Bluder Botched the Transfer Portal
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And the rest got better… I’ll toss you a bone here, if we can’t keep Hannah Stuelke healthy and out of foul trouble, it will be a tough go as we progress through the tournament but she is much better and getting better every game.
I’ll toss you another bone… Coming into this year I wasn’t really that big of a Molly Davis fan and in fact when I was putting together the best lineup in my head I like Affolter better than her and maybe Feurbach. Well what I didn’t know is she can get to the rack and score at Will, she is very crafty… That Indiana game really opened my eyes and it appears to me it’s been a coming out party for her. She is much, much better and an underrated defender.
Kate Martin getting 4 fouls that game was horrific she is having a hell of a year and now that Gabby Marshall is finally getting her shot back and we found more minutes for Afgolter. I have no problem calling this team better maybe even much better than last year.
Let’s remember in men’s college basketball teams with the best centers over the last 10-15?years haven’t historically been the teams that won it all.
I agree with a lot of what you said, especially about Davis. A team can play without a center if they can consistently hit the 3. We had multiple opportunities to win the game.
It's really too bad there wasn't a 6'3"+ player willing to come to Iowa. Almost anyone, just so we have for fouls to give. Basically the same type of player as Braun on the men's team. Fran has been pretty successful at getting players from the lower leagues and for them to be productive. The men's team needs a CC, while the women's team needs the role players.
This is 1000% correct. Clark, while always a really really good player, started to take over the last 1/3 of the season last year. She dominated the Big Ten tournament and was clearly the best player in the tournament. Monica played a nice Batman role. And Warnock was a nice glue player. We're averaging more and holding our opponents to less points than last year. Clark, while great last year in that run is now even better. I'm not sure some of you understand what that means. She's the Jordan or college basketball. Yes, it's hard because the team around her is good, but not great. As you have pointed out we've beaten K St w/a giant Center, VA Tech who made the Final 4 and we blew the doors off of IU. Teams lose games, especially when you have a bullseye on your back and there's 18K fans in Columbus against a really talented team. I'm going to enjoy watching the rest of the season. I know you and I differ on the football team because to me it's not fun to watch anymore. To me the women's bball team is must watch ball and we're good on top of it.
I’ve posted about our lack of a quality 5 prior to OSU. Just because we can still beat 2nd tier teams with good posts doesn’t mean it’s not a limitation of this team.
Even a healthy Hannah will struggle down low against a decent/bigger post player. And Women’s college teams use more traditional 5’s than the men’s game, so not a good comparison.
McMahon is a 6' small forward but very strong. Ohio State's center Mikulasikova likes to shoot 3s. She made one in overtime that pretty much sealed the deal. Goodman only played 1 and half minutes yesterday. I suspect she was one of the Iowa players that got sick. The biggest issue yesterday for Iowa was defensive rebounding. Affolter looked lethargic, she's probably sick too.
Yes, switching gears, I am shocked we couldn’t get a transfer in, but in no way do I think we didn’t try…HARD in fact. I’m a little disappointed to hear of the potential fallout as a result of the Angel Reese thing.
I honestly thought we’d get Kudos for how we/Caitlyn handled that, but oh well….
A couple other critics if you will, I absolutely love watching this girl play and she does use her teammates. I was pissed like after a Fball game after we lost, but…
She often throws passes to some of her teammates that they can’t handle and she needs to know. Goodman and maybe O’Grady (better hands actually) aren’t catching those 50 ft over the head passes and dropping them in very regularly.
And she sometimes throws rockets no one is looking for…
Also she only recently ( and don’t mean this year, I mean the last 10 games) has really tried to play any defense…and by the way it has shown.
Also I’m not complaining, it’s Lisa’s B’s job, but I don’t get why Goodman has gotten so many more minutes. Yes she’s way more physically strong, but I like O’Grady and she does have long arms and better offensive skills…
But it’s her team and her job, just my thoughts…
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Why is it that you have conveniently skipped the multiple times it’s been posted about a the teams that we have played with all American centers and beat them?!,?
I have personally posted it three times… Those were fantastic teams. Kansas State is an elite team. I think Virginia Tech is certainly a top 16 team or a sweet 16/elite 18 in Indiana maybe two please stop.
Everybody has limitations. Ohio State doesn’t even have a dominant center…..WTH! And there are plenty of very good, guard oriented women’s basketball teams
The football team is more or less a philosophical/life style thing with me… I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure out where I’m coming from. It is definitely a chore to watch that offense, but I choose not to be that fan, as far as the women’s basketball team goes, she is absolutely must watch television.
I schedule around her games LOL.
Racists Iowa fans? LOl CLOWN the only ones being rasist last season was wat turd from LSU and her coach and the clown coach from SC....don't be a tool!
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Think what you want, but don’t wonder why no one txfrd here when it was very obvious why.
You're clearly being over the top here. Look, Iowa is a bit of an anomaly (sp) here in all sports. We're a mostly white team in all sports in sports that are mostly dominated by people of color now. We basically have 1 girl that's not white that sees the floor in our top 9. Our football team leans that way as does the men's bball team. I'm not saying there's anything wrong w/that as Iowa as a state has very few minorities. We are who we are. And we have nothing to apologize for. However, it's clear that for some reason we struggle to recruit minority players on the womens team. I have no idea why. You immediately jump to us as having racist fans. Do I think women of color want to play w/other women of color? Sure seems that way. We've been a very successful program even before Clark. Now we're clearly better now than ever. You want to blame the fans that's fine. I can't go there.
