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*****Iowa vs Mich St Game Thread*****

Our defense is awesome, but it pisses me off when we make a three pointer and then let a girl open to shoot another one. Had we been out on her? She wouldn’t have shot… Second as much as we’ve turned it over. We are way out, scoring them on turnovers
 
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I really wish the Hawks would hustle when inbounding the ball. Taking your time to get the ball to pass it in is helping MSU set up the press.
 
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Super sloppy with the ball in this first half. On both sides.
Iowa throwing a lot of low percentage passes.
Like trying to go over the top to OG in the post with an entry from near the 3 line. It has to be a perfect trajectory for her to get it since she can't jump.
 
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We're fortunate to be down only 4 points...
- 20% from #PT
- 33% from FG
- 8 turnovers.


I think thats significant… Because not only are we turning it over, we’re shooting it poorly, and we’re down by 1 and someone help me out here…. Bare minimum four of those turnovers are passes to O’Grady and if you told me five or even six, I might agree
 
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I’m not one to give coaching decisions, but they are going to have to play Heiden more in this game
 
Michigan State better be concerned… Outside of rebounding and defense we’ve played extremely poor in this half and we’re down by one
 
They can’t handle HS and Ayrault struggles scoring on her.

And for those of you, like me that want Heiden playing more, part of her problem is confidence… She turned the ball over when she had pretty good position and should’ve went up for a shot… She needs to put it up when she’s that low
 
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Advantage IA at half on multiple fronts...
- Olson played her poorest half yet
- MSU has 3 players with 3 fouls, Hanna & Syd only Hawks with 2
- And of course, 14 turnovers

And somehow we're up 5 points with a nice momentum booster at the end. Thank goodness for Hannah that first half or we'd be in big trouble.
 
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On the last score, I think Clark would have outrun everybody for an easy layup. Olsen isn't as quick with the ball, so ended up with a tough shot which she did make.
 
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So look at these #’s and tell me what you see…

Iowa 38% FG & 30% 3
MSU 38% 44% 3

TOs..

Iowa 14, MSU 12 but we have way more points off turnovers, not sure how many

We are out rebounding them 22 to 16

Their best player is 4 for 10 (HS is handling her well and our best player is 2-8

And they have three players with three fouls, one starter and their center has two.

And we are up by five. I’ll take that 🤷‍♂️
 
On the last score, I think Clark would have outrun everybody for an easy layup. Olsen isn't as quick with the ball, so ended up with a tough shot which she did make.


Everyone agrees CC is incredible with her B-ball IQ being off the charts, but she is way better athlete than she gets credit for. She’s very fast, her lateral quickness isn’t elite, but her speed with and without the ball is elite, and her jumping and strength with the ball is also very high.

That’s my obligatory CC compliment for the day😂
 
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So look at these #’s and tell me what you see…

Iowa 38% FG & 30% 3
MSU 38% 44% 3

TOs..

Iowa 14, MSU 12 but we have way more points off turnovers, not sure how many

We are out rebounding them 22 to 16

Their best player is 4 for 10 (HS is handling her well and our best player is 2-8

And they have three players with three fouls, one starter and their center has two.

And we are up by five. I’ll take that 🤷‍♂️
hopefully that bucket at the buzzer gets Lucy going.
 
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