what a bunch of scrubs they are playing against
the elementary school dads I play with could do better than these turds
the elementary school dads I play with could do better than these turds
IOWA Men heading to Paris & Spain Aug 5-16. Three teams of 7 players for the 3 games. Mulvey won't make the trip (wedding)
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This. I realize these are just practice games. It's just that the other three frosh have developed a tight bond already, and of course Harding and Freeman have been high school and AAU team mates, so they know how to play off each other. Every time I read something on this nice class, its Dembele thats not connected. As you said it would have been a great bonding time as much off the court as on. Hopefully, he gets in tight with the guys when they get back home.
In Iowa’s 123-77 win over the Paris All-Stars:
As a team:
50.6 FG%
40% from three
27 assists on 41 made shots
15 steals
16 made three pointers
--4 of 8 (50%) Payton Sandfort
--3 of 8 (38%) Pryce Sandfort
--2 of 8 (25%) Harding
--2 of 2 (100%) Perkins
--2 of 5 (40%) Dix
--2 of 4 (50%) Bowen
--1 of 2 (50%) Kingsbury
Individually:
10 pts, 15 rebounds, 3 blocks: Owen Freeman
13 pts: Pryce Sandfort
10 pts, 6 assists, 0 Turnovers: Brock Harding
22 pts, 10 rebs: Ben Krikke
22 pts: Payton Sandfort
19 pts, 5 assists, 4 steals, 3 rebs: Tony Perkins
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A couple things that jump out to me
- Freeman with 15 boards. If he stays on the glass like that against good competition, he's going to get lots and lots of minutes
- Brock with 0 TO and Dasonte with 1. They keep that up, I'd imagine that we see less of Tony at point and more of Sonte and Brock running the show.
- Perkins 2/2 and Dasonte 2/4 from 3. If they can be consistent shooters, that is going to help tremendously with spacing.
Dasonte Bowen & Tony Perkins were the starting guards.
Payton Sandfort & Ben Krikke also started the game.
From the opening tip:
21 team turnovers. Yikes.
5: Josh Dix
4: Tony Perkins
3: Payton Sandfort
3: Owen Freeman
2: Ben Krikke
2: Pryce Sandfort
Freeman not only grabbed 15 rebounds, he had 3 each of assist, steals and blocks. Not good competition, but it's a promising start. Free throws and TO's were the only negatives.
That was before Nimmers left and Patrick and Dembele couldn't join. Doing 3 teams of 7 with only 11 guys doesn't make sense. It makes more sense with 14.
Looks like Connor has gotten post feeds into the box score now😂
Box score
I've never been to France.
What goes through the mind of a young man (or anyone actually) looking out over a place of such a brutal battle and so many injuries and death?
I'm not usually that emotional, but I think that view would bring me to tears.
More from yesterday:
Took my wife and adult sons (in their 20s) there five years ago. My dad landed at Utah Beach the second day of the invasion and got blown off a bridge shortly after. Thought he might be going home, but instead got stitched up and continued his "walk across Europe" as he put it. In addition to his Purple Heart, came home with a Bronze Star for valor...but never really talked about it until his late 80s when the stories started coming out of him. He, and thousands others, was in some real shit, and none of us really knew it until late in his life.
I've never been to France.
What goes through the mind of a young man (or anyone actually) looking out over a place of such a brutal battle and so many injuries and death?
I'm not usually that emotional, but I think that view would bring me to tears.
Yes, very emotional for me and my family. I'm choked up right now.
I’m glad these guys got to see this, and appreciate it. I’ve been to Normandy, every American should get a chance to see it. Nothing like it.
Looked more like the DeWitt all stars
The Greatest Generation.
From a little research:
A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded.
In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded. The battle — and especially Allied bombings of French villages and cities — killed around 20,000 French civilians. The exact German casualties aren’t known, but historians estimate between 4,000 and 9,000 men were killed, wounded or missing during the D-Day invasion alone. About 22,000 German soldiers are among the many buried around Normandy.
There were 416,800 total American military deaths in WW II.
Remembering D-Day: Key facts and figures about epochal World War II invasion
The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. Veterans and world dignitaries are commemorating the 79th anniversary of the operation.
apnews.com
Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
all 3 games should be blow outs; but the benefits of this trip are immeasurable with 6 new faces:
* extra practices
* team bonding, on and off the court
* real games where Fran can see what line ups look good to him
And for us fans, it gave us a glimpse of who the starters right now might be. Bowen, Perkins, Krikke, and Payton started. PMac would have been the 5th starter.
It would be cool if we got real competition. The Australia national team just crushed University of Houston in a closed exhibition game.
Apparently Ladji has joined up with the team.
Should be better competition today in Spain than what Iowa faced in Paris.
That Australia national team is like the #3 ranked FIBA team. It's filled with a ton of actual NBA players. So if anyone freaks out about losing to what is equivalent to a bronze medal Olympic team, they need to check themselves lol
For those keeping track, that's 26 rebounds in 1.5 games for Freeman.
At this rate, he might just be our starting center...
Can someone please refresh me on his height and star-ranking?
I wish people wouldn’t get their hopes up about this team. As soon as Patrick gets there everything will change and not in a good way.
