Best half by a Hawkeye I've seen.

[mazda1]

JU did it all. He ran out of gas, but that was the best individual half I've seen from a Hawkeye. I don't remember specifics from the six pack era, but they had some great games too. BecausevI can't point to a specific this is the best ever for me.

Offense, defense, and rebounding. I could watch that over and over.

 

[skydog0784]

What difference does it make? He came up short. He didn't demand that he gets the ball instead of asking Jok to take the mantle in the second half because everybody knew ISU would be focusing on him in the second half. That's what dominate players do.

And I'm a big Uthoff fan. Just disappointed that he can't seem to take that next step.

 

[ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK]

He had the worst half of basketball I've ever seen! Dude was on pace for 60. Ended with 32.

 

[seseroy]

JU did it all. He ran out of gas, but that was the best individual half I've seen from a Hawkeye. I don't remember specifics from the six pack era, but they had some great games too. BecausevI can't point to a specific this is the best ever for me.

Offense, defense, and rebounding. I could watch that over and over.

I agree, it was one of best I have seen as well. It was crushing, but let's be real. The end result distorts it a bit, but I like what I see from this team. They will improve.

 

[skydog0784]

Uthoff, the most dominant player when the money isn't on the line.

 

[seseroy]

Uthoff, the most dominant player when the money isn't on the line.

I guess his contributions thus far this season have all been for nothing. What a hack he is...only 24 and 30 in the 1st half of last 2 games.

 

[ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK]

I guess his contributions thus far this season have all been for nothing. What a hack he is...only 24 and 30 in the 1st half of last 2 games.

I would've taken just 4 free throws out of him in the 2nd half.

 

[skydog0784]

I guess his contributions thus far this season have all been for nothing. What a hack he is...only 24 and 30 in the 1st half of last 2 games.

I didn't say that at all. As you point out, he's been dominant in the first half, Just not ready to take this team on his back yet - truly successful players and subsequently teams benefit from that. Heck, IA had it last year with White to a degree and he's not nearly the talent Uthoff is.

 

[mazda1]

He's a Hawkeye who just gave us a half for the ages. Sure we are all disappointed we lost, but this kid played his guts out and just ran out of juice. I'm willing to bet less than 5 posters on here ever went for 32 in a hs game let alone 30 in a half against the 4th ranked college team.

Most who attack him probably have never been in a game. Sure he can improve and we'd all like to have had him lead us to a W.

That said if you can't acknowledge what he did in the first half tonight you're going to wait a long time to see anything as good. I thought Hawkeye fans were better than this.

 

[ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK]

He's a Hawkeye who just gave us a half for the ages. Sure we are all disappointed we lost, but this kid played his guts out and just ran out of juice. I'm willing to bet less than 5 posters on here ever went for 32 in a hs game let alone 30 in a half against the 4th ranked college team.

Most who attack him probably have never been in a game. Sure he can improve and we'd all like to have had him lead us to a W.

That said if you can't acknowledge what he did in the first half tonight you're going to wait a long time to see anything as good. I thought Hawkeye fans were better than this.

I did.

 

[skydog0784]

He's a Hawkeye who just gave us a half for the ages. Sure we are all disappointed we lost, but this kid played his guts out and just ran out of juice. I'm willing to bet less than 5 posters on here ever went for 32 in a hs game let alone 30 in a half against the 4th ranked college team.

Most who attack him probably have never been in a game. Sure he can improve and we'd all like to have had him lead us to a W.

That said if you can't acknowledge what he did in the first half tonight you're going to wait a long time to see anything as good. I thought Hawkeye fans were better than this.

As a Hawk fan, I'm very appreciative of the first half performance Jarod gave us. Very happy he's a Hawk playing for his home state.

With all due respect, the point remains that he still needs to take his game and this team the next level. He has the skills to do so. Just not ready to for some reason.

 

[EddieHaskell]

He didn't run out of gas, he ran out of heart. And nobody is surprised.

