To me, she looks like a wizard of sorts the way she operates in the paint. Nice handles and fearless at her size in the paint.
Iowa lands former Villanova PG Lucy Olsen
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I watched Fuerbach tip a number of passes during the big ten and NCAA tourneys which turned into big turnovers. She hit some big shots. She is fast an agressive. She can go get rebounds
I think she needs to improver her dribbling. She sometimes drives to the hoop, likes to drive the baseline, but then cannot reverse herself out of a jam. She could be a slasher to the rim to go along with some good arc shooting. I think she will play 15 to 25 minutes a game to start the next season.
LSU, Tennessee, Maryland, Michigan, West Virginia, and Stanford were other schools who had shown serious interest in Olson, per reports.
Yeah, she has a habit of dribbling into jams. It's an issue. Hoping this part of her game improves over the summer.
Yeah, and they’re about the only one.
Regardless, do deep pockets for NIL only apply to the men’s game? What’s the going rate for a transfer in women’s basketball who was the third leading scorer in the country? 5k? 50k? Higher? Lower?
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I didn’t realize Fran had gotten any new commits. What’s the name of the latest no impact point guard Fran has landed?
As I have said many times on here Kylie's defense is why she's probably going to start over McCabe.
I believe Feuerbach will start also, at least to start the season. She and Affolter will likely be expected to be the senior team leaders in the first season post-Clark.
Funny, she was sitting on the bench behind a 5’9 girl all season. She’s the obvious frontrunner to start next season just because she was backing gabby up. I just don’t see her having the game to fill that roll, i see her as being a defensive stopper and that’s it. Ive seen very little showing me she’ll provide much of anything offensively. I see mccabe as being a lethal 3 pt weapon and being a competent defender making her the better option.
Not the prettiest looking shot but she’s got good handles and isn’t afraid of contact. She’s going to have the green light anytime I’m sure. We badly need somebody like her who can create her own shot.
I agree that Fuerbach can be a valuable player—is deceptively fast and can slash to the basket. McCabe is a gunner, but is lost on the dribble. She could turn into a Gabby-type sniper.
Probably right. I just saw how much of a liability gabby was this season when she couldn’t hit anything during the regular season, which is exactly what we’ll get from feurbach imo. Maybe she’ll take major strides offensively, or with Clark being gone may make a difference as well. Mccabe shot 46% from 3 this year on a pretty decent amount of shots, just don’t think you can keep that production off the floor. And it’s not exactly like she’s jordan bohannon out there trying to defend, she’s competent on that end of the floor as well.
She could greatly benefit from hitting the weightroom hard these next 7 months, IMO.
Looking at the athleticism on display in women’s basketball these days, I would not describe Feurbach as extremely athletic. That is not meant to be a knock on her, but there are some very athletic girls in basketball right now. Fuerbach has skills but will need to improve a lot if she is a starter next year.
That’s fine? Not my decision, but we had a ton of dissenting opinions about last years team…and someone actually did know better than us…🤷♂️
I’ll be more than satisfied, regardless, of who she decides to start I would just personally be shocked if it was McCabe over Feurbach…
Just my opinion 🤔
With SA, HS and now Olsen, that is a heck of a nucleus. They will make the ncaas again, book it
This news made my day!
This news made my day!
👍 lol that’s the same thing I said to a friend of mine couple hours ago.
In 2 years, she is 1/10 inside the arc, so yeah she definitely hasn’t demonstrated she can do much on offense other than catch and shoot.
I would also be shocked. I won’t be shocked if a change is made at some point though. Maybe Feurbach looks way better next season, which is a distinct possibility with Clark gone. Playing with someone like Clark it would be hard to navigate finding a role offensively
I love Taylor and I really hope everything hooks up for her at some point soon and things start to click, but to me, the game still seems to be moving way too fast for her. She has all the tools, but she's still processing too much information. Like she's not sure where her help is or where she's supposed to be, anytime things get hectic on the offensive side of the floor. She'll be a bucket when things finally click for her, but that hasn't happened yet.
Fuerbach just needs more minutes. She'll settle down and do fine.
This isn't true at all. Kylie was the second best defensive player on the team last year and will be our best defender this coming year.
Alright, she needs to ditch the black shoes right now. Between Van Lith and the 1989 Iowa Football team, I can't take the optics of slow feet anymore.
I'm 1,000% on board with a WBB program that has energy and life and striving to compete at the highest level over a bunch of stagnant men's programs that seem fine settling into absolute mediocrity.
