
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we've seen where it can get ugly, so pumped the brakes back.
Let's see it in the next outing.
But what I saw in his firstouting now that's not to take
away what I saw in his firstouting, what I saw in his first
outing this guy went fiveinnings of four hit baseball,
one earned run, one walk, fourstrikeouts, that one home run
given up.
It was a solid day, a great dayfor Tobias Myers, a great day.
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You just wish the offense couldhave backed him up a little bit
there, because the dude's goingto move to 0-1 in his first
Major League start.
He's going to get the loss andhe only gave up one run in that
appearance.
He pitched great for thisBrewers team, exactly what they
needed.
The offense just couldn't getit going in this one.
So I'm not taking away fromwhat Tobias Myers did in this
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game.
I'm hoping that he can be aeveryday starter for the Brewers
.
What I'm saying is that I'mstill not opposed to adding
depth to this team.
I'm really not.
I love what I saw to Tobias,but I really think the Brewers
could still use some veterandepth.
So Tobias goes five, four hit,one run baseball there.
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Then came in Koenig.
There Koenig pitched solid.
I mean he did not pitch bad atall, he gave up a run but he
pitched solid in those twoinnings of relief there.
Two innings, three hits, oneearned run, 1k on his outing.
I mean solid day out of Koenigthere.
And then Uribe came in for aninning.
One walk, one strikeout forUribe.
So solid stuff there, solidstuff all the way around.
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For the Brewers pitching staffin that game.
There Three guys used.
They got through Two earnedruns in total in this one.
Not a bad day whatsoever.
But then you look at the hittingBrewers.
In this one they were held downonce again.
I mean you look at Churro 0-3.
At the top of the order there.
Contreras 0-3.
Adamas 0-4.
Hoskins 0-3.
Perkins 0-4.
Joey Ortiz 0-4.
Hoskins 0-3.
Perkins 0-4.
Joey Ortiz 0-3.
Sanchez did have that solo homerun 1-3 on the day.
Joey Weamer 1-2.
Uh, frelick came in then 0-1and Terang went 1-2.
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I gotta be honest with you, Idon't care lefty, righty.
I've talked about this before.
I would play Sal Frelick overWeamer.
Be honest with you.
Weimer had a hit.
I'm not going to take that awayfrom Weimer, I'm not going to
take it away from him.
But I'm telling you what, rightnow, the Brewers offense did
not need to experiment with thiskind of stuff.
I just don't.
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I would have kept Sal in there.
I would have kept Sal in there.
That's just me.
I get the matchup thing, but theBrewers can't hit lefties.
We know this.
The Brewers cannot hit lefties.
It's been this way for a longtime now and in this game last
night it proved true Once again.
The Brewers still struggleagainst left-handed pitching.
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I don't know why.
They haven't been able tofigure it out.
You would think when you throwa right-handed dominant lineup
in there, it would take awayfrom what the lefty can do.
It's the exact opposite for theBrewers, because in this one
three hits, 11 strikeouts intotal and only three walks on
the game the Brewers were helddown by a lefty once again, and
I mean the Pirates have somesolid pitching, looking at
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Falter in that game seveninnings, three hits, two walks,
one earned run, eight strikeoutsin that home run given up.
Falter pitched great.
You can't really knock what wesaw out of Falter in this game
for the Pirates.
There he pitched fantastic andthen their bullpen came in there
.
Holderman came in for an inning, two strikeouts.
And then Bendar came in therefor a strikeout inning there and
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got the save.
I mean Brewers once again helddown in this game Pirates.
I mean there wasn't a lot ofoffense in total in this game
here.
Seven hits for the Pirates.
In this one Brewers scratchedacross three hits in this one I
mean it was all the way around.
It was a pitching fest, that'sall it was.
It was a great.
I mean two good pitchingperformances, kind of like what
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we saw the day before.
There was pretty solid pitching.
Same thing against in game twoof the series there.
So I mean good stuff.
It was some good stuff All theway around for the Brewers
pitching staff.
The hitting has got to get goinghere and they have another
lefty coming up today hereThat'll be going against Fleming
there for the PittsburghPirates.
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He'll take on Bryce Wilson.
Bryce Wilson will get the startfor the Brewers in game three
of this series here, and I meanWilson, 2-0 on the year 3.29 ERA
.
Guys up and down the Pirateslineup have seen Wilson.
Mccutcheon has seen him 11times, reynolds has seen him
four times, 13 times for Tellezand then three times for Trillo,
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and all guys I mean outside ofMcCutcheon's bat, 182.
Outside of that, 380 and abovefor the rest of these guys
against Bryce Wilson there Notmany Brewers have seen Fleming
yet.
Hoskins, he's seen him twicethere.
Owen Miller, he's had a batagainst him there.
And then Sanchez, three at-batshe's got two RBIs and a home
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run.
And Bowers, in three at-batshe's got one RBI and he's
hitting .333 against him.
