deja vu for Alford
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Seth53
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The teams of some coaches are just more prone to it than others.
tm3308
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A pretty fair number of those many Iowa teams were coached by the same man.
It happens to Alford like clockwork. It's not "just basketball".
99topdawg
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Sirhouseman
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I may be the only one to get that...classic. Well done.
Herkyalert
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This is just another reason why Alford is a bad in-game coach and even worse on center stage. He used a strange lineup for most of the night and didn't switch things up on defense.
Remember how much the 3 ball killed Iowa when he was here? Well it did again last night because Harvard shooters were wide open most of the time.
Remember how much the 3 ball killed Iowa when he was here? Well it did again last night because Harvard shooters were wide open most of the time.
ssckelley
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That and he tried to match them with 3s on the offensive end even though they had an obvious size advantage inside. Every time they went inside they either scored an easy basket or got fouled, Harvard had no answer for their bigs. I may not make millions of dollars coaching or have a 10 year contract but even I could come up with a winning game plan to beat Harvard.
glidinghawk
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Alford was inflexible and stuck mainly with his big lineup instead of using a small forward or guard in place of the his #4, Cameron Bairstow. Bairstow couldn't cover the outside shooters, and that was the difference. Of course, Alford was in a dilemma, because he thought he could exploit a shorter Harvard team with the combo of Bairstow and his big center. As it turned ut, the offensive production by Bairstow did not make up for the three-point production by the Crimson's 4-guard offense, which mainly came about from the bigger Lobo players' failure to cover the shooters, as you point out. To make things worse, New Mexico's guards also played timid, tight, and soft. New Mexico deserved to lose, and Alford made some poor strategic decisions that factored in.
wundergrape
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Dude, any red-blooded Iowa fan knows his SBTB references. You don't turn down an Iowa wrestling scholarship without it going unnoticed in the land of Hoover.
hawkinn3
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Harvard is beating you ONE way, by hitting the 3 and praying you don't kill them in the post.
Alford decided to let Harvard shoot 3s all night and then try to match them with long jumpers and not even look at the post.
This crazy world can get unpredictable but I can always trust Alford to **** the serta.
Alford decided to let Harvard shoot 3s all night and then try to match them with long jumpers and not even look at the post.
This crazy world can get unpredictable but I can always trust Alford to **** the serta.
Spot on. I kept imagining Tommy Amaker throwing questioning glances at his assistants and whispering to them out of the side of his mouth when the cameras panned away, "Umm, what the hell is this guy doing?"