Actually I think they've been averaging 24 turnovers forced , at least as of late, so....
Lady Buffs plan on getting in Caitlin's head. “We’re just going to see how the Refs are calling the game & go from there."
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They will probably dominate the glass so it will be vital that we shoot well and be aggressive , get them in foul trouble. Go Hawks !
Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but just recently I've been struck by pbp guys/gals saying stuff like " ... and Jones goes up for the layup and INITIATES the contact ... " like that's straight up textbook, great@ss sh*t right there.
I'm probably just too old school. Indeed, it's a smart play anymore. But C'MON, isn't that so backwards to the spirit of the beautiful game? (to borrow a soccer phrase)
/grumpy old(ish) man rant
I'm probably just too old school. Indeed, it's a smart play anymore. But C'MON, isn't that so backwards to the spirit of the beautiful game? (to borrow a soccer phrase)
/grumpy old(ish) man rant
If the Hawks had blown out WV I'd be worried about them "overlooking" Colorado.
The silver lining of the WV game is it'll have them focused for Colorado.
WV was able to counteract this by fouling the crap out of everyone that got the ball. CC was able to deal with it better than the other players. But since January, teams that tried to shut down Clark were burned by Martin, Marshall, and Stulke and Iowa won those games easily. In fact, just trying to shut down Clark is probably the worst way to try and beat Iowa unless you foul the crap out of everyone else. Just don't complain when Iowa shoots 47 free throws. Your chances of winning are better if you force Clark to be all of the offense and also make sure your own team doesn't have an off night with their own shooting. Clark might put up 45, but she's not going to put up 70. If you can score 85 points and shut everyone but Clark down, you have a real good chance of winning.
So as an Iowa fan, go ahead, put all of your focus on shutting down Caitlin. You'll be lucky to lose by less than 20.
And Sean Keeler used to write for the Des Moines Register! And he comes out with this clearly anti-Caitlin Clark, unfair anti-Iowa take about ref bias that is complete BS
He's prepping his audience for the same "unfair" thing to happen on Sat, since the Buffs foul even more than WVU does
I actually think the refs are going to COMPLETELY swallow their whistles, given this idiotic narrative, and it's going to lead to us losing this game
I sure hope not based on stats were a much better rebounding team than they are. I’m expecting for us to dominate the glass
Quite frankly fellas in my mind, calling too many fouls on us is much worse than not calling enough on West Virginia or rather Colorado.
We had I believe our second worst shooting night of the year and we won by 10. That game was tied once late in the fourth quarter otherwise we led the whole entire game. I’m not sure what this team has to do to prove to some of you guys that they can win basketball games… and don’t get me wrong. They definitely can lose this game, but the biggest thing when teams play us, many of them don’t shoot nearly as good at the free-throw line as we do so let’s say we both go to the line 15 times we’re likely to make 12 of them maybe they make eight ?!
We are typically a better rebounding team than most of the teams. We play every now and then we get a little sloppy and lazy on the defensive class, we are beginning to prove we can play some pretty good defense in stretches when we absolutely have to.
I anticipate us going to the rack, more And shooting much better
I would hope that playing in the Sweet 16 by itself would have the Iowa team focused
And Colorado gave Iowa a tough game last year in the Sweet 16 and the Buffs have practically everyone back from last year's team.
They are a veteran group; 5 seniors and 2 juniors make up their top 7.
The 5 starters vs Kansas State (and their averages):
Quay Miller..............6'3 Senior; 9 pts, 7.5 reb
Aaronette Vonleh..6'3 Junior, 14 pts, 5.2 reb
Frida Formann........5'11 Senior, 12.5 pts, 2 reb, 2 assists
Maddie Nolan.........5'11 Senior, 6.5 pts, 2.5 reb, 1 assist
Jaylyn Sherrod........5'7 senior, 12.9 pts, 3 reb, 5 assists
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2 key players off the bench:
Kindyll Wetta.........5'9 Junior, 6 pts, 3 reb, 4 assists
Tameiya Sadler.......5'8 Senior, 5.5 pts, 2 reb, 2 assists
Lol, exactly. I'm admittedly very fair on reffing and will call Iowa out when they get a call they shouldn't, happens all the time. I don't know what game many people were watching but I'm thinking that for a lot of them, it was their first game tuning in. WVU had a very obvious game plan to play physical. It sometimes works. It sometimes doesn't. I don't know where many of these "phantom" calls were that people in social media are mildly upset over. WVU came in aggressive and physical and they left that way...with the L. The reffing is bad anyway in WBB so why are people surprised, even if they aren't right?
I am a bit curious how Colorado Coaches and players are so open an focused on “getting in CCs head”. Are they stupid? Really. I would be shocked if Cc is not Uber focused, passing, running, gunning, etc. the more I see this stuff the more I think we win by 15.
I say let the loose lips buffs keep talking.
I say let the loose lips buffs keep talking.
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AS IF other teams have not tried to get into Caitlin's head! Where'd that get them?
"We want to come in and ruin everyone's day," said the big tuff Buff. Keep huffing and puffing, and we'll see whose house blows down.
GO HAWKS!!
"We want to come in and ruin everyone's day," said the big tuff Buff. Keep huffing and puffing, and we'll see whose house blows down.
GO HAWKS!!
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i am expecting more of the aggressive bumping and flopping
Definitely going to try to get Clark for pushing off, flopping or otherwise.
With Colorado starting two 6' 3" gals it will have to be all hands on deck when it comes to rebounding
And their schedule this season has been tough. Their win over Kansas State was impressive
I feel similarly. At the beginning of the year I thought playing in electric arenas would be to our benefit, because most of the other teams don’t play in those environments except pretty much when they play Iowa. My thought was that that experience matters, and the inexperienced would get spooked. Turns out that didn’t happen, and that pretty much everyone but Clark plays worse. I think being on a more neutral court will allow them to play within themselves. If they can just play an average game that should free up Caitlin to do Caitlin things.
I agree. Anyone who just looks at the fouls called and free throws in a box score does not get a sense of just how aggressive they were playing. It was like the bad boy pistons. I would have fouled out a lot more of them if I was a ref.
Bitch Brawl be better? More acceptable to Dawn?
West Virginia ranked 122nd in 3 point percentage on the season. Iowa was not that concerned about their 3 point shooters. My God, did you not watch the shooting form of some of their perimeter players. Looked like 3rd graders shooting from the hip.I largely agree, whether it is Gabby, or someone else like Martin or Affolter, SOMEONE besides Clark is going to have to make some 3's. WVU missed a ton of open 3's the other night...you can't count on other teams being that bad from distance. Iowa, other than Clark, also missed a bunch of 3's.
Let's have a good shooting game, how about that?
Sean in Colorado now? Smokin the weed before he writes his columns?
Being physical towards a teams best player isn’t something new, happens all the time.
The difference is the media attention
The difference is the media attention
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And yet statistically they are NOT a good rebounding team. I think Miller spends alot of time on the perimeter
I think Caitlin got in Colorado's heads today
Well I was a bit off on the spread but it was a failed strategy and even a bigger fail to talk about it in advance. Great game ladies. Great coaching and strategy.
not too far off; you thought we'd win by 15; ended up being 21
great team effort
now lets hope LSU runs their mouths over the next couple days
Iowa shot 54% overall and 41% from 3
hopefully we can repeat this over our next 3 games
Extremely weak performance by Colorado. I thought they were supposed to come out and take over the game.
The Buffs shot just 28% from 3 and 38% overall.
They also were terrible from the FT line (6-14 for 43%).
