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The den mother who beat Illinois and their "REAL" coach both times they played this year. Lol.
Apparently it's not Jensen's decision. Last year, Feuerbach and Strem decided, as in the Jada Williams visit.
Haven't heard yet who replaces Kylie on the "culture committee" for this portal season.
That's not how many kids think anymore.
So JJ succumbed to “pressure”. That’s a huge concern. Let’s stop being polite just because it’s women’s bball.
Let’s elevate. TS wouldn’t be starting 2g on any top 10-20 team with aspirations to be elite. She’s a solid player who plays hard. But come on. Attempts at making her more than that are laughable.
Let’s find an elite 2g which JJ has been trying to do for a couple of years.
Iowa lost to UCLA and UConn by a million points. That’s the issue. Getting to that level. Set the bar and don’t be apologetic about it.
Dawn Staley's South Carolina team lost to UCLA by a million. Some of you guys are holding JJ to standards you didn't hold Bluder to.
Your takes just get worse and worse. Every coach feels pressured to play players who were supposed to be star players and are getting paid big money. Stremlow did elevate the team after your hero Addie fell flat on her face. During that streak of games that she started up until the Big10 championship game these were her stats:
W/L 8-0
12ppg
6 assists per game
3-1 ATO ratio
1.5 steals per game
47% 3pt average
FG% 56%
66% EFG%
80% FT%
I guarantee that you won't find a single player that Iowa is looking at with stats better than what she put up during this stretch of games.
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Its a good thing that Iowa never lost games by a "million" during the previous couple of seasons before Jan became the coach.
There were plenty of people who wanted bluder gone prior to the cc era
That's not how some kids think. I know numerous hard working teens that work hard and are striving to get better. It is totally on the parents teaching them about hard work, you can't get handed everything and get better. The heck with participation medals. If your not first, your last.
Because many of these bonehead posters never watched women's basketball until Caitlin. Now they are experts.
Why are you so intimidated by Jan's hands? Do you feel inferior?
So Carnegie is visiting this weekend? Is Brueggeman also visiting?
I like Whiting from Okie State also. Good defender.
I like Whiting from Okie State also. Good defender.
That isn’t rational. You’re talking about the elite eating the elite. South Carolina didn’t lose to Va.
It will be interesting ti see if JJ can get Carnegie. If so she slots into starting 2g position immediately.. Her and Ava would become one of the best inside outside combos in the game.
Only 5-9 so it’s still too small a backcourt in general and may prevent you from playing 3 guards. I know Journey envisions herself as a 3 but unless she drastically improves her perimeter skills not sure that’s the position for her. Yet.
Only 5-9 so it’s still too small a backcourt in general and may prevent you from playing 3 guards. I know Journey envisions herself as a 3 but unless she drastically improves her perimeter skills not sure that’s the position for her. Yet.
Are you a clueless idiot or just flat a big old idiot?
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I like Stremlow, but why are you cherry picking games to arrive at your stats? First you used only conference games. Now you just include an 8 game stretch leaving out the UCLA, FDU, and Virginia games.
I agree with all that you said. That's what has made the system what it is. Players want to play, they don't want to sit behind others or put themselves in a position to get better down the road. It's all instant gratification.
This is a portal thread. Start a seperate thread if you want to debate Taylor's level of talent. I swear ADD is rampant on this board.
Back to portal visitors. So I see Brueggermann and Whiting have a year left. Carnegie has two. I suspect Jan like that experience.
Is recruiting just become bidding now?
Stremlow is being discussed only because there is a debate on whether we target a starter at the 2 position. Try to follow along.
Iowa is a team of mostly 3* talent. Even the two Final Four years, aside from CC, we were not a team built on elite 5* players. We had the best WBB college player ever, alongside mostly 3* players. Why you guys are expecting Iowa and JJ to be at the same level with the same results as UConn, S. Carolina, UCLA, and other teams that have rosters chock full of elite talent is seriously baffling.
Hopefully with MW coming in JJ can keep it going with landing more elite recruits.
You think using the entire conference slate for comparison is cherry picking games? Do you think using non-con games against MAC level or worse teams in your statistical comparisons is a good idea? People need to look at where these stats are coming from because rolling up stats against crappy competition doesn't mean much and a lot of the stats that people are looking at from these players are just that.
I think using that stretch of 8 games against high level Big10 competition where she was actually starting presents an excellent picture of what she's capable of producing as a starter. She was performing at an extremely high level. People who didn't see that weren't watching.
I don't know what happened those 3 games of the year, but she sucked. The entire team sucked with the exception of Ava. They were a shadow of what they had been, but looking at just those 3 games is definitely cherry picking. Do you want to know what Carnegie's stats were in her last 2 games of the year? She was 10-34 for 29% overall and 2-18 for 11% from 3 point range. It happens.
Kate Martin developed into a five star talent, IMO.
The obsession with stars on here is rampant.
What's rational is that Iowa will never consistently compete with the top until overall player talent improves. We're arguing over players that might make a 4-5 point difference in a single game, not 20-25, like CC did. Even at the top level, the FF games were crap.
Doesn't Iowa spend at an elite level for WBB? Games are sold out and NIL is there?
Shouldn't there be expectations?
Yes, this is a business now and has been for some time.
Jan stated not long after she took the HC position that NO ONE had asked her about academics in the last 6 months.
NIL has totally hijacked the system.
This is why kids want more PT so they can up their stats to get a bigger bag while it's available to them.
Fan support Iowa is easily in the Top 5.
NIL? I'm guessing they are in the Top 15-20 range. Which is where they finished the year ranked.
Unfortunately there's a huge gap in talent between the top 5-6 teams and the rest of the teams in the country.
The biggest problem with women’s bball, and why the FF was somewhat ugly, is that the dynamic talent in the backcourt and wing positions just isn’t there. Athletic bigs can help the elite teams dominate because of their advantage with size. Even Ava kinda did that to some degree within the Big 10.
No CC or Paige or great wing scorers that can create and shoot and really take over games. And not a lot of stretch 4s or bigs that can shoot from the perimeter unlike the mens college game.
No CC or Paige or great wing scorers that can create and shoot and really take over games. And not a lot of stretch 4s or bigs that can shoot from the perimeter unlike the mens college game.
This Is about transfer portal. I love Stremlow. She’s the team leader and the team soul. She can be the new Kate Martin, but having two starting guards with less than 10 PPG is unsustainable. Stremlow may evolve and score more, or not. And we need to be prepared for the “OR NOT”. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. We need scorer guards and wings. And after losing to Virginia with Stremlow scoring 5 points in 49 minutes and Kylie scoring 4 points in 48 minutes, this shouldn’t even be a debate. Stremlow isn’t afraid to compete and fight for her minutes. So no one else should have that fear either. If our goal is to reach the Elite Eight, we need a backcourt MUCH BETTER than what we had with the team that limited us for two years in a row to stopping at the TOP 32. If the ambition is greater than that, we need to be ambitious and have more girls with potential scoring 20 points in a decisive game. Things are as they are. The numbers don’t lie. There’s no point in sugarcoating it. We need scorer guards and wings. Kymora Johnson level, Dani Carnegie level.
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That’s why people tuned in to watch CC.
You expect the Iowa program to be UConn's stature? Okay.