Heading to area to watch first rounds. Best place to watch Drake Thursday night?
I know we can’t look too far ahead but...
- Thread starter Hawkyhawk52
- Start date
This depends on how the game is called. If they allow physicality then it doesn't bode well for USC. For once, it may help us.
Grand Canyon is very poor defensively down low. Their best strategy would be foul Luka using their trios of bigs, and hope that he has a poor game from the line. Weezy should have a field day taking it to the rim. They like to up tempo. We should get out and go with them, and wear them down with our bench. They might hang with us for awhile (after all, they beat the legend Alford....). But I feel this one will be over shortly into the second half.
This is GCU's first trip to the NCAA's, right? We've played in Indy quite a few times and doubt they have. We're there already and they have to travel. Exciting for them, but believe once the excitement decreases, our experience should kick in for a double-digit win. USC's biggest guy is 6'8", I think, and KU's had s couple of guys/team missed extended practices due to COVID.
If the Hawks were set to play William Penn or AIB some fans would be worried about the match up.
Grand Canyon is one of the slowest teams in the nation. They 295 out of 347 D1 teams in possessions a game. They don't want to run at all and that's exactly what Iowa needs to do. Their big guy is a slow plodder so Garza should be able to set up good post position in transition. If half court sets, Iowa will have all kinds of success putting their big guy in pick and roll situations where Garza can step out and take a three. If Garza is hitting his jump shots, this will be over quickly.
The key is to take away the Cinderella notion early and often if you can. Let teams hang around, bad things man.....
All three of their bigs are foreign born players, but only two play and they are their two top scorers. Only one of them have any pounds on Garza. Their third scorer is 5'11" and 155 pounds and leads them in assists and steals.
If I was a Hawk fan I'd rather they enter the tournament getting disrespected rather than overly hyped. Playing with a chip on the shoulder is better than swagger sometimes.
The writeups I saw said Gonzaga has easy path to Final 4 because they've already handily beaten the #2 seed Iowa and #3 seed Kansas. This should be good motivation for Iowa, assuming Iowa actually makes it to Sweet16 or beyond.
Iowa might make a run, but I also remember the Uthoff/Jok/Gesell/Clemmons/Woody team struggling to beat a lame Temple team. Hard to predict which Iowa shows up and long history of disappointment for Iowa fans. The nice thing for Garza is he will finally be facing centers that haven't played him before and know all his moves.
Iowa might make a run, but I also remember the Uthoff/Jok/Gesell/Clemmons/Woody team struggling to beat a lame Temple team. Hard to predict which Iowa shows up and long history of disappointment for Iowa fans. The nice thing for Garza is he will finally be facing centers that haven't played him before and know all his moves.
That Iowa team was a 8-9 seed. So not like we were the 2 seed playing a 15 seed.
This. I said early in the year when people were talking them up, that i'd love to play them, and still feel that way. They'd have no answer for Luka what so ever.........
The speculation is they’ll be back after the first weekend if they beat USC. Self said yesterday the 3 will join the team in Indy later this week.
There are a lot of rankings that have Agabaji going in the late first round and Thompson in the second including reputable mainstream sites like CBS sports...
2021 NBA Draft Prospect - Position Rankings
Get the latest NBA Draft prospect rankings from CBS Sports. Find out where your favorite Position stacks up against the 2021 class and view expert mock drafts.
www.cbssports.com
NBA Mock Draft - NBADraft.net
Specializing in drafts with top players on the NBA horizon, player profiles, scouting reports, rankings and prospective international recruits.
www.nbadraft.net
Last edited:
McCormack is 6’10 265 lbs and athletic and Self said yesterday he should be back for the 2nd round. If It’s their least talented team ever why do half the mock drafts out there have 3-4 of their guys getting drafted? You don’t finish top 5 in defense playing in the 2nd best conference after the B1G without a lot of elite athletes.
Last edited:
I expect to see luka feast up until the elite eight (if we make it there) but I don’t expect the hawks to lose because of Lukas performance. Gcu has tall guys and I think one is averaging around 14 and 9 rebounds, but it seems that he doesn’t have a high motor based on what people are saying because I haven’t watched any of there games. Oregon and vcu are both small teams. Kansas as you said doesn’t have anyone for luka and if usc makes it, while Mobley is an extremely talented freshman, I think luka I don’t think he poses a cockburn or Dickinson level challenge that luka struggles with at times
You people just don’t get it. He’s young and has good nba potential, at the same time he’s a freshman going against one of the best collegiate bigs in recent history. Garza has played better bigs than Mobley. Doesn’t mean that they’ll be better in the nba, but they’re better in college. It’s like how Garza is one of the best players in Hawkeyes history, but probably won’t be the player with the best nba career so it goes both ways. If garza puts up less than 20 on Mobley I’ll be beyond shocked.
"We" are fans and have zero impact on the outcome of games. Look ahead to the national title if you want, it won't matter.
Completely agree, but as you know some people will get their panties in a bunch if we even look ahead of the game right in front of us.
Okay, but I'm pretty sure he transferred because he wasn't playing much and averaged about 1 point per game. He may be a decant player, I just don't think he'll stack up with the guys that Luka has faced most of the season......
