You're right. What was I thinking lol. I guess my NBA schedule kicked in.
*****UCLA vs Iowa Game Thread*****
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Caught the tail end of Iowa/UCLA game segment the BTN studio guys were doing during 'The B1G Show', and Revsine spoke very highly of Iowa, saying "Credit to Coach McCollum and the Hawkeyes, who's defense is just suffocating! Everyone!!".
Who ever would have thought/dreamt we'd hear something like that at any time in the preceding 15 years?
And the greatest thing is that as stout as the defense is or can be, the offense is right there with it. They may not be running and chucking like FM's teams did, but they are as much, if not more than, as efficient as FM's best squads were.
So unbelievably nice to see an Iowa team play an all-around game and winning that way. Instead of hoping & praying that everyone is on and hitting shots to overwhelm the opponent, like in the most recent past.
Who ever would have thought/dreamt we'd hear something like that at any time in the preceding 15 years?
And the greatest thing is that as stout as the defense is or can be, the offense is right there with it. They may not be running and chucking like FM's teams did, but they are as much, if not more than, as efficient as FM's best squads were.
So unbelievably nice to see an Iowa team play an all-around game and winning that way. Instead of hoping & praying that everyone is on and hitting shots to overwhelm the opponent, like in the most recent past.
I don't really care who liked my post, everything I said has been factually correct. Blowing a 24 point lead down to 4, with Bennett Stirtz on the bench with 4 fouls, in front of the biggest crowd that the Men's team has seen in years, at the beginning of conference play, with fans openly debating all week that this is a "must win" game or not, all within the context of what McCollum has been building towards all season was worthy of concern that we would lose and would, in fact, be disastrous. QC is in another league from anyone else when it comes to doom posting, and more than often, I put him on ignore during game threads.
Anyone who comes into a live thread after not being around all game saying "haha I knew we would win, anyone who doubted this team are pathetic!" are as pretentious as they are stupid. Game threads are for live, raw reactions. And mine was totally justified given the situation, while also not being definitive and saying "we're losing and the game is over."
None of this is hard to figure out, but the average age and IQ of most posters on this forum are around 60. So it shouldn't surprise me.
Crazy.Sometimes ya gotta win ugly.
Won 'ugly' but still won by 13.
Pumped for the @ Minnesota game on Tuesday night.
Am I the only one who questions our inbound pass after a made basket. I have seen multiple times when the other team presses the inbound pass that whoever is the inbound passer just stands in one place and gets the ball batted around or stolen. If any of you know a writer have them ask Ben if he ever goes over this. I'm pretty sure he can run the whole baseline or even pass to another player on our team who can step out of bounds and he would have a better angle to get the ball in.......Other than that we have been playing awesome ball!!
Yes. I’m glad the refs called the hand checks seemingly both ways. DJ has usually had a pretty good crew, imo.
Hasn’t Ben talked about scoring as much as possible over a team to stack points up for the NET ranking ? I think that’s what we saw here.
Just win, baby and they will come.
Iowa Wrestling and women's BB proof.
Iowa is in good hands with new coach. Possibly "Cignetti Light". 4 titles at D-2 level. One season at Drake with 31 wins and NCAA tourney win over SEC Missouri. He is an Iowa guy. One can envision him retiring at Iowa. This team can guard. There will be off nights for the Hawks but they will bring the D every night. Easy coach and team to pull for.
I’m fine with in game behavior. Emotions run high & a fan is just trying to find any psychological angle they can sort of speak.
Reverse psychology, triple reverse psychology, whatever works!
As long as one can admit Iowa is in pretty good hands regarding it’s basketball program, and that it was a gutsy win over a pretty dang good team, it’s all good!
While much of your post is true, There are posters here who start from the first play of every game regardless of the sport or gender with every worst case scenario and negative thing about the players and coaches. Its ridiculous. Apologies if you were caught up in my comments. I would say that what we've seen from Ben at this point is that one games outcome will not influence the teams outcome going forward. He's too good a coach for that, so I'm not sure about must wins. Most fans are seeing that this team will scrap and claw regardless of their not being "4 star recruits", and they play true team basketball. They're winning the fans over as is the coach who is engaged with the fan base unlike any we've seen in a long long time.
I would add that your last sentence surely doesn't make your posts easier to swallow either. Like the average age of fans here being over 60 somehow relates to them having low IQ's because they don't see the game the way you do, so somehow they're mentally "beneath you". Fans that have been Hawks for 40-50 years and have been here through the tough times and have seen the good and the bad, but obviously are "clueless" I guess?
Of course. But two things can be true: (1) Great fans can even make Carver loud. (2) Carver is an awful venue for basketball.
At least two of the "fouls" were not fouls. Go watch it again. Overall, the officiating was about as good as you could ever expect, but it sure as helll wasn't great.
The number of FTs can be misleading. Like if your team shoots 20 FTs but should have shot 30, and the other team shoots 10 but should have shot 5.
"Lapses"? You're not always going to shoot well. Other teams are good too. That wasn't Bucknell. And the Hawkeyes won by 13. I'll take it.
UCLA had 22 in a full half. And they got 5 of those in the final few seconds. LOL
Ooops. Hawks win by 13 . . . and Stirtz hits a 40-footer at the buzzer. This ain't Fran's faint of heart. This is Ben's bulldogs. Ben didn't come here to lose.
I believe the metrics say Iowa is the most efficient offense in the entire country. And that's exactly what Ben's system is all about . . . that and defense and rebounding and winning.
It was definitely a tale of two halves. Good thing Iowa has learned how to play defense.
I was definitely concerned when ucla made the run in second half and Iowa could not throw it in the ocean. But the defense stayed strong and ultimately Iowa won the game against a good team. Good win and confidence builder for Iowa IMO.
I don't think some fans can understand those that watch games with their emotions on their sleeve. I prefer to watch games by myself because when I let loose it's embarrassing, lol.
I feel like game threads are a free pass zone to be bitchy and emotional, it's part of the fun imo.
The Doug Stanhope looking ref was a bum, not impressed with that guy at all. The two bald dudes were fine though.
I’ve always felt DJ gave Iowa the benefit of the doubt. He’s been my favorite official for several years.