We have lived and died by the 3 ball for years now, no different this year. However, in the Drake game I saw some good things from May, Fuller, and Cole getting the ball inside and making good cuts to the hoop. Maybe losing Tucker will force the team to put more emphasis on inside play. We still have plenty of outside shooters, Gatens, Payne, who I think is underrated as a threat from 3, and of course D. Bawinkel. May and Fuller can both score from 3 too. I am not cheering the loss of Tucker, but teams do adapt and I'd like to hear what others think about potential positives from losing Tucker. On the bright side, I guess this ends the endless speculation about whether he was going to leave anyway.
what happens in the post-Tucker era?
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HawkeyeRyno
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What happens? We will suck even more! I'm saying it now and mark it down - the basketball team WILL have LESS wins than the football team! Count on it!! I predict 7-24 (although I don't know where those two wins come from) by seasons end. Last time football had more wins than basketball team - 1910. Advance congrats to Todd Lickliter on another dubious acheivement in the Iowa basketball record books.
Gohawks123
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Our shooting percentage immediately goes up.
Gohawks123
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What in Lick's recruit history leads you to believe we can sign a PG that will be any good...especially this late in the process?
ddiction
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He signed Cully Payne in April. You don't think he's any good?
DeputyHawk
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Hopefully it means an END to the Lick era!
Do you think he is a top 3 PG in the Big 10?
He's not great and he's not horsecrap.... He is a very average player. At this point Iowa needs more than average players.
hawkdoctor
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Tucker's loss is May's gain.
ddiction
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No, but he's just a freshman. Do you think he's no good? I was just responding to the question about whether Lick can get somebody who's any good this late in the process. Obviously he's shown that he can get somebody who's at least as good as what we already have, because Payne IS what we already have.
True he got him late in the game however if you keep getting players of his caliber it seems you are making lateral moves. I would personally like to get a player better than Cully Payne.
I don't care about him being a freshmen, there are some things he will not be able to do even when he is a senior.
Iowa does need a major boost in talent if they want to come out of the cellar of the Big 10. Bottom feeding teams make lateral moves while teams like Michigan St. make improvements.
ddiction
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Sure, I'd love to get somebody better than Payne too. Who's still out there that you think is better than Payne?
Hell if I know, they don't pay me to recruit..........
But I am sure there are players better than him out there.
It's not hard to rebuild a basketball program. You need 2 difference makers and put some solid players around them. You have a solid player in Gatens, you have a nice athletic guy in May who can improve based on his athleticism.
It should not be that hard to find two guys who are legit threats off the bounce if you are a BCS conference school.
clicheusername3
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All any player that is solid off the bounce needs to do is watch 5 minutes of any game and realize that Iowa is not the place for them to showcase their talents and have fun playing basketball.
ddiction
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This late in the game? You sure? The good players go quickly, and getting one means beating out the teams who have been in on the player since the beginning of his recruitment. The juco route is probably a more realistic option if we need backup PG help to tide us over until the next HS PG comes in, which would be presumably 2011. Otherwise we're more likely to end up stuck with a two-star kid for four years because that was the best one left on the boards that we had a shot at.
Gohawks123
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Cully is a fine player...but he's a role player...and on top of that has no business seeing the court against Big 10 teams his freshman year. We need a game changer....its tough to find one of those this late.
ddiction
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He's got more assists per game as a freshman than the starting PGs for four Big Ten teams while playing on the slowest-paced team in the conference (meaning fewer possessions per game and consequently fewer opportunities for assists).
