HuckFinn
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you need to take a class in "cause and effect" (in regard to your second comment)
Any real chance of assistant coaching changes
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you need to take a class in "cause and effect" (in regard to your second comment)
#1DieHardHawk
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Hard to say what will happen, but I'll vote right now for Bruce Bowen as assistant coach/defensive specialist. God knows that no one else on this staff seems to know how to coach defense...
Northside Hawk
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Speraw is the only one on the bench with enough girth to get between Fran and whatever official he is trying to decapitate.
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If the head man doesn't put any priority on defense, how can we know if the assistants are any good at coaching it? Fran has to know now how big of a priority it is for next year. If they still suck on that end, it's a lost cause. And Fran shouldn't get to buy another year with an assistant change at that point.
HawkGold
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Baskrtball isnt like football where you are on D and then on O.
If you can coach scoring you can coach D. The D is weak because he doent focus on it. This team is coached to transition and get out of the D end. This team is not great in the half court. If we played Va you would see how weak we are on O. We also would transition not very well.
If you can coach scoring you can coach D. The D is weak because he doent focus on it. This team is coached to transition and get out of the D end. This team is not great in the half court. If we played Va you would see how weak we are on O. We also would transition not very well.
I agree that our offense isn't nearly as good as the numbers suggest. When teams really need to buckle down on defense, we are in trouble. That's one reason I think Weiskamp and McCaffery will help quite a bit next year.
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DDThompson
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Agreed. The lack of improvement all season is evidence that it was not a focus. Once in season there’s only so much a coach can do. That “so much” didn’t get done.
that would be true of any team.
HawkGold
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My point is that Iowa is not a great offensive team. The Hawks are good at several aspects of scoring, but not great on offense. We stink at D.
HawkGold
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Agree on Weiskamp. Conner won't really add much except for another body to operate about like JBo both on O and D, but will be less of a scoring threat. One of the issues will be that JBo gets a lot of open shots. CM's first thought is not scoring, it's passing. So he'll end up passing to someone being defended.
#1DieHardHawk
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The comments about the offensive results being misleading are exactly right.
I was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago when some announcer was lauding the Iowa offense as being one of the best in the B1G, and my immediate thought was that opposing teams don't put as much effort into defense knowing that they can score at will on the other end.
In statistics, that's known as a sampling error. The only way to accurately assess our offense would be to to look at those few instances where the game was tight at the end, and the opponent actually had to focus more on defense. I'd love to see our offensive statistics from that sample. I think it would be eye-opening.
I was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago when some announcer was lauding the Iowa offense as being one of the best in the B1G, and my immediate thought was that opposing teams don't put as much effort into defense knowing that they can score at will on the other end.
In statistics, that's known as a sampling error. The only way to accurately assess our offense would be to to look at those few instances where the game was tight at the end, and the opponent actually had to focus more on defense. I'd love to see our offensive statistics from that sample. I think it would be eye-opening.
#1DieHardHawk
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I was being a bit facetious, and I honestly don't know if all this talk of Fran not caring about defense is true or reactive fan hyperbole, but, my point is that if in fact Fran won't or can't teach defensive philosophies, then bring in someone who can and will. Bowen IMO was one of the best ever at the defensive end, so that's why I threw his name out there.
The big thing I have noticed on half court offense is that our ball movement stinks. We dribble around the edge hoping to feed the middle and end up with a guarded shot most times. Teams that are really good at ball rotation get clean shots without dribbling the ball at all. We're just very slow at it and teams can rotate to guard us.
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DDThompson
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True.
The ball moved when Connor was PG so there’s that. That will help. But how much? Who knows?
#1DieHardHawk
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Fran's offense is predicated on motion and freeing a player up. He likes to have players curl into the lane area off anywhere from 1-3 screens. He also describes a "position-less" philosophy, where teams can't focus just on one player.
The problem is, you have to have the right players to make it work. Marble and Uthoff fit very well coming off the curl screens due to their ability to rise up and creative offensive moves, but we don't have a guy right now that fits that mold. Moss flashes, but he hasn't shown at all that he has the right will and determination to the "the guy."
So, what he's left with is transition offense, but, with a dearth of guards and terrible defense, all that happens is the game gets away from the team and they get blown out.
I don't think his offensive philosophy is necessarily bad. Where he has failed is at the player evaluation, recruiting and developing levels. He's facing some harsh realities right now.
The problem is, you have to have the right players to make it work. Marble and Uthoff fit very well coming off the curl screens due to their ability to rise up and creative offensive moves, but we don't have a guy right now that fits that mold. Moss flashes, but he hasn't shown at all that he has the right will and determination to the "the guy."
So, what he's left with is transition offense, but, with a dearth of guards and terrible defense, all that happens is the game gets away from the team and they get blown out.
I don't think his offensive philosophy is necessarily bad. Where he has failed is at the player evaluation, recruiting and developing levels. He's facing some harsh realities right now.
MelroseHawkins
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Oh, but that Sherman dresses so dapper and reminds me of how my late husband, George, use to dress for our monthly dates at the IA Rotary Club and early breakfast social. We surely can't lose a such well dressed man as he is such an asset to our basketball club's well intentioned endeavors. I conquer Betty.
I bet you she could do a mean Jagerbomb!!
I think Sherm already bought his assortment of bow ties for next year.
NoBeer
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Hopefully Fran knows soon so he has the best possible opportunity to look at staff and possible transfers if that is true.
spliff45
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Fran has started meeting with players.
5 players eh?? Did he rattle off who all he thought might be out? That'd make things pretty interesting
spliff45
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No specific names other than Cook that everyone knows about. Though there is apparently rumor in Indiana that Nunge is unhappy but I just take that with a grain of salt. I'm in the " Iowa won 4 conference games so who cares who leaves" camp.
