Iowa can't shoot and isn't athletic, but yet five of their losses have come to ranked teams, one lopsided on the road against the team most likely to be No. 1 come Monday. The others by no more than nine with chances to win.
The one thing that you totally overlook in your stunning analysis is this, if Iowa has those deficiencies that you speak of on offense, particularly the limited athletically part, why does it not show on defense?
At this point, Iowa's defense is far ahead of their offense and if the two can become relatively even and the defense isn't dropping off, then Iowa is going to be one of those teams nobody wants to play.
Your comeback will probably be something like they play together more on defense and play more as a team, or that they put a lot more effort in on that end of the court.
On offense, Iowa does a little bit too much standing around, trying to create shots that aren't there and become extremely impatient leading to bad shots.
Teams don't have to be able to create one on one shots to win, when they can't do that on a regular basis, shot selection becomes the single most important thing on that end of the floor.
It isn't youth either because the juniors just as well as the freshman take awful shots, oh yeah, throw in the sophomores as well for that matter, maybe just the whole team, except for May as he rarely forces anything on the offensive end, if he does though, it is once...May understands what type of player he is, I wish the other player did at this point.
When you don't have a "go-to" guy, it comes down to basketball IQ, this team at times shows it, then they go into their slumps by chucking shots in the first 10 seconds of the shot clock...look at how they have finished some halves, bad shots leading to easy transition for opponents, pretty simple really.
Fran's recruiting is the last thing that should be questioned. Shot selection, understanding one's ability as a player, understanding and accepting roles is what will make or break this team, not recruiting. Fran has done an exceptional job recruiting. I like how you are judging players in their freshman years and coming to the conclusion that Iowa doesn't have good players.
Fran took over the worst job situation in the Big Ten when he was hired and in year two they went to the NIT. In year 3 they are about 10 points from being ranked and a virtual lock for the NCAA tournament, Iowa has good talent, a great coaching staff, but yeah still lack a couple things it is impossible to think Fran is going to fill the holes that existed overnight.
