aaronzuriel
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Which junior star? MAy came in and dunked and hit a 3 pointer and played his *** off. Is this the JR star you refer to?
McCabe as always played his *** off?
Who are you referring to?
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Which junior star? MAy came in and dunked and hit a 3 pointer and played his *** off. Is this the JR star you refer to?
McCabe as always played his *** off?
Who are you referring to?
HawkeyeRyno
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Lose that game and Iowa is finished. Purdue is a must win no question.
Hawkeye11en1
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YEAH!
In all seriousness, I'm happy to see them fight back. I really didn't think they had it in them. They showed some heart being down 20+ and coming back. I'm still playing with house money anyways after Vins Pats went down in a HEAP.
You mean the one that was talking about going to the NBA after this season?
OBhawk
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May is a senior. I think he is refering to DRM.
Hawkfromnorwalk
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I'll eat some crow. They did at least make a game of it. But for Christ's sake you can't win many games when you go down to a team by 20+. They still have way too many cold streaks. Got away with them in non-con. They are glaring right now in the middle of B1G play.
bcl20
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Not at all. I'd argue that beating Purdue on the road is a quality win.
Tmoney12
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YEAH!
In all seriousness, I'm happy to see them fight back. I really didn't think they had it in them. They showed some heart being down 20+ and coming back. I'm still playing with house money anyways after Vins Pats went down in a HEAP.
Don't blame ya. If I still had a sportsbook account I woulda taken the thadeyes
aaronzuriel
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Wheeew... just ran around outside with the dog to catch my breath.
What a great college BB game... Hawks lost but they came back and it was so close.
IOWA is BACK
Ok... everyone.. ***** and pick on individual performances... Dev didn't lead... he can't shoot... the Hawkeyes can't shoot free throws.
Fran can't coach, this team has no heart and can't shoot...
Pull JO's scolly... can't shoot. Woody really, really sucks. May should never play again.
OK everyone... bring on your brilliant analysis and what went wrong.
Tell us how they aren't an NCAA tourney team... no signature wins...
What a great college BB game... Hawks lost but they came back and it was so close.
IOWA is BACK
Ok... everyone.. ***** and pick on individual performances... Dev didn't lead... he can't shoot... the Hawkeyes can't shoot free throws.
Fran can't coach, this team has no heart and can't shoot...
Pull JO's scolly... can't shoot. Woody really, really sucks. May should never play again.
OK everyone... bring on your brilliant analysis and what went wrong.
Tell us how they aren't an NCAA tourney team... no signature wins...
May is a senior you ******* know-nothing!
sportstalent
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Iowa doesn't have a star on the team and there is no sense of trying to make any player out to be one.
When Iowa plays as a team (see: ball movement, screening, hitting the boards and playing defense), not standing around watching a guy dribble for 20+ seconds during the shot clock, they can play basketball.
Iowa gets in trouble when players think they can actually go off the dribble through traffic or go up weak. If Iowa ever learns how to "play through contact" I will go poo-poo in my pants.
Free throw shooting was awful and transition defense was actually worse, which is amazing.
Look, I don't expect Iowa to go to OSU and win, but they had a chance. That said, Iowa makes mistakes that teams shouldn't be making. Here are two examples:
1. Marble driving down the lane and instead of seeing White wide open coming down the other side of the lane he puts up a weak shot and it gets blocked.
2. Clemmons drives against the guy Craft switched with, no recognition to find the open man when Craft came over and everybody and their brother knew he was going to slide over. He takes a charge and OSU hits free throws.
Folks, it is simple, Iowa has problems with some of the most basic concepts of basketball sometimes.
I thought Olaseni played excellent, even though that FT was almost as ugly as Woodbury's air ball earlier this season. I like him at the front of the press. He did some Brommer-like fouls hedging on the screen and fouling 80-ft away from the basket, but overall I liked what I saw.
OSU is a good team and if you don't go in accepting you are going to get contact all night long and don't do what Marble finally did at the end of the game, no use worrying about not getting a call.
aaronzuriel
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did anyone notice that Iowa can't shoot? and are horrible?
kmajhawk
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Great summary and analysis of what went wrong tonight. Really liked some parts of Iowa's game tonight. It will come. Just gotta keep battling.
I would like to know why it was not until the second half and Iowa was down by 20-plus points that Fran decided to extend the defense and press. Would have been good to have done it the entire game.
aaronzuriel
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the lack of sportstalent on this message board is obvious.
Along with that any sportstalent that gives any specific criticism of individual play by any Hawkeye BB player is ludicrous.. go away sportstalent... you have none and no understanding of basketball.
Along with that any sportstalent that gives any specific criticism of individual play by any Hawkeye BB player is ludicrous.. go away sportstalent... you have none and no understanding of basketball.
kmajhawk
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Cant shoot? Um, yeahhhhh...
tm3308
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That may very well be true. All the more reason it's a must win.
Iowa is running out of chances to get a quality road win. They should have gotten it tonight, and they should get it against Purdue. But after that, you're looking at Wisconsin (who may not end up being a quality win by the end of the year, given their schedule), Minnesota (no), and Indiana (no).
