Good Read and Insight into Davidson Game

The good news is that Iowa will not have to show a lot of help on the Davidson interior; they simply do not have a lot of firepower inside. So, Iowa's perimeter defenders can stay focused on the 3 point shooters.

Even if their guards get past the Iowa perimeter, which they seem to try to do, they will have to, at best, alter their shots to get over Woody and more especially, Gabe. Again, I don't think our perimeter guys need to sag back and try to help our inside guys, even if they get beat off the dribble; if we do, they will kick out and hurt us with the three.

As has been stressed earlier in this thread, and it makes good sense, Davidson's outside shooters don't typically have to deal with the length they will face against Iowa's D.

Can Davidson run? Well, they will certainly have to focus on rebounding on defense, or Iowa will kill them. Can Davidson try to rebound offensively? Not if they want to risk Iowa running them into the ground.

Other than Davidson going off the charts offensively, or Iowa going stone cold, I just don't see how Davidson wins this game.
 
We have such a large timid bunch that even grasshoppers are giants in "our" eyes.

Stop living in fear.
 
droidhawk said:
We're going to breeze through this one. Looking forward to it.
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A lot of this will come down to the mental awareness of our players... if we play smart and don't let them shoot a easy 3's we win easily.

However over the past years I've seen how unaware we can play... (Travis Trice wide open 6 times as MSU destroys us in the 2nd half)

Fran can only stress it so much.

C'mon guys please don't be dense this game.
 
I've read a couple of these articles about how Iowa should fear Davidson's offense. I believe the opposite to be true.
 
Bigtenchamp said:
watched some highlights.. wow do they launch 3's.
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Yea the one thing that worries me when reading that article is when they say Davidson launces 3's over people who think they're close enough to prevent them from shooting. I have bad visions of Gesell allowing about 10 3's over him.
 
PCHawk said:
Yea the one thing that worries me when reading that article is when they say Davidson launces 3's over people who think they're close enough to prevent them from shooting. I have bad visions of Gesell allowing about 10 3's over him.
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Yeah they don't even have to be really open to shoot them.. have to get up on their hips and filter them to the basket.

No sagging.
 
Davidson doesn't shoot nearly as well on the road. And this won't just be on the road. It will be on the road at a neutral site in a cavernous venue. The most difficult of all places for 3 pt shooters to have success.

Davidson will make some three's, no doubt. But if Iowa doesn't panic and try to match them, they will be fine. I have great faith in Fran and the Hawks.
 
WindsorHawk said:
LOL He's comparing Davidson to Iowa State...No comparison.

Olaseni and Uhl will probably steal some of Adam's minutes at the 5. Jok, White and Uthoff will be impossible for them to guard on the other end. Gesell and Clemmons should be able to finish at the rim whenever they get there.

He also failed to compare this game to the Davidson vs. North Carolina game. Meeks is 6'9" and 280 lbs. He played 31 minutes and scored 19 points. Justin Jackson is 6'8" and 190 lbs. He played 28 minutes and scored 18 points. Paige played only scored 13 points in 33 minutes. Carolina had 21 assists and 9 TOs.

Kalinski was 2-9 from 2 and 2-9 from 3 and scored 12 points. Aldridge (6'7") led Davidson with 25 points in 34 minutes...was 6-10 from 3. Davidson was out rebounded by 9.
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Agreed. However, their center is a 6'7" freshman who shot 39% for the season from three. Sounds like Woody won't get many minutes until, as Paul Harvey says, you hear the rest of the story. He's just 5-24 from three since the end of January.

Good three point shooting teams like familiar surroundings. They will be about as far from familiar surroundings as a team can be. Playing at KeyArena in Seattle that seats 17,459 is a far cry from John M Belk Arena that seats 5,223.
 
We will see if Fran wants to go with defense by playing more guards, putting Clemmons on that Kalinski dude, going more with Gabe, and telling his four players minus the center to guard the 3 point arc.

Or if he goes more for mismatches on offense with two guards and Woody and Gabe the focus in the post.
 
Facts are Iowa, alone, will dictate this outcome.
Bad Iowa, the 20% shooting crap, and no energy, will lose
Good Iowa wins

I could care less what Davidson does....
 
1hawkeye1 said:
Davidson doesn't shoot nearly as well on the road. And this won't just be on the road. It will be on the road at a neutral site in a cavernous venue. The most difficult of all places for 3 pt shooters to have success.

Davidson will make some three's, no doubt. But if Iowa doesn't panic and try to match them, they will be fine. I have great faith in Fran and the Hawks.
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​This is my fear. That Gesell/Clemmons/ogs/Jok get sucked into the 3 pt frenzy. That would be an unmitigated disaster.
 
HawksMN said:
Facts are Iowa, alone, will dictate this outcome.
Bad Iowa, the 20% shooting crap, and no energy, will lose
Good Iowa wins

I could care less what Davidson does....
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This is how I see it. If we play smart, keep feeding the post, crash the boards and play smart defense, we win this game.
If we have mental lapses on defense, get caught up shooting outside shots, we'll get beat.
 
deanvogs said:
Fran has some flexibility and Woody just might not bring a lot to this matchup. A lineup of Gesell, Clemmons, Jok/Ogs, Uthoff and White would still pose matchup problems for Davidson defensively, and let Iowa keep up with the 4 guard offense of Davidson at the same time. Hopefully we will see a lot of this on Friday.
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The one matchup we don't want is Woodbury guarding a much smaller guy on the perimeter who can shoot and drive.

That's where the are able to drive and kick for 3s.

i think we can get away with some zone when Woody is in.
 
Xerxes said:
Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Athletic guys can create their shots. Iowa scores with ball movement, player movement, and good passing. Very rarely do you see guys creating on their own.
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On the whole Iowa has average athleticism for their size.

You can be athletic and not be able to create your own shot and vice versa.
 
Xerxes said:
Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Athletic guys can create their shots. Iowa scores with ball movement, player movement, and good passing. Very rarely do you see guys creating on their own.
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Well I don't know - I remember some athletic guys who play/played for Iowa that couldn't create their own shot. White - Can't really create for himself that well, but I daresay he's athletic, or at least athletic enough to easily dunk on lobs, etc. Gabe is athletic, but don't see him doing a lot of creating, other than throwing up some slop and getting fouled, earning his points from the FT line or on garbage baskets around the rim, put backs, etc. Remember Doug Thomas? Athletic as all heck, but don't remember him being a big scorer.

To me, creating your own shot is more about skill. Athleticism certainly helps, but having good moves, being able to handle the ball, etc. seem to be just as important, if not more, IMO.
 
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