When Krikke can’t score he’s a big negative. Both Dembele and Brauns give you better defense and rebounding. Scoring is not our issue anyway. I also like when we play a 3 guard lineup.
Well that sucked...
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I'm to the point that I think this should be our starting lineup for the rest of the season:
- Harding
- Perkins
- Dix
- Payton
- Freeman
BirdistheWord
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Payton kept us in the game (along with saucy). Dix was decent and not much else for scoring from rest of groip. Harding has his flaws but he can get guys easy buckets, could use more of him.
BirdistheWord
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I am not opposed to this. Against bigger teams, Freeman will be ripe for foul trouble. I guess no diff than Krikke in there, like now, but we could adjust based on matchups.
I think it's as simple as not playing PMac at all, and a lot of the lineup and match-up issues go away.
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BirdistheWord
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You can have my retirement account if that happens. But agree that he brings virtually zero, even his 3P% sux.
I missed the game - but they sound like Maryland....it will be interesting to see how many BT teams get invited to the Dance.
I try not to care but find myself always caring. Fing stupid rotations.
Dembele is a defensive force we hardly ever see at Iowa. With a little seasoning, look out.
Thank God for Caitlin Clark! I've never enjoyed watching women's basketball... at all... but I'm really enjoying watching them when she plays. At least it gives me a chance to enjoy basketball right now, because watching the men's team play usually ends in frustration! It's gonna suck when she's gone!
I wouldn't go that far but at this point PMAC offers nothing.
Stat line
19 Mins 0 pts 3 rebs (2 were on missed free throws) 0 assists.....and my pet peeve 1 foul. He's more interested in getting out of the way than actually playing defense.
He had no business being in at the end of the game. Kudos on the awesome inbound to Payton. He can be our designated inbounder....
With about 40 seconds left Indiana missed a 3...while Harding and Krikke tried to get the rebound our 6'9 forward who was in the lane started jogging down court. Indiana gets the o rebound and putback.
I feel for the kid but at this point he's a net negative on the court.
Getting Ware back was a game changer for IU.
Losing Reneau kind of cancelled out that edge but ware is the type of long big we cannot match up with. Too big for Owen.
Looked like X Johnson might have broke his arm on that fall. IU will struggle vs teams better than us.
We have struggled vs opposing true bigs....reese of MD,Edey of PU,crowl of Wis,guy for ISU, now Ware.
If Mulvey is going to be worth the scholly could he not help vs these 7fters after 3 years in the program?
Krikke had good open looks again but has gone cold. Freeman might be getting worn down trying to do everything for this team in the paint on both ends.
We need another Tony type guard to take guys off the dribble.
That drought that basically lost the game for us showed how dependent on Tony we are.
I do shudder to think about next year without Tony.
Dix has been in a good groove so wonder if he got dinged up last nite...hope not.
We seem to lose the close games this year.
Losing Reneau kind of cancelled out that edge but ware is the type of long big we cannot match up with. Too big for Owen.
Looked like X Johnson might have broke his arm on that fall. IU will struggle vs teams better than us.
We have struggled vs opposing true bigs....reese of MD,Edey of PU,crowl of Wis,guy for ISU, now Ware.
If Mulvey is going to be worth the scholly could he not help vs these 7fters after 3 years in the program?
Krikke had good open looks again but has gone cold. Freeman might be getting worn down trying to do everything for this team in the paint on both ends.
We need another Tony type guard to take guys off the dribble.
That drought that basically lost the game for us showed how dependent on Tony we are.
I do shudder to think about next year without Tony.
Dix has been in a good groove so wonder if he got dinged up last nite...hope not.
We seem to lose the close games this year.
We showed fight last night,.. all in all I still like this young team.
Seems Fran is good for 1 maybe 2 “good@ years out of 4 and then it’s full blown rebuild. Been lucky with some amazing players to carry some bad teams but this year is just all around bad.
Mens bball isn’t a top 3 sport at Iowa, Fran can get by with mediocre/average years
Mens bball isn’t a top 3 sport at Iowa, Fran can get by with mediocre/average years
Not just Fran, that's Iowa sports in general and I think it's tied to the recruiting,.. Basketball or football, pretty decent team every 3-4 years, other than that its a re-building exercise.
I can agree with the fball tho it seems their floor is higher than the bball. When bball is bad it’s under the basement, KF at least keeps fball relevant ish at times
Krikkes last 4 gamesL 4/9 2 rebounds, 3/11 4 rebounds, 2/8 4 rebounds, 1/9 3 rebounds. So roughly 27% from the field and 4.25 rebounds per game and he is a matador on defense,
I know Dimbele is rough but he will get better. So more minutes for Dimbele at PF and some 3-guard lineups with Sandfort at PF. Cut Krikke minutes from 30 minutes to 15. Motivate him with bench time-he isn't rebounding or playing defense at B1G level adn B1G coaches apparently have noticed he mostly can only finish with left hand.
Sandfort and Perkins are playing at All B1G level recently. I am really impressed with Dix. Freeman is All Freshman. So we seem to have 4 good/really good at times starters. There seems to be more gas in the tank than what our record suggests. We obviously blew Michigan at home, Maryland at home, and Indiana on road. We should have gotten 1 or 2 more wins in B1G so far.
Next year Koch arrives and Canada PF. We get a lot tougher up front. Where are the guards? If Perkins leaves we don't have much in guard court. Harding too small/weak physically to ever go out and bull his way to basket like Perkins can do. Another 0.500 B1G year and DOA in NCAA tourney if we make it because defense is not valued and Fran's guard recruiting not strong suit.
I'm guessing this is the 2024-25 starting 5 unless Dembele improves or Koch is ready day 1, so at least we have that to look forward to.
Nah. Iowa lost because their starting frontcourt was absolutely manhandled and dominated from the beginning to the end. Krikke and Freeman were a combined 3-12 for 6 points and 5 rebounds. Krikke was brutal missing lots of open mid range shots that he'd normally hit at a +60% clip. Meanwhile their starting center had a field day going 8-10 for 23 points and 10 rebounds.
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Yeah,but they were at home. Did you see the energy they got from that awesome home crowd. If the game was at Carver,we beat them going away.
He just doesn't like to mix it up, when he's out there at a position where it requires him to mix it up. That's my read on Patrick. He's not a good fit for this team, for this conference. He probably could have been quite successful in the Missouri Valley. But he didn't really have a choice, did he?
I don't think Beth is going to put up with this crap. Hopefully she can convince him to take a reasonable buyout ,retire and watch Jack play somewhere.
Someone mentioned playing "bully ball" against Patrick - I didn't see much of the game last night, but Maryland defenders were all up in his jock whenever he got the ball (which was rare).......It was 4 on 5 when Iowa had the ball on the offensive side...
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