Raise your hand if you thought

[EddyP]

switching to a zone was a good idea in the second half? Seriously, you are down by double digits against an outstanding 3 point shooting team. What did you think was going to happen? They still would have lost but it might not have been embarrassing. I thought White and Basabe played well tonight and Gatens did ok but not much outside of that.

 

[storminspank]

Zero sense. I hope someone asks Fran about that

 

[BlackGold57]

Ya, that zone was the reason we lost.

 

[EddyP]

Ya, that zone was the reason we lost.

Can you read? I said we still would have lost.

 

[busabus114]

We lose either way...Fran was probably trying to strike lightning with something new. It was a long shot but they get the same open looks even if we play man. I had no issue with this change because....well, it didnt matter

 

[bighawkeyedaddy]

Didn't understand waiting so long to get mel in the game in the 2nd half either, I thought he was aggressive in the first half and when we could actually get the ball to him NW had no answer.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Should have thrown the 1-3-1 right back at them......that would teach them!!

 

[busabus114]

Didn't understand waiting so long to get mel in the game in the 2nd half either, I thought he was aggressive in the first half and when we could actually get the ball to him NW had no answer.

Mel came into the game less than a minute into the 2nd half and picked up his 3rd foul almost instantly

 

[rjhindm]

Should have thrown the 1-3-1 right back at them......that would teach them!!

considering we didn't know how to break it....I'm gonna assume we would suck at running it.

 

[SECisCRAP]

2 1 2 would have been nice to see but most teams don't use it

 

[hawkforlife9]

Don't think he'll win coach of the year.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Mel came into the game less than a minute into the 2nd half and picked up his 3rd foul almost instantly

BrommerLeiter got three within 90 seconds, so he's obviously better than Mel. I saw BrommerLeiter checking in and I told the folks behind me they could leave, the game was now sealed and they were like "WTF"? Then, when I had my little meltdown after the second BrommerLeiter foul they were like "this dude's insane." After the third foul, they moved.

 

[BlackGold57]

Can you read? I said we still would have lost.

Ya I can read. Playin a zone is not why we lost. Players, coaches might have something to do with it.

 

[storminspank]

Iowa should have gone to a 5-0 zone, REALLY mess with them

 

[busabus114]

Iowa should have gone to a 5-0 zone, REALLY mess with them

Whats funny is this is basically what we played all night

 

[bighawkeyedaddy]

Mel came into the game less than a minute into the 2nd half and picked up his 3rd foul almost instantly

That would make sense, I missed that happening during the end of the Murray State game.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

BOX and 1 baby!

 

[busabus114]

That would make sense, I missed that happening during the end of the Murray State game.

Thank you ESPNU right?

 

[EddyP]

We lose either way...Fran was probably trying to strike lightning with something new. It was a long shot but they get the same open looks even if we play man. I had no issue with this change because....well, it didnt matter

It was a bad idea. I mean you basically throw up your hands and say I hope they miss. Stick with the man and if you get beat that way then fine.

 

[CGHawk]

switching to a zone was a good idea in the second half? Seriously, you are down by double digits against an outstanding 3 point shooting team. What did you think was going to happen? They still would have lost but it might not have been embarrassing. I thought White and Basabe played well tonight and Gatens did ok but not much outside of that.

I think that is probably why he switched... obviously what we were doing before the switch wasn't working out too well either.

But I think the real issue was that we let them control the tempo of the game. They made us play 1/2 court offense against their zone and we couldn't break it consistently enough.

They ran the floor on us a lot in the 1st half it seemed... and beat us at our own game.

We just did not play well tonight in any area and we made way too many dumb mistakes. I think he was just hoping that our zone would somehow throw them off and give us some life. I don't really know, but I'm confident in Fran's coaching ability and I'm sure he had a reason. Sometimes you just get outplayed--that happened to us tonight.