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EvilMonkeyInTheCloset

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IowaCityLit said:
2 former Iowa players combined for 36 pts today for Wisky. Would be nice…
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Mallegni had 22 and Deal had 14 against *checks notes* Grambling State.

I'm sure they would've tipped the scales against UConn.

Speaking of which, you know who might've also helped............

Ajsa Sivka, a 6'4" guard who is currently playing at Kentucky. Made 8-12 from 3 against NC State today.

I say we make a trade with the Wildcats.

They can have our next three 1st Rd picks and we'll restock their vending machines for the next 5 years, and they give us Sivka so we can go win a national championship. 🙂
 
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Jonesy5960

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Dani was 0-7 from 3 point range tonight, 3-17 the last 2 games. She's shooting 21% from distance and in these first 3 games has put up 24 treys and sunk only 5. It's very early still, but you obviously can't have far and away your highest volume 3 point shooter hitting 21% of her shots. Today looks a whole lot different if Dani hits half of those.
 
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Anon1750875978

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Kceasthawk@77 said:
Me? Dude there is NO one here, (except your buddy) that thinks you give a damn about any of our teams. EVERY single post on the basketball or football forum, (especially this one) is negative. To be posting this same nonsense in the third game of the year with 6 out of nine players new to the team is ridiculous.
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Read the thread...there are more than two people, or however many you think are in the minority, that realize the current problems.
There were several that said this was JJ's strongest team in her three years.
It's early, but it looks like her weakest to date.
 
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citizenHawk1 said:
If Carnegie hits just 3 of her 3pt shots, it's a 3pt. game? I mean, that's at least something for perspective. Sarah Strong was unstoppable. It's UConn. They just need to grow from it, and continue forward with the understanding they will have to go small if Heiden is fouling.

Flush it.
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If CCW didn't turn the ball over at half time and Iowa scoring to end the half instead of UConn hitting a 3, we'd be looking at a 6 or 7 point loss.
 
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whynot? said:
Disagree, if they were napping, why did they have to take out 2 players, one was defenseless on a screen. Did you not think at the 3 minute mark of the first that the officials decided to take control. How bout McKenna blocking Strong 3 pointer only to get a foul called, then gets mugged on the rebound from behind, but ball oob’s 4 points there unearned?
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Now that call on McKenna really pissed me off. Plus I was really pissed they didn't show a close up replay, but that probably would have been too embarrassing for UConn for the network to allow.

Strong is already a great player plus she gets to be bailed out? Ridiculous :mad: .
 
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Scott559 said:
Now Mitch, Don’t get upset and use insults.
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On the bright side, Iowa fans won't have to worry about buying tix for a deep post season run if Jensen can't get things fixed.

3 pt shooting and relief for Heiden were priorities coming into the season.
Looks a bit sketchy right now.
 
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Kceasthawk@77

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Hawk14 said:
Ok, maybe I’m a little bias toward coaches after being in the business for 56 years but I get real sick and tired of this coach out coached some coach every time a team loses. I think today it was a matter of their two stars showing up big time and our two stars showing up for about 20 minutes. I’m not upset with anyone. If we are fortunate enough to play them again maybe it will be the other way around. Nobody tried to play poorly or coach poorly. It’s sports. Let’s move on to the next game.
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Geno hardly ever has to "out coach" anyone. With the exception MAYBE of S Carolina he has the best talent on the floor by a decent margin EVERY game.
 
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Kceasthawk@77

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Anon1750875978 said:
As you well know, there was no coaching search to replace Bluder.

If there had been one and three weeks later JJ is named...I'm ok with it.
That never happened.
Here we are..drubbed again by a good team.
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"Drubbed" Pretty close to the betting line, and WAY better than many predicted, and that was with Ava in foul trouble most the game, which is what happened to Strong at Michigan and why they lost.

Drubbed was #1 S Carolina beating #12 N Carolina on a neutral floor 84-39! A 45 point loss on an almost top 10 team.
 
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Kceasthawk@77

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Anon1751457816 said:
So Michigan beats uconn by about the same margin Iowa loses to uconn. Michigan was at home, Iowa on the road. What do we draw the the transitive property here. Michigan and Iowa about even?
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Biggest thing I'd take away is Strong was in foul trouble with THREE early ones and sat out most of the first half at Michigan, and never really got into a rythem. Iowa goes to Uconn and the same thing happens to Heiden and she's a non factor until the 4thQ when we outscore them by 9 or 10 points. Pretty big factor, don't you think?
 
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Kceasthawk@77

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Jonesy5960 said:
Dani was 0-7 from 3 point range tonight, 3-17 the last 2 games. She's shooting 21% from distance and in these first 3 games has put up 24 treys and sunk only 5. It's very early still, but you obviously can't have far and away your highest volume 3 point shooter hitting 21% of her shots. Today looks a whole lot different if Dani hits half of those.
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This in a nutshell, along with Ava's early fouls were the difference.
 
