Agree, but don't you know we have the all powerful Ryan Mulvey coming off a redshirt season of huge improvement (sarcasm)...
Nice win boyyyyyyys!
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Good Tony Perkins (not bad Tony)
Good Payton Sandfort (not inconsistent Sandfort)
More Josh Dix minutes to let him shine (without a short hook)
The revelation and evolution of Owen Freeman
The minutes and juice from the freshman (Pryce, Dembele, Harding) in the first half
This has been the difference in the season.
IF (big if) Pat can get hot and put in the defensive work and if Krikke can find favorable matchups and get his offense back, we might be able to do something here.
Good Payton Sandfort (not inconsistent Sandfort)
More Josh Dix minutes to let him shine (without a short hook)
The revelation and evolution of Owen Freeman
The minutes and juice from the freshman (Pryce, Dembele, Harding) in the first half
This has been the difference in the season.
IF (big if) Pat can get hot and put in the defensive work and if Krikke can find favorable matchups and get his offense back, we might be able to do something here.
And when you coach at a place for more than a decade, there will be some fade years and some years where the team grows to the finish.
I saw the stats from yesterday. Freeman 4/5. Why don't they run more plays for him with those shooting numbers? Only played half the game and no foul trouble. Just seems like he could draw a lot of fouls and open things up for the guards driving. ????
No foul trouble? I thought he had 2 after 8 minutes or so and got his third early in the second half.
He’s a post up/put back player right now. They had a stretch yesterday where things were going well with him on the bench. It helped avoid him getting into foul trouble. Maybe next year he can improve his FT shooting a bit to where you can keep him on the floor when closing out games. He’s not bad but like to see him 70%+ next season.
Really impressive performance by Perk!
I will say that 3 of those "assists" were pretty weak. Still, 11 great assists!
Well in all fairness the guys NW was ABLE to start. They started the game without two starters, and lost a third right after the half.
That and he's fallen in love with dribbling too much from the free throw line and then turning his back when he gets close to the basket. You can't do that against a team with veteran guards like Buie. He just came in and stripped. Big o. will learn....
It's a very solid accomplishment considering what he inherited - but it's a 20 game schedule not 14. 10-4 > 10-10. I immensely enjoy watching this team play...
Every time I see him dribbling out on the perimeter I start thinking “give it up”! Right now I just want to see him with his back to the basket moves (which are pretty darn good), put backs, and kick outs.
Patrick is also the guy Fran trusts the most to inbound the ball against the press. Earlier in the year he was having Payton do it, but he made a couple boneheaded turnovers early on and has pretty routinely put Patrick in that spot since. Don't think Pat has had a single turnover trying to get the ball in this year from my memory.
It’s 6 straight seasons of being .500 or better in-conference. The last Iowa coach to do that? Bucky O’Connor (he had 7). In fairness, Dr. Tom may very well have done it and had more than Bucky were it not for the tragic death of Chris Street.
Well, this thread has already deducted 3 assists from that total yesterday. We can pull anything down.
I just had a chance to watch the NW game. What a win! We're clicking on all cylinders right now!
And I really LOVED what Billy McKinney said in his jerey retirement ceremony remarks. Very impressive and right on the money!!!
And I really LOVED what Billy McKinney said in his jerey retirement ceremony remarks. Very impressive and right on the money!!!
Back to the basket seems to be when he gets in the most trouble because he's not seeing the double teams coming.
yes, he has to kick out when doubled but by far his best move is the baseline spin to the hoop.
He's shown the league how good he can be one on one so now that he's a know commodity opponents have started sending a second defender at him.
So far he has really struggled to identify the second defender.
There are abundant detractors on here regarding Patrick’s play (some of it deserved) but I have no problem with him being on the court in the closing minutes when needing to protect a lead.
I suppose I should have wrote more but point being the starters rolled. The bench was rolled.
Krikke +16
Freeman +16
Dix +14
Perkins +13
Sandfort +14
Bench
McCaffery -11
Harding -13
Dembele -7
P Snadfort -7
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Definitely a very good win - I went last year, and should have went this year! Oh well…
