Here are mine. (all positive) Please add your own.
1.In my view, Mike Gesell is one of the top 3 point guards in the B1G and he showed it last night. Tum tum Nairn may not be an offensive juggernaut but I have seen him take over games with his quickness and ability to run the court and execute the fast break. Mike beat him to the rim at will. Mike made excellent decisions both on and off the ball. He plays within himself and become the scorer we need when it is called for. Otherwise he is a distributor and a quiet leader who is becoming more vocal.
2.I have heard talk that fran doesn't always win the "close ones". To me it is more significant that we beat good teams by double digits than we win a "close one". It shouldn't be close.
3. Although they let more contact go than I would prefer, the refs did not let Izzo's guys rough us up as they have in the past. Two hands on the body was pretty much an automatic whistle.
4.Looks like we fixed the getting the ball inbounds problem. This was not an issue and MSU applied intense pressure late.
5.Ahmad Wagner was a freshman playing Center and Power Forward and held his own. My goodness I can scarcely remember the last time we had a strong physical kid like this. I love love love his game and he is going to get so much better.
6.You simply cannot choose to NOT play hard when Baer is on the court or you will look like a fool. Nicholas is very valuable for this alone. When he entered the game for the first time last night the intensity racheted up about 10 notches.
7. Something HAS to be done about the lousy Whelan Security folks. When Uthoff was called for swinging his elbows late in the game, the crowd went nuts. We were told by security to calm down and be quiet. I guarantee the coaching staff does not want us to be quiet. Guess what happened? People sat down and stopped cheering. There is nothing wrong with enthusiasm and CHA personnel do all they can to eff up the enthusiasm from the crowd. Thank God for the students last night. They really helped. We could use a new PA announcer as well. The guy they have must do funerals or something because he sounds like a robot.
8. This Iowa team is a lot "tougher" than I thought they would be.
9. To Mister Uthoff: You are the man. We depend on you to score late in the game. Don't throw risky passes. Take it to the hole and get fouled. You are so good when you take over. Please become more selfish.
10. Clemmons played some of the best defense I have ever seen last night. He just busted his tail.
11. Props to Woody. Pretty solid game from the big fella. Costello scored down low mostly only when Woody was out of the game.
12. Iowa Coaching staff was really dialed in. It was obvious they really wanted this one.
1.In my view, Mike Gesell is one of the top 3 point guards in the B1G and he showed it last night. Tum tum Nairn may not be an offensive juggernaut but I have seen him take over games with his quickness and ability to run the court and execute the fast break. Mike beat him to the rim at will. Mike made excellent decisions both on and off the ball. He plays within himself and become the scorer we need when it is called for. Otherwise he is a distributor and a quiet leader who is becoming more vocal.
2.I have heard talk that fran doesn't always win the "close ones". To me it is more significant that we beat good teams by double digits than we win a "close one". It shouldn't be close.
3. Although they let more contact go than I would prefer, the refs did not let Izzo's guys rough us up as they have in the past. Two hands on the body was pretty much an automatic whistle.
4.Looks like we fixed the getting the ball inbounds problem. This was not an issue and MSU applied intense pressure late.
5.Ahmad Wagner was a freshman playing Center and Power Forward and held his own. My goodness I can scarcely remember the last time we had a strong physical kid like this. I love love love his game and he is going to get so much better.
6.You simply cannot choose to NOT play hard when Baer is on the court or you will look like a fool. Nicholas is very valuable for this alone. When he entered the game for the first time last night the intensity racheted up about 10 notches.
7. Something HAS to be done about the lousy Whelan Security folks. When Uthoff was called for swinging his elbows late in the game, the crowd went nuts. We were told by security to calm down and be quiet. I guarantee the coaching staff does not want us to be quiet. Guess what happened? People sat down and stopped cheering. There is nothing wrong with enthusiasm and CHA personnel do all they can to eff up the enthusiasm from the crowd. Thank God for the students last night. They really helped. We could use a new PA announcer as well. The guy they have must do funerals or something because he sounds like a robot.
8. This Iowa team is a lot "tougher" than I thought they would be.
9. To Mister Uthoff: You are the man. We depend on you to score late in the game. Don't throw risky passes. Take it to the hole and get fouled. You are so good when you take over. Please become more selfish.
10. Clemmons played some of the best defense I have ever seen last night. He just busted his tail.
11. Props to Woody. Pretty solid game from the big fella. Costello scored down low mostly only when Woody was out of the game.
12. Iowa Coaching staff was really dialed in. It was obvious they really wanted this one.
