Marble needs to Sit

[roetbombaaa]

What a fragile ego. His confidence is gone. He can't take the coach's criticism.. So the coaching staff has to handle his psyche with kid gloves.

Could be that. Something is up with him though. I mean, he really looks lost out there. Or at least he did last night. Maybe he has baby-momma issues.

 

[roetbombaaa]

He's not as talented as projected by the media, and unfortunately gets compared to his dad. He would of been better off going to another school IMO.

(cue "not sure if serious" pic)

 

[sportstalent]

I posted something like a couple games ago when he was less pitiful shooting, but an update...

8-44 (18.1%) in his last 5 games shooting the ball, including a stellar 2-17 (11.8%) from behind the arc.

I can't be reading that right, nobody, I mean nobody shoots worse or as bad as Oglesby. Oglesby, the 8th or 9th man off the bench is the difference between Iowa winning a losing.

Marble has earned the right to sit, but I am not sure Fran will do it. There are at least seven other guys playing better than Marble right now and honestly, that isn't saying much.

The offense flows better with him on the bench and a lot of time when White is right next to him. Everyone really think hard about this for a second.

When White/Marble get passed the ball, what is their first reaction?
Look for the open man? Nope
Dribble to not allow the defense to get up on them? Nope
Stand there and hold the ball? Yep

For the longest time I have said it is about ball movement and shot selection two examples and both involve Oglesby:

Bad, his worst shot of the night he was on the wing took a couple dribbles and had no shot, but took it anyway.

Good, Eric May passes up a shot with a defender running at him and makes the third pass of the possession to Oglesby and a wide open three, completely set and no wasted motion and nobody around him shot goes in.

Why did McCabe take the quick shot when Iowa had a good lead, shot selection and ball movement. It was the first pass over half court. My wife said after he hit the first one: "He made one, how many more is he going to take and how is it going to hurt them?" You notice McCabe when he hits 3's or takes a charge, other than that he is invisible and plays no defense, it is the truth. Olaseni or Woodbury needed to be on the floor with White after McCabe took that terrible shot.

Iowa can't play in transition, except for Clemmons, it is painful to watch.

Defense, rebounding, ball movement and making extra passes are what become the most important when you are a team that struggles to score like Iowa, especially when you don't have a guy that can break his man down off the dribble. Doing those things leads to open shots and better shots and eventually transition baskets.

It isn't about youth and inexperience as White and McCabe missed huge FT's down the stretch and they have how many starts between them?