Bluder should be absolutely roasted by everyone. Lost the 1 seed. Gabbie should not be getting any minutes either let alone taking shots with the game on the line.
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Ridiculous as it sounds, it almost looked as if Bluder was just trying to do just that. They stopped being aggressive and the energy just died in the 4th like a KFz team trying to sit on a lead and run the clock out.
Bluder obviously decided to take Clark out of the offense at the start of the 4thQ. How goddamn stupid is that?
Marshall 0-5 on wide-open-nobody-within-the-same-zip-code 3PT FGAs.
At least 4 easy shots missed at the basket.
Should have been a win.
Marshall 0-5 on wide-open-nobody-within-the-same-zip-code 3PT FGAs.
At least 4 easy shots missed at the basket.
Should have been a win.
I like Gabby but my God, she can't help the team with her size and her shot MIA. Play Affolter instead and at least get better defense and rebounding. I also think BLuder wanted CC to break the record in IC and that is what cost the game. Bad coaching decision on both Gabby and CC.
Refs pissed away our 14 point lead. They were in the bonus a long time while they only had 3 fouls against them. Same ****ing refs that let Maryland come back and almost win.
Clark is 12 of her last 41 from three... 29%. She is missing way too many shots. 35 footers are not good shots, even for her.
The Refs did NOT determine the outcome - if anything, I thought they called a good game from what I saw....(I missed the first half though).
Clark is missing a lot of threes, but at least most of her shots are well-defended or from 25-35 feet. Marshall is getting practice threes and clanking all of 'em.
Walking the ball up the floor up the court every possession and not having Clark involved or initiating the offense in the 4th qtr wasn’t bad coaching?
It'll be interesting to see if any media ask her about the 4th qtr strategy and was it done to get CC the record at home.
Gabby was not even moving without the ball cuz she didn’t want it passed to her. It’s really in her head right now and seems too late in the season to change it. I really don’t understand why she was in there down the stretch. Reminds me of mens team when Connor McCaffery wouldn’t/couldn’t shoot from three but was always getting minutes.
And if Martin does not have 7 turnovers or we do not miss 6 layups, if Stuelke and CC do not miss 6 FT combined, if CC scores 3 points in the 4th instead of 0 and does not miss 10 3 pointers.She hits just one and Iowa wins imo.
All her fault.
When Clark missed those two late FTs, I thought to myself, "I hope those don't come back to hurt Iowa." I didn't expect they actually would. Those two points were HUGE.
Third quarter..... Clark drive and dish, Clark drive and FTs, repeat.... Iowa big lead
Fourth quarter.... pass it around, hope to hit a three.... Nebby wins.
Amazing how many of you are giving up on the ladies after one lose. No reason for some of you to watch anymore games. Enjoy baseball.
Hasnt taken a contested three all year. They’re ALL wide open. Watch effort on the last 2 side out of bounds plays. Wanted nothing to do with the ball. Jogged and didn’t even do it outside the 3 point line when we absolutely had to had a 3.
“It’s gonna happen — so to me, that’s not important,” Bluder said of Clark’s chase for the record. “It’s important to win this game. I would rather break it at home, just because I think our Carver-Hawkeye fans deserve that. But believe me that our No. 1 priority will be to win the game at Nebraska.”
~ Lisa Bluder, 2/10/24
I can’t prove it but I believe Bluder swallowed that quote with 10 minutes to go. She wanted the scoring record to happen at CHA.
~ Lisa Bluder, 2/10/24
I can’t prove it but I believe Bluder swallowed that quote with 10 minutes to go. She wanted the scoring record to happen at CHA.
Are you alleging the refs did a good job? Seriously? Yes, we played a horrible 4th quarter. Blew a 14 point lead. Should have won. However Women’s Big Ten refs are house league horrible. Caitlin got fouled three times on one possession before she hit a 3. Obviously the Big Ten does not care. As a former high school coach I would have been tossed in several games because of the incompetent referees. Pitiful. Now the Hawks need to regroup for the next one and build to win the conference.
Man Bluder messed this one up royaly. Forget the damn record, she just cost a rival game & more importantly, the Big Ten.
Have to let the girls run and score where there's opportunity. Slowed it down to set offense wayyyy too much.
Have to let the girls run and score where there's opportunity. Slowed it down to set offense wayyyy too much.
Looks pretty obvious that she thought they could stall out the 4th and do just that. It backfired on her.
Unfortunately, they try to 'dumb' the game down for lesser players, so Clark has to work twice as hard instead of getting the same treatment as every other player.
She legitimately should be averaging 36+ a game if they're doing their jobs.
More, re. Clark's looong threes. Most of her 35+ footers are barely even hitting the rim. She might hit 1 out of 10 of those. It is just a poor shot and she should stop taking them.
I hope so, love the Hawks Baseball team. Just not ready to give up on the Hawks.
This is not a team capable of winning the natty. A final 8 appearance are where expectations should be right. At this point that is slightly optimistic.
She's a solid defender (even though she did a poor job of staying with Shelley on that last 3).
If anyone wants to blame Bluder for anything, blame her for not allowing other guards to gain confidence in the game by looking for their shot so that they can replace Gabbie since she can't score anymore.
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