Everyone gets a pass for these ****ing ots. Shouldn't even be here
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Everyone gets a pass for these ****ing ots. Shouldn't even be here
Because we fouled with no time coming off the clock.
Could we all please drop the victim worship?
Oh hey look it's smug Pitino talking up his undeserved win. Go figure.
Gtfo Big Ten officials. You have failed.
Gtfo Big Ten officials. You have failed.
What a depressing game, Ive lost allot of optimism for the rest of this season.
Back to playing terrible sloppy offense.
Back to playing terrible sloppy offense.
I think moss should have seen more pt down the stretch.. maybe against Sparty
Watching the highlights is even more depressing.
Brady passes up an open shot to force a pass to Jok. Cordell falling out of bounds throws an outlet pass to Minnesota with Uhl standing open under the basket.
I hate the all Jok offense.
Brady passes up an open shot to force a pass to Jok. Cordell falling out of bounds throws an outlet pass to Minnesota with Uhl standing open under the basket.
I hate the all Jok offense.
Seriously ? I thought he let the game kinda come to him?
For a while yes. But after he hit some 3s it got to the point where it was one on five. The rest of the team goes into a shell and forces him the ball and he tries to force the issue. Then the turnovers come.
Its happened a half dozen times this year.
Same deal. Its worked once this year.
You dont get it.
Dont stop moving the ball, dont force feed, dont force bad shots.
Its not good offense.
Do you think he took bad shots? I don't . Would you rather have him move it so Dom or the Bear can finish that brick building?
Not as much about his shot selection as him becoming the only option on offense.
Its absolutely not necessary. It makes it way to easy on the defense. Every one goes into panic mode trying to force the ball to him and it ends up in turnovers.
You cannot win that way. And we dont.
Posting him up when we have Pemsl on the floor? Thats just stupid offense, its forcing it for no reason. Post your big man up and play regular basketball. Work inside out, get good shots.
Maybe try also utilizing Isaiah Moss? Give the defense more than one person to think about.
When Jok gets hot, he's the type of player who demands the ball. With him putting up like 26 in the second half, he earned a few contested shot attempts in OT. I think things went a little over the top, but regardless, we shouldn't have even been in that position.
But it always ends up over the top to the point where we dont even get shots off.
I appreciate what Jok does on offense but Fran has got to stop letting it get to that point where we cant even get shots off because the defense has fully adjusted and is now overcompensating.
You cant ride one player. You cant let the rest of your team become no factors who are just trying to get rid of the ball. The defense will figure it out.
Fran needs everyone except Jok, Bohannon & Ellingson to spend a solid 2-3 hours shooting nothing but free throws! The missed free throws are really starting to hurt down the stretch.
It's just the type of player Jok is. I agree with your premise, but you can't really tell Jok to stop shooting. You want the ball in the hands of your best player in crunch time. It would likely benefit Iowa for him to dish the ball off when the defense has him smothered, but at this point, it is what it is. Iowa likely won't make the tournament, and Jok will be gone next year. The young guys showed what they can do without him.
I dont want him to stop shooting but I want the rest of the team to shoot more and not freak out with the ball.
The whole thing is just poor game management. You leave Moss on the bench all second half? Thats just ridiculous. We completely abandon using the low block? Also ridiculous.
I know part of it is how young the rest of them are. They go into a shell whenever Jok gets hot. Its just not a good combination.
Iowa completed the comeback without Moss on the floor. He went with the hot hands. You or I may have handled it differently, but I can see why Fran would stick with the lineup that was working. Also, Moss seemed to be pressing in the OT's, just wasn't as calm as he was early in the game.
Agree re: low block. We should have been working it inside with Lynch fouled out, instead of chucking it
Pitino said that we have good players and will be a great team down the road in the post-game. Gee, I feel better now. 
Even so, if refs make just ONE decent and obvious call at the end of the game, Iowa overcomes those problems. They DID overcome those problems, but the refs took away their incredible comeback on the road against a good team.
No, like I said, this is the first game I've watched where the refs aren't calling it both ways even remotely consistently. They missed a clear travel by Minny, they missed countless hacks across the arms and bodies bumping in the air (on one side of the court, not exclusively, but out of balance) and they completely flubbed the end of the game. Then they made some poor "makeup calls" on Jok where he wasn't fouled, but all-in-all, Iowa got the shaft. BAD officiating.
They were fine in the first half. The call at the end on Ellingson was classic college refs calling the jump ball way too quickly though. I'll give you that.
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