So not a lot of experienceagainst Fleming
there.
But Brewers need to get itgoing against the lefty.
They need to get it going here,otherwise they're going to risk
dropping this series, afour-game series to the Pirates.
I mean these are big gamesearly on in the year, right, big
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games for the Brewers.
You got to be able to findsuccess somewhere in this
Pirates series and kind of stavethem off there and continue to
ride the hot wave, because rightnow the offense is about the
only thing that's carrying youuntil that pitching staff gets
semi-healthy.
Junis is going to be out for alittle
while.
Now we don't know with WadeMiley.
The way that he talked in hispress conference about his elbow
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inflammation it kind of makesit seem like Wade Miley might be
done for his career.
That might have been career.
We might have seen the lastpitching of Wade Miley for his
career.
I'm not sure on that, I'm justhypothetically speaking of what
we heard in his presser and thatwas a very upset.
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Wade Miley, who I don't know ifhe can battle back from this
one, so I don't know what thisBrewers pitching staff.
I mean now you got Myers in thefold.
Hopefully that continues towork out well.
But I mean DL Hall is going tobe out for a little while yet.
And then I mean Mizorowski.
I think he's like a year offyet.
I think he's like a year offGasser.
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Hopefully he gets back prettysoon and we can see maybe a guy
like Robert Gasser work his wayup.
I don't know on CarlosRodriguez, if he's going to be
ready to go anytime soon here,just simply because he hasn't
had a lot of time At the AAAlevel.
I was just trying to find hispitching stats as of right now,
he is sitting at 0-4 with an8.34 ERA.
So right now Carlos F Rodriguezis probably not the best option
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to be bringing up to the bigleague level at the moment.
But I mean, you have optionsdown there.
It's just, are those optionsreally going to benefit you at
the big league level or wouldyou be better off with a free
agent pitcher coming in?
And where do you find that guy?
I mean, there's a couple ofguys out there, but will they
benefit your club?
I don't know.
That's a million dollarquestion right
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now.
So Brewers trying to win gamethree of the series, that'll be
a 540 start for that one comingto you on Valley Sports
Wisconsin, also on WTMJ 620 andthe Brewers Radio Network.
Wherever you get the Brewers,you'll be able to check them out
there.
So good stuff there.
Brewers Pirates coming up fromPNC Park there in Pittsburgh.
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But with that we got to getinto the Bucs.
Bucs take the 125-108 lossthere in Game 2 of the series
last night and it just the Bucs.
They just couldn't stop thePacers.
The Bucs would put a run on.
They got it down to two orthree there in the third quarter
and then it just seemed likeright after that the Pacers went
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up 20.
Like just as the Bucs had thislike little glimpse of hope.
It was gone.
It was gone once again.
You know that the South Parkepisode, right, where they put
in the bank and he's like, andit's gone, you know, and it's
gone, I mean that's just whereit was at for the
Bucs.
In this one Bucs were just notable to weather the storm.
That was the hot shooting ofthe Indiana Pacers.
In this game here, pacers Imean outscored the Bucs every
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quarter of this game here, andthat's I mean the Bucs played a
good third quarter, right.
I mean they allowed 32 pointsbut they scored 28 themselves.
So it's not like they had adown quarter, they just could
not keep up with the Pacers inthis one.
So in this game here I mean, wesaw Siakam go for 37 for the
Pacers, miles Turner at 22.
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Nembhard had 20.
Halliburton had 12.
And Neesmith had 11 for him Offthe bench there.
Toppin had nine and then sixand eight for McConnell and
Shepard alike there.
So Pacers score it well in thisgame here For the Buc saw Bobby
go for 14, middleton with 15 inthis one, brooke Lopez with 22,
pat Bev gave five and then wesaw Damian Lillard go for 34
points, once again off the benchthere Crowder two points, five
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for Connington.
Beasley added four, five for AJGreen and two for Andre Jackson
Jr.
In this game here, bucks shotit 40% from downtown.
In this game here, 13 for 32.
That was compared to 44% forthe Pacers, 16 for 36 in this
game here.
But the big difference makerfrom the floor the Pacers shot
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50 for 90 from the floor.
In this one the Bucks shot 38for 86, 44% compared to 55% for
thePacers.
In this one, at the free throwline, bucs got there 21 times.
It's a big thing that kept theBucs in this game here 19 for 21
from the free throw line,compared to 9 for 14 from the
Pacers.
In this one, rebounding, bucswere out rebounded by five.
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In this game here, offensiveglass the Bucs did out-rebound
the Pacers on the offensive end.
They had eight offensiverebounds in this game compared
to seven for the Pacers in thisone.
Total assists though 38 for thePacers.
I mean they were hitting shots,that's about all you can say.
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They found wide open shooters,they found guys cutting down the
lane and the Bucs were just not.
