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Ryan Bowen, Head Coach & NBA Champion
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Very cool. Some of the best instincts you'll ever see on a basketball court
10 year NBA career out of pure hustle and working hard. One of my all-time favorites
One of the better defenders we have ever seen in a Hawkeye uniform.
agree with all the rest, and Ryan is a favorite but it wasn't just hard work and hustle. Iowa boy's tennis champ I think. Had a great vertical, outstanding lateral quickness and pretty straight ahead speed. Very underrated athlete.
He's a really great guy. Talking with him multiple times and he always impressed me as a good man and basketball player was second. One of my favorite players to wear the black and gold
Possible Iowa coach after Fran retires?
I always had the impression he was more of an NBA guy than college hoops guy. I assume his goal is to be a head coach in the NBA.
He’ll need to prove himself as a head coach in the league before being considered a legitimate top 10 candidate at Iowa.
I always dream of a really great coach with a love for iowa after fran retires.
I would be fine seeing Bowen as the coach for iowa. I would also be ok with Connor being an assistant some day and maybe earning a head coaching job. Btw bf may surprise everyone this year according to Cade McNamara.
Congrats to Ryan Bowen & the Denver Nuggets, who are heading to the NBA Finals.
So Ryan would need to prove himself as an HC in the hardest and most talented basketball league in the world before he's qualified to be a HC at a maybe a top 25% program in a substantially easier level of competition in basketball.
I think Iowa has about 6 years left with McC. I will be interesting for the Iowa fans to see. I'll be dead long before but I would kind of like to see the college sports dimensions in 2030.
Always had hoped Bowen would return to Iowa, but he has been happy and successful in the NBA, which seems to be his future. One of those players, who made the rest of the team lot better without putting up a lot of statistics. Fran has needed someone on his staff, who can teach the players the rest of the game, besides scoring.
Hopefully Ryan will get a HC shot now. Being an asst on a title winning team would help. He certainly put in his time as well. Paid his dues. Fran gave him a start I think.
A fine representative of our school and state.
A fine representative of our school and state.
Bowen is the man. Although former manager Andrew Munson got where he is by kissing massive amounts of ass. Tough to respect someone like that.
it is getting real old reading about the defense. is has been proven time after time that Fran knows how to coach defense. when he has the pieces they actually pretty good defense with the best being 24th in adj defense in the 12-13 season.
then in the 14-15 season they finished around 30th in adj defense and again in the 15-16 season. even in his 1st season after Lick's team finished #169, finished #56 in adj defense. kinda make him look like a total moron now doesn't it.
player can play defense as they learn that in grade school and as they progress grade school to JR High to HS DEFENSE is drilled into whittle brains. once they get college it becomes automatic.
but some don't want to play defense as it is the scoring that get the attention/publicity. now its a matter of getting the players to WANT to play defense which is quite hard to do.
so when someone say that someone has never coached is speaking the truth as only thru coaching can you really can understand what coaches have to go thru/deal with in practice every day.
with sometime 15+ kids to teach/coach it is not a easy job to do. to get my players attention, they ran laps and I don't mean around the gym either. the kids complained until their parents got involved,
on this the parents backed me up. to them they believed in the DICTATOR appoach, with the coach being the dictator,
so constantly degrading the coach because the players DON'T want to play defense gets real old really fast.
but some don't want to play defense as it is the scoring that get the attention/publicity. now its a matter of getting the players to WANT to play defense which is quite hard to do.
so when someone say that someone has never coached is speaking the truth as only thru coaching can you really can understand what coaches have to go thru/deal with in practice every day.
with sometime 15+ kids to teach/coach it is not a easy job to do. to get my players attention, they ran laps and I don't mean around the gym either. the kids complained until their parents got involved,
on this the parents backed me up. to them they believed in the DICTATOR appoach, with the coach being the dictator,
so constantly degrading the coach because the players DON'T want to play defense gets real old really fast.
They should have someone in charge whose job it is to make sure that Fran has the pieces to play pretty good defense, they could call him head coach or something like that and he could recruit and retain players that can and will play defense, it's a solid concept and I have heard it works at some other schools.