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Anon1750875978 said:
What do you think SCarolina would have done to Iowa today, dork?
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As usual your totally missing the point. (And maybe you should stop calling people names). The point is there's S Carolina, Uconn, and then a drop off to a few teams, and then another drop. You have two teams with pro rosters and legendary coaches, so they keep getting the same top classes.
 
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Anon1750875978

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Kceasthawk@77 said:
"Drubbed" Pretty close to the betting line, and WAY better than many predicted, and that was with Ava in foul trouble most the game, which is what happened to Strong at Michigan and why they lost.

Drubbed was #1 S Carolina beating #12 N Carolina on a neutral floor 84-39! A 45 point loss on an almost top 10 team.
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Chance at redemption vs Vandy next week.
 
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A couple of things. We were 15 pt underdogs at Uconn, and they were coming off a loss to Michigan. They lose 2 games in a row about every 10 years. So hopefully we do nothing but learn from this. I thought Chit Chat was great yesterday. Our biggest fear also unfortunately happened with Ava getting dumb fouls and then we have to move Woliczko to the 5 because no matter what anyone says Hays is still nowhere close to being ready to play in a game like this. I get that there's only so much money to throw around and we've gone out and put together a very very good roster, but as we know we have 1 key position we can't get into foul trouble. Ava just can't play 22 minutes against a top team or we are going to lose. While Carnegie was 0-7 from 3 she was 6-15 overall so I'd like to see her get to the midrange more. 6-8 not counting 3's. Strong is just unbelievable but we basically just let her get her shot from anywhere on the court. We rarely doubled her and just let her dominate. Plus we got dominated on the boards. On the bright side we hit 10 3's and like I said I thought Chit Chat was spectacular yesterday. And I thought our offense overall was pretty good.
 
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The Big Z said:
A couple of things. We were 15 pt underdogs at Uconn, and they were coming off a loss to Michigan. They lose 2 games in a row about every 10 years. So hopefully we do nothing but learn from this. I thought Chit Chat was great yesterday. Our biggest fear also unfortunately happened with Ava getting dumb fouls and then we have to move Woliczko to the 5 because no matter what anyone says Hays is still nowhere close to being ready to play in a game like this. I get that there's only so much money to throw around and we've gone out and put together a very very good roster, but as we know we have 1 key position we can't get into foul trouble. Ava just can't play 22 minutes against a top team or we are going to lose. While Carnegie was 0-7 from 3 she was 6-15 overall so I'd like to see her get to the midrange more. 6-8 not counting 3's. Strong is just unbelievable but we basically just let her get her shot from anywhere on the court. We rarely doubled her and just let her dominate. Plus we got dominated on the boards. On the bright side we hit 10 3's and like I said I thought Chit Chat was spectacular yesterday. And I thought our offense overall was pretty good.
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The Big Z said:
A couple of things. We were 15 pt underdogs at Uconn, and they were coming off a loss to Michigan. They lose 2 games in a row about every 10 years. So hopefully we do nothing but learn from this. I thought Chit Chat was great yesterday. Our biggest fear also unfortunately happened with Ava getting dumb fouls and then we have to move Woliczko to the 5 because no matter what anyone says Hays is still nowhere close to being ready to play in a game like this. I get that there's only so much money to throw around and we've gone out and put together a very very good roster, but as we know we have 1 key position we can't get into foul trouble. Ava just can't play 22 minutes against a top team or we are going to lose. While Carnegie was 0-7 from 3 she was 6-15 overall so I'd like to see her get to the midrange more. 6-8 not counting 3's. Strong is just unbelievable but we basically just let her get her shot from anywhere on the court. We rarely doubled her and just let her dominate. Plus we got dominated on the boards. On the bright side we hit 10 3's and like I said I thought Chit Chat was spectacular yesterday. And I thought our offense overall was pretty good.
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All good points. Like I said earlier, I'm not sure $ is the issue, I don't think we can get any really good big to come in and caddie for Ava if she gets in foul trouble. I'm assuming that Layla will have to pick it up or she'll be leaving at the end of the year with Hartwell coming in. There is NO reason to have a roster like a few years ago with Monica starting and then AOG, Goodman, and AJE all sitting on the bench.
 
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Kceasthawk@77 said:
All good points. Like I said earlier, I'm not sure $ is the issue, I don't think we can get any really good big to come in and caddie for Ava if she gets in foul trouble. I'm assuming that Layla will have to pick it up or she'll be leaving at the end of the year with Hartwell coming in. There is NO reason to have a roster like a few years ago with Monica starting and then AOG, Goodman, and AJE all sitting on the bench.
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A FREHMAN big coming in and contributing immediately??????
A current ranked #95????

