StinkyMcFadden gets it. Someone else commented that your FG% should be higher than your age . . . 
Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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Purdue always fields a very solid team. They have a good roster this year with two very good bigs, a very good small forward and a sharp shooter. If they get solid PG play, which remains to be seen, they can go a long ways.
I don't think Fran does a good job of working the officials. I goes from 0 to 11 too quickly. He needs to work up to his antics a little more slowly like Izzo and others do effectively.
Honestly it drives me crazy. My least favorite hawkeye player of all time is Aaron White. Absolutely couldn't stand watching him play. His entire game was just trying to draw fouls. Probably a perfectly nice dude just an embarrassing method of playing the game.
I dunno if it's a result of him working officials or not, but they do get a lot of fouls called for a team that really doesn't have anyone good at attacking the paint outside of the Murrays. But even Jorbo gets to the foul line more than any player on ISU
The guys who defend Connor playing baffle me. Okay, so he doesn't suck. On what good team would he play even half as many minutes?
I agree with that. It's more a comment on ISU. We have been on the losing end of calls more often than not and it seems to be our policy to not work the officials at all.
There's a significant number of vocal fans who want it to stay that way with no complaint.
Every game it seems, they have no class to just take the loss and move on. After a point there is no shame in just taking the L play the game out and let it end.
Another master is Bill Self.
I'm shedding a few alligator tears over that in your honor.
I just want to say to Jon Miller that Connor sucks as a basketball player, sucks as a baseball player, and sucks as a person. In fact, circus peanuts are probably his favorite candy.
Last night was a nice example. K. Murray with a blatant shove in the back to get an offensive board. Puts everything he has behind his shoulder into the thinning hair dude from Purdue's chest and knocks him over. Gets an and one, and all Fran and his dork squad on the bench are all screaming for the flop warning.
I don't know if Fran's constant antics make it better or worse, but Iowa gets constant weak ass fouls called in their favor all the time. I still think it's just the anti-Shaq factor. He got no calls because he was strong. They get lots of calls because they are frail and weak. I'll never stop to marvel how a team of college aged men can have such scrawny arms that also lack definition.
I could defend him when we had Garza, because even though you mock him for it, he was really good at feeding the post, which some players aren't good at. He also knew his role and didn't shoot much and played decent defense, decent rebounder for his size and was a good ball handler. This year's team, he has no role.
Maybe a Missouri St (Valley) type of team. He's been left open by defenses for years, he is zero threat offensively.
His first '22 comp on Kenpom is actually '21 Connor McCaffery, so it shows you that the passing to Garza thing is over rated.
Telling Signs
Besides the Murrays, we have no freaking talent. Someone refute me on this point. The other players play like they have a combination of Parkinson's and Huntington's Diseases. Why is recruiting so freaking pathetic? Perkins? Toussaint? Is one of the criteria to be recruited to Iowa that you have...iowa.forums.rivals.com
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" Is one of the criteria to be recruited to Iowa that you have 0 ball handling skills, and play out of control the whole freaking time? "
Actually, looking at guys like Aaron White and Flans' patented FAFD (flailing arms falling down) offense, I would guess that yes, that IS a recruiting criteria.
