Connor McCaffery's free throw motion is fvcking gold. So many guys jump early.
Rewatching some games from last year
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I know Connor has some of the worst advanced stats on the team, and I'm a big fan of advanced stats.
However, if I was a B10 coach I'd take him on my team all day, every day. As a person who plays a lot of basketball still, he just has a lot of traits that don't show up in stats (position flex, leadership, schematic knowledge, awareness, etc). In key situations he will make sure the right player gets the ball in the right spot and with enough time to do something with it. Those things don't show up in stats.
He is limited athletically in some matchups, but if he switches defensively there isn't a matchup where he is drastically overmatched as he is quite tall/long for a guard so he can take a step back and still defend shots against quicker players. He bodies up bigs very well. He knows when to take fouls to save points. He's the best post passer in the Big 10. He limits turnovers, etc.
If he was in the transfer portal he would get more interest than many on here would think.
If he hits 3's at the rate he did the last 4 weeks of the season, or anything north of 30%, his value gets even higher because that sets up other things for him and his teammates.
However, if I was a B10 coach I'd take him on my team all day, every day. As a person who plays a lot of basketball still, he just has a lot of traits that don't show up in stats (position flex, leadership, schematic knowledge, awareness, etc). In key situations he will make sure the right player gets the ball in the right spot and with enough time to do something with it. Those things don't show up in stats.
He is limited athletically in some matchups, but if he switches defensively there isn't a matchup where he is drastically overmatched as he is quite tall/long for a guard so he can take a step back and still defend shots against quicker players. He bodies up bigs very well. He knows when to take fouls to save points. He's the best post passer in the Big 10. He limits turnovers, etc.
If he was in the transfer portal he would get more interest than many on here would think.
If he hits 3's at the rate he did the last 4 weeks of the season, or anything north of 30%, his value gets even higher because that sets up other things for him and his teammates.
Good post, basketball has so many 'hidden' areas where players can have an impact and I tell my team this all time, box score and points seem to be all the glory. Rebounds/tipped pass/blocked shot/good defense/floor spacing/hustle, etc.
You really dont know anything about basketball.
I know plenty cooky. My leg just doesn’t tingle when I see a sick post feed or a free throw motion
I just finished watching the BIG/Iowa four tournament games and Iowa in that stretch was as good as anybody in the country. The only problem was they peaked in the BIG tourney versus the NCAA. Iowa was very good last year IMO.
It took Keegan having a Career game from 3pt line in a season when he was one of the top few players in the country to beat a middling Indiana team that got crushed in 2nd game in NCAA tourney. Iowa also had trouble with a Purdue team that did not make much noise in NCAA and got beat by a 15 seed in NCAA. Iowa itself got beat by a 3rd place Atlantic confernce team that then got crushed by Providence. B1G is a so-so basketball conference, no one in Elite8 or Final4.
I will say I enjoyed the Hawkeye effort in BTT and the season was pretty good, but after 12 years of Fran, I am concerned that was about as was as good as it gets with Fran.
If players like CMAC were indeed highly valuable, the NBA would be full of CMAC types with the below the rim cerebral game that can't shoot very well but set mean picks and can post feed. Instead the NBA has role players that actually can jump out of gym, shoot the ball well and still do the things CMAC does.
That play down the stretch, tight game, B10 Championship game kick to Purdue’s crotch was outstanding!
Agreed. He's a much better player than he's gotten credit for. He just lacks scoring/shooting. He's extremely smart on both offense and defense. He's tenacious as a defender and has the size to cause other teams problems.
I'm glad he decided to come back this season. As much grief as I gave JBo, it was good having his senior+ leadership on the team last season. CMac brings that leadership this season.
Lol did yoy watch draymond green in the finals? Can barely dunk anymore and his jump shot is all but gone and he was still fantastic.
I was watching that indiana at Iowa game from early in conference play. Connor had a great assist to Kris for a three on a quick pass back as the ball was being passed around the three line, defense was scrambling. Then a possesion or two after, race thompson grabs a rebound, connor immediately comes from behind grabs the ball out of his hands, race pushes him out of bounds and gets called for a foul. Fantasic basketball.
Yes, that play was a super high IQ play and I believe late in the shot clock with Williams defending. Great use of two shot fakes and pivot.
You took that from Iowa playing the way they did down the stretch and in the B1G tournament? They have one bad game and the rest was just a fluke? These kids played their hearts out thus year when no one expected ANYTHING like this.
You are a sorry excuse for a "fan". Please go away. And don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out the door.
I agree with everything you say but if he can't force reams to defend him honestly it nullifies all of his positive attributes on offense.
You can't get the ball to the right guy if your man is leaving you to defend the player who should be getting the ball.
I hope he's doing nothing but shooting 3s all summer.
"hope he's doing nothing but shooting 3s all summer" This will be very interesting....because he is supposed to be healthy for the first time in a long time, he is not practicing baseball for the first time in his Iowa career, and therefore is supposedly working on his basketball skills all summer. An effective Connor does include being a scoring threat from 3....and if he is an actual consistent threat from 3......that could be a major boost to this team.
Very true. The last month of his basketball, and the entire teams basketball, was nothing short of beautiful to watch. Why and how they turtled in the tournament is difficult to explain, but they weren’t the only team that had a big emotional set a victories to end the season and then had a let down game when it also counted, and Kentucky isn’t the only one who comes to mind.
One of the reasons why the NCAA tournament is so fun to watch is that it really does empower the underdogs. But I have to say that watching the Hawkeyes win the Big Ten tournament was absolutely epic. They’ve proved to themselves what they can do and I think this year‘s team has all the tools to be a BTT and sweet 16 team, or better.
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