Fran has put guys with 2 fouls back into the game a lot over the years. Does he typically? No, but if it's clear that the player with 2 fouls in question is needed to keep Iowa in the game, he often times goes against that rule and plays the guy. A lot of times, he sits the guy with 2 fouls and the team goes on run, so what's the point?
My point is they are contradictory philosophies
lets opposing teams go on 5 10 15 point runs and says the team needs to figure it out themselves they need to grow and learn...
guy get two fouls and he intervenes and sits the player for protection. same as three fouls in 2nd half
I would rather those two philosophies were switched around.
letting a game get away or letting a team increase a lead so far that the game is out of reach (in most cases and a high percentage of the time) is very damaging. You end up losing the game almost all of the time. with the exception of historic come backs and those are rare and historic.
On the other hand if a player fouls out that doesn't really mean you lose the game. AND fran has a very deep rotation we all complain about. Fran also boasts that so many of his players are equal or deserving of playing more minutes he struggles with the rotation becoming shorter. in other words a lost players really isn't that big of a loss because next player in is playing well enough that they deserve more PT anyway.
AM I the only one that seems bass akwards to
Fran seems to allow the greater of the two evils to happen in the name of forced learning and damn the consequences BUT
On the much more obviously lesser evil he steps in and seems to ensure the maximum penalty is applied by his own actions.
just like everyone complains you don't get to trade in your unused TO's at the end of the game you can't do the same with PF's either.
sitting a hot player with 16 points when he gets 2 then three fouls for 15 minutes in a game and having them end with three fouls is no place for patting yourself on the back. It is kind of a dubious accolade.
I would of rather the hot player play another 5 or 10 minutes and foul out with 25 points. I think that helped the team more in the end.