They both played last night.Yes, I’m praying that was the strategy Otherwise, I’m sure they spend their time on the bench entering the transfer portal.
They both played last night.Yes, I’m praying that was the strategy Otherwise, I’m sure they spend their time on the bench entering the transfer portal.
Are you surprised? We're 12-20 with our only two wins out of out last seven games being Northwestern.This is disheartening -
Michigan, Purdue and Michigan State may feel differently.This might be our toughest match up in the tourney. Beat Iowa = Big Ten Championship.
Michigan, Purdue and Michigan State may feel differently.
There is a nice sense of schizophrenia reading their boards; I think the fan attitude breaks down roughly like this:
50% casual fan disenchantment ... just done and assume they will lose to literally anyone without thinking much about the opponent
35% "we suck, but we'll obviously beat ILLANNOY!!!! We haves fans ins Chicagos!"
10% true depression, talking about firing Fran and how no one good would even want to come take his place at Iowa
5% absolutely, 100% convinced that they will destroy us by as much as they did in Iowa City
This might be our toughest match up in the tourney. Beat Iowa = Big Ten Championship.
All of my friend/colleague B1G alums from other schools are, as well. It’s a delight.
Or maybe we can avoid OT by making the bunny in bounds layup? One thing I really liked about the game yesterday was how the announcers said BU was all smiles after Feliz missed the potential game winner (and the rest of the team was very positive). But you know, BU is the most hard nose, yell in your face coach to ever walk the earth. But Feliz isn't the only one who misses those kinds of layups, this team needs to be practicing layups 25 hours a day this offseason.
Giorgi must be quite a scouting report.
In summary: :noidea:
GB is going to have a tough night. Cook and Garza are no slouches.
In the famous words of Ty Webb, don't kid yourself sir, you are a tremendous slouch
Trent and Ayo need to hit there threes if we wanna keep pace with Iowa.
Partial side note, why does it seem like we've gotten way fewer turnover compared to even 10 games ago? I haven't really seen that much change in defensive philosophy, is it tired legs, or did BU call off the dogs?
Adding to this, Ill defense tends to double and leads to rotations when the ball gets out of the double. Iowa has better numbers for assists in conference, and better passing teams will Hurt this style. Need to stop unnecessary doubling and play man up. That’s what it appears teams do to us; stop the drive with one defender, then no one is open because rotations are not needed.When you look at the stats, this is a terrible match up for us. In three games vs UFI, Underwood’s Illini teams have given up an average of 98 points. Garza is averaging 20 and shooting an other-worldly percentage, including 100% on FT’s (14-14 I believe). Bohannon is 15-25 on 3PA. Basically, they’ve taken us to the woodshed.
It will be interesting to see what we do defensively. Even though Iowa has struggled, this is almost the perfect get right game for them. They aren’t particularly strong but they are really skilled, multi-tool players at nearly every spot which causes us huge problems. We need guys that are offensively challenged to cheat off of, and they don’t have those for us to take advantage of.
I’ll watch and be hopeful, but my realistic side says this will be ugly, especially if we get into another track meet with them.
Definitely agree. I think this is something he will learn/ work on over the summer. Guessing it will be more of concept learning, understanding where to go with the ball depending on where the double comes from and play call. He’s patient and keeps his dribble alive, and apparently loved to pass in high school, so it appears he has desirable traits to make it work. This would completely open up the three/ cause rotational defense and lead to open shots.Giorgi really needs to learn when to pass out of the double. He does some amazing things in the post but it encourages him to take bad shots sometimes. Needs to develop some judiciousness- will really help our whole offense when that happens.
Giorgi will get doubled and they will dare the rest to beat them. Ayo, Trent, and somebody else will have to show tonight or we'll get thumped.
Looked like Pardon for a clean block. I was laughing at the replay looking at kipper, he was either a decoy screen or pulled a Mattis. Didn’t look at the replay twice. If Giorgi was there pardon may have hesitated, stayed with Giorgi and layup good???Or maybe we can avoid OT by making the bunny in bounds layup? One thing I really liked about the game yesterday was how the announcers said BU was all smiles after Feliz missed the potential game winner (and the rest of the team was very positive). But you know, BU is the most hard nose, yell in your face coach to ever walk the earth. But Feliz isn't the only one who misses those kinds of layups, this team needs to be practicing layups 25 hours a day this offseason.
I think the coach has called off the dogs. I don't see the full-court pressure continuously or the pressure out top like we have seen in the past. Maybe it only seems that way, but that is what it looks like to me.Trent and Ayo need to hit there threes if we wanna keep pace with Iowa.
Partial side note, why does it seem like we've gotten way fewer turnover compared to even 10 games ago? I haven't really seen that much change in defensive philosophy, is it tired legs, or did BU call off the dogs?
If coach plans to play more than 2 games this week that's a necessity to keep some semi-fresh legs if they're needed on Friday. I think that's why we saw so much TU last night.I think the coach has called off the dogs. I don't see the full-court pressure continuously or the pressure out top like we have seen in the past. Maybe it only seems that way, but that is what it looks like to me.
Adding to this, Ill defense tends to double and leads to rotations when the ball gets out of the double. Iowa has better numbers for assists in conference, and better passing teams will Hurt this style. Need to stop unnecessary doubling and play man up. That’s what it appears teams do to us; stop the drive with one defender, then no one is open because rotations are not needed.
If we wanted a good shot we’d sit in that zone and pack it in a bit trying to make them shoot contested jumpers over the top. If we guard m2m, we are going to get caught in those slow rotations and they’ll get wide open threes or easy driving lanes.
I think we're going to pressure them as we normally do. Last outing against us they did fork up 15 turnovers and I think the game would have been a lot closer had they not gone bezerk from deep. I do hope if they come out hitting shots that we revert to something else.