I think the recipe was out by then... Let Garza cook and defend the outside.
It's proven than Fran's system can't make it far in the NCAA's. Why won't he change?
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I'd like to hear you scream. Iowa got screwed in that game by Oregon not having a first round game due to a Covid forfeit, so they had a full week to prepare for Iowa and came in fresh, not having played a game since their conference tourney nine days earlier. The Hawks played the late game against Grand Canyon on Saturday, then the early game on Monday against the Ducks, giving them a less than two day break between games.
BTW, Oregon didn't score over 100 points.
Here we go. Yep, Oregon was great. The 7 seed that got their asses handed to them in the next game. Late game against the 15 seed. Must have been exhausting. We had 4 pros on that team. We had experience and talent with Weezy and Garza, Keegan had gotten good experience by then, and we had plenty of depth. It’s an excuse no matter how you look at it. We were the 2 seed, plain and simple. We weren’t some plucky overachieving team from a lesser conference.
It was also a team that had a distinct ceiling due to not having guards that could effectively attack off the dribble offensively and struggled defensively with guards that could.
They don't play anywhere near the same type of schedules. The BB team usually has to play the top teams twice, occasionally three times in a season with BTT.
Uhhhh Chief. Our starting guards got our scored like 61 to 0 in that game by Oregon. That was a talent problem. You start two of the same guards we did that day on the same team, you ain’t going far in the tourney.
Didn't we have a couple of key back court players gimped up for that game with Oregon? I'm not giving McCaffery (or the players!) a pass on our inability to make it to the Sweet Sixteen, but there has been a certain amount of poor timing and bad luck. Every team, even the bluebloods get knocked out unexpectedly some years. We've just had more than our share.
I don’t know about the injuries but Iowa loses by the same script recently. Good all around guards that we can’t defend or counter. Happened against Oregon, Richmond, and to a lesser extent Auburn. Can still see all the backdoor cuts against Richmond that we had no answer for.
Richmond 67-63 Iowa (Mar 17, 2022) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Richmond Spiders vs. Iowa Hawkeyes NCAAM game, final score 67-63, from March 17, 2022 on ESPN.
We didn’t lose that game because of defense..offensively we couldn’t find the ocean.
On paper I like our perimeter guys, creighton will be a good benchmark to see if we have anything there.
My point I was trying to make was our guard play continually let’s us down in the tourney. I remember PMac having a decent game and it seemed like Keegan was a bit off, think he got hurt maybe, but his stat line was still good. Similar situation to Luka and Joe W against Oregon.Richmond 67-63 Iowa (Mar 17, 2022) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Richmond Spiders vs. Iowa Hawkeyes NCAAM game, final score 67-63, from March 17, 2022 on ESPN.www.espn.com
We didn’t lose that game because of defense..offensively we couldn’t find the ocean.
On paper I like our perimeter guys, creighton will be a good benchmark to see if we have anything there.
I love the fast pace game. When you never use the shot clock you are going to give up more points. His teams are weakest in the areas of rebounding and defense. Rebounding is as much effort as it is coaching. Defense is also effort but we have lacked a defensive enforcer inside. We often don't match up well with opponents quickness and that is a factor too. I love Kirk Ferentz but I'd rather watch Fran's teams play, scoring a 100, than Kirk's teams getting 3 field goals and a pick six.
And it seems that Fran's teams usually play tight and do not shoot that well in the postseason. High flying offenses are more apt to have a bad game shooting than and top defense playing poorly
