HaydenHawk56
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Just horrible, horrible defense. Getting poster dunked on by Penn St over and over again. Pathetic.
Yes they do. Lick's team's weren't good but they had better Guards than we do right now.No, I don't think it does. Iowa has nobody on the court that would be getting much playing time for Penn State. And PSU is a NIT team.
Lick's first 2 teams were 4th and 5th in PPG allowed, I believe. They would have smothered this team in the half court. His last team might have lost to this one.Lick's last team wouldn't beat anybody, but his first two would be competitive games. I think the second one would beat us right now. Peterson at point, Kelly and Gatens as shooters, Tate and Cole in the post, with Bawinkel and Fuller off the bench. Tate would have Cook in foul trouble two minutes into the game with his post move savvy. Kelly basically is Bohannon in a lot of ways so they'd balance each other out. If Anthony Tucker is actually playing, that team wins for sure, but I'm not counting him.
Especially along side Gatens and Peterson in the same back court. It's too bad they had absolutely nothing in the front court. I think I could have got more out of David Palmer than Lickliter did., however.Jake Kelly could score 35 on this team
Lick's first 2 teams were 4th and 5th in PPG allowed, I believe. They would have smothered this team in the half court. His last team might have lost to this one.
Mostly right but Iowa has usually 4 if tge slowest players on the court. Lack of speed is why most werent highly recruited.I don’t see the defensive issues as “slow-footed” at all...I see terrible fundamentals and a complete lack of awareness. We stand straight up..no defensive posture at all. We don’t use our hands to disrupt sight lines of the guy with the ball or to get in the passing lanes. We play up in guys who can drive and hang back off of shooters. We scramble when out of position and hall ass out to the ball out of control, letting the guy easily drive by. Defenders constantly run into each other. We show no knowledge of how to properly play pick and rolls or on-ball screens. Our frontline ALWAYS gives up baseline...never funneling back to the middle where the help is. On switches, we CONSTANTLY end up with two guys on the ball which inevitably leaves a man completely free.
In other words, it looks like we devote maybe 10 mins of practice time to defense...which backs up what a former starter under Fran has claimed...
Good coaches would create defensive game plans that mitigate issues with speed/quickness. But when you’re dead fucking last in ppg allowed in all power 5, it’s more than just quickness that’s the issue...Mostly right but Iowa has usually 4 if tge slowest players on the court. Lack of speed is why most werent highly recruited.