I mean a couple of transitionbuckets here, a couple of
transition buckets there, andthe Bucs just weren't able to
keep pace with this Pacers teamin this one.
Just looking, I was looking atfast break points there 14 fast
break points for the Pacers Imean, but it seemed like a lot
more.
They got themselves out intransition, got the Bucs in
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awkward shifts and that's whatthey took advantage of it there.
So speeding up the Bucs wasdefinitely in the favor of this
Pacers team, outscoring the Bucsin the paint 52-36 in this game
here.
That was another killer to thisBucs team.
Other notable stats I meanturnovers not really a big
problem for the Bucs in this oneSix blocks though for the
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Pacers in this game and threesteals.
That's named off a bunch of bigkillers in their
year.
Fast break points.
They held them down kind of inthat first game there.
Second game they get in doubledigits again in fast break
points.
But it seemed like there was alot more fast break points in
that.
I know they're talkingtransition buckets there, but
there was a lot more fast breakpoints than that in this game
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here.
I know they're talkingtransition buckets there, but
there was a lot of, like I said,moments in this game where the
Bucs got into all out of sortson the defensive end because of
what the Pacers were doing withmomentum.
So that was definitely a bigswing in this game
here.
Bucs, I mean you know, watchingthis game I love and this is
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going to be controversial, but Ilove me some Pat Beth.
I'll be honest with you.
I love me some Pat Beth, butsometimes I think he gets too
much out there.
I'm going to be honest with youBecause in this one the Bucs
defensively weren't really doinganything.
They weren't really doinganything defensively that was
weathering this storm.
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So you're gonna have to lean onand say, okay, we need some
offense, we need some offense.
Is Beasley a better offensiveplayer than Pat Bev?
Probably, right, better shooterthan what Pat Bev is?
So I know I I get to thosepoints where it's like, okay,
pat Bev brings this differenttenacity to this Bucs team.
But the tenacity wasn't there.
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I mean, it's not like they weregetting stops on defense, it's
not like they were slowing downthis Pacers
team.
Yes, pat Bev did help withHalliburton, but at some point
you're going to have tosacrifice some defense for some
offense because the rest of yourdefense was not playing well.
So you had to sacrifice in onesense, and I think that was
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where you had to do it in thisone was, I mean, putting your
offense out there.
Putting your offense out thereand letting it run, because when
you have the likes of when PatBev is the guy running the point
and he's got to make thedecisions for your team because
Dame can't get the ball, you runinto issues.
You run into some issues outthere.
So I don't know if Beasley'sthe answer.
I'll be honest withyou.
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I thought Connington broughtsome really good things to this
Bucs team Some really bigbuckets for the Bucs when they
need them the most.
He was the guy slashing thelane and getting in there.
I mean, like I said, he hadfive points in this game.
Doesn't seem like a lot, butthere were some big moments for
Cunnington in this game here.
So I mean, I don't know,there's a lot to dissect from
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what we've seen in the first twogames of this series so
far.
Like I said, I got a coupleguys joining me tomorrow on the
show here.
We're going to get more intothis Bucs series.
Right, we're going to betalking about the Bucs.
We're going to be talking aboutthe bucks.
We're gonna be talking aboutthe brewers.
We're gonna be talking aboutthe end of the draft.
So I'm gonna leave that stuffuntil tomorrow here because
there's a lot to dissectthere.
I just wanted to go over thebox here a little bit and first
impressions of this game here,but we're gonna get into it
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tomorrow there because thoseguys they get hot when they're
talking about the bucks andeverything else.
So I can't wait for that.
But with that, that's about allI got for today.
Like I said, it was going to bea little bit shorter today.
We got a little bit longer ofan episode coming tomorrow.
We're going to be talking abouta lot NFL draft, bucs, brewers
we got to talk about it alltomorrow.
So lots to talk about tomorrow.
But with that, this has beenWisconsin Sports on the Go with
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Trage.
Thank you guys for listening.
We'll catch you guys back heretomorrow, but until then, deuces
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Darkness falls and we all pray,hoping for the light of day.
Down to the river, I have heldthe devil's hand, felt the
weight of my own sin, burdenedby the heart of man.
Thank you how we doing, everybody, and welcome to
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Wisconsin Sports on the go withTrage.
I'm your host.
Trage, it is Wednesday, afantastic Wednesday here in the
great state of Wisconsin, myvoice slowly coming back right.
Yesterday we had a little bitof issues with my voice coming
and going.
It's back kind of today, youknow.
So I mean we're going to getthrough it.
We're going to get through ittoday A little bit shorter.
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Today I have a couple guestsjoining me.
Tomorrow we're going to betalking about the NFL draft.
Tomorrow here on the show we'regoing to get more into the Bucs
tomorrow on the show and alsothe Brewers.
So lots to get into tomorrow.
A little bit shorter today here, just because, as you guys know
, I shoot this thing at night.
After all, the games are done.
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Game just got done here inWisconsin.
