Free Throws are the Weakness and Izzo knew it

[KatoZenti]

FT%'s as of 1/28/14:

Marble--68.1%
White--85.2%
Uthoff--79.0%
Basabe--67.2%
Gesell--65.1%
McCabe--71.1%
Oglesby--50.0%
Olaseni--67.7%
Jok--81.3%
Woodbury--71.1%
Clemmons--63.9%
Denning--0.00%
Meyer--50.0%
Ukah--50.0%
Stokes--50.0%

I wish these %'s were a little bit better from our core players.

If Iowa wants to go deep in the B1G tournament and NCAA/NIT, improve on the FT shooting and trying to create better offensive opportunities against good defenses.

 

[Xerxes]

FT%'s as of 1/28/14:

Marble--68.1%
White--85.2%
Uthoff--79.0%
Basabe--67.2%
Gesell--65.1%
McCabe--71.1%
Oglesby--50.0%
Olaseni--67.7%
Jok--81.3%
Woodbury--71.1%
Clemmons--63.9%
Denning--0.00%
Meyer--50.0%
Ukah--50.0%
Stokes--50.0%

I wish these %'s were a little bit better from our core players.

If Iowa wants to go deep in the B1G tournament and NCAA/NIT, improve on the FT shooting and trying to create better offensive opportunities against good defenses.

Those bold ones are killers. If they were frontcourt players you could live with it, but the starting backcourt needs to produce better from the FT line.

 

[WindsorHawk]

Marble is 18-21 at the line over the last 3 games - 85.7%. He's 29-37 over the last 5 games - 78.4%. He's coming around so I'm not worried about him as the season progresses. White is at 85.2%. These guys are on the floor at the end of games and the 2 guys I want shooting the free throws.

 

[22hawkeyes]

Marble seems to be coming around. I have no idea what is going on with gesell. If those two shot the same % in our losses this year as their overall % was last year, we are theoretically undefeated.

 

[22hawkeyes]

Maybe Mike G needs to visit oglesby's sports psychologist about his free throws. It seems to have mostly worked for josh.

 

[Sparky]

My fear, teams watch how teams shut down Iowa a simply replicate it. They should be learning out to shut down White by now. And to the point of this thread, foul about anybody other than White or Marble and it's a 50/50 chance they miss the front end of a one-in-one.

Isn't that what all teams try and do?

 

[lightning1]

I think you guys are making too much of it. Izzo's theory of defense has always been the same. "Hold, grab and arm bar every player on every possession, and dare the refs to call them all". Last night was a real treat because the refs seemed intent on calling them for 70% (estimate) of the obvious fouls, as compared to 25% in past seasons. The refs actually tried to make it a fair contest. It's not their fault we couldn't make our FTs.

 

[PCHawk]

I think you guys are making too much of it. Izzo's theory of defense has always been the same. "Hold, grab and arm bar every player on every possession, and dare the refs to call them all". Last night was a real treat because the refs seemed intent on calling them for 70% (estimate) of the obvious fouls, as compared to 25% in past seasons. The refs actually tried to make it a fair contest. It's not their fault we couldn't make our FTs.

This is true. As "good" as the refs did at calling fouls, it seemed like they would let some slide because they already called so many. There were also a few times where the refs seemed like they predetermined they were going to call a foul on Iowa on that possession to try to even it out some.