Rough way for the winning streak to end; team 2-10 in B1G and yet another nobody freshman has a monster game.
And lots of tough games coming up…
And lots of tough games coming up…
Boys couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn tonight…
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Terrible shooting outside of Stirtz.
On to Purdue.
On to Purdue.
25% from 3 point land isn't going to cut it on the road.
Even Stirtz struggled from the arc. Koch hasn't shot well the last two games, 1-6 tonight.
Couldn't really stop anything either. The defense was abused badly by dribble penetration and offensive rebounds all game long.
True. Hard game to watch and a hard loss to stomach. But the sky is not falling. And I think we all expected that we might lose one of the 7 games, we were absolutely supposed to win. Maybe this loss lights a fire under our kids for the next two games. Both Purdue and Nebraska are beatable. Go Hawks.
Litetally thought the same. Could be a blessing for Purdue.
Iowa played like they had little energy and focus IMO.
It was an incredibly annoying watch. A lot of our guys are prone to letting themselves get taken out of the flow by whistle happy refs. They can’t cope and our defense has stretches of never getting set.
A positive correlation will always exist between penetration and offensive rebounds
Percentages say otherwise. Flush it and move on.
Just pisses me off as we traveled there to watch them since it’s only 3 hours and change to get there…they looked timid and just way out of rhythm… these are the losses that just piss me off and I am sure a lot of Hawkeyes .. they just looked like a hot mess. They better get their **** together before the next game
Over time, sure.
As for tonight, even an average Iowa effort defensively would have gotten the job done.
No, don't flush it. Improve on the things that are most controllable. Defense being the starting point
Howard, Koch, Folgueiras, and Combs = 79 minutes combined, 1-16 from the field, 5 rebounds combined. Ugly.
Shoutout to the EVO NXT that Maryland uses, orange ball of death strikes again. Ben likely made the same mistake Fran did and doesn't practice with it leading up to road games. Take that sh* serious, man, shooters need to adjust.
Shoutout to the EVO NXT that Maryland uses, orange ball of death strikes again. Ben likely made the same mistake Fran did and doesn't practice with it leading up to road games. Take that sh* serious, man, shooters need to adjust.
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When you're negligent, as a coach, when it comes to defense, you end up blaming things like the ball.
This Iowa team at least has the ability to be much better on D than they were tonight.
When Bo Schembechler covered the pink walls in the Kinnick locker room, Hayden knew he had him
I don’t know how we can fluctuate from looking really good to looking like a junior high team. That’s the most frustrating part. We seem to have things figured out, then turn around and look like we’ve never played a game before. We’re soft.
The talent is already getting maxed out. You can't play above your head at all times.
Flying from coast to coast, and such. There are going to be off nights. On the road in this league, that's going to end up a loss
When the ball doesn't go in, it makes everything look worse.
Badly out-rebounded. Two turnovers tho ... is that even right?
Badly out-rebounded. Two turnovers tho ... is that even right?
Don't forget Hausen. Bottom line, you can't always rely on Stirtz and Banks.
Name a team Iowa has beaten ahead of them in the Big.?
Iowa struggled or lost againt 3 teams with 7 Big wins total.
A mediocre team that made a mild run.
Usually when you have a bad game you look for patterns.
when they lose to bad teams it isnt like the other team looked good. Iowa looked that bad. Like D2 overmatch.
Id rather watch this team than Fran any day
The defense was horrifically dead in the water on it's own merits.
Yes, in the context of college basketball, that was a sad, disappointing, frustrating outcome. Damn, beat Minnesota (the flu) and Maryland (whatever), and everything is looking fantastic (20-4, 9-3). The Hawkeyes would be rolling into the Purdue game on a 7-game streak in front of the first sellout in a long time. Last night sure took the luster off of Saturday. Of course, beat Purdue, beat Wisconsin, and at least split with Nebraska and we'd all feel much better. That's all it takes . . .
BTW: Ben has done a great job of refusing to use any excuses for anything, but I will say that playing @ Washington and Oregon, then one game in Iowa City, then traveling to Maryland is not the ideal travel plan. Say what you want about 18-22 year-olds, but that kind of travel and playing BIG teams along the way ain't easy. Every team deals with it, I guess, and the ones on each coast have it tougher, but I don't think we should ignore the impact of travel on team performance these days.
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As I said in another post, Ben and the guys would never use it as an excuse, but I'm convinced all the travel does catch up with teams, and it caught up with Iowa last night. How could it not? You're on the West Coast for several days, then back to Iowa City for one game, then to the East Coast. I don't care how young you are or what kind of shape you're in, the travel in a coast-to-coast basketball league matters. And it shows up in little energy, lack of focus, and poor shooting. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
But hey, the BIG is rolling in money . . .
We also only had 2 turnovers while they had 11. Off shooting nights can happen, but I'm more concerned with our increasing reliance on Stirtz in the half court set. I'm seeing a lot less of those nice cuts and passes for plays at the rim than I did a month ago. Even with this winning streak, it's been a lot of Stirtz and less from the others. With him playing the entire game, we need to get some others involved who can create and score in the half court. Stirtz is going to get worn out.
Defense wasn't up the this year's normal standards, but even last night's defense was head and shoulders above what we saw from Fran McCaffery teams.
That has nothing to do with anything. You gonna talk about Alford next?
We were fairly close on offensive rebounds, only outrebounded by 1. I'm not nearly as concerned with rebounding with this team as I was with Fran's teams. This team boxes out and places a premium on the boards. We just missed a ton of shots and were outrebounded defensively. I'm always more concerned with the offensive rebounds stats when looking at it.
Yes it does. It has to deal with how our expectations of what good defense looks like has drastically changed in just one year. If this was last season, we'd think we played great defense against Maryland.
Fran's defense was like your golf game, fraudulent. But you did work at the Tournament Club of Iowa, correct?
Fran's defense was like your golf game, fraudulent. But you did work at the Tournament Club of Iowa, correct?
Lol, stanzithemanzi is back! Makes sense why you made such an irrelevant hoops comment. Carry on.