It's about 10.15 at night rightnow.
So I mean we're going to getthrough this, though we're going
to get through this, and I meansome of the games.
I mean it was a rough day, arough day for Wisconsin sports
in general.
I'm gonna be honest with youBrewers lost, bucks lost.
I mean you can't get much worsethan that, right.
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The only thing that could havemade it worse was the Badgers
lost, right.
But I mean, and to start it out, just getting into the Badgers
a little bit, right now I mean Iam just, I don't know, truth be
told, I'm waiting for atransfer to say I'm going to
Madison.
I mean, right now they I don'teven hear, like I hear a whole
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bunch of names that the Badgersare looking at, right, and I get
a million and one of thoseacross social media.
I'll be scrolling throughTwitter, I'll scroll through
Facebook, whatever it is, and Iget a ton of oh, the Badgers are
targeting this guy, oh, theBadgers are targeting this guy.
Great, fantastic, they'retargeting him.
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I mean we're targeting TyreseHunter.
He's heading off to.
Oh, I can't remember where theheck Tyrese Hunter is heading
right now.
I can't remember off the top ofmy head, but Tyrese Hunter
committed elsewhere.
We just saw Frankie Fidler.
He's going to Michigan State.
I saw Chucky Hepburn.
I saw his projections.
They have him projected forLouisville Interesting,
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louisville is actually throwingtogether a pretty good team
right now.
So I mean good for collegebasketball that Louisville is
back on the rise, because Ialways believe college
basketball was better whenSyracuse was good.
When Louisville was good.
College basketball was good.
But that turns us back to theBadgers right now.
Right, I mean, yeah, people andI see a lot of those out there
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oh, we're not worried, right?
Aj's Thor was this to us andConor's season was nothing.
And Chucky Hepburn all he didwas dribble too much and did
this and this wrong.
And everybody else who left,they're just mid-major guys or
whatever you want to say.
Okay, you lost half the roster.
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I mean, you lost what?
Connor Season, you lost Chucky,you've lost Tyler Wall and AJ
Storr, so that's four guys.
That's four guys right there.
You also lost a couple guysHurdle off your bench there and
Isaac Lindsley off the bench.
So six guys, six-plus guys.
I might have missed a guy inthere, but you've now lost
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six-plus guys in the room now.
So you have to replace that.
Yeah, you have two guys comingin Daniel Freetag, jack Robinson
, whoop-de-doo.
Right, you got two guys.
You're replacing a roster rightnow and I love what I see out of
Daniel Freetag, I love what Isee out of Jack Robinson, but if
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you guys truthfully look at themakeup of college basketball
now, you're not winning gameswith recruits anymore.
John Calipari is not winninggames.
Well, now, he's gone fromKentucky, right, but he wasn't
winning games with his recruitsat Kentucky.
That's just how it is.
Now you put together anexperienced roster.
That's the big benefit of thetransfer portal, right?
The big benefit.
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You can throw together theseteams.
Look at UConn they went from anational championship team to in
the next season they loaded upwith transfers again and they
ran that thing back.
That's just how they did it.
And now you look at Michigan.
You're going to see Louisvillein this upcoming season.
You're going to see even a teamlike Florida and Indiana.
They have three of the bettertransfers right now.
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I believe I was looking at therankings.
I'm pretty sure Indiana's nearthe top in transfer portal ads
right now.
I mean looking at the makeup ofrosters now to win.
Tom Izzo is a prime example ofthat, because Tom Izzo did not
touch the transfer portal.
That was not his forte, right?
Tom Izzo is an older stylecoach who he's going to bring
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you into the system.
He's going to work you for fouryears and then he's going to
dump you off.
Then he's going to send youwherever you go NBA, if you
somehow get to the NBA, if youend up in a GE league, if you
end up overseas, whatever it is,or you end up in the job force.
That's how Tom Izzo worked.
He's a four-year guy, but yousaw him go out and get Frankie
Fidler because he knows timesare changing.
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We got to work with thistransfer portal thing if we want
to survive, and that's what alot of teams have accustomed
themselves to.
So, yes, I love the additions ofDaniel Freitag and I love the
addition of Jack Robinson there,but they need something else.
They need a score, they needdepth, they need experienced
pieces.
Because you lost experiencedpieces, you lost Chucky Hepburn.
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Now, I'm not going to say thatChucky Hepburn was like losing
Frank Kaminsky, right.
I'm not going to say thatChucky Hepburn was like losing
Frank Kaminsky, right.
I'm not going to say that.
I'm not going to say he waslike losing Sam Decker.
But Chucky Hepburn was anexperienced point guard, an
experienced point guard in theBig Ten who played pretty good
defense and was a pretty darngood ball handler for you, and
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he's gone now.
Now you have to replace that.
Can Daniel Freetag do that?
I believe so, but is it goingto take him a hot minute?
I don't know.
