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Ayo might have pulled ahead tonight. Have to show up for prime time games.
Ayo just played like ass against MSU and Garza struggled against a 1st team all Big Ten caliber player with nobody (Nunge) to spell him
It feels like it's Garza's because there's no one else. His Junior year earned him the NPOY more than this year has. Feels like a career award for him.
Npoty don't get dominated like that. Garza should have owned that guy and he didn't. He kept trying the same shit even though it wasn't working
Ayo just played like absolute shit against MSU. You’re such an idiot lol.
That dude is damn good. Way better than I thought (I haven’t seen Michigan a lot this year).
He really impressed me all around and especially his defense.
Ayo is also out “indefinitely” and did not play tonight. Surely that will put him over the top.
For the poster talking about NPOY being a “career” award for Garza, that’s just crap. He exploded last year for sure, but has been statistically better this year in a better B1G in a year when he came in as the one guy in the country with a huge target on his back.
2019-20: 23.9 PPG, 54% shooting, 36% shooting 3s, 65% FT, 9.8 reb, 1.2 assists, 1.8 blocks, 1.8 turnovers
2020-21: 24.7 PPG, 56% shooting, 44% shooting 3s, 70% FT, 8.5 reb, 1.8 assists, 1.6 blocks, 1.5 turnovers
He’s scoring more and shooting a higher percentage with more attention focused on him, shooting 3s way better, improved from the FT line, increased assists and decreased turnovers. A slight dip in rebounds.
There’s just no argument that he hasn’t lived up.
For the poster talking about NPOY being a “career” award for Garza, that’s just crap. He exploded last year for sure, but has been statistically better this year in a better B1G in a year when he came in as the one guy in the country with a huge target on his back.
2019-20: 23.9 PPG, 54% shooting, 36% shooting 3s, 65% FT, 9.8 reb, 1.2 assists, 1.8 blocks, 1.8 turnovers
2020-21: 24.7 PPG, 56% shooting, 44% shooting 3s, 70% FT, 8.5 reb, 1.8 assists, 1.6 blocks, 1.5 turnovers
He’s scoring more and shooting a higher percentage with more attention focused on him, shooting 3s way better, improved from the FT line, increased assists and decreased turnovers. A slight dip in rebounds.
There’s just no argument that he hasn’t lived up.
Typically a B1G player isn't leading the nation in scoring, and with the B1G being this stacked it is even more of a feat.
22 point loss. Garza hit 32% of his shots. Averages 56%. That's a difference of 4-5 baskets. You're math isn't adding up.
I'm not saying the Hawks would have won, but if Luka had hit those additional 4-5 shots during the game, the dynamics would have changed and maybe it doesn't slip away so quickly.
He was getting away with bullshit fouls all night. Garza should have had about 30 FT attempts. That being said Garza kept trying to physically dominate the guy and it wasn't working. Still kept trying to do that. Literally no other players were rotating into easy passes where they could catch and shoot or take it to the rim themselves. Luka was stubborn last night
I think Jack could have made difference for us last night,.. Spelling Luka and maintaining a continuous interior presence would have made life much more difficult for Dickinson..
It’s not that Garza’s buckets would have swung the outcome, it’s that it would have changed the flow of the game and likely kept it tighter. Iowa was down 3 at halftime with Luka shooting something like 3-9. At 15:49 in the 2nd half, Wieskamp made a FT to close the gap to four points. After that, Luka missed 2 bunnies (along with some other Iowa guys) and Michigan pushed the lead to 11. Iowa hung around and got it down to 7 after Keegan’s 3, but then the Ulis and PMac turnovers allowed Michigan to extend to 15+ and it was over.
If Luka is making bunnies and adds those 4-5 baskets, then instead of falling down 16 points, Iowa may be able to keep Michigan’s lead under 10 and Iowa isn’t playing much of the last 5 min with the 2nd unit. I don’t remember exactly when Luka went out for good, but his last offensive entry in the play-by-play was at the 6:23 mark When he got called for the travel and Fran lost his shit.
Luka’s poor shooting also allowed Michigan to just play him 1-1 with some help doubles vs. really crowding him inside, which allowed them to keep pressure on Iowa’s outside shooters. If Luka had been shooting better, it’s just a different game. Michigan may very well have won anyway, but it would have had a different feel down the stretch for sure.
It was close in the first half with Luka shooting ~33%, it wasn't close in the 2nd with Luka shooting ~33%. Your hypotheticals are irrelevant.
"If Michigan didn't score so many more points in the 2nd half, it would've been a totally different game" - see how ridiculous that sounds?
Your line of thinking seems to be that the game was simply going to have that outcome no matter what. I’m giving a reason. Every game there are a couple factors or a short span of time that swings an outcome. They’re called turning points.
Iowa uses Garza to pressure the opponent inside and either dominate in the paint or force the opponent to leave more guys down around him, which opens up the perimeter. A good part of Luka’s bad game yesterday was due to Michigan defense. That got him frustrated and forcing some shots. Even with that, however, there were easily 5-6 baskets that were there with him at the rim mostly uncontested and he just missed. No doubt if he hits 4-5 more of those, it keeps the game tighter, which then keeps Iowa’s starters in longer and ultimately means a different game.
Really, though, the biggest factor from Iowa’s side was losing both Nunge and CMac. CMac takes a lot of heat around here, some of it deserved, but that’s a lot of minutes gone at the 4/5, plus it removes one primary ball handler and a versatile scoring option. Garza has to carry more weight, Keegan has to stick more at the 4 and it means that PMac got exposed a bit more than usual. Add in that neither JoeT or Ulis were very good off the bench and it got out of hand......but there’s no doubt that Garza making more of the easy shots would have tightened up the game significantly.
Luka will be the Player of the Year period. Book it!
Kind of sad to watch the BTN promote Ayo for the award during the pregame show this week. Even brought on Beilein to explain why Ayo deserves it. And Brust, of course, was all for it. I would think that they would be pushing Luka as I don't believe Ayo would win the NPOY, but Luka could. Would be nice to have the award in the B1G.
Yeah, that is weak sauce. IL seems to be doing pretty well without Ayo of late, not sure Iowa would survive without Garza. Should that matter? Maybe, maybe not. If IL were to win this whole damn thing, I do wonder if voters would be swayed to give it to Ayo...I am guessing so.
Garza was deserving last year. Even more so this year. If he doesn’t win it all the voters are blind to what that man has accomplished this year. Would love to see Iowa wreck shop in the BTT to leave no doubt in the voters minds. It starts tomorrow when he goes for 28/12. Lezzzzgo!
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