Frans postgame interview

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Starts by talking about how they missed a couple of shots and made a couple mistakes and started pressing. Was really pretty calm and talked about the coaches thinking about a few changes. I think hes been listening to Ferentz too long. This aint about cleaning a few things up. This is about a team in total disaster mode. Fran said they cant panic. I know he has to say that but I think maybe panic wouldnt hurt.
Im like about everyone else on the board. Just cant take this anymore. I know there is little to do in Iowa in the winter but staring at the wall is better than watching Iowa basketball. I can only imagine how bad a crowd they will have for the next game
 
I can tell you what I do not want to see and that is the same freaking guys making the same freaking mistakes and missing the same wide open shots. Time to send a few guys to the pine and play Dickerson, Uhl, Jok, etc. until we can find some ballers.
 
Something is off with him. He just stands there with his arms folded. Where's the passion? The bat **** craziness? How could he not be beside himself watching that **** tonight.
 
One can place the blame on the players or the coaches or both for that matter. From section 222 row h tonight this was mostly on coaching. Very good coaching by Jacobsen and very poor coaching by McCaffrey. One of the best coaches at Iowa was Ralph Miller. He had a theory that most games are won or lost in the first five minutes of the second half. ISU and UNI just destroyed Iowa during the first five minutes. Tonight McCaffrey brought out the same starting five that struggled in the first half. They proceeded to throw away a six point lead that others had built. He never got that combination back together that built the lead. He waited too late to full court press, which UNI did have some problems with. In hindsight he needed to sit Woody and Clemons to start the second half and he needed to put full court pressure on from the start of it. He stuck with that line-up, which looked like they were lost out there.

Meanwhile Jacobsen had guards with leadership skills manage the game using basically an 8 man rotation. The UNI defense basically kept Iowa out of the lane or enticed them into it and forcing turnovers. Jacobsen took advantage of Iowa's weakness of inability to score from outside and he didn't use a zone to do it. Iowa has no floor chemistry and no floor leader. The floor chemistry problem can be addressed by narrowing the number of players down to 8 in order to get people into roles that they understand. The floor leader isn't fixable. Iowa doesn't have a point guard with the personality and demeanor necessary.
 
I can see it taking time for the rebuilding to happen, but they really looked horrible. UNI isn't really that good a team, but Iowa made them look good. Midway through the second half I thought that Iowa would of been better off with Lickliter. The Iowa guards really aren't very good for being 1 senior and 2 juniors. I can't really knock the effort of the Iowa players; I think its the coaching.
 
eyekwah said:
One can place the blame on the players or the coaches or both for that matter. From section 222 row h tonight this was mostly on coaching. Very good coaching by Jacobsen and very poor coaching by McCaffrey. One of the best coaches at Iowa was Ralph Miller. He had a theory that most games are won or lost in the first five minutes of the second half. ISU and UNI just destroyed Iowa during the first five minutes. Tonight McCaffrey brought out the same starting five that struggled in the first half. They proceeded to throw away a six point lead that others had built. He never got that combination back together that built the lead. He waited too late to full court press, which UNI did have some problems with. In hindsight he needed to sit Woody and Clemons to start the second half and he needed to put full court pressure on from the start of it. He stuck with that line-up, which looked like they were lost out there.

Meanwhile Jacobsen had guards with leadership skills manage the game using basically an 8 man rotation. The UNI defense basically kept Iowa out of the lane or enticed them into it and forcing turnovers. Jacobsen took advantage of Iowa's weakness of inability to score from outside and he didn't use a zone to do it. Iowa has no floor chemistry and no floor leader. The floor chemistry problem can be addressed by narrowing the number of players down to 8 in order to get people into roles that they understand. The floor leader isn't fixable. Iowa doesn't have a point guard with the personality and demeanor necessary.
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Good points. I think too many players in the rotation is directly contributing to the lack of offensive flow and cohesiveness. It also leads to defensive lapses where players don't seem to be in the right places. The guard play is really bad. There is not 1 single aspect of the game that they are good at. They can't even make simple entry passes.
 
Tierney said:
I can see it taking time for the rebuilding to happen, but they really looked horrible. UNI isn't really that good a team, but Iowa made them look good. Midway through the second half I thought that Iowa would of been better off with Lickliter. The Iowa guards really aren't very good for being 1 senior and 2 juniors. I can't really knock the effort of the Iowa players; I think its the coaching.
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You are really right about some things and really wrong.

UNI really is that good.
Iowa would not be better off with Lickliter.
The Iowa guards aren't very good.
The effort of the Iowa players was not good.
Yes, it is the coaching, too.
 
I'd like to add my thoughts about this game and team but I'm tired. I will say that I sat in the second row behind the Iowa bench and, wow, talk about a different perspective of a game. Plus, had some really 'classy' ISU fans behind us.

One other thing: I'm tired of Miller saying there is no guard help for next season. Yeah, I know that.

But I'd like to complain about one season at a time.
Thank you.
 
DDThompson said:
You are really right about some things and really wrong.

UNI really is that good.
Iowa would not be better off with Lickliter.
The Iowa guards aren't very good.
The effort of the Iowa players was not good.
Yes, it is the coaching, too.
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Sorry, but I wasn't that impressed by UNI at all. Sure they were heads and tail better than Iowa, but they wouldn't stay within 30 points of ISU.

Lets break down what Iowa's problems are:
1) Iowa guards aren't that good (Frans recruiting)
2) Iowa's players effort isn't that good (Fran's coaching)
3) Fran's offense isn't effective (duh, I think that is Fran's fault as well).
 
There are rumors his son might de-commit if Fran doesn't get a raise and extension after the season. Get on it Gary.
 
deanvogs said:
Sorry, but I wasn't that impressed by UNI at all. Sure they were heads and tail better than Iowa, but they wouldn't stay within 30 points of ISU.

Lets break down what Iowa's problems are:
1) Iowa guards aren't that good (Frans recruiting)
2) Iowa's players effort isn't that good (Fran's coaching)
3) Fran's offense isn't effective (duh, I think that is Fran's fault as well).
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They're heads and tails better than a team ISU beat by 15 (and never led by more than what, 26?), but they couldn't stay within 30 of ISU? ISU wins that game at least 8 out of 10 times, but UNI would be able to compete with ISU at least as well as we did, IMO.
 
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