Chance to be a good three-point shooting team next year

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Iowa should have a great collection of players who can hit the three next year. Jarrod Uthoff, Peter Jok, Brady Ellingson, Andrew Fleming. Anthony Clemmons actually led the team in % this year and Mike Gesell is capable but that should not be his focus. Bring in newly signed Dale Jones, who made 99 of 218 3-pointers last year at 6-8/220 and you are going to be able to stretch the floor, or have a chance to.

This year’s team made .333 from three on 576 attempts. Here are the best three-point shooting years in Iowa history

.415% 1987-1988 (453 attempts)
.406% 1990-1991 (330)
.401% 1997-1998 (543)
.396% 199601997 (585)
.377% 2001-2002 (573)
.376% 2004-2005 (588)
 
How in the name of all that's holy, did that 87-88 team finish 3rd in the BIG and get bounced out of the Sweet 16? That had to be Mr. Davis's single biggest coaching failure at Iowa.
 
lightning1 said:
How in the name of all that's holy, did that 87-88 team finish 3rd in the BIG and get bounced out of the Sweet 16? That had to be Mr. Davis's single biggest coaching failure at Iowa.
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B1G was LOADED that year. Indiana and Purdue were Pre-Season #3 and #4, Iowa #10, Illinois #14. Indiana finished #3, Iowa #6, Purdue #7 and Illinois #11. Indiana and Purdue finished tied for 1st at 15-3 and Iowa finished 14-4. It was just a very loaded conference, it wasn't like Iowa was chopped liver finished ranked #6 in the Nation, but finishing 3rd in the conference.
 
lightning1 said:
How in the name of all that's holy, did that 87-88 team finish 3rd in the BIG and get bounced out of the Sweet 16? That had to be Mr. Davis's single biggest coaching failure at Iowa.
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failure?

lost to a #1 seed in the tourney.

as someone else said, big ten loaded -
 
deanvogs said:
B1G was LOADED that year. Indiana and Purdue were Pre-Season #3 and #4, Iowa #10, Illinois #14. Indiana finished #3, Iowa #6, Purdue #7 and Illinois #11. Indiana and Purdue finished tied for 1st at 15-3 and Iowa finished 14-4. It was just a very loaded conference, it wasn't like Iowa was chopped liver finished ranked #6 in the Nation, but finishing 3rd in the conference.
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Iowa finished 12-6 that year. Still......Marble, Armstrong, Horton, Moe, Jones, etc, etc. sigh.
 
deanvogs said:
B1G was LOADED that year. Indiana and Purdue were Pre-Season #3 and #4, Iowa #10, Illinois #14. Indiana finished #3, Iowa #6, Purdue #7 and Illinois #11. Indiana and Purdue finished tied for 1st at 15-3 and Iowa finished 14-4. It was just a very loaded conference, it wasn't like Iowa was chopped liver finished ranked #6 in the Nation, but finishing 3rd in the conference.
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Pretty sure you are thinking of 1986-87. The 87-88 Iowa team was a 5 seed IIRC, getting bounced by 1-seeded AZ in the Sweet 16 that year. Losing Lohaus & Gamble to the NBA from the previous year hurt a bit, but still an excellent team. Hardly a failure.

Maybe the most fun I remember from that season was destroying UNLV in the second round. Sweet payback, but it wasn't quite enough to make up for coughing up that Elite 8 game the year before.
 
lightning1 said:
How in the name of all that's holy, did that 87-88 team finish 3rd in the BIG and get bounced out of the Sweet 16? That had to be Mr. Davis's single biggest coaching failure at Iowa.
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I have a confession. It was my fault. It's the last single sporting game/match I have ever bet on. Some smarta$$ offered a bet at half time that Iowa would blow the lead. I laughed and said I'd be happy to take his money...not so much. I had volleyball class with Roy the next year and he laughed at the story...outwardly at least. But it always felt like his spikes found me wherever I was on the court... :(
 
1977Hawkeye said:
Pretty sure you are thinking of 1986-87. The 87-88 Iowa team was a 5 seed IIRC, getting bounced by 1-seeded AZ in the Sweet 16 that year. Losing Lohaus & Gamble to the NBA from the previous year hurt a bit, but still an excellent team. Hardly a failure.

