Bowen has far more offensive game than ulis, fran just handcuffs him like he did with joeT. Fran is far more worried about his pg’s turnovers than he is about letting them create offense. Frans offense just isn’t built for pg’s, it’s all about the forwards.
PMac hasn’t been playing that many minutes this year and he’s actually been pretty efficient offensively. If you’re going to call him out for bad rebounding, which he often deserves, you should also call everyone else out and note when he has a good night.
IMO, Dix is the most consistent and most well rounded guard on the team and has been since the middle of last year. He's by far the best shooter of the 4 and is probably the most consistent defender in the group as well. If he's not going to start then I'd like to see him be the first guy off the bench and getting closer to 20mpg taking some minutes from either Bowen, Pmac, or Perkins.
Said from the beginning that Krikke is a scorer, BUT he's not a good rebounder or defender. We'll see a lot of the same in conference games. Wait a couple of games until we get Purdue to start conference play.....
My bet is that he won't. He's not athletic enough to play that way on offense and guard P5 post players...
Not being sarcastic but just who are Fran's shooters? I haven't seen a great 3 pt. shooter on the Hawks yet although the season is still early. I mean Krikke has a very good mid-range jumper but he has his limitations in all around skills. Imagine not getting Krikke from the portal.
I thought in the last 10 minutes Krikke did a good job of getting his body on their big for a box out and letting Payton/Patrick/Tony crash and come for the actual board. The team as a whole needs to be better on the defensive glass, but sometimes individual numbers can be a bit deceptive. As long as Krikke is sealing off his man to allow others to go and make a play, he is doing his part down there--he just needs to be a lot more consistent with this.
I think Freeman is clearly the best interior defender. I’d play krikke next to him, I think that would help mask his defensive deficiencies.
Sandfort started last year pretty much the same way. He was in a horrible shooting slump to start the year and then caught fire. Hopefully that same pattern will arise this year.
The issue is that most 4s that Iowa will face from here on out would absolutely cook Krikke off the dribble--it's kind of the catch 22 that you sign up for when you bring in a guy like Krikke. He's too small to guard bigs effectively and too slow to guard 4s effectively--the reality is that he's a poor defender.
