Gonzaga Postpones 4 games
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They should have had a covid party, and gotten it out of the way....
I knew that our players partying in huge groups all summer would pay off.
I much prefer two real games over two weeks of practice only....
Not really. Film on the opponent only goes so far in basketball. We run the same stuff on both ends basically every time out for years. Garza is still 6'11" and scores a lot of points. Kids aren't gonna get much more out of studying film for 24 hours cumulatively than they would from 6 hours. How much time they'll actually even spend on the floor practicing and conditioning is probably a very open question. Even with young and healthy guys, just having the virus has been known to really wear guys down.
The rumor was that at least 7, and perhaps double digits, had COVID already before the season started.
Yeah, game time over prep all day long. And the next two games for Iowa are good ones to have right now. #14 N.C. tomorrow, Clowns Friday. Both will have some intensity even with no crowds. Beats going head to head with scout team hands down.
This isn't football where weeks of scouting time better prepares you for a team.
Does more time help? Obviously.
My point is that there's a threshold for how "prepared" you can be for a team before it becomes "Enough already, lets just play the f***ing game"......
There's also the risk of having rust from not being in that true game flow.
My guess is depending on how restricted their practices are going to be because of covid, there's gonna be a lot of live game sim/scrimmages to try not to lose that "game speed".
With that all said...........it doesn't matter anyway because Iowa > Gonzaga
From a Wash. Post 12/7 article, "The Bulldogs, 3-0 with wins on neutral courts, will next play Iowa, the 3rd ranked team nationally, on 12/19 in Sioux Falls SD, after pausing all activities through 12/14".
My words, if they can start practice &/or film study with coaches on 12/15, & the 18th is a travel day, by my calculation, that's 3 days of organized game prep. However; they can watch Iowa play UNC, ISU, & NIU on TV. That's like "film study".
They are that good & yes, they'll be prepared & ready to give the Hawks their best game.
You do know that mask wearing plays no part in the "contact tracing"? So, one guy on the team tests positive, and whomever had prolonged exposure to that player, mask or not, it considered exposed and is supposed to quarantine
I think each county (within Iowa, at least) can have its own rules on quarantine. In our school, even close (<6ft) prox. for more than 15 minutes to a kid who then tests positive doesn't trigger a quarantine if both kids were wearing a mask the whole time.
I know the differences county to county had some impacts on both volleyball and football teams this fall.
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