I love this kind of thinking. You need to pad your metrics when you can grasshopper.
Iowa will be fine if they stay healthy and play like this
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A long season of being dominated on the glass. Better hope Iowa shoots the lights out every night
I don’t need them to dominate. 330(which Iowa is) out of 355 teams in rebounding margin in NCAA division 1, isn’t gonna cut it.
A Power 6 team with a coach who’s been around as long as Fran should never have a roster that’s as bad rebounding the ball as we are.
In order for Iowa to rebound adequately Traore needs to see the majority of the minutes at the 4.
Also wouldn't be a terrible idea to play two bigs occasionally since Owen is showing a bit of an outside shot.
Either way, too much Sandfort = not enough rebounding.
Also wouldn't be a terrible idea to play two bigs occasionally since Owen is showing a bit of an outside shot.
Either way, too much Sandfort = not enough rebounding.
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I'm a Cubs Fan. Iowa basketball is the same. You can run stats that say they should be better, yet you never figure out why they aren't. They are an anomaly.
Will likely be around the bubble all year.
I don't understand Freeman's defense. Sometimes he looks very competent and other times completely lost in the exact same situations.
If he defends screens the way he did the first 5 minutes, Iowa will make the tournament. If he's completely unaware of whats happening around him, like he was the majority of the rest of the game, it's bubble at best.
I don't understand Freeman's defense. Sometimes he looks very competent and other times completely lost in the exact same situations.
If he defends screens the way he did the first 5 minutes, Iowa will make the tournament. If he's completely unaware of whats happening around him, like he was the majority of the rest of the game, it's bubble at best.
His fourth foul was maddening.
I also don't get why he reaches when he finds himself top of the key on the ball
That was as much on Pryce for getting blown by off the dribble but , yeah another dumb decision by Owen.
It's like as soon as he gets tired he starts doing dumb shit.
If Fran wants to protect Freeman he should really stop playing the Sandforts together too.
BirdistheWord
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Thelwell injured in pregame warmups I assume Koch dealing with whatever kept him out over a month before
BirdistheWord
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If you would have told me:
-No Thelwell
-No Koch
-Dembele ZERO pts
-Traore 2 Points
I would be thinking a likely L
It was ugly but they found a way. Hope we can have a good year make a run and Fran can go out in a good way. Both parties need a change.
But if they'd told you that Sandfort and Dix both went for 30 what would you be thinking?
BirdistheWord
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This thread aged well.
"Iowa will be fine," you wrote in the thread title.
All of the other posters were the idiots, you wrote in the very first post.
You then wrote that you were looking forward to seeing what Iowa would do.
Yep - this thread aged well
Ultimately Nebraska is an average team that squeaked out a win at home...and Indiana is a dumpster fire on their way to firing Woodson
Ultimately Nebraska is an average team that squeaked out a win at home...and Indiana is a dumpster fire on their way to firing Woodson
It didn't but my wanting DeVries as HC last year did. And it may still age ok. If they win at home they aren't out of it. As ugly as it is.
Really want Devries - hope that door isn't completely shut
Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn.
You're wrong most of the time yet, as seen in this thread, you called everyone else idiots for calling out Iowa's poor defense.
Another example (of many) of you being wrong most of the time: you said many times that Kamala Harris was gonna beat Trump in a landslide.
You show, time after time, that it is you who is the idiot.
Everyone should see this idiot's post again.
They should be but are mentally fragile and my thread before this trump's this. DeVries time
I'm just going to keep bumping this until this idiot owns it.
