Eight flawed teams that are dangerous enough to win a title
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The number of long rebounds this year have been staggering.
Yes, that can skew the numbers a bit, but that's why you should block out when a shot is put up. Guards can rebound too.
Over the course of a season that's going to go back to the law of averages. Our lack of rebounding prowess is due to a multitude of reasons:
1. 4 guards on the floor. One of them is likely against someone a few inches taller than them playing a power forward type position.
2. We are a finesse team. We aren't going to out-muscle many teams for rebounds.
3. We are releasing guards for transition buckets when shots go up. We're willing to trade a few long boards for what we hope is more than a few transition buckets.
At least the conversation has switched from "we are not a bad rebounding team" to "why we are a bad rebounding team". I can agree with several of the explanations.
That's quite a stretch. When Moss was drilling contested threes, I can guarantee you he wasn't thinking "what do I have to lose, we're going to get the rebound anyway!". Some nights you have it, some nights you don't. That can be amplified in a rivalry game in front of your home crowd.
When you miss a three and it ends up a fast break bucket the other way your mind set is totally different the next time you shoot than if that same missed three results in a O rebound and dunk on your end.
They may not be actively thinking it in those terms but there is more of a carefree attitude. It really isn't any different than when a team gets up by 15 or so and the players feel so relaxed they just can't miss and it quickly becomes 25.
Yeah, I'm not buying that. Players play. They aren't thinking about those things.
Again I didn't say they were actively thinking about that detail but it contributes to their feeling and comfort level which very much affects the game and how well players play. Buy what you will...
I just keep thinking how great it would be to make the final four this year being in Minneapolis. Don’t care if I have the worst seat in US Bank Stadium, no way I’d miss that. Cyclone fans would take over Minneapolis.
I had access to a ticket to the FF and someone with a hotel room I could stay with in Indy in 2000 and was already going to be there for business right before the FF started. All I would have had to do was change my return flight. Unfortunately we all know what happened in Auburn Hills the weekend before.
I feel like this team is just like Hoiberg's last team. 2014-2015. Incredibly high ceiling (won Big 12 Tournament and could have won NCAA Tournament) but really low floor too (regular season losses to bad Tech/K-State teams and first round loss to UAB).
Honestly, you saw this happen a bunch last night in the women's game against Baylor...they killed us on both end rebounding. The offensive boards are killers in that it gives the opponent another (or 2) shot without having to go through transition. Give a team 2-3 opportunities and even a poor shooting team at 40% eventually makes a shot without you getting a chance to make your own.
Not to mention what it does to momentum. You defend well enough to force a miss and they get it right back and you are defending again. That happens a few times and they get more confident and you get less confident.
This is a terrible comparison though. Iowa State was in good position most of the night but just got beat on the boards by a much more lengthy and athletic team last night. I don't care how good Iowa State's technique or fundamentals were, Baylor kills them on the glass 10 times out of 10.
Not sure what the numbers are, but ISU has been hammered pretty bad on the boards when on defense. Seems like KU rebound about every other miss in the last game, maybe more. Part of that is playing several freshman that are just not strong enough to battle for rebounds. It doesn't help that the only really athletic big man is a foul a minute guy.
We are really poor at boxing out, minus Jacobsen. It's just not something emphasized by Prohm from what it appears on the floor. But we get a lot of transition buckets so maybe that makes up for it? We are awful at closing out on 3 point shooters, we love to run by them which allows them to get their own rebound. Again, maybe he wants our guys to run by them and be available for a quick bucket on the other end.
Yep, I posted this just so people could nitpick the team's deficiency.
Yep, that was the intent.
Yep, that was the intent.
