Who is your 2019 Iowa Mr. Basketball?
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I'd think Bowen Born would be pretty high up there as well.
27.2ppg 4apg 2spg
47.2%fg 36.7%3pt 85%FT
How many of them did the Big 4 schools offer?
Thanks for the info. Follow up question. Did he garner any interest from Iowa or Valley schools? Seems like someone Drake or UNI would be all over.
I think that KF is trying to set up some kind of "exchange program" where we send some H.S. BB players to Alabama, in hopes that they'll return the favor and send some of their H.S. FB talent our way.
Yeah, he will be. Didn't get too far with the Jr. class. Kid from Central City that just dropped 76 recently in a game will be up there too.
Player C just looking at stats. He needs to shoot the ball more with those kind of stats.
North Linn must be really good and/or their competition must be really bad.
Some of their wins:
111-29 (won by 82)
107-36 (won by 75)
109-35 (won by 74)
101-28 (won by 73)
107-34 (won by 73)
104-36 (won by 68)
98-41 (won by 57)
81-25 (won by 56)
80-27 (won by 53)
88-36 (won by 52)
88-40 (won by 44)
Some of their wins:
111-29 (won by 82)
107-36 (won by 75)
109-35 (won by 74)
101-28 (won by 73)
107-34 (won by 73)
104-36 (won by 68)
98-41 (won by 57)
81-25 (won by 56)
80-27 (won by 53)
88-36 (won by 52)
88-40 (won by 44)
For the most part, it's the latter. They've played 3-4 decent teams, but most of their competition is pretty bad. That's not to say they aren't an excellent team, they absolutely are. But their stats should be taken with a grain of salt. They are going out of their way to destroy bad teams. There was a NL parent/fan/some sort of familiarity with the team on Iowa preps last year bragging that they took their press off in the 3rd qtr of a game (they were leading by about 60 at halftime) and that they emptied their bench in the early 4th qtr, thinking that was being charitable. Why would you press a team, with your starters, the entire 1st half of a game you are leading by 50 in?
Very good team. They overmatch pretty much all of the competition they face during the season. I have no idea what their team gets out of beating teams by 60-70 points. I don't know all the particulars, but found it amusing when they complained in the state tournament about the kid from Grandview Christian. No one is going to feel sorry for you when you are destroying everyone by 50 points and when you finally play a team that is close to ability, your response is to complain.
GVC used to get many of the complaints NL gets, why beat teams by 80...why don't you go play good teams during season...so on and so forth. To GVC's credit, they dropped out of their old conference and started scheduling a bunch of good teams. This year, IIRC, they scheduled ranked 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A teams.
As I said, NL is a very good team. Not a good 2A team, a very good team. However, as long as they continue to play the schedule they play while putting up those numbers, there should definitely be a question in people's mind.
If Locure is Player A, then one can only hope he is going to the foul line a lot.
Otherwise, when you're averaging 30 points a game but shooting 43% from the field and 29% from behind the arc you are shooting way too much. Those percentages are woeful.
So, either Locure is getting most of his points from the free throw line or he is a ball hog. At any rate, Iowa is not missing out.
He's a ball hog. He's actually not a bad shooter, he just takes a ton of shots that he really shouldn't take. If this tells you anything, he has three teammates who are averaging 10+ppg, have higher fg% than him and two of the three have a higher 3pt% than him, yet he has nearly 2x the fga as the next highest scorer, Gatdoar Bijek, who is averaging 18ppg. Now, Locure is an excellent FT shooter and gets to the line a lot, but he goes for volume. He averages nearly 25 fga per game.
Locure struggled shooting his first year but is doing really good this year. I'd expect him to make a move up to a P5 team if he can. His stat line is 16.8 ppg, .446 fg%, .375 3p% (6 attempts/game), 6.4 rbs, 3.8 ast, 3.1 stl, and 1.6 tov through 9 games. South Alabama hasn't really played anyone except Auburn. Locure put up 19 pts (6-7 fgs), 4 rbs, 2 ast, 4 stls, 1 tov against them.
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