The movie Moneyball (and the book it adapts) covers the Oakland Athletics and depicts the lead-up to the 2002 season (as well as the season itself). In the movie, the Oakland front office debates how to replace several big stars that left in the off-season.
In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, A's scouts discuss needing to replace so many doubles, home runs, etc. from the departed players. A's general manager Billy Beane and assistant GM Peter Brand challenge the scouts to think differently about the problem. The A's didn't need to replace every double and home run -- they just needed to score runs. And there are many different ways to score runs.
Iowa faced a similar dilemma this off-season. Senior leaders McKenna Warnock and Monika Czinano combined to score 28 points per game as Iowa's starting 4 and 5 last season. But those positions don't only need to score points in order to help Iowa win basketball games.
Iowa will hope that its options at the 4 and 5 will play better defense and grab more rebounds than Warnock and Czinano -- and that they will also score enough points for Iowa's team to be as good or better on both ends of the floor than it was last year.
More here: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-women-s-basketball-2023-24-frontcourt-preview
In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, A's scouts discuss needing to replace so many doubles, home runs, etc. from the departed players. A's general manager Billy Beane and assistant GM Peter Brand challenge the scouts to think differently about the problem. The A's didn't need to replace every double and home run -- they just needed to score runs. And there are many different ways to score runs.
Iowa faced a similar dilemma this off-season. Senior leaders McKenna Warnock and Monika Czinano combined to score 28 points per game as Iowa's starting 4 and 5 last season. But those positions don't only need to score points in order to help Iowa win basketball games.
Iowa will hope that its options at the 4 and 5 will play better defense and grab more rebounds than Warnock and Czinano -- and that they will also score enough points for Iowa's team to be as good or better on both ends of the floor than it was last year.
More here: https://iowa.rivals.com/news/iowa-women-s-basketball-2023-24-frontcourt-preview
