I don’t blame Fran for this one, although he should be calling more timeouts to get our guys breathers.Well Hoiberg took a fairly drastic game plan against us and it pretty much worked. I don't think most teams will want JW shooting 10 open 3s like that against them. For us to go 4 for 33 or whatever it was is nuts. I can't remember a worse performance. Garza going 0-4 isn't ideal but not the end of the world. But Joe T JW and Kriener shooting so poorly is frustrating. Imagine if CM didn't go 3/7 witch is good? Unreal. Almost just as unreal was the lack of FT attempts. That kinda goes hand in hand with settling for so many 3s. Even after all that we had came back to take the lead and only end up losing by 6. Such a frustrating game to watch. Not sure what buttons Fran could have pushed strategy wise to change things.
Well that's what you'd hope/expect to hear. It's not completely wrong either. When you get down to the 13th man on your bench against the other teams starters it's just tough and everyone knows it.From the game report linked in the op, here's what Fran said about playing with injuries:
“Everybody has injury. Everybody has sickness. Everybody has tough stretches where there are a lot of road games, a lot of travel,” Fran McCaffery said.
“We have other guys. We have to play better than we played tonight. Give credit and respect to our opponent but we didn’t play as well as we have been playing and I’m not going to put that all on the fact that C.J. Fredrick was not on the floor. It wasn’t like we played four on five. Somebody else was playing. We’ve got to play better than we played.”
Yeah totally agree with the TOs. No reason to not take one more in the first half. If for no other reason then a breather I agree.I don’t blame Fran for this one, although he should be calling more timeouts to get our guys breathers.
The change I would push for going forward is Evelyn in the starting 5 over Kriener with CJ out with injury. RK is the better player for sure, but Iowa has good success with the small ball style. Ryan gives you some pop off the bench whereas Evelyn and Pemsl are far too often non factors. You can’t get nothing off your bench and expect to win in this league.
From the game report linked in the op, here's what Fran said about playing with injuries:
“Everybody has injury. Everybody has sickness. Everybody has tough stretches where there are a lot of road games, a lot of travel,” Fran McCaffery said.
“We have other guys. We have to play better than we played tonight. Give credit and respect to our opponent but we didn’t play as well as we have been playing and I’m not going to put that all on the fact that C.J. Fredrick was not on the floor. It wasn’t like we played four on five. Somebody else was playing. We’ve got to play better than we played.”
As a player or coach, you have to say this stuff even tho everyone knows it's just coach speak. As a fan it's ok to state the obvious. Guys at the end of the bench aren't as good as the starters, so if they're playing, your team is worse off.