HawkeyeWalker
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Yep. Everything else aside. You don't beat ranked teams shooting 32.8%.
.328 shooting.
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Knight78
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You don't beat many teams shooting 32.8% from the field, opponent ranked or not.
Shooting this bad at home has to be a function of shots under pressure, not taking your best shots, maybe not concentrating. When the whole team is off at home court it has to be the above, not because of the sight lines etc. Really good ball movement and getting easy shots would have fixed this. Need some urgency on quick ball movement etc.
1hawkeye1
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It could be any of those things, could also be a bad shooting night. They happen.
Northside Hawk
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Let's do what everyone else does to us after a bad shooting night. Come back Friday and shoot about 60%.
BTW, I think we're moving banged up than people are letting on. Cook's knee, Wiescamp's back, Connor practicing baseball on off days, Garza's cyst removal, guys like Baer and Kriener probably havent been practicing full time because of recent blows to the head. It looked in the first half like we haven't been practicing well.
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DDThompson
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Better than the Hawks 28 gauge they brought.
WindsorHawk
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Agreed. And we still could have won. Maryland won’t be advancing far in my NCAA bracket.
HawkGold
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Every team gets banged up at this point.
HawkGold
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Maryland is one of the few legit sweet teams in the big.
HawkGold
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Its the pressure. All of our opponents eecently out physical the Hawks.
Iowa doesn't handle pressure well outside of Baer, Cook, and Moss. Expect everyone to be very physical here on out.
WindsorHawk
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I disagree. We played terrible...make that horrible...and had 2 shots to win. And I think any conference team that makes the NCAA has a legit shot at the Sweet 16. We will all be coming off 18 straight NCAA level games plus the BTT. We are all way more prepared than Houston, Marquette, the SEC, etc. IMO
I think Maryland is the closest team to our level in the league this year. The only other being Wisconsin. 3 teams are noticeably better and every other team is noticeably worse. You saying Maryland isnt very good kinda sounds like the "over rated" chant.
Northside Hawk
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Good point. Just ask Tom Izzo. We've looked in the past two games like we haven't had very productive practices lately, which of course we don't know and which no one connected with the team will ever admit.
Very true. Nobody is 100% atm. That goes for opponents too. But certainly pertains to our lack of shooting very well. Which stinks because till this week we'd played only one game a week for awhile. They should be fairly rested up in that regard. Hopefully we don't tail off down the stretch here. Gosh dang it if we could be playing our best ball when we start the BIG tourney it'd be a ton of fun to see what we could do
WindsorHawk
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I would argue that’s probably the worst we’ve played all year and we could have won. I can’t wrap my head around us inexplicably having a chance to win that game and them being a good team.
InGoodCo
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Qell sometimes the other team plays bad too. If that game is how Maryland plays when they are playing good, then I agree with you. I just don't think their record would be what it is if that game was inductive of how they always play.
