Wow. The fact you can watch a game in which 3 dunks were missed and then say there were twice as many is quite telling given your other proclivities, shall we say. Or stupid ass obsessions, if you prefer.
That was a helleva come back and fight by this team
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Wow. The fact you can watch a game in which 3 dunks were missed and then say there were twice as many is quite telling given your other proclivities, shall we say. Or stupid ass obsessions, if you prefer.
c’mon, I get that Fran deserves criticism for his defensive philosophy, but we have had too 15 scoring offenses the last several years now. Pretty sure he knows what he’s doing on offense. Tonight we simply missed a lot of makeables and had uncharacteristic turnovers that resulted in easy points for Michigan. If you’d have told me this morning we’d battle Michigan to a near-draw on the boards given their size advantage I’d have said we win.
Idk about the exact number of dunks missed, but I saw we were 12/24 in layups and/or dunks missed overall. Add in 4/18 from 3 and 13/20 from the line, plus the turnovers and it’s not hard to see why we lost.
Only comment I’ll make about the last shot by Bohannon where he expected a whistle…Keegan got called for much less at Rutgers a few weeks ago.
Michigan scored 84 points and shot 4-20 from three. Defense is far more than an Achilles heel for fran it’s a full blown herpes infection; it’s gross, embarrassing, and it never leaves.
ISU was horrible.
This team is terrible at the rim.
But pathetic shooting all around tonight. Good night from FT or avg night from 3 and we win.
Better beat a couple ranked teams for sure..Iowa has zero good wins this year. If tourney selection was held today, I would not feel good at all about their chances.
I followed the game on my phone for a while. When they got behind by 10 I told my wife that hawks are down 10 and are beat. I said they will make it close at the finish but will fall short. I checked the score before I went to bed, saw it got close, yawned and went to bed. Years ago I would have had trouble sleeping. Not anymore.
Total team failure last night. You can’t play so poorly when you’re fighting for your tournament life. Iowa is going to have to win one of OSU/IllinoisMichigan and go undefeated at home. That’s a tall task for an inconsistent, middle of the road, B1G team
Virginia, Utah St, and Indiana are basically the same win when Home, Away, and Neutral are taken into consideration. Virginia could possibly move to a Q1 but would likely have to finish 4-0 and have some success in the ACCT.
Exactly..No sense of urgency 90 percent of the game.
We lack toughness, grit, something was missing last night, body language/ non verbals were bad….
Sometimes physical mistakes happen. Free throws are missed. Dunks get missed (not often, but they do). The larger issue was the overall carelessness and lack of effort on defense. Michigan scored on 15 of its first 20 possessions in the second half. That is beyond terrible. I know we'll get all sorts of reasons and excuses why that is, it comes down to the face that this team is not good at attention to details. It doesn't matter when you are playing Maryland and Nebraska and everything is going in from 3-point land and those 2 opponents play with the discipline of a teenager at his first party. It does matter when you play a real opponent that is locked in to try and beat you.
Cool, the team fought and tried at the end. That is encouraging, you want to see fight. What would be even more helpful is paying attention to detail in practice and doing things the right way. Sit down in your damn stance on defense and at least make an effort to try and contain the guy with the ball. When you double-team Dickinson in the post. make sure the guy we leave open is who was talked about in the scouting report and not just randomly leaving guys.
Uh, sure, but where was that effort the first 38 minutes? Iowa played like it was bored. They looked like a bunch of guys who'd been dragged to grandma's house and forced to listen to her stories for the umpteenth time when they could have been playing video games.
There are lots of ways to lose, and many of them will leave you with your pride in tact because you gave it everything you had. Last night was the opposite. Hell, if the Iowa players don't give a damn, why should anyone else? My advice: Stay home. Do NOT waste your time and money going to see a bunch of guys go through the motions. At least watching on TV you can turn it off early and do something productive, like do the dishes or take out the garbage.
That was an embarrassing performance last night, and there's no other way to say it.
Iowa came into the game a six-point favorite with the NCAA tournament looming. And THAT'S the effort we get? LOL
Virginia is not very good. They are still a quad 2 win even playing a true road game. ACC proving to be pretty weak this year.
Missed dunks, uncharacteristic bad turnovers and too many missed FT's'. Fix one of those three and this could have been a W.
If we'd come back and won even then a bitching post would lead off. Seen it many times.
At the end of the day, it was a road win vs a decent team and one that will also most likely make the NCAA.
It counts as a good win.
I’ll tell you what, the floor in CHA is not level. You can see that when they do that ridiculous putting game. We need a new court!
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