Seemingly never ending Iowa MBB thread (still going.....)
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I am confident this team can get to 14 wins! I will even say they have 15 in them!
My whole point is, yeah, I think we are better than Iowa, but sometimes we sure as hell arent playing like it. We have 6 seniors, sometimes we look like we could beat anybody, sometimes we look downright awful.
I just dont think its fair to bash Iowa without taking a critical look at ourselves, yeah their conference sucks, espeically at the bottom, but they have been playing well and are fun to watch most of the time. I cant always say the same for our team.
I actually think they are overacheiving, I thought they would win maybe 10-12 games and 3-4 in the Big Ten when I saw them play early in the season.
So you are confident with what youve seen this year compared to years past that we will easily take care of business in our last 4 home games?
We are very fortunate to get out of the Tech and K-State home games with a win. I think we beat Oklahoma, but man its going to be meltdown city around here when we lose to someone else at home this year.
There is a good reason you feel that way this year, the bottom feeders of the Big 12 are all pretty strong teams.
The beauty of low expectations. You were expecting a **** sandwhich but it was just garbage, Wohoo!
I worry for the drama queens when ISU actually has a season where they're pretty average.
We have to be realistic and say we might lose to Baylor. We can beat them but it won't be easy. I think we will win at TT and KSU is certainly beatable on the road. So I see at least 4 more wins and maybe more. Easily gets us into the tournament.
They are in the exact situation this year that we will be in next year, losing a bunch of 4 year players and breaking in a bunch of freshman. So if we start off 14-10 next year thats considered a **** sandwich?
We won 7 conference home games last year by an average of 10 points.
We have played 5 and won 3 by an average of 7 points.
So yeah until I see some bum roll in here and mop the floor with us I am going with 3-1 the last 4.
I think if we can get to 9-9 we will make it easily. The conference is too tough and I dont see any teams getting above .500 except the top 3. I just wish we wouldnt have laid a complete egg against Texas. That would have given us 7 wins and we could have probably started talking about our seeding the for the tourney at that point instead of how many more games we need to win.
I expect a hell of a lot more out of ISU next year considering they'll still be far more talented than Iowa is this year.
Iowa is garbage this year, the only way to be happy about their season is to set extraordinarily low expectations like yourself and the other hawks that have posted as much here. We joke about them making the NIT, but surely the NIT doesn't touch teams as bad as Iowa. I wouldn't know being as it's been a very long time since I've had to pay attention the NIT selection committee.
14-10 in overall playing in the Big 12 is much greater than 14-10 in the worst power 5 conference in America.
Lol, thats just your hatred towards Iowa talking. Honestly, we have no idea what we are even getting next year. Star ratings dont mean anything until they actually step on the floor. Im going to reserve judgement until I actually see our 2017-18 team play.
No, it's a mixture of results and ratings talking. Which is all we have to go off of right now, and ISU will be far more talented based on it. But again we're back to only being able to judge teams based on your eyeballs. And I'm the biased one right?
I really think we overanalyze this years team. We have an extremely talented team with two amzing players. Problems to me are we are undersized and also seem to have problems with effort and focus at times. Since we are undersized w basically have no inside game or rim protection on defense. If we are hitting threes and are focused we can beat about anyone home or away. If the shots aren't falling we have a good chance of losing.
My hope is we get on a roll when tourney starts and the shots are falling. This can be a frustrating team to watch at times but they are our team. In the future it would be nice to have more options on offense with more size and frontcourt skill. We need to remember that we hit 18 threes in the KU game, that doesn't happen often.
My hope is we get on a roll when tourney starts and the shots are falling. This can be a frustrating team to watch at times but they are our team. In the future it would be nice to have more options on offense with more size and frontcourt skill. We need to remember that we hit 18 threes in the KU game, that doesn't happen often.
I love how people say Iowa is young and "talented" because they beat bottom dwellers like Rutgers, Nebraska, and Ohio State. I still can't comprehend how we lost to them, but we just weren't ready to play that night. Iowa is absolute trash. They are never going to be good under Fran. They will always be looked at as "having potential". Getting out of the first round of the NCAA tournament should be the high water mark they hold a parade for. They will never get any higher than that as long as lunatic Fran is the coach.
A friend of mine over in Eastern Iowa said Connor doesn't play defense. He will fit right in with the rest of them and they will continue to be mediocre or worse.
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