You're an unserious person.
 
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Anon1750875978 said:
A FREHMAN big coming in and contributing immediately??????
A current ranked #95????

You're an unserious person.
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Anon1750875978 said:
A FREHMAN big coming in and contributing immediately??????
A current ranked #95????

You're an unserious person.
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Dude. Your one of the biggest Layla haters on here. Either she picks up her game THIS year, (and I hope she does) or I'm not sure she can stick on the roster. I'm not saying Jan will run her, but I think if she doesn't fill that role this year, she may be looking to hit the portal and move down if she has to. For the record, other sites have Hartwell as high as 40.
 
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Kceasthawk@77 said:
Dude. Your one of the biggest Layla haters on here. Either she picks up her game THIS year, (and I hope she does) or I'm not sure she can stick on the roster. I'm not saying Jan will run her, but I think if she doesn't fill that role this year, she may be looking to hit the portal and move down if she has to. For the record, other sites have Hartwell as high as 40.
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My comment was more that you implied Hartwell would be a contributor as a freshman.
High school centers rarely are a factor.
I made no negative remarks about Hays in that post.
 
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With Ava's tendency of getting into foul trouble early in games, why not bring her off the bench? Let her sit the first 6 or 7 minutes and then sub her in. Perhaps watching the flow of the game from the bench will be beneficial for her. Bottom line is getting just half a game from her due to her fouling has to be corrected before it starts costing us games as the competition gets better.
 
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Randon said:
With Ava's tendency of getting into foul trouble early in games, why not bring her off the bench? Let her sit the first 6 or 7 minutes and then sub her in. Perhaps watching the flow of the game from the bench will be beneficial for her. Bottom line is getting just half a game from her due to her fouling has to be corrected before it starts costing us games as the competition gets better.
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I'm not sure how guaranteeing her less minutes by holding her out is preferential to the potential loss of minutes due to foul problems. Many of her fouls are total head scratchers like reaching in for a ball that is already controlled by another player. It's a mental discipline issue that has gone on too long. She's a junior now and it's time to understand her importance to the team and the need to exercise some impulse control in regards to reaching for balls. I still have hope that she figures this out but I also know that taking her out of the lineup is not the answer.
 
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I am probably in the minority but I hate the coaching rule “two fouls and a player sits in the first half”. I feel teams lose valuable minutes from star players sitting in the first half. Many times they don’t pick up more than a foul or two the rest of the game. I believe the best way for players to discipline themselves is to learn how to player in foul trouble. I can see the two foul rule if you have a fairly equal replacement. Often with the star player out a team digs a hole to big to climb out of. Do my thoughts backfire, occasionally but I didn’t go home upset that I could have had my star on the floor 6 to 10 minutes more.
 
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Hawk14 said:
I am probably in the minority but I hate the coaching rule “two fouls and a player sits in the first half”. I feel teams lose valuable minutes from star players sitting in the first half. Many times they don’t pick up more than a foul or two the rest of the game. I believe the best way for players to discipline themselves is to learn how to player in foul trouble. I can see the two foul rule if you have a fairly equal replacement. Often with the star player out a team digs a hole to big to climb out of. Do my thoughts backfire, occasionally but I didn’t go home upset that I could have had my star on the floor 6 to 10 minutes more.
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I hate that rule too. The game was effectively over by the time Ava returned.
 
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Jonesy5960 said:
I hate that rule too. The game was effectively over by the time Ava returned.
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Geno explicitly said he blames himself for their Michigan loss due to him NOT sitting Sarah in the first half when she was in foul trouble

It's easy after the fact to say that a coach should have played a player or should have sat a player

Hindsight is 20/20 regarding Ava
And in that case wrt to Sarah

Coaches make the best decision they can given their knowledge of their team...sometimes it doesn't work out
 
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SimonaMeow said:
Geno explicitly said he blames himself for their Michigan loss due to him NOT sitting Sarah in the first half when she was in foul trouble

It's easy after the fact to say that a coach should have played a player or should have sat a player

Hindsight is 20/20 regarding Ava
And in that case wrt to Sarah

Coaches make the best decision they can given their knowledge of their team...sometimes it doesn't work out
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Ok. I will never agree with that philosophy and Geno shouldn't be so hard on himself. He did exactly what he should have done. 😉
 
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Interesting that Strong and J.Cambridge both picked up 2 fouls in the first period. Geno sat Strong while McGuff left Cambridge in. They both both finished with 2 fouls so it doesn't prove anything about whether to sit or play with 2 fouls. I've always believed in trusting your best players to play smart but what do I know?
 
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