Difficulty guarding quicks

[tednugentfan]

I realize the strategy was to defend the 3 point line and beyond, but man, we cannot play man to man against anyone with quick guards. The ease with which their guards got to the rim against us was troubling. I was hoping they would keep jacking up 3's and not revert to a drive and kick game, as we did not have anyone who could stay in front of James and the other dude. It was bizarre to watch them dribble down the lane for layup after layup with the game still in the balance.


Anyone know what Ingram's status is? Is he just not ready this year offensively, or just no PT available given guard depth? I thought he might see some action yesterday on the defensive end, given Clemmons' foul trouble.

 

[wundergrape]

We certainly had difficulty with interior help defense in the first half. We fixed most of those problems in the 2nd prior to giving them the lane in the last three minutes. I've not seen this as a consistent pattern prior to the UNI game. I think our priority was keeping them off the glass offensively, and we weren't as quick to rotate out because of this. If that was the strategy, it worked.

 

[WinOneThisCentury]

I watched Louisville play UNI. The UNI guards gave them fits. I actually thought we had good help defense on them most of the time (shot blockers coming over), except for the last 3 minutes when we played "olay" defense trying not to foul.

 

[sportstalent]

Iowa didn't help a lot on the driving guards yesterday and stuck on the shooters. UNI's big guys aren't bad, but they aren't players that are going to beat a team like Iowa having big games. If UNI's guards hit 3's then they can beat you. The end of the game, they gave up too many easy layups, but they also didn't foul.

Overall, Iowa stuck to their game plan to not allow UNI get off from behind the arc and it worked.

 

[Foval21]

The idea at the end of the game is too take away the 3 pt shot. You defend the 3 and the kick out 3 but basically you are not going to help on defense against a lay up. Because we were in the double bonus this will work as we trade 2 pts for 2 free throw attempts. Against a team this deadly from 3 pt range I think fran made the right call on that defensive strategy to end the game.

Marble has looked much better defensively the last 2 games and ever since moving back to being primarily a 3.

 

[RocknRollface]

The idea at the end of the game is too take away the 3 pt shot. You defend the 3 and the kick out 3 but basically you are not going to help on defense against a lay up. Because we were in the double bonus this will work as we trade 2 pts for 2 free throw attempts. Against a team this deadly from 3 pt range I think fran made the right call on that defensive strategy to end the game.

Marble has looked much better defensively the last 2 games and ever since moving back to being primarily a 3.

Yeah I wouldn't worry about those last couple minuets at all. The rest of the game was mostly fine. Those layups were due to strategy and freethrow shooting personnel. You're told to avoid any potential fouling there hence all the layups. Normally they could cut most of those off.