Yes, bad losses happen. But what I don't get
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Woody is an excellent hedger, if you watch anyone else - Uthoff for example, they almost act as a 2nd screener on the other Iowa defender. They don't hedge long enough or the person drives right around them
I'm just not buying the "tired legs" BS. Guys this age should be good to go in 24 hours. They had 3 days.
I read the articles in the Gazette this morning and this from Clemmons caught my eye:
"Guard Anthony Clemmons said the team's desire has waned and a loss like this, coupled with a week off, could help.
'We're just going to get guys refocused and get us back in that hunger mode,' Clemmons said. 'I think a lot of guys - me, myself in particular - are just satisfied with where we're at. We're at the top alone and just happy. We're just playing like that, instead of playing as the aggressor and playing as a team at the bottom. I think we'll be refocused for the next game.'"
Maybe all they needed was a dope slap. Actually considering the Indiana game, a double dope slap. If not, well, it was a fun season while it lasted.
I read the articles in the Gazette this morning and this from Clemmons caught my eye:
"Guard Anthony Clemmons said the team's desire has waned and a loss like this, coupled with a week off, could help.
'We're just going to get guys refocused and get us back in that hunger mode,' Clemmons said. 'I think a lot of guys - me, myself in particular - are just satisfied with where we're at. We're at the top alone and just happy. We're just playing like that, instead of playing as the aggressor and playing as a team at the bottom. I think we'll be refocused for the next game.'"
Maybe all they needed was a dope slap. Actually considering the Indiana game, a double dope slap. If not, well, it was a fun season while it lasted.
Homecourt advantage does not explain a 24 point swing in 10 days, when the other team is down a key player during the second game that they actually had for the earlier beatdown.
Explain in detail how playing games on Sundays is structurally disadvantageous to playing them on Saturdays. It's not like they have to turn around and play on Monday or Tuesday. They aren't playing again until Wednesday or Thursday. Also, every single conference game on a Sunday has been a sellout, so it's not hurting crowd enthusiasm at all, which most fans who have actually attended games at Carver before can testify has never exactly been an especially intimidating environment on even the best of occasions.
Nope, sure don't. Why don't you share the stats that back up your ridiculous claim.
Wait...you don't have them.
The biggest factor is having to rush back for class on Monday. I know the game before PSU was at home (Minny) but that was a late tip. After winding down from game, getting your media obligations done, talking to fam and friends, its a late night and then you have homework and class on Monday. We had to play @ ILL then turn around and play @ IU 48 hours later - its a tough grind no matter how young and "in shape" you are. The Sat game allows more time to "return" and is less stressful. I played D2 golf - the bus ride home to get back to class at the wee hours sucks no matter who or what sports you play.
Its all part of playing college BB, or college sports for that matter- look how many upsets there have been lately. 20+ games into the season, its hard to be 100% focused and healthy for every game.
Thankfully, Minny did us a favor with the win over maryland - so the weeks rest will hopefully get us ready for a deep stretch run.
It's not just the game and recovery from it. It's the
- sleeping in unfamiliar beds.
- irregular sleep schedules.
- Irregular schedule
- maintaining class work
- the travel itself (I feel like crap after flying - my sinuses hurt and dry air kills my eyes - drives me crazy)
- eating out all the time
The BIG has an irregular schedule, so it impacts teams differently at different times. Next week Iowa has 9 days off and Wiscy is the one playing 3 games in 6 days with the game before Iowa being a Sunday night game then traveling right away for a Wednesday game. Maybe it won't matter, but I'd be willing to wager it will.
It's hard to measure in basketball, but the difference between is teams is really so small. A small % difference in performance can mean the difference in a win or a loss.
Horse manure.
Iowa is flat out dead-legged. They are gassed.
EVERY team at a couple points during a CBB season has a point where they just plain have nothing left in the tank, and Iowa is at that point now. The symptoms of this as mentioned earlier are not getting to loose balls, bad rebounding, lax defense, lazy offense, overall mental lapses and poor free throw shooting. The cause is most likely playing 5 guys who have never really averaged 30 minutes a game during the conference season now doing so given the lack of effective bench depth.
It looks like they don't give a crap...but it really is that the body just cannot will itself to do something it's not capable of doing physically.
I really would not have a problem with Fran limiting minutes to the starting 5 right now down the stretch. Get 50 bench minutes a game no matter the consequences and save energy for the conference tourney and big dance. If that means going say 1 and 3 down the stretch here, so be it.
I liked your post but disagree with the last paragraph. However, I think the point won't come into play as the first guys to wear down were the bench and we'll get them back as well. It isn't just the minutes on the court, in fact it's the other stuff mostly.
I can't help that you can't grasp the comfort level of playing at home. Ask Maryland.
That's my point, how can you claim my stat was ridiculous when you don't know exactly what the real number is either?
Regardless, I maintain my point that Woody's hedging concerns me when he ends up on the other team's guard while one of our guards is on the other team's center. That is a huge mismatch not in our favor. Until this year Woody seemed to pick up 2 dumb fouls every game, far from the basket, when he'd hedge too far and end up on a guard. This year he has done a much better job of not fouling in those situations.
Another poster pointed out that when Woody has to stay on a guard in these situations that the help defense is supposed to make sure our PG isn't on their center. That might be true and if it is then a center rolling to the basket for an easy lay up or dunk isn't necessarily on Woody but his teammates for poor help defense.
Either way I've made my point and I am done. No reason for me to keep whining about the issue.
Why is it that idiots in this country now want to invoke their amendment rights, whenever they don't really have an argument for their viewpoint?
How the F would those travel issues be different if the games were played on Saturday instead of Sunday? Do you even know how to read?
According to you, visiting teams should just stay home then as they have absolutely no possible chance of competing.
I guess that's why Minnesota has such a great home record this year, right dipshit?
