Here's What Iowa Should Do Against Maryland and Wisconsin

MelroseHawkins

MelroseHawkins

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.....or any highly rated team. PRESS! PRESS!! PRESS!!! I'm talking full court hard press like the 1987 Hawk team. Full court hard press all game. Hear me out. Fran has a problem of trying to get all his players minutes. This would be a way to get all involved.

Against great teams you have to make them play a pace they don't want to play
Against great teams, you have to get into their head mentally to rattle them
Against great teams, you have to get them exhausted.

This would cause them to lose a lot of time on the shot clock every possession. Against Wisky you can either play half court defense for most the shot clock while they try to create a mismatch or you could press them and get them out of their pace. If you don't, they'll just make you play D the entire clock.

Fran could bring in line changes and keep players fresh and wear the other teams out. George Raveling and Tom Davis did this with the great late 80's team and it was a blast to watch. Hard full court press the entire game. It mentally exhausted teams and tired them.

Just me dreaming. Sorry!
 


Sounds good to me. If we were going to pull out a miracle and win the Big Ten tourney we sure won't do it sticking with anything we've done to date, that is for sure.
 


Without a rim protector on the back end of the press you give up easy dunks once they beat the press. Got to think Fran is planning the attack against these guys which isn't going to be easy on the road. We will see some pressure but don't think we'll see 40 minutes of it.
 


1980HAWKFAN said:
Without a rim protector on the back end of the press you give up easy dunks once they beat the press. Got to think Fran is planning the attack against these guys which isn't going to be easy on the road. We will see some pressure but don't think we'll see 40 minutes of it.
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True on rim protector but I think they have guys that are athletic enough to challenge. With the FC press or teams that do them they know they will periodically give up some easy buckets, but over the course of a game, the odds should be on the side of the pressing team. You're playing the odds.

The only reason I brought this up or reliving the 1980's is with all the players getting playing time. A team wouldn't want to do this with an 8 man rotation. It just made me think back to the Raveling/Davis teams that ran it.
 






















Mr. Davis would do that and just plain ware a team down and out of gas by the fourth quarter. I have thought for the last two years with the depth we could have done that and won some that we lost. I thought Cook would be the rim protector this year but he hasn't showed much of that. Kreiner at time as well as Baer plays that role. I loved the way Mr. Davis would keep the pressure on the whole game.
 


People say Fran has a problem making in game adjustments. That'sBS!. Iowa has actually been playing the press more and more the past couple games. It's clearly evident that Fran figured out that Iowa is susceptible in the half-court playing half-court D and teams were just moving the ball around until a mismatch or could exploit Iowa's weak D. So, Fran figured out that instilling a "soft" press would make the other teams use more of the shot clock and give Iowa a chance at a TO. If not TO, would leave the team less time to run their half court offense.
 




Wow, when I saw the thread, I thought the strategy would be much different. I was thinking we hire that Gillooly guy that Tonya Harding hired. I think he's available. I'm pretty sure when you throw in the B10 referee bias about ranked B10 teams against non-NCOA teams, and basically we should just take the two L's and move on to Penn State.
 


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Iowa under Tom Davis utilized the 1-2-1-1 Zone Pressure. It utilizes a long limbed defender harassing the inbounder after a made basket. Two good shooting teammates behind him like splitbacks in a backfield. A guard and the center are in an I formation behind them.
 


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