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Gotta hand it to the naysayers on this board. Even after an Iowa win that was generally applauded by the basketball world, they find a way to only concentrate on the negative. No credit for blitzing the Wahoos in the first half and holding them to 30 points. No credit for shooting 54% for the game and 48% from three. No credit for outrebounding them. No credit for FOUR turnovers against a supposedly sound Virginia defense. No credit for not folding when they lost the lead. No credit for winning the game on a court that rarely gives up one to the visitors.
I will say once again. McCaffery has a call-in show tonight. The call is free. Please give him a ring and straighten him out with your defensive brilliance. After all, you believe he needs the help and you claim to be Iowa fans. Give the man a hand!
I will say once again. McCaffery has a call-in show tonight. The call is free. Please give him a ring and straighten him out with your defensive brilliance. After all, you believe he needs the help and you claim to be Iowa fans. Give the man a hand!
Exactly! Beating a traditional basketball powerhouse on the road (and the first true college road game with fans for our younger players) is a tribute to our players and coaches. Some have moaned about pissing away a big lead to an offensively-challenged team. I don't think VA's players are offensively-challenged; they play in a system that focuses on defense and making their opponents play D for the full 30 seconds. Did you notice the difference in VA's offensive possessions from 1st to 2nd half? First half they typically shot it in the last 5 seconds of the shot clock. At halftime, I'm betting their coaching staff realized they had to have more offensive possessions second half to have a chance to win and changed the game plan to take more risks on offense, such as taking shots earlier in the shot clock if they had them. Those kids can score when they need to.
I think someone criticized Rebraca for only getting 3 rebounds. Keep in mind, he's averaging 7 in only 20 minutes per game.
Others criticized Fran for lack of minutes for Sandfort and Perkins. Subbing isn't an exact science. As a former college coach myself, you go with what you think is best given the situation and the knowledge you have of your players. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. Monday night, it worked. And over Fran's career in coaching four different D-I teams, it's worked a helluva lot more than it hasn't. I'm damn happy he's our coach, especially after the Todd Lackluster train wreck and the Alford sinking ship.
Agree, its definitely not a given that any other coach would have offered the Murrays in the first place.
Got to give Fran credit on that one for sure.
Yes its hyperbole but it really looked like they had spent little to no time on that zone and no, I didn't see great communication in the first half either but Virginia missed allot of shots which allowed Iowa to run.
The things that are lacking on Iowas D come with practice and repetition and have usually been lacking except for the Adam Woodbury years where he would direct traffic for the rest of the team.
This group has excellent defensive pieces and if they can't put it together im ready to move on because you're never going to win anything of significance in college basketball without defense.
The only guy who looked like he knew what was going on on the front line was Perkins.
Keegan had probably his worst defensive game of his career, he looked totally lost in the zone.
We all know he's much better than that but it was odd.
Going under the screen was the scout on Clark. He's not a shooter, that was luck.
But the corner 3s were mostly misscommunications by Iowa.
Part of that was probably not paying real close attention to their Murray. I can buy that.
In the game thread.
Here's you're exact quote.
PMac was in a suit and unable to play for most of the previous TWO years. This season just started so wtf are you counting it???
You lied there and now your lying again.
You're not someone who is taken seriously in any capacity.
Here is what I actually posted:
As you can see, I said most of the previous 2 years. I was wrong about last year, yes, as he did play in 31 games, but he wasn't playing starters minutes, only averaging less than 15 mpg. And in 2019-2020 he was in a suit for all but 2 games. He wasn't even able to practice for most of that. To count it as "experience" is stupid.
Well you apparently dont follow Iowa basketball if you thought Pat M. hadn't played last year. He backed up Joe Weiskamp and often was paired with JoeT. At college level, PMAC is not high experience guy but he is 21 years old going on 22 in March, so he's played a lot of basketball in his life for only being in 2nd year of competitive B-ball at Iowa.
Only way to combat Purdue size is to make it a weakness on the other end.
Any time Eddy is in they have to spread the floor and attack him off the dribble.
Who knows? Maybe the refs will actually call offensive fouls on their bigs when they bowl us over. Or call the bumping and holding we usually experience from their back court. Nah!
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