Is Iowa

[WindsorHawk]

Just for fun...zag weaknesses: No answer for Garza, 30 points; no answer for JW, 20 points, drove to the rim; gave up 51 points to Iowa in the second half; blew a 20+ point lead down to single digits; 18 turnovers; Iowa forced 2 of their best to the bench with 5 fouls and got early to double bonus. Gave up 88 points to what some claim is not a very good Hawk team. Could not stop dribble drive by Back up Iowa point guard. Single biggest weakness for Iowa? Did not hit their usual % on three point shots.
(Yeah, and defense, but that doesn’t work well in my post)

And Iowa didn’t hit their normal % on FTs.

 

[PCHawk]

This was the best or second best offense in the nation and if we just shoot bad instead of terrible we would have stayed even with them. Our defense isn't good enough to beat the number 1 team in the nation when we shoot terrible. Everyone knew that already and that goes for every single other team in the nation too. What we didn't know before this game was we are good enough to beat the number 1 team in the nation on nights where we shoot average and they shoot great. And that's because we have Garza and no one else does. Garza gives us a margin of error that no other team has the luxury of having. Over the course of a 20 game conference schedule, that margin of error should be the difference.

 

[WindsorHawk]

This was the best or second best offense in the nation and if we just shoot bad instead of terrible we would have stayed even with them. Our defense isn't good enough to beat the number 1 team in the nation when we shoot terrible. Everyone knew that already and that goes for every single other team in the nation too. What we didn't know before this game was we are good enough to beat the number 1 team in the nation on nights where we shoot average and they shoot great. And that's because we have Garza and no one else does. Garza gives us a margin of error that no other team has the luxury of having. Over the course of a 20 game conference schedule, that margin of error should be the difference.

I love the Garza margin of error comment. We have the best player in the country and other guys that certainly aren’t slouches. It’s the Garza Factor that has me predicting a 15-5 record.