Tuck in your jersery, young man. That starting spot is all yours if you want it. Let's go!
Perkins.
- Thread starter ObeseMuffins
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Tony Perkins was going to take it anyway. CJ is a quitter
He got paid well to quit.
Perkins is tired of this Country Kitchen bullshit.
3 years of Perkins vs maybe 1/2 year of often injured Frederick. Go Tony.
I’m excited for Perkins. Kid is gonna be a beast. He can slash, defend, and rebound. I love the kid.
I'm sure Cal has his pay scale set for player performance. Pay grade 5 would be a good player and so on. CJ would probably be a grade 3.
Tony needs to shoot and shoot and shoot some more this off-season. If he adds an effective outside game to his offensive arsenal and watch out!
Great comment! I know it was a small sample size last year, but Perkins always seemed to do great stuff when he was on the floor. I wish he'd played a lot more, and I hope he gets many meaningful minutes next year to show what he can do.
Toussaint at PG
Perkins at SG
Patrick at SF
Keegan at PF
Kris at PF
That is the lineup I want to see. We play man to man and we are good. Our zone would be A LOT quicker too.
At Sienna (I know it is a long time ago) Fran would pull out the full court pressure a lot. I think this is finally the group that can do this.
Connor as a starter or 6th man in the 1-4 spots serves a purpose whether you like it or not.
Ulis backs up the 1 and 2
Sandfort backs up SF
Ogundele at the 5
Mulvey at the 4 & 5.
Throw in a grad transfer, a splash or not, at the 2 and the 4/5 would be good. But I am actually ok with the 10 we have.
I think Mulvey is fast enough to play a good center in the lineup next year. He’s pretty quick on his feet.
I could see Uhlis starting over Toussaint
I do not see it. Toussaint turned a corner the last few games. Did he have turnovers? yeah, but he was really playing at a different level even for him.
Unless JoBo comes back, I think Joe T will be the starter unless either he plays himself out of it or Ulis blows up, either of which could happen. But I just think that Joe T will grab this opportunity and run with it.
I love that line-up! I commented on some thread right after Nunge got hurt and said I'd love to see a line-up like this when Garza sat out a few minutes and just press the shit out of teams...really extend it and get after it...and then run, run, run. Maybe we'll see that next year.
He shouldn’t however.
I think he could try to score more this next year. He can back guys down and play some post. He is not a push over. He just was not a scorer. Plus he was injured. I can see him being valuable next year in what his role will be.
I hope CMac can score because he can't live on assists alone - others on the team can do that and more. CMac was able to do it with this year's team when he was healthy but his and CJ's injuries really hurt the team later in the year. Not blaming them personally, I just wish that the new kids could have filled in better when those two were hurt.
Connor is a competitor and I appreciate that about him. He does many little things for the team that aren’t always represented by stats. That being said, his weaknesses outweigh his strengths in my opinion thus not wanting him to play starter minutes.
This is where Iowa really needs that athletic kid out of North Dakota. It will really help shore up the forward/center position. Iowa also needs a shooting guard from the portal if CJ doesn’t come back. Word is he in the portal but that doesn’t mean he is gone. Interesting. I think the ship has sailed for Fran though.
I don’t see how connor is healthy by the start of next season. We all saw how hard it was and how much of a toll it took on jbo. My hope, he isn’t ready to start the season and someone else fills that roll and contributes to the point that when connor is healthy, fran can’t justify starting him. Similar to what happened 2 seasons ago with nunge going down and connor taking his spot and playing well enough to hold it for this season as well. I would like to see connor back in the 6th man role, bringing his heady and calm play but also his toughness. His versatility of playing 1-4 is worth quite a bit
Again (for like the 100th time!), it's U-L-I-S. His first name is Ahron, the H doesn't carry over to his last name.
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While turnovers were an issue at times, Joe T's biggest issue will be avoiding silly fouls that will have him parked on the bench the rest of the half.
To me - his biggest issue is to learn he does not have to make a play every time he has the ball. I do believe he got better with that aspect later in the year. And unless i am mistaken, his minutes went up too?
I'm worried about Conner minute distribution. We are most stacked at the 3/4 positions where we can hide Conner. We have 2 PGs so no room there. That leaves shooting guard. I want Perkins to get 30 of those minutes a game. I'm unsure of who gets the remaining 10 (mix of Ulis / Sandfort if he can play SG). Last thing I want is Conner sucking up those minutes, you can't have a non shooter at SG.
I really don't see much of a role for him on this team, his only skill was being a counterpoint to Garza (highly overrated imo). He was bar far the worst player on the team according to advanced metrics. If he starts or gets 20+ minutes a game and hasn't somehow magically transformed his game we are screwed. Not to mention that could open us up to transfer attrition again.
Fran needs to assess as a coach this year, not a father. He was just extended to do exactly that. We'll see...
I really don't see much of a role for him on this team, his only skill was being a counterpoint to Garza (highly overrated imo). He was bar far the worst player on the team according to advanced metrics. If he starts or gets 20+ minutes a game and hasn't somehow magically transformed his game we are screwed. Not to mention that could open us up to transfer attrition again.
Fran needs to assess as a coach this year, not a father. He was just extended to do exactly that. We'll see...
It just amazes me how many people think Fran puts more emphasis on being a father than being a coach when playing time is distributed. He's a D-1 coach, not a grammar school dad. Connor played more because he distributed the ball as needed and made very few turnovers. Ball movement and distribution is often overlooked and Connor was very important in this being done. Pretty sure you won't get any complaints from Luka either. Some of his success is due to getting the ball in the right place at the right time.
