MSU tonight
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HuckFinn
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Agreed. And so do most teams in the BT.
STILLBUSTER
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Many, in general, are well on their way but agree, every team playing in Breslin this yr is gonna look like they have a ways to go.
BullHawks are gonna be just fine and there will be no Franuary. Better each week and, FINALLY, go dancing.
Hope they meet Creighton and school Dix and Freeman!
People don't think this team is like Fran's teams, but oddly enough, just like Fran's teams this team will go only as far as their 3pt shooting will take them. This team is better defensively than Fran's teams, but without a rim protector or any type of enforcer inside, they certainly are not elite. After this game the book on Iowa will be very simple: control Stirtz, clog the lane and don't allow cutters through the lane, keep everyone in front of you, and make Iowa beat you from beyond the arc. If Stirtz, Fulgouris, Koch, Howard & Combs have off-shooting nights from 3, almost any team can beat the Hawks.
Zstatman
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That just might have been the perfect setting for the first B1G game of the BM era.
Road game sold out arena, boisterous crowd against a talented, athletic team that was big inside.
IMO, the Hawks seemed shellshocked by it all out of the gate. We couldn't hit the broadside of a barn for most of the first half, hen, Stirtz missed 3 straight free throws and when has that ever happened and will it ever happen again.
It's clear we've got to get bigger inside. I thought that in the off-season and it was proven last night. As hard as we work at rebounding when you are going up against multiple players 6'10" and above it's just tough. They were killing us inside on the offensive boards and put backs. Manyawu at 6'8" just isn't tall enough no matter how gritty he is. Jirak has the size but he's only getting limited minutes and it isn't even sure what his position is. Matteoni has some size but evidently isn't yet worthy of more minutes.
And, we've got to shoot better.
I don't claim to know what best for the team, I'll leave that up to the coaches and I expect we'll improve going forward this season. Just some random postgame thoughts.
Road game sold out arena, boisterous crowd against a talented, athletic team that was big inside.
IMO, the Hawks seemed shellshocked by it all out of the gate. We couldn't hit the broadside of a barn for most of the first half, hen, Stirtz missed 3 straight free throws and when has that ever happened and will it ever happen again.
It's clear we've got to get bigger inside. I thought that in the off-season and it was proven last night. As hard as we work at rebounding when you are going up against multiple players 6'10" and above it's just tough. They were killing us inside on the offensive boards and put backs. Manyawu at 6'8" just isn't tall enough no matter how gritty he is. Jirak has the size but he's only getting limited minutes and it isn't even sure what his position is. Matteoni has some size but evidently isn't yet worthy of more minutes.
And, we've got to shoot better.
I don't claim to know what best for the team, I'll leave that up to the coaches and I expect we'll improve going forward this season. Just some random postgame thoughts.
