What a difference a game makes...JBo is now 83.3% from the line and 32.8% from 3. I knew Garza wasn’t going to shoot 65% from 3...sure to come down. And I knew JBo wasn’t going to shoot twenty something from 3...sure to go up.
Iowa would be better without its Senior starting PG that will likely go down as the schools best 3 point shooter of all time? Interesting. They weren't better LAST year when Jordan went out, in fact, it really put a crimp on the teams early success and made Iowa a way less potent team. They struggled without him but kept the ship afloat. They certainly could have used him. This team really really needs him. When he's on, Iowa is one of the best teams in the country. I got no problem with this opinion other than I think there's a really good chance that it's wrong.
Yes. You are missing something. JT is hurt and KM doesn’t play point guard. Also, streaky shooters win a lot of games for teams. See Iowa loss at MN.
Bohannons off has been way more off than all the other years and for a longer period of time. I doubt he ever had a 9 game stretch as off as it was to start this year. Even against North Carolina you didn't see the confidence you saw last night. Bohannon being back would mean a good game every 3rd game. Not every 6th-9th. We will see.
And we all need to remember he essentially missed 2 years with 2 surgeries. It’s not unexpected for him to need 10 games to find his groove.
I can't get down with that just yet. Him having games like this scares the crap out of teams. Even if he doesn't shoot this well all the time the fact that he can means coaches have to coach their teams accordingly. And who benefits the most from that? Garza and the other shooters. Now if JBo were to stink as bad as CM does at them and begin passing on shots due to lack of confidence then yeah I'd be with you. But he's not and won't be. So sure situationally I'd like to see JT get more mins but JBo has a huge role to play on this team yet and it's a really really big one.
Am I missing something?
I don't give him credit for helping the team win games because that should be the expectation. My issue is when he goes 0-3, instead of realizing he's not feeling it and focusing on doing other things he can do to help the team win, he keeps chucking up shots from 10 ft behind the line. And maybe some of that is on the coaching staff telling the kids to shoot through slumps, but if this team wants to be elite, it isn't just about playing better D.
I just hope he keeps shooting, so does Fran. Jordan is a great a shooter. Period, he’s proven and vital to this teams success. I want him getting as many looks every game that we can get. If he’s off, ya live with it because ya know he’s a 40 % career shooter from three and it’s only a matter of time before he heats up. IMO he’s our 3rd best scoring option, right behind 2 elite players in our program. In what world do we live in that we want our 3rd best scoring option to stop shooting or sit the bench?
Thats the glass half empty way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is so far if he played average in every game, we win the Minnesota game (a game we were about 99% to win with a minute left anyway) and potentially lose the North Carolina and Northwestern games.
I'd say he's 4th best if he's playing good. CJ is really good.
I could hear that and I might even entertain that they could be interchangeable in that role, but Jordan is a more proven scorer. I would say that CJ is overall the much better player in general, but Jbo is the more proven scorer. In that I mean, he's had higher output games and he's had them more often. This season, so far, yeah CJ has him nudged, we'll see how it all plays out. I also realize that Jordan's role on the team as far as a scorer has shifted a great deal over his career. I still want Jordan taking 3's and so does his coach.
Fair enough, but you just explained in a nutshell why he gets little or no love from so many, to the point where its gotten people banned (Hawk 5656 for example).
Yeah. There isn’t much he hasn’t seen or experienced at this point. As a Hawk fan I feel so incredibly lucky to have a player with his season on this team. I want the ball in his hands at nearly every crucial moment they have in front of them. He won’t get rattled. How fans can want him sitting or wanting to move on from him actually breaks my brain.
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