Are the Badgers going to go intothis sort of a rebuild, as you
would almost say, because nowyou look at the Big Ten, it's
getting bigger.
Right, it's getting bigger, andthe competition is getting
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stiffer inside the Big Ten.
So how does that work out?
Now?
I mean, I am waiting right now.
I am waiting, waiting, waitingfor some news to come across my
social media that says theBadgers have gotten blank and
blank in the transfer portal.
That's what I am waiting forright now, because right now all
I'm seeing is targeting,targeting this guy, targeting
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that guy, fantastic, fantastic.
I try to shoot at the targetall the time.
Doesn't mean I hit it right,and that's where the Badgers are
at.
They're targeting a lot of guys, but they're missing wide right
.
They're missing wide left,nothing, nothing there.
So I mean, that's just where Iwant to start for the day today.
Was this Badger team?
I mean they are right now.
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This is going to be a bigtestament to what Greg Gard can
do, because he told us and Iheard that's what I saw was that
they've tripled the NIL money.
So is money still the problem?
If it is, then what the heckwere we at before?
Were we at one?
Now we have $3.
Like, what are we at?
You know can.
Are we at?
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Can we afford the Big Mac mealor are we stuck on the dollar
menu?
Where are we at right now as aprogram?
That's what we really need tohear.
I didn't hear numbers.
I don't know if there was anumber out there.
I just heard that they addedthree times the NIL money.
Where is it?
Because if it's all about moneythese days and if that's what
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gets transfers in the door, thenwhy can't we get them in the
door?
That's the biggest question.
Does it come down to coaching?
Are guys looking at greg guardand saying I don't think I could
play for that coach.
I don't think he's gonna put meover the edge.
To where I want to be, I don'tknow.
I I truthfully don't know.
I don't want to sound like Idon't think greg guard can do it
and to where I want to be, Idon't know.
I truthfully don't know.
I don't want to sound like Idon't think Greg Gard can do it
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and I don't want to sound likehere that I think Greg Gard can
do it.
What I'm saying is that I don'tknow.
You know what is the mindset ofthese players.
I want to hear from FrankieFidler why Frankie Fidler did
not go to Wisconsin Now, maybebecause Chucky Eppern left, but
I believe that Fiddler, heknocked out Wisconsin in his top
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four before he announced, likethis was a week before, because
Chucky Eppert he transferredLike a week before.
I believe it was almost a weekbefore we saw Frankie end up at
Michigan State.
So it leads me to believe thatChuck Yepper knew he wasn't
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coming and maybe that was it.
Maybe that was it for Frank orfor Chucky to say I'm out, I'm
done, I'm done.
You can't get this guy, youcan't get.
You know, one of these kind ofguys.
I'm, I'm out of here.
I don't know.
I I truthfully do not know whatthe heck is going on behind the
scenes of Madison right now.
But man oh man, they got tofind something.
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They got to find something outthere in the transfer portal
right now, because it is gettingit's.
I mean, I shouldn't say it'sgetting late, but there's a lot
of guys committing already andthe Badgers aren't in on them
right now.
So how deep into the barrelwill the Badgers, this Badgers
team, have to dig before theyfind a guy?
Will it be a five, will it be afour star, will it be a three
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star or Will it be a five?
Will it be a four star?
Will it be a three star or willit be worse?
Where are you looking in thetransfer portal right now?
I don't know.
I truthfully don't know.
I see a lot of names aretargeting.
I don't see a lot of actioncoming into Madison right now.
So hopefully, hopefully, we getsome good news coming out of
this Badger team coming up herein the upcoming weeks, some good
news in the transfer portalfront there that the Badgers are
finding somebody out there.
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But with that I want to get intothe Brewers here.
The Brewers did drop game twoof that series last night and it
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wasn't due to the pitching.
It wasn't due to the pitching.
Right now the Brewers' offenseis going a little bit stagnant.
It's going a little bit cold onus right now and it ain't
looking too hot.
I mean, you look at Brewerspitching.
Last night Tobias Myers made hismajor league debut and he
looked good.
I mean outside of the firstpitch of the game that he threw
to McCutcheon, that McCutcheonput into the seats for a solo
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shot to lead off the game.
I'm telling you what today inthe game against the Pirates, I
would not be opposed to themintentionally walking Andrew
McCutcheon, because he's wentback-to-back days with a lead
off home run there on Monday andTuesday.
So I'm done with pitching tohim to start the game here.
If he plays you intentionallywalk him, I'll put a guy on to
start the game there.
But Tobias Myers looks good.
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I mean he looks good.
The fastball I mean everybodywas talking about his fastball
coming up.
The off-speed stuff for TobiasMyers was working in this one
and he I mean there was a lot ofat-bats where they got extended
.
You know he wasn't like he wasover the top, overpowering guys,
but he did what he had to do toget out of innings and that's
what we wanted.
That's what we talked aboutyesterday here on the show.
