You guys are giving Woody too much credit. He was schooled down low tonight by both Haas and Hammons. Did you guys miss all of those drop step hooks and banks shots that they scored on him? The only credit I can give Woody in that situation is that he didn't overreact and give too many frustration fouls in response. But he didn't stop those guys. Our guards made it hard to feed the post. But I'm not here to bust on the team, they showed a lot of heart tonight. Everybody did a little something, like Uhl, Wagner and Clemmons. Clemmons did his reckless behind the back pass again, which was on the money, but because it was unexpected, Uthoff(?) bobbled it and didn't take the open shot. And he was promptly yanked LOL. WOW just a very satisfying, well earned win. I'm proud of these guys. I can only hope that their confidence is sky high. Wish there wasn't such a long layoff between the Nebraska and MSU games.
McCaffrey wins this one for the boys...
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They didn't school Woody. Give them some credit. The shots they made, they're going to make on anybody. They are damn good.
Yeah, because they made a few nice moves they "schooled" him.
That's ridiculous.
Other than the two missed shots AW did fine.
I guess I never noticed the refs being a problem tonight outside of probably calling a foul when AC got hurt.
MSU game? A bit more BAU with the refs allowing Izzo to dictate what they call but not nearly as bad as past yrs
Not ridiculous at all and I'm not taking anything away from PU's bigs. I already said Woody did his best but saying he played great defense just isn't true. It was more than a few nice moves. Let's disagree, no need to get bent outta shape about it.
He helped hold the two Purdue bigs to 9 points less than their scoring avg all season. Woody did fine tonight against 2 NBA centers. If you noticed some of the shots they made one one one against him were things of beauty where Adam was playing really good D and they were forces to make a great shot.
Put another way, I didn't see him out of position all too often.
JU is really, really good. Best since Ronnie, no question.
Best Iowan in the league. Barnes and Korver may have something to say about that statement.
Haas had a couple scores early in the second half which were absolutely beautiful: a fadeaway and a hook shot which were completely unguardable. Swanigan muscled around in the post for a couple shots where nobody was going to stop him either.
I liked the way that Woodbury, Uhl, Wagner, and Uthoff battled with their big guys. Frankly, I'd go so far as to say that for Purdue, they were nearly shut down. If Purdue doesn't light the world on fire from beyond the arc in the first half, then we wouldn't have even needed to come back in the first place (and that's with Uthoff scoring nearly all our points)
I liked the way that Woodbury, Uhl, Wagner, and Uthoff battled with their big guys. Frankly, I'd go so far as to say that for Purdue, they were nearly shut down. If Purdue doesn't light the world on fire from beyond the arc in the first half, then we wouldn't have even needed to come back in the first place (and that's with Uthoff scoring nearly all our points)
Not bent out of shape but schooling someone is dominating them, that's what it means.
It doesn't mean making a few good moves while being held below your average and doing basically nothing in the second half.
What was he supposed to do hold them both scoreless?
Yes the guards defense was a big part of it but Woody did about as good as you're going to see anybody do against those two.
I thought Purdue fell apart in the second-half more than we got better. Did our shooting improve and did their shooting cool off? Yes, and yes. They looked like a team who had never faced the full-court press before. Our guys played like an experienced team not at all intimidated by their first B1G road game of the season, as one would hope.
Good win. Great game to watch.
Good win. Great game to watch.
Great win for the Hawks. I watched and taped the game. I was so happy and jacked after the game that I went to a brothel and got me a whore and paid her 100 bucks to let me eat her pussy. Then I came home and watched the game again start to finish ... Twice !!
In the Rose Bowl I was deeply concerned after the first play or two...this isn't going to have a happy ending. Never thought that Iowa had the ability to come back, although I watched the game to the end. In the BB game, I felt, even when Iowa was way down, that there was a good chance of a comeback. Iowa has talent, played well to start the game, and Purdue was stretching the lead with there lights out three point shooting. That type of shooting seldom lasts...and it did falter...along with the pressing and trap, the Purdue shooters lost their confidence...and it spiraled out of control....and with no timeouts. Woodie did OK...but those Purdue guys are good.
The play Jok made when he doubled down on Haas and just took the ball away from him showed a lot of improvement by Peter on defense. Woody played really good defense yesterday.
Woody / Uhl played outstanding defense yesterday on Hammonds (11 pts, 3 below is avg (including now IA game I presume per ESPN website so was higher going into last night's game) & Haas (6 pts, 5 below his avg). Same with Uthoff / Uhl on Swanigan (6 pts, 4 below is avg).
To say that Woody didn't bring it last night on the defensive end is just wrong.
To say that Woody didn't bring it last night on the defensive end is just wrong.
it really rattled Purdue all 2nd half long.
Wouldn't you have loved to been a fly on the wall during half time? I wonder how badly Fran lit into the team?
Agree, that was the best all around defensive game Pete has played, and he led the game in rebounds.
I never thought Peter Jok would be an asset defensively, hes definitely figuring out his role.
Considering Purdue shot totally out of their minds I didn't actually think hawks played all that bad, they shot poorly.
Someone pointed out in the game thread that it would have only been around a 7/9 point half time lead had Iowa made all their freethrows and layups.
From what I could tell listening, I heard "I CANNOT believe what I just saw..." there might have been more to it, but that's what I heard. It was hilarious because I immediately said, "I cannot f****** believe what I just heard!" Haha!
I admit I hadn't looked at the box score but the moves that they made on Woody, were absolutely taking him to school. Notice that when Woody tried to answer, he damn near turned it over and had to make kick the ball back out. And as I indicated, he didn't overreact w/ silly fouls, to Woody's credit. When I said they took him to school, I meant that they made him look silly w/ their great moves where Woody could do absolutely nothing to stop them. Again, we'll just disagree because I honestly don't give a crap either way. I'm just proud of how the boys battled back (incl. Woody) and that's enough for me.
