If Iowa is behind in the score, then I like JoeT because he is going to rattle cages and get into grill of the other team and make things happen, sometimes that includes his own turnovers. Iowa was playing with a lead for over half the Indiana game, I would like to have seen some Ulis at PG and let JBO play off the ball and share PG in some sets. As soon as Iowa got behind, it should have been JoeT time.
With CJF normally being a 3pt threat but out with injury, I don't think Fran had much choice but to play JBO big minutes and hope he would catch fire.. .which unfortunately never happened. Iowa's inside/outside game requires some threat of 3pt shot. Even though JBo's shots weren't falling, teams don't help off him.
Connor...yes he is a great passer, but he is a role player unless he can hit the 3pt shot consistently he is getting left open and his defender is helping elsewhere. I get that CMAC knows how to run the offense, but in the end, you need some shooters and playing CMAC means you one less shooter out there.
I'm curious if Ulis can hit the 3pt shot...if he can hit it when wide open better than CMAC, then I don't see why he can't get some of CMAC minutes.
In retrospect, it appears that Fran turned the wrong knobs and part of the loss is on him. He had some strange lineups and Iowa's defense was poor (giving up 49% shooting, 47% from 3) and the offense was also poor.
If he'd gone with a better defensive unit during the scoring drought, at least they would have kept the game closer to potentially get to end and hope for some lucky breaks to go Iowa's way vs playing down 10-12 pts with 2minutes before going all out on defense.
