I will always support the players wearing black and gold. They are trying their best. I give them credit for their effort and playing hard. But the reality of this, we just are not that talented. We are what we are. But I will always support the players and their efforts.
*****Iowa vs Purdue Game Thread*****
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Clearly Krikke's disdain for defense and love of offense led him to Fran.
Does the Giant have any more years left? Are we going to look at that ugly mug again next year?
About what I expected. We just don't have big bodies to come close to matching up with Edey.
We are a womens basketball school. Check the attendance.
Nope he is out of place on defense and shoots bricks now but he will be great down the road
Makes me appreciate Rebracca a lot more.
If you go through box scores, the opposing post scoring is off the charts in efficiency. I know Creighton and OKlahoma the opposing two bigs shot around 80% and of course Iowa bigs don't rebound well either,
Iowa needs to shoot 55% to be winning most games in B1G becaue the other team is likely to be shooting/rebounding well.
Late to the party and not wading through 7 pages of bitching. Is Owen F out tonight?
Since Fran does not value defense we won't see Brauns very much
It's awesome that we get to play Purdue twice. Purdue could win by 50 tonight if they wanted to.
he played a bunch in 1st half and had 3 fouls. Looked okay, no one looked good for Iowa.
If you had watched the full game, then the bitching would feel justified.
Amen to that. Rebraca was great for us.
I think Painter is more bummed....teams develop bad habbits when the competion is no competition.
Good news is that the conference is terrible right now so we got a shot to win a few.
Agree. Rebraca was also undersized, but his defensive effort was on the opposite end of the spectrum from Krikke. He was always busting his ass, bodying up and working hard for every defensive rebound he could get close to.
I would say PMac is worthless on D
Krikke at least stands his ground, gets some boards, not afraid to play physically and foul.
PMac does none of those, and they are both 6 9
Fran needs to stop playing 10 players at this point going forward in BIG play 7-8 going forward unless seriously foul trouble
The only resistance was PMac resisting a foul or block shot
Hawks have now scored more points in 2nd half than they did in entire 1st half. With >7:30 to go.
So we have that going for us.
So we have that going for us.
Of course they want to get a win, but this game does them no favors as prep for the tourney. They aren't going to run into any teams there with such poor D and softness inside. Not even in round 1.
Dont get why Brauns has not had more minutes in other game he shows some hustle and effort on d ,
He needs to put 5 guys on court that can defend and not put out 5 guys that maximize offense while minimizing defense. Krikke, Pmac, Sandfort should never all 3 be on court at same time.
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