After coming off an elite 8 run doesn't look great for optics reasons. But I think we'll look back on this and see it as not a horrible loss
losing to an unranked team on a neutral court
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Virginia Tech has two of the best guards we will play against all year, and they had elite quickness. I agree not a bad loss at all. I think if we played them ten times both would win about 5. Yes we missed FT's but they made mistakes too. We lost to a very good team.
We have a 6'11" and 7'3" center yet we allowed how many successful drives straight to the basket by their GUARDS?
Our defense is not good and it's certainly not a good sign for Jirak or Andrew considering they didn't play many minutes...Even with BM knowing our paint was attacked frequently by their quick ball-handlers.
Yes, it's commonly referred to as "small ball",... Speed vs size.
Why didn't McKeever just camp out below the basket on both ends of the court basically the whole game? Especially on offense. Just throw him the ball above everyone else and let him dunk it in. Maybe draw a foul even. And we can maybe have him shoot 100 free throws daily until he reaches the 70% mark.
Right now, McKeever is gimpy and cannot jump over a small town phone book.....cannot turn and dunk over 6'8" guy....and too slow to defend rim vs quick guard.
Hope it's the back injury.
Just watching the one inch taller Webemyama vs bulls last nite to see the other end of spectrum on athletic huge humans...oh my gosh...this guys is so fluid and quick and such a stroke...he would be in NBA at a foot shorter.
Right now McKeever is limited by injury,I hope.
Ben didn’t play his “size” as he went with his smaller players - Jirak only logged 13 minutes. This failed miserably.
Yeah I read about his back. I thought he injured himself when he fell in game. But I still think they need to work him into rotations more. I'm sure Ben knows all this and is doing whatever he can to make it happen. Hopefully McKeever is not a flop.
Yeah but see other teams should make mistakes against us because f*** those other teams (and Wisconsin).
Doesn't seem to work against Illinois......
F*** yes. Reverse psychology magic/voodoo at just the right time to get the team back on track!
There were only 2 reasons that it looked bad 'optics'-wise for Iowa the other night;
FT % and PM getting torched & scored on at will on the defensive end, while better options sat on the bench, are what made that loss stand out as much as it did.
It really is as simple as that.
FT % and PM getting torched & scored on at will on the defensive end, while better options sat on the bench, are what made that loss stand out as much as it did.
It really is as simple as that.
Sure we did, but we aren't necessarily equipped to play very well at either extreme,... small or big.
All Iowa had to do, despite so many mistakes, was to make ONE more free throw. It was a bad loss in the sense that Iowa gave the game away, but it's a new bunch of guys trying to figure things out. And yet free throw shooting is the same everywhere, and that's what cost the game. Tech is a good team, so it wasn't a "bad" loss in that sense, although losing what was essentially a home game is disappointing. But there's a little ways to go. Patience, grasshopper, patience.
Easy to look at that from the Iowa perspective. Va Tech also missed two out of three free throws right before Coleman missed his.
FIFY.F*** yes. Reverse psychology magic/voodoo, Mumbo Jumbo and the Twist, at just the right time to get the team back on track!
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