I'm with you on a lot of that. I wonder if it would make any sense to do what TCU just did and have a Volleyball player join the basketball team. It's probably too late for that.
Good points made in here.
But this is an honest question, but does Gabby have something in her heritage? It doesn't matter nor do I care, but just curious. Almost looks like Polynesian or something....or she just tans really, really well
I have no idea what you are talking about or quoting me. My post was in support of Coach Bluder and the team and I have supported them every year since Bluder arrived. Anyway, thanks for the sermon that was clearly for the negative nellies on here, just not me, I agree.
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Nice imitation of Beavis. Need more than 5-8 points out of a starting Center. Especially an offense as high powered as Iowa's. But you already knew that, Butthead.
You REALLY do need to stop putting facts out there like that CM. Somebodies going to get their feelings hurt.....
There is a BIG difference between last years team, (to this point of the season where we were struggling) and the end of the year team come late Feb and March. Of course people only seem to remember what you did lately, and of course we rolled all the way to the title game. Thats not how they played through the first 20 games last year though....
Well, Iowa also lost by 30 points at Maryland during that late stretch run. They turned out all right.
Bluder favors offense over defense, until recently the Clark/Goodman have been more on the same page than Clark/Ogrady which has often resulted in Clark showing signs of frustration. They do seem to be connecting more often, but are still have a lot of room for growth. I have been saying all year that the post/center position was going to be the limiting factor in how far this team can go. I was hoping they would use Stuelke more as a 4 and get the 5s enough minutes for them to settle in. I think we might be close to seeing OGrady first off the bench as she seems to be gaining confidence. If she keeps coming along we could eventually see a shift to a Hannah at the 4 against big teams and at the 5 for small teams.
Good points made in here.
But this is an honest question, but does Gabby have something in her heritage? It doesn't matter nor do I care, but just curious. Almost looks like Polynesian or something....or she just tans really, really well
Yes…
Brad heinrichs was interviewed about this, and he said we would have needed $600k+ to have a legit shot at the big Bluder wanted. He said we just don't have it.
If the swarm has $10mil to throw around, yeah we could buy a women's bball team too... We don't.
Maybe even Edinger…Goodman started out strong and I could honestly see why she played….and against the 6-4 plus giants she may be the best, but she is not at all quick enough and less offensive minded than O,Grady.
I get the D; I’m a D guy…. i’m on record that the men’s basketball team of all our sports irritates me the most because I can’t stand watching a team that can’t guard a cinderblock if it’s chained to their leg, but when people are running around Goodman and we’re also not getting any any significant Offense, I’m in no favor of O’Grady and again maybe Edinger too she’s raw, but who knows….
What is wrong with you? If Iowa City bothers you so much why do you cheer for our teams?
VT & Indiana aren’t elite teams & we already lost to KSU.
The Ohio State center might not be dominant, but she’s way better than our posts.
I’m glad you keep running your mouth because I’m looking forward to owning your sorry a$$ when weak post play plays a big part in ending our season.
Good fan….something ends everyone’s season but one team, dope. You are the kind of fan that waits until we lose to bitch and moan but never around when we win….those fans don’t own anybody🤷♂️
You make up what you want to see….carry on. I’m curious what you’ll say when we beat them by 10 plus in Iowa City or when Indiana beats them, it’s literally such a dumb take.
But you be you…
Ps….we also beat K-St…LOL not sure how a goof like you explains that away….here I can help, they played better than us the 1st game and we played better the 2nd….doh!!
That’s why they play 7 game series in the NBA. Night to night it’s a different game.
K St is now ranked 4. They’ve lost 1 game. Oh, that was to Iowa. And they have an elite post but I think she just got injured. IU is 14, they’ve lost 2 games. 1 of those to us. VT is 19 and made the final 4 and have 2 elite players that will play in the WNBA. We beat them basically in a home game for them in Charlotte. Someone is is probably going to beat us as only 1 team wins the natty. We’re 18-2. Maybe we’d be 20 and 0 if you could have landed us an “ elite” Center. Oh, UCLA lost tonight on the road. They were 2. Guess sometimes you lose road games to good teams.
Looking forward to further discussion when we flame out before the Final 4 due to lack of quality post play.
Don’t worry though, I’ll be glad to take some time to teach you a little more about ball then. I haven’t coached at the 10 yr old Y ball level in a while, but I’m sure those key lessons will come back to me!
#2 UCLA just lost on the road to #16 Utah. I watched about 1/2 the game. Neither team really impressed me, but college teams are going to have off nights, especially on the road.
It is hard to get on the same page when O'Grady doesn't get many minutes. She had a nice stretch and then didn't see the floor much after that. I will say her lack of lateral quickness really limits her, especially against someone like the McMahon girl.
This is from when #2 overall 2024 prospect Joyce Edwards chose South Carolina over LSU. LSU offer below...Who knows if this is legit (likely not) but if it is even partially accurate, this is tough to compete against.
The Betts girl that everyone wanted was not impressive at all.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe one of her parents is black and the other is white.Good points made in here.
But this is an honest question, but does Gabby have something in her heritage? It doesn't matter nor do I care, but just curious. Almost looks like Polynesian or something....or she just tans really, really well
