Do the Badgers need to know who will be "first and second scorers"?
No. A team-oriented approach such as Ryan's Badgers could reach a funky crest as a many-headed beast, a true kangaroo that always leaves you guessing where the offense is coming from but leaves no question on D because everybody knows that D is the name of the game. Personally, I would love to see the Badgers make a run for the Big Ten title without falling into this potentially self-defeating mindset of 'Who's the next Kammron Taylor, who's the new Tucker?'
There is no new Tucker, obviously, but there is the potential to get this group of players headed into the next season with a full head of steam yet with rarely a thought about who's the go-to guy. Sure, set Bohannon up for the three, perhaps especially late in the game, but you're dead in the water if you don't look to post Butch or find him drifting from his guy by the line, post Landry, set up Steimsma at the foul line, let Flowers or Hughes drive to the hole and find a way to create, or let Bohannon do that, and for Pete's sake feed off Joe Krabbbenjoft's energy and inventiveness, whatever! Just get them all to buy into a deep team concept and this can be an unusually selfless team for the amount of talent they have. They're all quality players and there's nobody with a jump-out-of-the-gym / go-lights-out bullseye on their jersey a la Tucker, which can be challenging to his team as well as the other one, for quirky team-chemistry reasons.
Seriously, maybe it is in poor taste to even debate who's going to score for the Badgers next year. (As for me, I bet people are looking for Bohannon, but I have this hope that Hughes is going to break out too. But hold I gun to my head? "Okay, okay, Butch will lead the team in points! A-and rebounds too!")
There is no new Tucker, obviously, but there is the potential to get this group of players headed into the next season with a full head of steam yet with rarely a thought about who's the go-to guy. Sure, set Bohannon up for the three, perhaps especially late in the game, but you're dead in the water if you don't look to post Butch or find him drifting from his guy by the line, post Landry, set up Steimsma at the foul line, let Flowers or Hughes drive to the hole and find a way to create, or let Bohannon do that, and for Pete's sake feed off Joe Krabbbenjoft's energy and inventiveness, whatever! Just get them all to buy into a deep team concept and this can be an unusually selfless team for the amount of talent they have. They're all quality players and there's nobody with a jump-out-of-the-gym / go-lights-out bullseye on their jersey a la Tucker, which can be challenging to his team as well as the other one, for quirky team-chemistry reasons.
Seriously, maybe it is in poor taste to even debate who's going to score for the Badgers next year. (As for me, I bet people are looking for Bohannon, but I have this hope that Hughes is going to break out too. But hold I gun to my head? "Okay, okay, Butch will lead the team in points! A-and rebounds too!")

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