Maybe the most fun I remember from that season was destroying UNLV in the second round. Sweet payback, but it wasn't quite enough to make up for coughing up that Elite 8 game the year before.
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Hopefully, next years team will have a different mental approach to the three point shot now that White and Oglesby are gone. I'm not trying to knock the guys, but they didn't have the greatest percentage of three pointers made in their careers. As a team, I think its a lot easier to make the shot when you have a couple of guys that will consistently make them.
 
Tierney said:
Hopefully, next years team will have a different mental approach to the three point shot now that White and Oglesby are gone. I'm not trying to knock the guys, but they didn't have the greatest percentage of three pointers made in their careers. As a team, I think its a lot easier to make the shot when you have a couple of guys that will consistently make them.
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I think with signing all these wings who can shoot, Fran was making sure that there will be no more SGs who can't shoot logging a lot of minutes at Iowa.
 
UncleHawk said:
I think with signing all these wings who can shoot, Fran was making sure that there will be no more SGs who can't shoot logging a lot of minutes at Iowa.
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I feel confident in Utoff Jok and Clemmons shooting 3s but we don't know that any of the new guys can shoot.

Flemming and now Jones are really the only ones who are touted as shooters.

We we got more athletic but whether or not shooting will improve is a big question mark.
 
You are right on the new guys shooting, save Jones IMO. He has 3 years since HS and is still draining shots. It isn't like he will be fresh out of mom's kitchen. He should nail them at a good clip... That said, we could have a full lineup of outside shooters on the floor at once. Jok, AC, Uthoff, Fleming, Jones, with MG as the 6th man. That team should torch the skies. Not to mention, those guys should have good-to-great ball movement. That lineup Will score....

WE have 3 of those 6 shooters having very good defense, with the other 3 having the potential to play good D. Not to mention the subs, Woody, MOSS, Williams, Wagner and Hutton. All of whom can play good D and/or take it to the hole. And run.

That is being able to mix it up my friends. Fran will have a good team, for certain. One that can play excellent defense. Run like the wind. And/or shoot like crazy. Now, can they be great...? We might not know until February, but they will be good come November. Plan on enjoying basketball right out of the gate my fellow Hawkeyes. Love it!
 
The signing of Dale Jones has me Pumped for next Hoops season.
A 6-9" guy with offensive skills is EXACTLY what this roster needed, imho.

Someone also pointed out that IOWA could be the most Veteran team in the Big10.
 
HawkIstate said:
The signing of Dale Jones has me Pumped for next Hoops season.
A 6-9" guy with offensive skills is EXACTLY what this roster needed, imho.

Someone also pointed out that IOWA could be the most Veteran team in the Big10.
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It's only a matter of blending the new pieces together, hopefully. We should be a better 3 pt shooting and defensive team, next season. We won't be as good in the post, however.
 
hawkjunkie said:
Not to mention the subs, Woody, MOSS, Williams, Wagner and Hutton. All of whom can play good D and/or take it to the hole. And run.
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Just curious, what makes you think Woody will be a sub? Hasn't he started every game since he's been here? And I'm pretty sure we don't have any other big men that would start before him.
 
Not that they'll see much PT but they also got commitments (preferred walk-ons) from Michael and Steven Soukup who played at Danville and then spent 2 years at Southeastern CC. Not sure if they'll contribute at the D1 level but Steven was a phenomenal perimeter shooter from behind the arc at SCC last year and Michael can catch fire as well.

Again, not that they'll see the court that much, but I doubted them both as freshman at SCC and the kids have been proving me wrong for 2 years.
 
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