 

[2432Hawk]

Give ISU some credit, I know Fran poo poo'd around the question in post game saying they didn't really do anything different. I certainly seem'd to see a lot more of Thomas on and up into Jarrod than in 1st half with Nater 2 fouls and Niang just trying not to foul and keep his distance. They got physical with Uthoff and to me it was smart to get the ball to Pete as he took over there for a bit.

The problem's I saw was lack of execution/efficiency on offense we say in 1st half, leading to ISU getting easy transition and more scoring opportunities. Turnovers were my key to the game and if you examine the box score that's the ball game folks!

 

[Auger]

Uthoff can't seem to draw the fouls late in games when the pressure mounts like White could do. He needs to do that to help ice games.

 

[And1Hawk]

Give ISU some credit, I know Fran poo poo'd around the question in post game saying they didn't really do anything different. I certainly seem'd to see a lot more of Thomas on and up into Jarrod than in 1st half with Nater 2 fouls and Niang just trying not to foul and keep his distance. They got physical with Uthoff and to me it was smart to get the ball to Pete as he took over there for a bit.

The problem's I saw was lack of execution/efficiency on offense we say in 1st half, leading to ISU getting easy transition and more scoring opportunities. Turnovers were my key to the game and if you examine the box score that's the ball game folks!

Thomas gets credit for great defense by being physical. Some of this was just a matter of bodying him and putting his hands on him.... All things I thought were a point of emphasis this season with the freedom of movement changes? Maybe Utoff did not attack it correctly to draw the fouls? With 2 minutes to go ISU had 3 fouls to our 9 playing this way. That's part of the reason we did not go to the line when they started to foul us to extend the game. They had to give 4!

 

[Gladeskat]

Uthoff, the most dominant player when the money isn't on the line.

He sure canned a big Three against Northwestern last year to send that game into overtime.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

He's a Hawkeye who just gave us a half for the ages. Sure we are all disappointed we lost, but this kid played his guts out and just ran out of juice. I'm willing to bet less than 5 posters on here ever went for 32 in a hs game let alone 30 in a half against the 4th ranked college team.

Most who attack him probably have never been in a game. Sure he can improve and we'd all like to have had him lead us to a W.

That said if you can't acknowledge what he did in the first half tonight you're going to wait a long time to see anything as good. I thought Hawkeye fans were better than this.

Most of the idiots bagging him are cyclone trolls. Just sayin

 

[IronFist1776]

Anyone trying to put this loss on the Ute needs to get their head examined. Fran's not using time outs to guys not playing defense like they did in the first half killed us, along w/ throwing the ball away.

 

[yerpHAWK]

He sure canned a big Three against Northwestern last year to send that game into overtime.

Hit the GW vs Minnesota too. Sure he disappeared, and wasn't nessicarily assertive ,but it wasn't like he wasn't shooting, and ISU basically denied him the ball. The shot he got at the end was pretty good as well.

 

[BGHAWK]

I believe this is the 3rd game recently that JU has scored 20 or more in the first half and only had 1 basket in the 2nd half in each of 2 games and zip in the other. That needs to change.

 

[cedarvalleykid14]

The games are 40 minutes. Playing 20 or 30 or 39 minutes is a waste of effort as long as the games continue to be 40 minutes. Losing that game last night was a travesty. It should NEVER happen, especially to a team as experienced as Iowa is. And yet it happens most of the time. Iowa has played four close games this season and lost 3 of them. And that has been happening for awhile now.

Even when Iowa was bad back in the late 70s before Olson arrived, I can't remember Iowa teams looking so damned scared at the ends of games as Iowa has in recent years. Last night was the latest example of the most embarrassing thing in sports: no guts.

I said before the game that I hoped Iowa would put on its big boy pants and play with swagger and attitude and knock Niang on his ass early and often. The Hawkeyes did that the first half, and despite wavering badly in the second half, still had an 8 point lead with 90 seconds to play...the most important 90 seconds of the game...and Iowa looked like toddlers out there. No swagger. No courage. No attitude. A bunch of Iowa seniors looked like they wanted to crawl in a hole. They literally handed the game to ISU.