It is more than just "defense" that made Ryan Bowen a really good player. Being able to guard your man is important, but being able to translate that into a team defense is even more critical to winning. Iowa has had a lot of players that weren't very good at either, and Fran's track record at creating good defenses has not been very good. The Woody/Gesell/Sapp team was the best defense under Fran, but that is more the exception than the usual. Ryan Bowen seems to be a career NBA guy, but he would be a dream coach to replace Fran.
Seeing the whole court and anticipating plays on both ends is another thing that some players (and teams) do a lot better than others. Experience and playing together helps, but some guys just have a quicker mind, and that can make up for a lack of elite quickness or athleticism. Coaches can teach simple things, which are taught at an early age, like blocking out for rebounds, positioning on defense and the boards (weak side), moving without the ball and setting picks, etc. I don't want to single out players, but some guys, who have gotten lots of playing time under Fran, were awful at these basics. I am not at practice, but I believe those players would be getting drilled in practice, and maybe should spend a lot more time on the bench... I think all of that is a fair criticism of Fran and the players.
Seeing the whole court and anticipating plays on both ends is another thing that some players (and teams) do a lot better than others. Experience and playing together helps, but some guys just have a quicker mind, and that can make up for a lack of elite quickness or athleticism. Coaches can teach simple things, which are taught at an early age, like blocking out for rebounds, positioning on defense and the boards (weak side), moving without the ball and setting picks, etc. I don't want to single out players, but some guys, who have gotten lots of playing time under Fran, were awful at these basics. I am not at practice, but I believe those players would be getting drilled in practice, and maybe should spend a lot more time on the bench... I think all of that is a fair criticism of Fran and the players.
I have no problem calling out certain players. This might not be popular on here, but it's 1000% true: Luka Garza was flat out the most horrendous defender I've ever watched play basketball. Ever. Rewatch 2020 Gonzaga for the most egregious example.
That kid was especially brutal on ball screens. Worst lateral quickness I've ever seen. Which was a Luka problem. Also, as bad as it got in terms of technique, placement and communication. Which was a Fran problem.
Say all you want about Garza, but watching that kid play defense was honestly what put the nail in the coffin of the McCaffrey era for me.
Luka did improve, but his lack of foot speed made him a pretty lousy defender. I'll mention a couple of other past players as examples of the extremes. I believe that Tyler Cook had the athleticism to be a great player, but he was awful at seeing the whole court, anticipating, or doing most of the basics on either end. Nicholas Baer was the opposite. I'm not sure what Fran could of/should of done to improve Cook at the basics, but it didn't happen (although there were small spurts of greatness).
Fran can only sit them if he has someone to replace them with.
Perkins can be pushed by Dix
Patrick can be pushed by Sanfort for playing time
Bowen has Harding to push him for playing time
that's the 3 starters that will be pushed to play harder and more focused on Defense. its amazing how competition can improve a player/s game.
also having quality backups can make entire team play better as they can go 100% then when they need rest they can and should take themselves out like the players under Dr. Tom would do.
drove the fans off because they didn't know what was happening. Dr. Tom didn't just pull them because he did it to piss the fans off, ir was because of the players going all out on the floor,
that 2012 class was ranked #25 by ESPN and had the right combination of players to play very good defense
PG Gesell
SG May
SF Marble
PF White
C Woodbury
nice mixture of height and skills that really fit into the team structure
White played the 4/5 and avg'd 29.2 mpg and 12.8 ppg
Basabe played the 4. avg'ing 18.5 mpg and 6.8 ppg
Clemmons played the 1/2 and played 16.8 mpg and 4.3 ppg
May played the 2/3 and avg'd 21,8 mpg and 5.2 ppg
Marble played the 3/2 and avg'd 30.5 mpg and 15.0 ppg
for a team that won 25 games and to think that team avg'd 70.6 ppg with Marble leading the team in scoring at 15.0 ppg. teams don't have to score 80+ ppg to win.
go back to Wisconsin
Garza as a SR did this.
50 blocks
21 stl
178 defensive rebounds
just what in the hell was he supposed to do. gee whiz he was the NPOY. they don't pass those like candy to just anybody. also he was constantly DBL teamed and triple teamed.
he was damn good for a 2 time 1st Team AA.
If only we could have had the ability to Frankenstein together the best parts of Luka on O and Woody on D, with a huge splash of Olaseni's athleticism. Would have been an all-NBA caliber player.
that would have made him the number 1 draft pick. not many bigs are around like what you describe.
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