Cook and Bohannon are way worse defensively than Jok. Jok is our best player and it's not even close
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Cook and Bohannon are way worse defensively than Jok. Jok is our best player and it's not even close
SteveGarvey1
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He tends to play adequate defense in the first half. In the second half he runs out of gas and conserves his energy for the offensive side, thus playing matador defense. Fran has him him too much in the second half of games and needs to rest him from maybe the 12 minute mark to the 5-6 minute mark. I know most players play worse defense in the second half of games because of tiring, but it's more extreme with Pete.
NikeHawk21
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The problem is right now Pete is a shell of his former self, 5656 would know this if he watched the games. He was killing it early in the year but has been struggling lately. Over the last 6 he's averaging:
13.5 PPG / 18.75 % 3pt / 2.8 TOPG
All while playing terrible defense.
13.5 PPG / 18.75 % 3pt / 2.8 TOPG
All while playing terrible defense.
And he'll still be first team all conference. He was hurt but single handedly got us back into the Minnesota game where we got hosed. Him playing bad and only scoring 13.5 ppg is still better than anyone else on the team. Yeah his defense isn't great but we're a terrible defensive team so it's not like he's the only one
NikeHawk21
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He's shooting 30% from the field, below 20% from 3, and averaging by close to 3 turnovers the last 6. He's not an effective player right now, that's why people are frustrated.
He's played poorly in nearly everyone of our B1G road games sans two halves (NEB 2H, Minn 2H).
WIll he be 1st team, probably, does he deserve it? Debatable.
Jok has been by far our best player this season, to say you are looking forward to him graduating is very dumb. If he was shooting 35% instead of 30% from the field the last 6 games would people think he was effective?
NikeHawk21
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I never said that. I'm trying to explain to you why people are frustrated, and may think that way. College basketball careers can be long, so it's really not that surprising people are ready for a new face. I believe posters were very harsh on Aaron White his senior year because of his deficiencies, just as they are of Jok now. I know plenty of Badger fans excited for Hayes to graduate, it happens. We all have very fond memories of Whitey just as we will of Jok.
Will he be missed? Absolutely. Can he be replaced? I think so.
Who's going to replace him? I know plenty of Wisconsin fans, I'll ask them if they want Nigel gone. I bet they don't
NikeHawk21
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We will replace Jok by commitee next year. Most people around here expect Iowa to be a better team next year. You may disagree, but you'd be in the minority.
I hope we're better next year but it has nothing to do with Jok being gone
This team might be better next year without Jok.... They might not be also.. Has anybody even remotely considered that concept? For this team to be better next year they need a combination of things to happen. Most of it being all the young guys improving by leaps and bounds. Now I've seen guys like Glen Worley and Mike Gessel come through this program and seemingly not improve much at all during their 4 yrs. Their freshman years were their ceiling. They may have been smarter players in some ways but not necessarily better. I hope that isn't the case with this group.
trj
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trj
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They get 4-6 more wins next year and your troll is??????
damnfinn
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glad you finally admit it
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DDThompson
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I'm just going to get a jump start and say Iowa is going to be a better team after Cook leaves in 2019.
We've had our best player graduate for 4 straight years. That is rare in today's game. It will be interesting to see if we can do better in the non conference after that streak ends next year.
