The Athletic listed the top players in the women's transfer portal, 3 of the top 5 were from ISU, Audi was #1, and the other two were ranked 3 and 4.
Audi Crooks to Transfer
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Man imagine a team having the #1, #3, and #4 transfer on one team! They would a force to be reckoned with.
I took that bait last season and kind of the season before that.
There's little doubt that defense was part of the issue but. I don't agree that we ran the correct offense. We could have run tons more plays for people not named Audi Crooks. It would have helped us be tougher to gameplan for, given our 3 point shooters more confidence and helped everyone play better defense as well.
I just am not sure what could have been done. They all want more money, probably won’t make the WNBA or if they do won’t make a lot anyway. They gotta take the money now. And for women’s basketball at Iowa State, at least for now, you aren’t paying 3 players close to 2m. ISU shouldn’t pay that, and if the girls can make a lot more elsewhere, they should take it.
For good or bad we avoided that problem for next season.
Our million dollar coaching staff should have been able to figure out something to make that work. Along with a defense that didn't look like a matador in the bull ring.
You don't receive the CALS news letter? Have you ever been in the alumni association? I'm a lifetime AA member so I've always received CALS stuff along with the alumni magazine.
Well if their rankings are accurate it would seem we've underachieved the last couple of seasons.
Sometimes the parts don’t make a better whole
You do realize she was the fourth leading rebounder in the conference?
And Owen Freeman was the number one transfer in the men’s portal last year. Sometimes writers just don’t know.
I get that stats are stats BUT I attended games (I realize you did too) and the number of rebounds don't accurately reflect the effort. Sometimes if you are standing under the basket, the ball will just fall into your hands. The original post said "going after rebounds" which rarely happened so let's not keep referring to stats to defend effort...
Also have to check how many were mebounds
People say Crooks never got any help offensively from the guards. Maybe the guards were just dog-tired from playing 4-on-5 defense for 40 minutes and tired legs affected their shots. Like how we "ran out of gas" vs TCU.
Yes she is 6'3 and was very good at cleaning up the boards on the offensive end. I am talking about when she would just be standing around flat footed on the defensive end and then was very slow to react and go get rebounds after opponents missed shots. I don't know if it was fatigue but there were times there seemed to be very little effort in going and getting the ball on the defensive end.
I get the CALS news letter and the association’s newsletter (lifetime member as well). What I’m referring to is from the ISU Foundation specifically- I typically donate to the We Will Fund, MBB Support Fund, Animal Science Department and Meats Team- those are the entities tied to the foundation I don’t ever hear anything from
True. I feel like we did get to see them fit together nicely, at least in the noncon. They were moving the ball around and the big 3 all had their nights where each had a big game.
I’m not sure what happened, but conference season hit and that stopped happening and the defensive problems came home to roost at the same time.
Agree 100%. They looked like a very dangerous team in the non-conference. Injuries hit and of course threw the team for a loop. Was a weird cycle.
