She’s another player I expected to develop more. Obviously a lot of personal stuff she’s dealing with.
But she had flashes as a frosh that made me think she could develop into a reliable shooter/scorer for Iowa. Decent size too.
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But she had flashes as a frosh that made me think she could develop into a reliable shooter/scorer for Iowa. Decent size too.
Yeah but outside of Ava and Chit-Chat (who aren't leaving), none of the others "transferring" are significant blows to the future of the program, at least from a perception standpoint................
UClA is losing a roster. They will be beating down a lot of doors. Depends on how much money they have.
Wow it’s Callie Levin who is leaving.
I’m saying she was brought in for that. We didn’t have anyone capable of driving once she quit. I don’t know how successful she would have been but she was the only hope.
I didn’t really see anything out of Deal that made me think playing style was holding her back from shining. She’s not very quick.
I also think it’s a bit ironic if the Deals are upset on what JJ sold the program as. I could say the same thing the other way. I’m sure Iowa thought it was getting an immediate impact player and probably paid her as such. Instead we got a normal 3* recruit.
To the people saying we can’t lose 5* players, it doesn’t sound like it came down to money but if a 5* recruit gets paid 5* money and doesn’t perform, should you keep overpaying them. They probably aren’t eager to take a pay cut.
I was hoping she would be similar to Warnock, seemed to have a bit more bounce and length despite them being the same height. Warnock could get hot from 3, Mallegni is apparently only lights out in practice.
Good player….but overrated out of HS. Not athletic enough to be a high level D1 player.
Could be a solid role player in the right program though.
Could be a solid role player in the right program though.
It doesn’t matter who we get or don’t get next year. You play for this year, not next year. AD was not as good as expected. Maybe next year she’ll be better but that’s next year.
The only thing missing from this thread is a few posters blaming other posters and saying one of the contributing factors to Deal leaving was fans saying negative or critical things about players!
Maybe it's already been said or insinuated?
Maybe it's already been said or insinuated?
This is the life we all need to get used to with NIL.
Levin surprised me, I thought she'd be content to be depth off the bench at Iowa. Guessing she could walk in and start in Ames, but sure hope she doesn't.
Entitled player who expected to either start or play major minutes in big games despite consistently making bad passes and turning the ball over in key moments in big games Lights were too bright for her here, unless they’d have let her spot up and do nothing but shoot. Maybe she’ll land at a spot where they just need a shooter and not a ball handler? She could be decent in a system like that.
No shooters in the guard court. They played the hand they had, which was to get the ball low. Quit pretending they weren't 27-7 (and projected 5th in the conference).
Jan’s offense is hot garbage. I can guarantee you not a lot of girls will want to play rainbow pass to the post and hope you don’t turn it over offense.
Me and you must just see the game differently. I disagreed with you on Deal being underutilized and I feel the opposite on Mallegni. When she came in as a frosh, I feel like she was chucking up 3s like she had Peter Jok accuracy but would miss them all. Looked up her 3pt percentage to confirm: 23% last yr, 15% this yr.
I wonder how much of that is that we have an elite center in Ava and didn’t have great guard play. JJ did say she wanted Chat to shoot more. I was super frustrated with some of the forced passes to the post but didn’t help in the tourney when our guards couldn’t make a shot.
I know the tourney is what matters in college basketball but people seem to forget we were a top 10 team this year, #2 in B1G. Clearly something was working.
JJ built the roster with no guard depth and shooters. She overachieved with a roster she put together.
Gonna have to do it again next year after missing out on big time guard recruits.
Super-hyped from high school and doesn’t see a starting role for two years. Don’t blame her for leaving to fulfill her dreams, but don’t think we will miss her in the least. Win-win for everyone.
Losing Emely was a far bigger deal than losing Taylor even though that effectively ended our legitimate ability to space the floor with a reliable 3 pt shooter.
Everything we did after that was smoke and mirrors and Jan and her staff deserve credit for that.
But you can also mitigate that with guards that can break down a defense, force help and find the open teammate. Chit Chat certainly has the ability, but the lack of size against the tall trees will always impact her effectiveness, and it was very evident towards the end of the season.
Emely had a little more size and aggressiveness attacking the basket. Her problem was that she couldn't reel it in so that her aggressiveness didn't become a detriment. And Jan also needed to be able to do a better job of being able to reel that in as well.
Unfortunately, we probably won't get to see if that'll play out because I expect Emely to be another one of the transfers.
Easy- defense. And no I am not related. You get mad because I knock down rumor mill crap. FYI- I’ve been watching wbb regularly since 2002-2003. First off was in the pep band. I was effectively relegated to the wbb gigs and enjoyed it.
I could argue Remmerde was as a big a name back in the day. We use to joke about AIRBAG and Iowa WBB ACL’s. One year 3 or 4 players with tears. This was like a decade long issue. Those teams would bounce around, would have a pop up season. Then around, 2015 Bluder really seemed to find herself. Bluder had lots of years to experiment and figure it out. By all standards Jan has done amazing for her 1st 2 years.
Emely has skills, She didn’t have a good grasp on how to play team oriented basketball, She sure could have used a full season to develop vs the 6 games she played in.
A. Two things can be true.........
B. Perception is reality until you play the games, and unfortunately, you can't solely bring in recruits based on the play of the games, otherwise we would've done EVEN MORE with the success of the CC era in terms of attracting recruits/transfers.
There's a BIG f***ing reason top recruits, especially of color, weren't simply jumping through steel walls to come play at Iowa so that UConn and South Carolina and other "money" programs didn't keep dominating the sport (and no, Lisa retiring/Jan taking the job wasn't a major factor).
Oh no, she absolutely will be. That is our curse in life as Iowa fans...........
Yeah it was in spurts. But again she was also a frosh and didn’t play much at all 2nd half of the season. Gotta develop these types of players. Or what’s the point? Either a development issue or an evaluation issue. At least for guards.
She could certainly start for a lesser program. Sometimes that's more important for kids that simply want to play, than being bench players with restricted minutes for the remainder of their time in college.
She reminds me of Hailey Van Lith. I guess we'll see how good she gets. I wish she had stayed but oh well.
There's more to developing players than putting them in games. I know JJ can work with centers, but I'm not sure how she does with guards. We'll find out.
I think she may be overrated there as well. Maybe Ava is just damn good.
Hannah was a warrior but never developed an offensive game at all these last couple of years.
Ans Layla really struggled all year.
I think JJs development of players in general is still a huge question mark.
You lost me a bit on your last part here. Why weren’t we able to bring in big recruits?
JJ development of players goes way back, not just the last two years.
There have been a lot of unfortunate misses, though the players on the team are primarily Bluder's last class. Why Iowa couldn't get elite players to play with Clark is the issue there. Jensen came in, gets some credit for retaining anyone, half credit for Olsen & Deal, full credit for Hays, Houston, Wright, Rodriguez, Woliczko, (and Seubert).
If you blame Jensen about missing on elite recruits, you aren't being very clear-eyed about how this era is going to work.
I think the point is really interesting, especially considering the animosity CC received in the WNBA.
But Iowa isn’t the only school struggling in that regard.
Well then perhaps she’s delegating too much development as a head coach.
I don't know, you admitted that Ava has developed into a nice player. And Ava didn't play much last year.