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We need inning eaters right nowin Milwaukee and Tobias Myers
if you know, it's one start Ihave there's a lot of people out
there on social media who arefreaking out and they're like,
well, yay, now we have fourstarters, blah, blah.
I get it.
I mean I'm hoping for the bestout of Tobias Myers.
I loved what I saw.
What I'm saying is is that pumpthe brakes?
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We got to see what he does inhis next appearance right.
Pump the brakes off.
We appearance right, pumped thebrakes off.
We've seen guys come out forfantastic.
It's like Joe Ross, right?
Joe Ross has pitched fantasticfor this Brewers team so far
Better than what was expectedout of Joe Ross.
But it's just one of thosethings where you got to pump the
brakes with it.
Pumped the brakes because we'veseen the flip side, right,
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we've seen where it can get ugly, so pumped the brakes back.
Let's see it in the next outing.
But what I saw in his firstouting now that's not to take
away what I saw in his firstouting, what I saw in his first
outing this guy went fiveinnings of four hit baseball,
one earned run, one walk, fourstrikeouts, that one home run
given up.
It was a solid day, a great dayfor Tobias Myers, a great day.
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You just wish the offense couldhave backed him up a little bit
there, because the dude's goingto move to 0-1 in his first
Major League start.
He's going to get the loss andhe only gave up one run in that
appearance.
He pitched great for thisBrewers team, exactly what they
needed.
The offense just couldn't getit going in this one.
So I'm not taking away fromwhat Tobias Myers did in this
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game.
I'm hoping that he can be aeveryday starter for the Brewers
.
What I'm saying is that I'mstill not opposed to adding
depth to this team.
I'm really not.
I love what I saw to Tobias,but I really think the Brewers
could still use some veterandepth.
So Tobias goes five, four hit,one run baseball there.
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Then came in Koenig.
There Koenig pitched solid.
I mean he did not pitch bad atall, he gave up a run but he
pitched solid in those twoinnings of relief there.
Two innings, three hits, oneearned run, 1k on his outing.
I mean solid day out of Koenigthere.
And then Uribe came in for aninning.
One walk, one strikeout forUribe.
So solid stuff there, solidstuff all the way around.
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For the Brewers pitching staffin that game.
There Three guys used.
They got through Two earnedruns in total in this one.
Not a bad day whatsoever.
But then you look at the hittingBrewers.
In this one they were held downonce again.
I mean you look at Churro 0-3.
At the top of the order there.
Contreras 0-3.
Adamas 0-4.
Hoskins 0-3.
Perkins 0-4.
Joey Ortiz 0-4.
Hoskins 0-3.
Perkins 0-4.
Joey Ortiz 0-3.
Sanchez did have that solo homerun 1-3 on the day.
Joey Weamer 1-2.
Uh, frelick came in then 0-1and Terang went 1-2.
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I gotta be honest with you, Idon't care lefty, righty.
I've talked about this before.
I would play Sal Frelick overWeamer.
Be honest with you.
Weimer had a hit.
I'm not going to take that awayfrom Weimer, I'm not going to
take it away from him.
But I'm telling you what, rightnow, the Brewers offense did
not need to experiment with thiskind of stuff.
I just don't.
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I would have kept Sal in there.
I would have kept Sal in there.
That's just me.
I get the matchup thing, but theBrewers can't hit lefties.
We know this.
The Brewers cannot hit lefties.
It's been this way for a longtime now and in this game last
night it proved true Once again.
The Brewers still struggleagainst left-handed pitching.
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I don't know why.
They haven't been able tofigure it out.
You would think when you throwa right-handed dominant lineup
in there, it would take awayfrom what the lefty can do.
It's the exact opposite for theBrewers, because in this one
three hits, 11 strikeouts intotal and only three walks on
the game the Brewers were helddown by a lefty once again, and
I mean the Pirates have somesolid pitching, looking at
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Falter in that game seveninnings, three hits, two walks,
one earned run, eight strikeoutsin that home run given up.
Falter pitched great.
You can't really knock what wesaw out of Falter in this game
for the Pirates.
There he pitched fantastic andthen their bullpen came in there
.
Holderman came in for an inning, two strikeouts.
And then Bendar came in therefor a strikeout inning there and
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got the save.
I mean Brewers once again helddown in this game Pirates.
I mean there wasn't a lot ofoffense in total in this game
here.
Seven hits for the Pirates.
In this one Brewers scratchedacross three hits in this one I
mean it was all the way around.
It was a pitching fest, that'sall it was.
It was a great.
I mean two good pitchingperformances, kind of like what
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we saw the day before.
There was pretty solid pitching.
Same thing against in game twoof the series there.
So I mean good stuff.
It was some good stuff All theway around for the Brewers
pitching staff.
The hitting has got to get goinghere and they have another
lefty coming up today hereThat'll be going against Fleming
there for the PittsburghPirates.
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He'll take on Bryce Wilson.
