Jeez, I hate all these Iowa game references when they talk about the Hoosiers.
Rutgers/IU
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By "IU's getting a lot of calls", do you mean fouls called against Rutgers? If so, that'd be like a replay of the game from Thursday night.
Granted, TJD and Thompson got 4 each, but quite a few 'anticipation' calls on Iowa in that game. Murray called for at least two.
Thursday Indiana was the team with the clear advantage in intensity/tenacity, So far today it appears Rutgers is winning those traits.
Why is it against Iowa that teams "break out of a funk", even if its for only a game?
Kidding, mostly, but as I said a couple posts ago, this result is not very suprising.
Kidding, mostly, but as I said a couple posts ago, this result is not very suprising.
Btw, a little thing, but it was pointed out how Rutgers had all their guys collapsing the lane to stop the drive.
Iowa doesn't do that. If one guy gets beat off the dribble, unless someone is right there waiting (like Garza or someone else who can block shots- Murray, Nunge), then that is gonna be an easy layup or dunk.
Iowa is too worried about collapsing and giving up the kick out for a wide open 3, or even worse, an extra pass or two that has our chasing defense look silly.
Yet, when I watch other teams play us and they collapse everyone to stop the dribble and we have enough awareness to kick it out, somehow, our opponents are still able to recover and fly out to the shooter to at least get a hand up and contest the shot.
That's the million dollar question. Why can our opponents do this......but Iowa's elite offensive-oriented players can't do this.
Do better. You're welcome.....
Iowa doesn't do that. If one guy gets beat off the dribble, unless someone is right there waiting (like Garza or someone else who can block shots- Murray, Nunge), then that is gonna be an easy layup or dunk.
Iowa is too worried about collapsing and giving up the kick out for a wide open 3, or even worse, an extra pass or two that has our chasing defense look silly.
Yet, when I watch other teams play us and they collapse everyone to stop the dribble and we have enough awareness to kick it out, somehow, our opponents are still able to recover and fly out to the shooter to at least get a hand up and contest the shot.
That's the million dollar question. Why can our opponents do this......but Iowa's elite offensive-oriented players can't do this.
Do better. You're welcome.....
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Indiana just isn’t that good. That’s why that loss stings so bad.
Inept coaching cost us that game.
Inept coaching cost us that game.
13. That's the number of good teams in the Big Ten.
Kind of like giving 130%
Kind of like giving 130%
Ehhh....Northwestern and Penn State are above average teams that can knock you off if they hit every shot they throw up and you shoot like we did in all our losses this year.
Teams like Indiana and Rutgers are still good enough where you absolutely need to bring it to win, even going away.
The problem with the Indiana loss is that it resembled more of the past Fran teams where "any good team with an aggressive defense can make Iowa's supposedly-elite offense look truthfully not elite".............
But the difference is that this year's offense is in fact better than what they've shown in their losses, and it comes down, moreover, to execution, finishing, and the staff getting those guys to recognize where to look for scoring options, especially when we're not lighting it up from outside.
Iowa will get the best effort from every team they play due to their ranking. If Iowa has an off night shooting the ball, like they did against Indiana, it will increase their chances to get beat. They have to match the effort of every team they play. Not sure that happened against Indiana. Based on what the players said, they didn't.
indy is an ok team. Certainly not terrible. Quite a way from great. They're firmly in the "meh" range.
The turd that Iowa laid against them is a bad loss. Not a terrible loss(that would be losing to nebby).
The turd that Iowa laid against them is a bad loss. Not a terrible loss(that would be losing to nebby).
All that loss does is prove the B1G is brutal. You better show up every night or you’ll get beat . Not surprising at all.
IU definitely not great, they lost at home today vs Rutgers, 74 to 70.
Yup. That was my point.
Common on this forum to have the extremes. Some b!tch up a storm about a loss to an "awful" indy team as if it's a season killer. Others feel compelled to defend indy as being "good" or "underrated" to make a bad loss seem not so bad. I'd rather just take it for what it is.
This is the one thing that drives me crazy with Fran. His defense seems to always be stuck in the middle of these two things and doing both equally ineffective. I HATE that we always help on drivers that are only looking to kick and not score. To me that is bad film work and scouting. You are basically letting a guy have a wide open set shot 3 versus an acrobatic contested closer shot. This day and age with shooters, I'm not letting them have uncontested 3s.
Doing that, doing both or doing all of the above equally ineffective are phrases that you could apply to a lot of Iowa's defense.
I think that you can capture it all under the umbrella concept of Iowa being defensively incompetent.
Very lazy and/or poor awareness, however Frederick was directing Joe to the corner because there was a cutter floating to the corner.
Joe sat there, so Garza had to come out indecisively, leaving the backdoor cut open in the middle, and was this one of the bullsh** fouls at the end on Murray?
If Joe had listened to CJ's call out, and sank to the corner to allow CJ to pick up the ball (who probably wasn't gonna shoot it), then Garza stays inside and is at the very least, there to contest the cutter in the lane (if he cuts at all with Garza being there).
Communication.........and this is without fans.
When Luka goes to the perimeter to guard or hedge, generally bad things happen.
Our wing defenders have a hard time recognizing and anticipating when to kick down and rotate. More often than not they're caught out of position, flat-footed, or they recognize what's happening but it's too late to slide out to contest a shot or drive.
All of that falls under defensive awareness.......
That and taking a charge.
