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Anyone seen Maryland play?

Just highlights. Only impression, not very scientific, is they are athletic. They hung with MSU.
 
PG young is very good...quick scorer.
Scott is a ten year vet who can shoot from the arc
Reese is long and athletic.

As always we better shoot well or we are in trouble.
There is nothing wrong with carrying that card...remember
“Paladin...Have Gun Will Travel”...
Iowa basketball under Fran will always be offensively geared...He was hired to gear up the offense...He has delivered 100% on what he was hired to do.
You cannot reasonably expect this dog to change his spots...
 
Just wondering what to expect……and which way to bet. :)
Watched most of their games this year.

Basically it's a 1 man show most nights with Jahmir Young (pg). He does turn the ball over a lot, but he's going to get 20+ points most nights.

Julian Reese (Angel's brother) is a decent big, but he has almost 0 use of his right hand, he is very lefty dominant and he's a 57% FT shooter, so pretty bad at the line.

Donta Scott has turned the corner on offense--he started off the year looking like trash which was weird for a 5th year player. He's the only 3 point shooter you really have to worry about, so Krikke will need to not overhelp on drives or post-feeds. The flip side of Scott is he has always been a poor defender, and that is not different this year--I'd expect Krikke to feast tonight.

Their other main guys to note are 2 freshmen. The reason that Maryland was a trendy pick to finish top 3-5 in the conference in the preseason was due to these guys. Deshawn Harris-Smith was a borderline 5 star guard and Jamie Kaiser was a top-50 guy who was considered one of the better shooters in the class. Neither guy has lived up to expectation this year. DHS is shooting 45/15/60 this year just to illustrate just how bad he has been--for a borderline 5-star, that's one of the worst shooting splits for a guard I've seen.

Overall, Maryland is the 2nd worst offensive team in the conference--only Rutgers is worse than them. Maryland is going to try and grind it out and win a 68-65 type of game. But if Iowa can speed the game up and run, I don't think that Maryland can keep up.
 
HH80 has a very good recap. A few other things to add. They are very athletic and good defensively. They don't have enormous size but their bigs (Scott and Reese) have the athleticism to handle themselves on the perimeter (in pick-and-roll defense) while Reese is also able to contest shots at the rim. I think we will try to target them in the post with Freeman and Krikke and not many teams run post-centric offenses these days (other than Purdue, who beat Maryland while scoring 1.09 points per possession). We might be able to get at them inside with our bigs. I think one-on-one matchups in the post between Krikke/Freeman and Scott/Reese will be crucial. If we can get their bigs in foul trouble, I really like our chances.

Conversely, if our bigs get in foul trouble I really do not like our chances. Freeman has been in foul trouble each of the last two games and he needs to stay out of foul trouble tonight. I've noticed a massive fall-off after our top six players. When any five player combination of the following six: Perkins, Dix, Payton, Patrick, Freeman and Krikke is on the floor we tend to do great (even against high major competition) but we are terrible the rest of the time. So hopefully Patrick can play and Freeman/Krikke stay out of foul trouble so we don't have to go as deep into our bench. If we keep those top six players in for large stretches of the game, we have a great chance.

Their wings are good athletes, with size (6'5-6'6), who have been bricklayers this year. Hopefully that cold shooting spell continues. Good defenders though. This is not a team that you want to be running a bunch of perimeter iso-ball against because their wings aren't easy guys to score against. Geronimo provides shot blocking as well. Their PG, Young, is pretty small so Perkins and/or Dix might be able to score over him in the lane. They kind of remind me of ISU a bit in terms of their defensive statistics and roster composition (undersized athletic bigs, ball pressure). They force turnovers but not at the elite rate of ISU. They can definitely pressure you on the perimeter with some athletes though so we need to be poised against that - ISU's pressure killed us. Be poised, get the ball inside to Krikke/Freeman. Minimize live ball turnovers leading to easy runouts. On defense, I think the main thing is knowing who can help and who can't. Don't let Scott and Young get open looks from three point range but their other guys haven't shown they can make them yet. I wonder if we might play more zone in this one.
 
PG young is very good...quick scorer.
Scott is a ten year vet who can shoot from the arc
Reese is long and athletic.

As always we better shoot well or we are in trouble.
I agree with all of the above comments
 
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