Bryce Wilson will get the startfor the Brewers in game three
of this series here, and I meanWilson, 2-0 on the year 3.29 ERA
.
Guys up and down the Pirateslineup have seen Wilson.
Mccutcheon has seen him 11times, reynolds has seen him
four times, 13 times for Tellezand then three times for Trillo,
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and all guys I mean outside ofMcCutcheon's bat, 182.
Outside of that, 380 and abovefor the rest of these guys
against Bryce Wilson there Notmany Brewers have seen Fleming
yet.
Hoskins, he's seen him twicethere.
Owen Miller, he's had a batagainst him there.
And then Sanchez, three at-batshe's got two RBIs and a home
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run.
And Bowers, in three at-batshe's got one RBI and he's
hitting .333 against him.
So not a lot of experienceagainst Fleming
there.
But Brewers need to get itgoing against the lefty.
They need to get it going here,otherwise they're going to risk
dropping this series, afour-game series to the Pirates.
I mean these are big gamesearly on in the year, right, big
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games for the Brewers.
You got to be able to findsuccess somewhere in this
Pirates series and kind of stavethem off there and continue to
ride the hot wave, because rightnow the offense is about the
only thing that's carrying youuntil that pitching staff gets
semi-healthy.
Junis is going to be out for alittle
while.
Now we don't know with WadeMiley.
The way that he talked in hispress conference about his elbow
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inflammation it kind of makesit seem like Wade Miley might be
done for his career.
That might have been career.
We might have seen the lastpitching of Wade Miley for his
career.
I'm not sure on that, I'm justhypothetically speaking of what
we heard in his presser and thatwas a very upset.
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Wade Miley, who I don't know ifhe can battle back from this
one, so I don't know what thisBrewers pitching staff.
I mean now you got Myers in thefold.
Hopefully that continues towork out well.
But I mean DL Hall is going tobe out for a little while yet.
And then I mean Mizorowski.
I think he's like a year offyet.
I think he's like a year offGasser.
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Hopefully he gets back prettysoon and we can see maybe a guy
like Robert Gasser work his wayup.
I don't know on CarlosRodriguez, if he's going to be
ready to go anytime soon here,just simply because he hasn't
had a lot of time At the AAAlevel.
I was just trying to find hispitching stats as of right now,
he is sitting at 0-4 with an8.34 ERA.
So right now Carlos F Rodriguezis probably not the best option
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to be bringing up to the bigleague level at the moment.
But I mean, you have optionsdown there.
It's just, are those optionsreally going to benefit you at
the big league level or wouldyou be better off with a free
agent pitcher coming in?
And where do you find that guy?
I mean, there's a couple ofguys out there, but will they
benefit your club?
I don't know.
That's a million dollarquestion right
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now.
So Brewers trying to win gamethree of the series, that'll be
a 540 start for that one comingto you on Valley Sports
Wisconsin, also on WTMJ 620 andthe Brewers Radio Network.
Wherever you get the Brewers,you'll be able to check them out
there.
So good stuff there.
Brewers Pirates coming up fromPNC Park there in Pittsburgh.
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But with that we got to getinto the Bucs.
Bucs take the 125-108 lossthere in Game 2 of the series
last night and it just the Bucs.
They just couldn't stop thePacers.
The Bucs would put a run on.
They got it down to two orthree there in the third quarter
and then it just seemed likeright after that the Pacers went
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up 20.
Like just as the Bucs had thislike little glimpse of hope.
It was gone.
It was gone once again.
You know that the South Parkepisode, right, where they put
in the bank and he's like, andit's gone, you know, and it's
gone, I mean that's just whereit was at for the
Bucs.
In this one Bucs were just notable to weather the storm.
That was the hot shooting ofthe Indiana Pacers.
In this game here, pacers Imean outscored the Bucs every
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quarter of this game here, andthat's I mean the Bucs played a
good third quarter, right.
I mean they allowed 32 pointsbut they scored 28 themselves.
So it's not like they had adown quarter, they just could
not keep up with the Pacers inthis one.
So in this game here I mean, wesaw Siakam go for 37 for the
Pacers, miles Turner at 22.
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Nembhard had 20.
Halliburton had 12.
And Neesmith had 11 for him Offthe bench there.
Toppin had nine and then sixand eight for McConnell and
Shepard alike there.
So Pacers score it well in thisgame here For the Buc saw Bobby
go for 14, middleton with 15 inthis one, brooke Lopez with 22,
pat Bev gave five and then wesaw Damian Lillard go for 34
points, once again off the benchthere Crowder two points, five
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for Connington.
Beasley added four, five for AJGreen and two for Andre Jackson
Jr.
In this game here, bucks shotit 40% from downtown.
In this game here, 13 for 32.
That was compared to 44% forthe Pacers, 16 for 36 in this
game here.
But the big difference makerfrom the floor the Pacers shot
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50 for 90 from the floor.
