That Wisconsin loss really stings. If you look at this schedule a different way, you can say we have 10 home games and 10 road games (9 of each remaining)
9 home games include Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Maryland and Indiana. I’d say 3 losses there at least, say 6-4 at Carver.
9 road games Iowa would need to find 4 wins on the road. Rutgers, NW, Penn State, and Minnesota are possible, but my guess is we will be underdogs in all but the Rutgers game.
Exactly. I didn’t like this schedule from the beginning.In a year like this, we would be better off if we had all of our tough games on the road and just chalk them up as losses, then have a bunch of easy teams at home.
We really need to get to 7-3 at home somehow.
Yep, feels like this. We “shot” our way past a good ISU team. We are not that good of a shooting team. Don’t see that happening again much. BIG is pretty loaded. With a minimum of 21 games vs BIG, don’t have much confidence we can get more than a handful of winsFirst conference win of the season...January 20 vs. Illinois. Hope I'm wrong but it's the "here we go again" feeling. 6-14 conference record. Once again, hope I'm wrong.
I think Iowa is a good shooting team. They aren’t going to shoot like they did against Iowa State every night but I think they’ve actually shot worse than expected this year, primary due to Bohannon being over 100 points below his normal 3pt %.Yep, feels like this. We “shot” our way past a good ISU team. We are not that good of a shooting team. Don’t see that happening again much. BIG is pretty loaded. With a minimum of 21 games vs BIG, don’t have much confidence we can get more than a handful of wins
I think we've undershot, especially against Wisconsin and MSU (not like that would have mattered), and believe that we're a good shooting team. We missed a lot of open shots in the two games that we lost.Yep, feels like this. We “shot” our way past a good ISU team. We are not that good of a shooting team. Don’t see that happening again much. BIG is pretty loaded. With a minimum of 21 games vs BIG, don’t have much confidence we can get more than a handful of wins
I think Iowa is a good shooting team. They aren’t going to shoot like they did against Iowa State every night but I think they’ve actually shot worse than expected this year, primary due to Bohannon being over 100 points below his normal 3pt %.
Exactly.I agree with this. 4 of the 5 starters are legit threats from deep. Baer also appears to be back to his normal self after poor shooting last season.
Exactly.
JBo has two full season over 40% while shooting a ton of threes. He’s an elite shooter.
Moss and Dailey were both over 38% last year. Baer was 39% as a sophomore. Garza is at 35% on his career.
Then you add a guy like Weiskamp who can also stroke it. We have plenty of shooting.
Again the problem I’ve seen is we just haven’t been able to get enough open looks in our offense. That’s likely because we don’t have many drivers who can collapse the defense.
The problem is our team struggles mightily feeding the post, and that’s where the lions share of our turnovers seem to come from. That’s both on the passer and the post man.Agreed. One solution to the lack of slashing/penetrating ability is to feed the post and work inside out. Which is a position of strength for Iowa. There have been several times this year where the team has gone away from it and failed to get the ball inside with good positioning. Why they go away from trying to feed the post at times is beyond me. Maybe it's due to a team fronting or Iowa's lack of being versatile in it's set plays designed to get the post feed open....
I've said this before but I'll say it again, I really wish Fran would implement the use of some/more post isolation plays for Cook/Garza when opposing teams are playing man. There are way too many times where the team actually gets them the ball but the opposing team swarms to them before they can make a move. Spacing the floor better to get the passer and post player as the only 2 on the same side of the court could allow the needed separation. Make this a go to when in a drought and the shooters are not getting open.
The problem is our team struggles mightily feeding the post, and that’s where the lions share of our turnovers seem to come from. That’s both on the passer and the post man.
The issue is a few teams have pressured the heck out of our guards and tried to front and side front Cook and Garza, and it has been extremely effective. If you don’t fear a guard going by you this is an effective strategy (That’s how UMKC gave us a game and Pitt).
Sure, but again the ball pressure can disrupt the timing of a play like that. Also if the defense is trying to deny the ball from getting into the post chances are they might just switch the cross screen and continue to front. From the wing it’s a pretty hard spot to throw it over the fronter, ideally you would reverse to the top and throw it over, again if they are denying that reversal and pressuring this gets difficult.True and that's where screening the post player open in a post isolation set can create the passing lane (cross screen and clear out). It doesn't need to necessarily be the PG that feeds the post. Find the mismatch whether it's Connor at PG or Wieskamp/Baer with a smaller guard on him and reverse/get them the ball to that wing for him to dump inside once Cook/Garza come off the cross screen and have either their man or the guy that switched to them on the screen one on one. If teams try to double off the cross screen, the wing player can reverse the ball to an open shooter as the perimeter should be spread out enough for somebody to be open for a 3.
Sure, but again the ball pressure can disrupt the timing of a play like that. Also if the defense is trying to deny the ball from getting into the post chances are they might just switch the cross screen and continue to front. From the wing it’s a pretty hard spot to throw it over the fronter, ideally you would reverse to the top and throw it over, again if they are denying that reversal and pressuring this gets difficult.
The problem is our team struggles mightily feeding the post, and that’s where the lions share of our turnovers seem to come from. That’s both on the passer and the post man.
The issue is a few teams have pressured the heck out of our guards and tried to front and side front Cook and Garza, and it has been extremely effective. If you don’t fear a guard going by you this is an effective strategy (That’s how UMKC gave us a game and Pitt).
1.47 Assist / Turnover ratioJBo has already forced a bunch of bad passes into the interior, which resulted in turnovers. What is his assist to T.O. ratio?
A loss to a mediocre ass WI team at home to kick things off just does not help the cause at all.