This team will be fortunate to win 3 Big games. Not because of talent either.
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BirdistheWord
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6-10 wins seems like a reasonable range for a guess.
isu was the only game so far that they looked terrible.
Not ready to pack it in and give up on the season yet.
isu was the only game so far that they looked terrible.
Not ready to pack it in and give up on the season yet.
The sound I'd guess you'll hear will be crickets.
How about this.. if it’s 3 or less I owe you. If it’s 4-8 push if it’s 9+ you owe me $20.
Iowa will win more than 3 games. 10 would be an absolute miracle. 8 sounds about right.
I am becoming much more pessimistic about this team given the last three games and watching a lot of BIG games. The half-court offense appears to be disconnected. I was thinking .500 before year started now (unless the lights go on) IMO would guess 5/6 wins in BIG. Certainly, hope I am wrong.
where do I sign for 8 conference wins?
It’s apparent he doesn’t watch a bunch of hoops outside of Iowa. Thought I’d give him a break.
BirdistheWord
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It does seem like a lot given we are 0-2. But go through the schedule and it does seem like we can win games against teams like Penn St., Minny, Nebraska, Northwestern, Maryland.
I'm assuming the OP thinks that we have B1G talent but will be sabotaged by our own coach. The hatred of McCaffery runs deep in some on here. Newsflash: With the exception of his first year and his eighth year, we have never finished in the lower half of the conference standings and often finished much higher than the preseason experts had predicted.
That said, anyone with any basketball savvy recognizes that this is a rebuilding year, not just because of the usual understandable departures (Garza, Wieskamp) but also the surprising ones (Nunge, Fredrick). That's over 53 of the 83 points we averaged last season. Unless you're a blueblood with a bench loaded with talent waiting their turn, or strike lightning with an infusion of talented transfers, it will take some time for our guys to get used to playing with each other before hostile crowds and right the ship.
That said, anyone with any basketball savvy recognizes that this is a rebuilding year, not just because of the usual understandable departures (Garza, Wieskamp) but also the surprising ones (Nunge, Fredrick). That's over 53 of the 83 points we averaged last season. Unless you're a blueblood with a bench loaded with talent waiting their turn, or strike lightning with an infusion of talented transfers, it will take some time for our guys to get used to playing with each other before hostile crowds and right the ship.
Few things need to change - Conner should never have the ball in his hands under 6 seconds on the shot clock, boxing out needs improvement, Patrick needs to quit trying long, running bank lay-ups, Keegan needs to get his touch back and quit missing bunnies, JBO needs consistency, Joe T needs to settle down, and Tony P needs more playing time.
Connor getting the blame for forcing shots late is unfair. Is he supposed to refuse to catch the pass?
Agree. He shouldn't be in that position because he should be on the bench.
Rare spot duty, 5 or so minutes a game, should minimize the likelihood of that happening.
Yeah, TJ Otzelberger who was the coach at UNLV til freaking mid march thinks you are an idiot. He's right, but carry on with the excuses I guess
I’m not a Fran guy and I’m not “bullish” on this season at all, but this team will win more than 3 conference games. 5-7 B1G wins is my guess as of now, but that would probably go under 3 if Keegan is hurt long term.
and even if the teams wins 8 games in conference, I’m not sure why anybody would be pleased with that at this point of the coaching tenure.
and even if the teams wins 8 games in conference, I’m not sure why anybody would be pleased with that at this point of the coaching tenure.
Torvik still has Iowa 19-12 (10-10). I honestly think that's about right.
Common sense, sound reasoning, basing your opinion on experience as well......will not be well received by some.
Please take Hawk out of your name. It's clear based on your posting that you are not a Hawk fan. It's okay to be a Cyclone fan just embrace it. Don't pretend to be what you aren't.
We lost arguably the best (college) player in Iowa history. We lost another starter early to the NBA. We lost the guy who would have been our starting center to transfer. We lost a 4th starter to transfer (although that was probably a blessing in disguise).
Look, I'd love it if we never had down years, but given the circumstances I wouldn't be totally disappointed with 8 wins in conference play. The OP is delusional though if he thinks we won't win more than 3.
With this inexperienced team I just hope for continued improvement as the year progresses, knowing there will be the occasional crap game (see ISU). If that gets us 8-9-10 wins in conference I will live with that (we have no choice right?).......This Utah State game is a very intriguing game from that perspective.
I am certain that if we lose to Utah State the fans will be trashing the coach and players, getting into personal attacks on the coaches kids, etc.......if we win, it will be nothing more than that's what we should have done.
I think the truth is that if we lose to them...it may, or may not, signal problems for the future. If we beat them I think it shows that we are back on the trajectory we were on prior to the ISU game.....which was generally decent.
I am certain that if we lose to Utah State the fans will be trashing the coach and players, getting into personal attacks on the coaches kids, etc.......if we win, it will be nothing more than that's what we should have done.
I think the truth is that if we lose to them...it may, or may not, signal problems for the future. If we beat them I think it shows that we are back on the trajectory we were on prior to the ISU game.....which was generally decent.
The fewest Big 10 games Fran has won in his tenure in any given season is 4. The awful 2017-18 season, and his first year with Lickliter's leftovers. Every other year he has won 8+.
I'm not happy with the recent performance, either, but this another overreaction thread.
3 wins would be "fortunate"? I'll take that bet. If Fran can't win more than 3, I'd be OK with him getting canned.
I'm not happy with the recent performance, either, but this another overreaction thread.
3 wins would be "fortunate"? I'll take that bet. If Fran can't win more than 3, I'd be OK with him getting canned.
Agree perry.
My framing for a season is around making the NCAA tourney performance. I thought that the loss of Garza and Wieskamp, plus Nunge going elsewhere, would leave them falling short of making the Dance. What I really wanted to see was younger players seeing the floor a lot more(Kris, Ahron, Tony, Josh) and for the team to improve so that they were playing their best ball at the end of the year.
All of that can still happen, even if they lose to utah st.
Did you see Minnesota win @ Ann Arbor? Did you see Rutgers beat #1 Purdue?
Iowa's season could go any number of ways, and there's no way to predict the number of wins at this point. But my best guess is the ceiling is 10 wins, which means the Hawkeyes would go 10-8 the rest of the conference season.
Iowa's season could go any number of ways, and there's no way to predict the number of wins at this point. But my best guess is the ceiling is 10 wins, which means the Hawkeyes would go 10-8 the rest of the conference season.
Yep......I think they need to finish the regular season with 17-18-19 wins and then make a run in the B10 tournament....hopefully peaking at the end of the year, in order to get consideration for the NCAA.
One of the positives at this point, that I see, is that Fran has played a number of guys a similar amount of minutes, which I hope means that we are relatively fresh at the end of the year and hopefully reasonably healthy.
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