WBB: **** No. 18 Iowa State vs. No. 21 Iowa - 8:00 PM FS1 GAME THREAD ****

qwerty

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We are not a quality shooting 3 point team, TO tonight and missed free throws were the difference tonight. Girls played hard, but getting Brown into foul trouble so early in the game, meant she was sitting almost the entire 3rd quarter. EIU started 4 seniors and 1 junior, compare to the age of ISU tonight, we will be stronger and better next season.
That was the storyline last year too.
 

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Audi is an elite offensive player one on one on the block. She is poor every other facet. She ruins your entire defense.

She's definitely talented but she isn't at this point in time a generational talent unless S&C can work a miracle and she can transform like Niang did.

Exactly. She can’t play defense and can barely rebound. It’s brutal to watch.
 

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Until other players step up and score this team is cooked. Audi can get her 30 but then where does the rest of the scoring come from.
 
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We are not a quality shooting 3 point team, TO tonight and missed free throws were the difference tonight. Girls played hard, but getting Brown into foul trouble so early in the game, meant she was sitting almost the entire 3rd quarter. EIU started 4 seniors and 1 junior, compare to the age of ISU tonight, we will be stronger and better next season.
No other coach in the country would have sat Brown the entire 3rd qtr. None!
 

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Sit Bill down with Zach Edey tape. It was never 20 seconds of straight post ups. He was at the high post and setting screens constantly then rolling into the post. You can’t just do straight post ups every time.
Audi able to do that for 30+ minutes a game?
 

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Until other players step up and score this team is cooked. Audi can get her 30 but then where does the rest of the scoring come from.
Well typically alot of it comes from the girl Bill parked on the bench for 2/3rds of the game…
 

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We’ve seen this act before. Just move the ball. Unfortunately lazy turnovers have cost us from having a substantial lead. Point guards here have a history often times dribbling out the clock and then shooting a low percentage shot before time runs out. Idk.

We’ve lost 9 of last what 11 games. ☹️
I taped it but didn't need the frustration. Same ol same ol. Go Cyclones.
 
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She's definitely talented but she isn't at this point in time a generational talent unless S&C can work a miracle and she can transform like Niang did.
I really thought this would happen in this past off-season and if anything she's the same or bigger.
 

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Hard not to feel like this one was on the coaching staff. We don't really seem to have much of a plan offensively. I need to go back and watch again, but it seemed like Iowa reversed the floor on offense at least six times for every time we did it once.

If Bill is going to force-feeding Audi the ball on offense, we could at least do it in a way that makes sense by allowing her to re-post and try to get better positioning or different spots on the floor with simple ball reversals. The formula seems so simple with Audi in the middle, surrounded by shooters who are ready to fire on kick-outs, but we just can't figure it out. It's just so frustrating because it seems like we're so close. We even shot well from three, but everyone seemed scared to shoot. UGH!
 

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Emily was absolutely careless with really weak passes but much of that is Bill's offense of everyone standing and try to force it down low to Audi. If Addy Brown played in another system she would be a force. We run nothing to isolate her and absolutely no cutting/back screening or motion on offense. Lack of athletic defenders really cost us at the end. And why does he sit Addy the whole 3rd quarter and then expect her to be in any sort of flow. Love what Bill has done for the program but that offense is so easy to defend by simple overplaying the perimeter..