People wanted to avoid this because she's a woman, but..................it was noticeable.
Addie Deal enters transfer portal
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The other 3 may have destinations that are local to there home. Deal, not sure. Ain't in SoCal though. Roster make-up matters.
If we lose here we lose her. What was JJ supposed to do, play AD because she was scared she might lose future players.
Iowa is going to lose another rotation player who played this year in the next day or two. This isn’t good. Not with only 1 freshman coming in this class.
If it’s indeed Houston or Hays who leave next are people still going to defend Jan?
Wow, you want improvement. I don't care who the coach is, we will probably never see "improvement" over what we had when CC was here.
Her difficulties will be her body type. She has much more curves than a Caitlin Clark. Its not like you can just get rid of those. It will always affect her quickness.
Eh . . . This is the era of filling up in the portal - and they will have a lot of money to throw at the problem. Who is the other individual? Right now appears to just be rumor mill.
Swarmcast guys said that it was someone in the regular rotation. That’s Hays or Houston.
This is spot on. Nothing changed all year. Very little penetration from our guards other than Chit Chat. Settle for the 3 or force it into the post. 1 guard able to dribble while defended.
You really need to take a look at what's happening in college basketball these days. Teams are losing all kinds of players, men and women. This isn't and Iowa only thing.
I'll tell you what. Lets table this and see what happens in the portal, (both in and out), and what the team looks like next season. Especially if MW did back out, and see if its a big deal or not. Its funny when you look back all the games Deal played really well in she played at least 18 minutes and got comfortable. You can say what you want about earning playing time, but Jan botched managing Deal, and anyone who things she's not capable of ending up a really good player, I'll just disagree. As to who played instead of her in the games we lost, most all of the guards played like crap in most of those games, not just Deal. That sounds more like a systematic problem then it just being on one freshman player.
UCLA loses their entire starting lineup and a couple of rotational players. Gotta be the favorite. Who were her finalists?
Those are way different body types.
Sadly, it could be both. Houston did what was asked, not what she wanted. If she goes, that is a real bad message. She was a very committed recruit to this program. Hayes regressed and I never could understand why she did not go to Washington or Oregon.
Hate to say it, but could be looking like Tennessee, ISU and Indiana (last year) Complete rebuild. The UCLA game did more damage than I thought
True, BUT. We signed ONE player in the off season. We were already behind the eight ball needing to fill spots. It sounds like several other players will be heading out as well. Jan's got a lot of work in front of her, basically building a whole new team now....
If Addie had Taylors heart and grit it might be different. Jan said after bowing oit of the tourney that we need players that can make 3's. After McCann got hurt our perimeter game struggled.
I really question what you are looking at. 1. Deal is easily carrying 5-10 lbs more in each leg 2. Without getting too far into it, she is carrying much more weight in the torso area. Im not hear to be a misogynist or anything, her body type will be difficult to manage, for the type of game she wants to play. She naturally started putting on weight during the fall. I don't see this as something that is easily going to be changed.
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I’m guessing you have no real education or experience or background to support this. And “common sense” doesn’t come into play either considering other players with curves who have fared quite well. But it’s a heck of a theory.
MW can't back out. She's effectively locked in for a season is my understanding.
Bases on JJs postgame comments after VA…gotta be Houston. Almost positive.
How she plays and is utilized next year might be critical for the future of Iowa women’s bbball.
You are right, I have seen a kid that was extremely overweight absolutely fly around the basepaths. Easily the fastest player I have seen at his size in short bursts. In general though that is not the case. Deal wants to play a position that is naturally smaller players (lower bmi leads in general to more quickness). She wants to be a point guard when her quickness likely relegates her to a 3.
Say what you want - everyone saw what was going on this season. I was very up front about the quickness early on. Yes you can work on quickness and Handles, look at McCabe, even still you can only improve so much.
It’s not Jan’s fault a player didn’t pan out her Freshman year. She had a few shining moments but for a high 4 star or 5 star player her athleticism seemed very limited. She was from Cali and maybe just wants to get back to the west Coast and start over. She had a rough finish to the year. If she goes to another high major and blows up then yes, maybe we made a mistake. Kids come kids go.
Sure. Reasonable statement. But there’s a bigger picture that unfortunately will become even more troubling over the next 24 hours.It’s not Jan’s fault a player didn’t pan out her Freshman year. She had a few shining moments but for a high 4 star or 5 star player her athleticism seemed very limited. She was from Cali and maybe just wants to get back to the west Coast and start over. She had a rough finish to the year. If she goes to another high major and blows up then yes, maybe we made a mistake. Kids come kids go.
So what? Because they moved to Iowa she gets to play when she wasn’t ready? We played our best ball coming off Deal sitting after the West coast fiasco and moving Stremlow into the lineup. She probably would have had the inside position for the 3rd guard next year but obviously wasn’t happy. Who gives a **** if her bro plays at Grinnell?
Iowa generally has lost less players than other colleges. This is the mercenary level of athletics. I expect at some points more regulations will come into place. Its still the wild wild west.
Just saying her frosh year at Iowa is going to be super important for a lot of reasons. Another AD situation and I do think it’s gonna be hard for JJ to recover.
You have no idea what “bigger picture” means. Don’t be a simpleminded sports fan.
All of this matters. A lot.
If it’s Ava, Chit Chat, Houston, Stremlow or MW entering the portal or not coming to Iowa, we have major problems. Everyone else, it happens.
This isn't horrible in isolation but it's more disturbing coming off a season that ended the way it did as a possible canary in the coal mine.
It doesn't seem like there are any rules anymore. And frankly if she or her parents said we changed our minds, what could Jan do? Force her to come in, not wanting to be here?