In this one the Bucks shot 38for 86, 44% compared to 55% for
thePacers.
In this one, at the free throwline, bucs got there 21 times.
It's a big thing that kept theBucs in this game here 19 for 21
from the free throw line,compared to 9 for 14 from the
Pacers.
In this one, rebounding, bucswere out rebounded by five.
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In this game here, offensiveglass the Bucs did out-rebound
the Pacers on the offensive end.
They had eight offensiverebounds in this game compared
to seven for the Pacers in thisone.
Total assists though 38 for thePacers.
I mean they were hitting shots,that's about all you can say.
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They found wide open shooters,they found guys cutting down the
lane and the Bucs were just not.
I mean a couple of transitionbuckets here, a couple of
transition buckets there, andthe Bucs just weren't able to
keep pace with this Pacers teamin this one.
Just looking, I was looking atfast break points there 14 fast
break points for the Pacers Imean, but it seemed like a lot
more.
They got themselves out intransition, got the Bucs in
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awkward shifts and that's whatthey took advantage of it there.
So speeding up the Bucs wasdefinitely in the favor of this
Pacers team, outscoring the Bucsin the paint 52-36 in this game
here.
That was another killer to thisBucs team.
Other notable stats I meanturnovers not really a big
problem for the Bucs in this oneSix blocks though for the
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Pacers in this game and threesteals.
That's named off a bunch of bigkillers in their
year.
Fast break points.
They held them down kind of inthat first game there.
Second game they get in doubledigits again in fast break
points.
But it seemed like there was alot more fast break points in
that.
I know they're talkingtransition buckets there, but
there was a lot more fast breakpoints than that in this game
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here.
I know they're talkingtransition buckets there, but
there was a lot of, like I said,moments in this game where the
Bucs got into all out of sortson the defensive end because of
what the Pacers were doing withmomentum.
So that was definitely a bigswing in this game
here.
Bucs, I mean you know, watchingthis game I love and this is
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going to be controversial, but Ilove me some Pat Beth.
I'll be honest with you.
I love me some Pat Beth, butsometimes I think he gets too
much out there.
I'm going to be honest with youBecause in this one the Bucs
defensively weren't really doinganything.
They weren't really doinganything defensively that was
weathering this storm.
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So you're gonna have to lean onand say, okay, we need some
offense, we need some offense.
Is Beasley a better offensiveplayer than Pat Bev?
Probably, right, better shooterthan what Pat Bev is?
So I know I I get to thosepoints where it's like, okay,
pat Bev brings this differenttenacity to this Bucs team.
But the tenacity wasn't there.
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I mean, it's not like they weregetting stops on defense, it's
not like they were slowing downthis Pacers
team.
Yes, pat Bev did help withHalliburton, but at some point
you're going to have tosacrifice some defense for some
offense because the rest of yourdefense was not playing well.
So you had to sacrifice in onesense, and I think that was
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where you had to do it in thisone was, I mean, putting your
offense out there.
Putting your offense out thereand letting it run, because when
you have the likes of when PatBev is the guy running the point
and he's got to make thedecisions for your team because
Dame can't get the ball, you runinto issues.
You run into some issues outthere.
So I don't know if Beasley'sthe answer.
I'll be honest withyou.
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I thought Connington broughtsome really good things to this
Bucs team Some really bigbuckets for the Bucs when they
need them the most.
He was the guy slashing thelane and getting in there.
I mean, like I said, he hadfive points in this game.
Doesn't seem like a lot, butthere were some big moments for
Cunnington in this game here.
So I mean, I don't know,there's a lot to dissect from
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what we've seen in the first twogames of this series so
far.
Like I said, I got a coupleguys joining me tomorrow on the
show here.
We're going to get more intothis Bucs series.
Right, we're going to betalking about the Bucs.
We're going to be talking aboutthe bucks.
We're gonna be talking aboutthe brewers.
We're gonna be talking aboutthe end of the draft.
So I'm gonna leave that stuffuntil tomorrow here because
there's a lot to dissectthere.
I just wanted to go over thebox here a little bit and first
impressions of this game here,but we're gonna get into it
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tomorrow there because thoseguys they get hot when they're
talking about the bucks andeverything else.
So I can't wait for that.
But with that, that's about allI got for today.
Like I said, it was going to bea little bit shorter today.
We got a little bit longer ofan episode coming tomorrow.
We're going to be talking abouta lot NFL draft, bucs, brewers
we got to talk about it alltomorrow.
So lots to talk about tomorrow.
But with that, this has beenWisconsin Sports on the Go with
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Trage.
Thank you guys for listening.
We'll catch you guys back heretomorrow, but until then, deuces
.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, oh, my Lord, watch me sway.
Darkness falls and we all pray,hoping for the light of day.
Down to the river, I have heldthe devil's hand, felt the
weight of my own sin, burdenedby the heart of man.
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