This includes Saturday's MSU game.
Last 5 games: Iowa #5 Defense, #3 Offense in the Country
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69% of statistics are made up
Not sure what the measurement is... Points per possession?
With our Offensive focused team, we are agressive and definitely don't limit possessions per game or slow the game down.
Teams like Wisconsin that play slow ball are automatically going to have lower scoring games and better looking defense.
All that said, we still have a lot of basic failures on defense.
With our Offensive focused team, we are agressive and definitely don't limit possessions per game or slow the game down.
Teams like Wisconsin that play slow ball are automatically going to have lower scoring games and better looking defense.
All that said, we still have a lot of basic failures on defense.
2 of those 5 games, for each one (O & D), then OK.
But last FIVE games?
That gets some serious side-eye action.
But last FIVE games?
That gets some serious side-eye action.
How is this possible? Every game that Iowa has played in February, the opponent has shot 49.1% or better. Seems like that should translate to poor defense.
Illinois 49.1%
Purdue 55.0%
Minnesota 50.0%
Ohio State 57.1%
Northwestern 49.1%
Wisconsin 52.1%
Michigan State 59.3%
Illinois 49.1%
Purdue 55.0%
Minnesota 50.0%
Ohio State 57.1%
Northwestern 49.1%
Wisconsin 52.1%
Michigan State 59.3%
Who knew missing hundreds of 3PAs over a couple of games would make your Adj. SQ Rating soar!?
After giving up 106 points...whacky. Cheers and GO HAWKS!
Fran is hoping against hope that the last 5 games are a predictor of future success. In other words, Iowa has a shot at the final 4, and even possibly a shot at the national championship. No team in the last ?? years that has been outside of the top 20 D or top 20 O have won a NC.
Iowa. No shot a the NC. Only Purdue has a shot at winning the NC, and that is a stretch.
Iowa. No shot a the NC. Only Purdue has a shot at winning the NC, and that is a stretch.
Blah blah blah— what about all those teams that give up that many points against us. So prejudiced and anti iowa coaches
Nope. It's a metric than measures shot quality. If I understand it correctly you could lose every game but have a good defensive shot quality or offensive shot quality. Basically a useless stat.
Useless stat for sure. I have to question what is considered a quality shot from the defense’s perspective? If Iowa’s opponents are consistently shooting >50%, they must be getting “quality” shots.
I don’t think it’s useless. It is helpful to know if your defense was truly bad, or if your opponent just had a hot shooting night. If your oppponent keeps hitting contested 30 foot shots, there’s not much you can do.
With that said, as you note, Iowa’s opponents keep shooting at a high rate. This isn’t a new trend. Unless Iowa really is incredibly unlucky (and has been for a long time), I question how they are measuring shot quality.
"Shot quality"? I'm not buying it.
When teams play against Iowa, especially Iowa on the road, they get nice and comfy running their offense. They are able to pass the ball around, dribble around - pretty much do what they want.
Then they either find a wide open guy or some one takes a tough shot in rhythm.
A good defensive team is able to make the opponent uncomfortable, so even the wide open shots get tougher.
When teams play against Iowa, especially Iowa on the road, they get nice and comfy running their offense. They are able to pass the ball around, dribble around - pretty much do what they want.
Then they either find a wide open guy or some one takes a tough shot in rhythm.
A good defensive team is able to make the opponent uncomfortable, so even the wide open shots get tougher.
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So basically it's a stat that measures luck........
Essentially, then, we can call this the "That-Shot-Always-Goes-In" stat
This type of stat is probably more predictive in the NBA where there is less variation in shooting. I'm not surprised by the offensive numbers. In the Northwestern game in particular Iowa was getting great looks. Most of the 3s were wide open.
Defensively it's harder to reconcile. I will say that Northwestern seems to rely on what I would describe as lower quality shots. Lots of mid range jumpers. MSU's shooting also seemed at bit of an anomaly. Nobody shoots the way they did from 3 regardless of defense.
I would also say the same thing in the Wisconsin game. Many of those 3's were catch and shoot in rhythm threes. That has to be the reason why the number is so short tonight. The way we are playing on the road lately with how well Indiana has played I figured the line would be closer to 8 or 9 than 5.5.
Like I said, playing Iowa provides an automatic ratings boost to the opponent's shot-making ability...............
I mean that is literally what this statistic is telling us.
Definitely some validity here.
Nw isn't a good offensive team. They rely on defense and Bouie to bail them by making tough shots and Audiegpe to make terrible shots.
Msu shot out of their minds but most teams shoot above their average against iowas defense.
This is like trying to convince your friends that your girlfriend is really good looking. That you must be looking at her wrong or you don’t what good looking is
Not trying to be a hater here but looking at T-Rank (not quite as good as KenPom but it's free) for Iowa we had a pretty below-average defense the last 5 games. For last 10 games defensive efficiency is ranked around 189th. I just don't know how they can come up with a criteria saying Iowa's defense being top 5 the last 5 games, but I guess they have theirs. Even offensively, Iowa had pretty bad eFG% in 3 of those 5 games, which was offset by 2 really good showings. I think I'd take shotquality rankings with a huge grain of salt.
So you're saying put the national championship after-party on hold?..............
Listen here, you evil banana thrower!
I am trying to win you a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
Well, Iowa dropped to #171 in adjusted D on Kenpom, after the MSU game:
I'm seeing Iowa pretty routinely allowing 50-60% shooting. That can't be good no matter what stats anybody wants to trot out there.
So yeah. No. I don't think Iowa is a Top 5 defense.. Last 5 games or otherwise.
I'm seeing Iowa pretty routinely allowing 50-60% shooting. That can't be good no matter what stats anybody wants to trot out there.
So yeah. No. I don't think Iowa is a Top 5 defense.. Last 5 games or otherwise.
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True.
What this stat is saying is that teams are still scoring at a high rate despite, over the last 5 games, taking some of the worst shots "quality-wise" in the country..................because it's Iowa.
Isn't that fun to know?
T-Rank had Iowa's performance #1 of the day overall yesterday, #1 offense (which was pretty obvious) and #10 overall defense. Not bad, not bad.
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