I rewatched the entire game last night in slow-motion (extremely painful)
here are just a few thoughts what do you think?
In the first half Iowa's defense was below average but Bohannons 3 points and excellent play by Moss kept us in the game.
The real fun started the second half.
If you watch the first few min Iowa came out fighting very hard.
There is a segment where Jok played the best defense I have ever seen him play his hands were so active.(go back and watch you will be blown away)
Indiana was uptempo the game and Iowa matched it.
After about two min you could see Jok and Bohannon were exhausted. At this point a great screen was set and Jok had an open look for a 3 and came up short. His exhaustion was showing. If i was coaching I would of pulled Jok out and Jordan and put in williamson and Uhl both great defensive players and tell them to up the physicality and foul if necessary to take Indiana out of their game. This would have given the rest Jok and Jordan needed while Indiana's starters would be subjected to a more physical game by Iowa.
Instead not even a time out was called. Indiana got a steal and Bohannon chased downcourt and faked a foul where he didn't even touch the Indiana player yet foul called anyway. That was the turning point of the game.
Indiana's guards could not miss so Iowa should have changed the tempo of the game and call timeouts earlier.
Jok should have been pulled out as he was exhausted. bear was having a terrible game yet Kreiner was having a great defensive game why not pull out Bear much earlier in the second half and use Kreiner to play physical defense?
Finally if you go back and watch when Jok was finally taken out. The play is stopped the official turns away and as Jok is walking towards the bench the Indiana player just lowers his shoulder and pops Jok. How is that not a technical?
Even the commentator said "the timeout should have been called several possessions ago" after Iowa finally called a timeout.
Iowa up to this point had done a great job of playing a lot of players to wear down opposition why change what was working?
What do you guys think?
here are just a few thoughts what do you think?
In the first half Iowa's defense was below average but Bohannons 3 points and excellent play by Moss kept us in the game.
The real fun started the second half.
If you watch the first few min Iowa came out fighting very hard.
There is a segment where Jok played the best defense I have ever seen him play his hands were so active.(go back and watch you will be blown away)
Indiana was uptempo the game and Iowa matched it.
After about two min you could see Jok and Bohannon were exhausted. At this point a great screen was set and Jok had an open look for a 3 and came up short. His exhaustion was showing. If i was coaching I would of pulled Jok out and Jordan and put in williamson and Uhl both great defensive players and tell them to up the physicality and foul if necessary to take Indiana out of their game. This would have given the rest Jok and Jordan needed while Indiana's starters would be subjected to a more physical game by Iowa.
Instead not even a time out was called. Indiana got a steal and Bohannon chased downcourt and faked a foul where he didn't even touch the Indiana player yet foul called anyway. That was the turning point of the game.
Indiana's guards could not miss so Iowa should have changed the tempo of the game and call timeouts earlier.
Jok should have been pulled out as he was exhausted. bear was having a terrible game yet Kreiner was having a great defensive game why not pull out Bear much earlier in the second half and use Kreiner to play physical defense?
Finally if you go back and watch when Jok was finally taken out. The play is stopped the official turns away and as Jok is walking towards the bench the Indiana player just lowers his shoulder and pops Jok. How is that not a technical?
Even the commentator said "the timeout should have been called several possessions ago" after Iowa finally called a timeout.
Iowa up to this point had done a great job of playing a lot of players to wear down opposition why change what was working?
What do you guys think?
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