If you play hard and with guts and the other team is better, hell, there's nothing you can do. But this thing of suddenly going AWOL at crucial moments is sad, disappointing, and embarrassing.

Sure, Iowa outplayed the #2 / #4 team in the country for most of 39 minutes. But when it mattered most, Iowa wilted like a daisy in the desert...again.

 

[EagleHawk]

He didn't run out of gas, he ran out of heart. And nobody is surprised.

We had a 20 point half time lead, that was pretty much on one player, we blew a 20 point lead with 10 minutes to go, that is pretty much on the whole team. Without Jok and Uthoff, and Woody early in the game, Iowa gets run out of that building. Need the rest of the players to step up.

 

[mickv]

It was the best half I've ever seen from a Hawkeye....fantastic play in every way. He is a gifted player no doubt.

 

[silasstarr]

JU did it all. He ran out of gas, but that was the best individual half I've seen from a Hawkeye. I don't remember specifics from the six pack era, but they had some great games too. BecausevI can't point to a specific this is the best ever for me.

Offense, defense, and rebounding. I could watch that over and over.

Uthoff was great. We lost because Mike and Woody turned it over repeatedly.

 

[hawk_it]

Uthoff was phenomenal! Games are not simply won or lost on one aspect. Sometimes one play is what we all remember though. Example the B10 Championship TD by Mich St. But an Iowa catch here, a first down there, a special team play, punting etc. this is the same in Basketball. If you make shots its hard for the other team to catch up. Turn it over they score big swings happen. A few more substitutions to rest the players may have led to better decisions down the road. Who knows.

 

[MTHawkeyes43]

Certainly not going to take anything away from Jarod because that was a clinic that he put on in the first half. However, if he would of done that in the second half it would have been an instant classic with Iowa going into Hilton and beating the Clones.

 

[Lone Clone]

Give ISU some credit, I know Fran poo poo'd around the question in post game saying they didn't really do anything different. I certainly seem'd to see a lot more of Thomas on and up into Jarrod than in 1st half with Nater 2 fouls and Niang just trying not to foul and keep his distance. They got physical with Uthoff and to me it was smart to get the ball to Pete as he took over there for a bit.

The problem's I saw was lack of execution/efficiency on offense we say in 1st half, leading to ISU getting easy transition and more scoring opportunities. Turnovers were my key to the game and if you examine the box score that's the ball game folks!

If Fran didn't think ISU was doing anything differently in the second half, that might explain why it was working

 

[goodbyebobby]

The games are 40 minutes. Playing 20 or 30 or 39 minutes is a waste of effort as long as the games continue to be 40 minutes. Losing that game last night was a travesty. It should NEVER happen, especially to a team as experienced as Iowa is. And yet it happens most of the time. Iowa has played four close games this season and lost 3 of them. And that has been happening for awhile now.

Even when Iowa was bad back in the late 70s before Olson arrived, I can't remember Iowa teams looking so damned scared at the ends of games as Iowa has in recent years. Last night was the latest example of the most embarrassing thing in sports: no guts.

I said before the game that I hoped Iowa would put on its big boy pants and play with swagger and attitude and knock Niang on his ass early and often. The Hawkeyes did that the first half, and despite wavering badly in the second half, still had an 8 point lead with 90 seconds to play...the most important 90 seconds of the game...and Iowa looked like toddlers out there. No swagger. No courage. No attitude. A bunch of Iowa seniors looked like they wanted to crawl in a hole. They literally handed the game to ISU.

If you play hard and with guts and the other team is better, hell, there's nothing you can do. But this thing of suddenly going AWOL at crucial moments is sad, disappointing, and embarrassing.

Sure, Iowa outplayed the #2 / #4 team in the country for most of 39 minutes. But when it mattered most, Iowa wilted like a daisy in the desert...again.

I'm sure it sucked as much writing this as much it does agreeing with every word.