Originally posted by sloehawk:
Originally posted by OnceAhawk:
Originally posted by DanL53:
https://espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=400786332
They were the best shooting team in the nation this year. And hotter than a Ghost Pepper tonight!
We shot 47%; what could we have done on D?
And we had 8 more FG attempts.
Breakdown of the 19 point loss:
8 points: GU made 32 baskets, Iowa 28
5 points: GU made 10 three pt baskets, Iowa made 5
6 points: GU made 13 FTs, Iowa made just 7
Fran said in the post game that our on ball pressure was not enough. He also said our transition D was not where it needed to be.
Thoughts?
IOWA's stats:
28-60 FGs (47%)
5-15 from 3 (33%)
7-10 FTs (70%)
11 turnovers
68 POINTS[/B]
GU's stats:
32-52 (62%)
10-16 from 3 (63%)
13-21 FTs (62%)
11 turnovers
87 POINTS
Well, the Zags were damn consistent no matter where they shot the ball. Gotta give'em that.
Nice year Hawks. The kids came thru pretty well this year when all was
said and done. Sad to see it over, and all 3 Iowa teams are bounced the
1st weekend, kind of a bummer in that regard as well (not sad ISU is out however................).
Look, I thought Iowa played relatively hard tonight, shot OK (for us), but when a team knocks shots down at that rate, especially from 3, there isn't one hell of a lot you can do about it. Contested or uncontested, doesn't matter. They made twice as many 3's, that's 15 points right there.
What probably ticked me off more than anything in this game, was again the missed bunnies in the 1st half especially. White was the worst of the bunch for that tonight, he missed 3 lay-ins in a row, probably somewhat hurried due to the length of Gonzaga, but you have to make those, period. He's been great, but he contributed mightily to the big hole we found ourselves in.
We got WAY too far behind and couldn't ever mount a serious comeback, largely due to some really dumb turnovers, and I thought the officiating was terrible. I was concerned Fran was going to get T'd up, and I wouldn't have blamed him. They didn't decide the winner of this game, but they sucked just the same (and rarely do I ever bring up officiating, I just thought it was horrible). Anyway, I wanted to stay close enough to make them start to think about it a little bit, but we were never able to make a run to see what kind of guts they had without playing with a double digit lead. The basket gets a lot smaller if a team closes the gap in a hurry. Never materialized. That part sucked.
In the end, the best shooting team in the country lived up to the billing. They have FAR better big men than we do. Woody gets owned anytime he goes up against anybody remotely close to his size, and Gabe isn't a center, he gets moved around in there pretty good, but I still love having him in there (or did).
Gonzaga has better players, and they played better. End of story and good night all.
