true to some extent, but his bad decisions are on him
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Young guy trying to do to much without great support, but you are correct.
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Sandfort was absolutely huge in 2nd half just throwing daggers
Maybe not, BUT it doesn't change the fact that he'll have a couple of games upcoming where he can't throw it in the ocean if he was in a boat. And he's put in a bad position (by his coach) getting stuck trying to guard quicker players off the dribble, and he just doesn't possess that level of lateral quickness....
Get lost clown. You haven't aged well either. Go suck off blowhannon you softie. Payton made shots yesterday, good! He also is a huge reason we lost to Maryland, a game that will keep us out of the NCAA tournament.
Wish I was a know it all like you. Payton played with a heavy heart against Maryland as his grandmother passed away that morning. Have a little compassion.
Gotta wonder how long Michigan and OSU are going to stick with their coaches, who have been dismal failures. Both at schools that should be much more successful.
Dix did nothing wrong on the last play, and Harding could not have done anything different. When a 240 lb player sets a pick blind pick, it is on the Sandfort to switch. The play was set up for Young to throw back to Scott for a 3, if Payton had actually cut off the drive.
Harding is NOT a better defender than Dix in any way. Harding is active and better than I expected, but if Young really wanted to go one on one, he would have a lot less trouble scoring on Harding than Dix.
yeah, OSU versus NW it looked like Holtmann has lost his team. They looked very disinterested.
tosu fans are probably wondering about holtman getting the axe as he has underperformed in the tourney, including a first round flameout with a 2 seed. Not making the tourney last year followed by not making the tourney this year might be the end for him.
howard probably gets more leash; despite some of his personal antics he actually got them to the elite 8 relatively recently. Although I'm sure there's plenty of grumbling with how dreadful they are this season.
You did watch the end of the first half against Michigan right? That is how a guard makes it difficult to get to the rim. You don't let them go untouched. There is a big difference between guarding the perimeter and guarding in the open floor. Young did the same thing as the Michigan guard did yesterday. He backed away, knowing Josh couldn't stick with him. When the Michigan player did the same thing, Harding got right up to him. Again, I'm not saying Young wouldn't get around him. But with time running down, you can't let him go full speed untouched.
I am still not understanding how you believe Dix let Young go full speed untouched. Was he supposed to be able to run through Donta Scott, who set a pick on him? Dix might not stop everything, but right now he is easily the best defensive player on the team. He does a lot of dirty work to improve our chances of winning. Perkins is also good defensively when he is aggressive and focused on playing defense. Harding's aggressiveness helps compensate for his size, but he is nowhere near as good defensively.
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Yep - he sucks. He's just leading the team in 3's, 3rd in points scored, 1st in rebounds, and 3rd in assists. I think some should sit back and think about why it is you don't like him? Guess he does not fit the profile needed by the oh so bright Hawkeye basketball fan often spouting off on this Board.
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Given his other skills, and yes shooting is a highly desired skill, if he was an above average defender then you're looking at a probable 1st round draft pick. Pretty big jump from a MAC player. And MAC level players don't sit at the top of multiple statistical categories for a Big Ten team.
At this point the Blue Bloods of b1g Indiana, MSU, Michigan, and OSU are all doing poorly vs past huge successes.
Michigan, MSU, OSU all have good football programs historically. Maybe there is some truth to the theory that all the NIL is getting spent on Football at many P5 schools which allows some Basketball centric schools like Gonzaga, Butler, Vlllanova, etc to throw all their NIL into basketball and out-bid the B1G teams. B1G is the richest conference---plenty of money gong to coaching staffs and contract buyouts for fired coaches for poor performance in NCAA tourney.
I prefer to think of Sandfort as a player who's coach has designated him to be a leader (Perkins is too quiet) and he just gets carried away at times. I would bet that there aren't hard feelings among the players with his efforts. Besides, Freeman needed someone to tell him to stop making dumb fouls because he is needed on the floor. I thought he did much better during the Michigan game.
Both those schools have arguably better players than the Hawks and are underachieving. Not the types of schools that cheerfully suffer failure.
I said almost exactly that in a post maybe a week ago. I thought both coaches would do very well, but they have greatly underachieved.
It seems like we don’t always do a good job creating sets to get him the ball. Lots of times, with the way our offense flows, he ends up getting stuck in the corners, setting screens for other guys who are cutting.
The 28 ft heat check in 1st half was perhaps a tad aggressive.
We have a lot of players that are native Iowans or midwesterners that are fun to root for. Iowa truly is a college team, not collection of mercenaries like ISU.
Payton always plays hard and I have to respect him for his rebounding to go along with his shooting. I also think Pryce is also going to be a good player---and I think Pryce actually would have been a better player this season than PMAC (when your factor in defense/rebounding) if he'd been given a legitimate shot at PT.
The problem I see is we don't have a lot of above the rim players, especially at guard. I think we need somer mercenaries if we want to do better.
Payton always plays hard and I have to respect him for his rebounding to go along with his shooting. I also think Pryce is also going to be a good player---and I think Pryce actually would have been a better player this season than PMAC (when your factor in defense/rebounding) if he'd been given a legitimate shot at PT.
The problem I see is we don't have a lot of above the rim players, especially at guard. I think we need somer mercenaries if we want to do better.
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