********Official Illinois vs. Iowa Game Thread********
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They are simply not very good players at this level, Woodbury has not deveoped much at all, still cant jump or make anything outside of 2 feet and he misses WAY too many easy layups and is too much of a pussy to go up strong and dunk the ball. his FT shooting did improve this year.
Refs don't make your senior guards go 2-20 shooting do they?
Just a pathetic effort overall by these guys.
True but his offense is beyond horrible, he had what 3 jumpers today and missed all 3? Again he was missing layups that he should make. Missed 2 FTs late in the game.
Exactly. Shouldn't even have been in there. 2 seconds isn't enough to need a ball handler. Should have had Woody inbound ball and had Baer, Uthoff, Uhl, Wagner or Clemmons on floor
Was anyone surprised by the ending? It's a movie we've seen so many times it's predictable. Fran and MG choking down the stretch. Fran putting the ball in MG hands to win, and MG delivering a brick and 2 TO's. Fran is a horrible coach, at least a horrible game coach. I don't know how many times fans need to see the Fran blow close games before they wake up.
If Iowa doesn't make the tournament next year, I'd either fire him or have him sitting on a flaming hot seat. He looks even more lost than Lickliter coaching at the end of games, and I didn't think anyone was that bad.
If Iowa doesn't make the tournament next year, I'd either fire him or have him sitting on a flaming hot seat. He looks even more lost than Lickliter coaching at the end of games, and I didn't think anyone was that bad.
The problem (except that last play) is Gessel needs to be in there to get the ball up. But why on earth before his almost turnover was the ball not in Uthoff's hands?!! Should have played Clemmons WAY less. He was just awful
But that would change the ending of the movie Fran has shown us countless times, and nobody like surprises.
4 years ago----did anybody think Erik Hanson was going to have had a better career than Woody??? I sure didn't; but he most definitely DID
Not sure I agree with that unless all you looking at is scoring points, but that is just STUPID
Never seen a big man miss so many layups. Soft, inside play.
Basabe and Olesani has confidence and Woody is soft.
Just Fran being Fran. It's hard to get mad at MG in these situations because he's proven over and over again, he's a choker, it's beyond his capability to succeed in these situations. Therefore, it's incumbent upon the coach to not put him in these situations. He shouldn't have even been in the game the final 4 seconds.
I'll say less a choker than just not good enough to be given the responsibility
DEFENSE (blocking shots included). When they were both seniors I'm definitely right. Hanson wasn't very good the first two years but at least he got BETTER. Woody is regressing minus being a bit tougher on the glass
Doesn't mean anything for the tourney as we're playing horrible----but it kind of stinks that we beat Purdue twice and they got the 4....
Uncle Steve is actually better than Fran at something. His teams usually collapsed (esp early on in his tenure) but recovered in the Big 10 tourney. Examples: 2001, 2002, 2005. Won tourney in 2006 no collapse until Northwestern State debacle
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