Do the big men have a clue to where the

[jocohawk]

ball is? Does anyone know the correct time of when to help on D and when not to?

Outside of McCabe, I see no one with toughness on the inside that also possesses ball awareness.

The D is bad due to a talent and experience gap, but the fundementals and toughness are also horrid.

Basabe loafs down and gets a pass thrown over his head and Zeller scores. Archie is dunked on before he realizes the ball was passed over his head.

It's stuff that happens playing crappy pick up ball at my health club.

I'm almost more excited to get Ingram because I hear he plays some lockdown defense.

 

[ajk4st8]

i would be more curious to the lock down post defenders coming in next year. Iowa's guards dont play that bad of defense, but the bigs are as bad as it gets.

 

[herkyattack]

i would be more curious to the lock down post defenders coming in next year. Iowa's guards dont play that bad of defense, but the bigs are as bad as it gets.

Gatens is the only perimeter defender that can consistently keep his man out of the lane. Pinning the porous defense solely on the bigs is ridiculous.

 

[hawkfarmer]

May is bad. When #32 scored 8 points in arow it was because may got beat on penetration and basabe had to help and got toasted

 

[jocohawk]

Gatens is the only perimeter defender that can consistently keep his man out of the lane. Pinning the porous defense solely on the bigs is ridiculous.

I would definitely agree, our guards have put them in bad position a ton of times.

I'll just say help, hedging, rotation, blocking out, anything related to defense is horrible.

 

[herkyattack]

I would definitely agree, our guards have put them in bad position a ton of times.

I'll just say help, hedging, rotation, blocking out, anything related to defense is horrible.

This is the frustrating thing. It doesn't matter whether we hedge, switch, flat, etc. on ball screens, we cannot stay in front of the ballhandler.

 

[sportstalent]

ball is? Does anyone know the correct time of when to help on D and when not to?

Outside of McCabe, I see no one with toughness on the inside that also possesses ball awareness.

The D is bad due to a talent and experience gap, but the fundementals and toughness are also horrid.

Basabe loafs down and gets a pass thrown over his head and Zeller scores. Archie is dunked on before he realizes the ball was passed over his head.

It's stuff that happens playing crappy pick up ball at my health club.

I'm almost more excited to get Ingram because I hear he plays some lockdown defense.

No, not one of the big men had a clue on defense tonight. Also, they didn't know where the man (Zeller) was running the baseline, he was in the middle of the zone most of that time.

 

[jocohawk]

That's why I'm hoping a few of these new guys can be someone like a Mike Henderson, where they can lock a guy down off the dribble and at least be a little bit of a threat on the offensive end. I was kind of hoping May could be somewhat of a defensive stopper.

 

[drew003]

This is the frustrating thing. It doesn't matter whether we hedge, switch, flat, etc. on ball screens, we cannot stay in front of the ballhandler.

We have to practice this more. There is no reason we should be that bad at guarding ball screens. Forget offense. We can win with our offense. We just need practice team defense to defense ball-screens. Just keep going through technique and rotations.

We play a lot of defenses, but none of them well. It might be time to simply down to a two defenses, and practice the crap out of them.

 

[herkyattack]

That's why I'm hoping a few of these new guys can be someone like a Mike Henderson, where they can lock a guy down off the dribble and at least be a little bit of a threat on the offensive end. I was kind of hoping May could be somewhat of a defensive stopper.

That's why we are bringing in Ingram and Clemmons. They should help immensely on the defensive end.

 

[Hawkjammer]

I would not be surprised if Fran uses the last scholly to pick up another stud player for next year if available.

Go Hawks!!!!!

 

[Tmoney12]

Shell drill