Nixon’s effort is good, but dude doesn’t have feel for the game. His decision making was terrible late in the second half. Jackson and Grill both have a way better feel for the game as freshman.
Never as good or as bad as it seems. A case could be made that both Wigginton and THT should have returned to school. Prohm exhausted every resource possible to turn Lard around. Where is the team right now with a rotation of Haliburton, Wigginton, THT, Lard, Young, Conditt, Jacobson, Nixon? Prohm has arguably the best recruiting class ever on its way to campus. Give him a chance to turn it around for crying out loud.
Don't worry with his buy out clause csp will be given at least 2 more years to turn the mbb program around ...How in the Hell did Tx Tech get a coach like Chris Beard and we get stuck with Prohm....
Who? Don't say Naz or Matt Thomas. You could see the potential right away with those two, and they were still way better as freshman than the underclassmen ISU has now.
How would you rank these 3 freshman seasons?
Player A: 4.1 p/g, 1.4 a/g, 1.6 r/g, 35.5% from 3
Player B: 1.4 p/g, 1 a/g, .8 r/g, 27.8% from 3
Player C: 5.5 p/g, 1.1 a/g, 2.1 r/g, 33.6% from 3
It just seems to me that CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit to Ames to have prolonged success. The right coach for the job recruits the Midwest high schools and JUCOs first and foremost. Prohm and staff continuing to recruit guys from the Southeast (where they're from) - with no Midwest ties - is simply lazy and poor recruiting. That's why when those recruits get to Iowa for real, they are home sick and out of place. Fred, Larry, and Floyd all had success recruiting the Midwest high schools, JUCOs, and transfers. Canadians have even worked out well recently, It's all about the right fit, and it seems like CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit. Look at Campbell's recruiting (Midwest focus) vs. Rhoads (Florida/Texas/Cali) - the results are night and day - we've been down this road before - we need a Midwest guy with strong Midwest connections.
Who? Don't say Naz or Matt Thomas.
It just seems to me that CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit to Ames to have prolonged success. The right coach for the job recruits the Midwest high schools and JUCOs first and foremost. Prohm and staff continuing to recruit guys from the Southeast (where they're from) - with no Midwest ties - is simply lazy and poor recruiting. That's why when those recruits get to Iowa for real, they are home sick and out of place. Fred, Larry, and Floyd all had success recruiting the Midwest high schools, JUCOs, and transfers. Canadians have even worked out well recently, It's all about the right fit, and it seems like CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit. Look at Campbell's recruiting (Midwest focus) vs. Rhoads (Florida/Texas/Cali) - the results are night and day - we've been down this road before - we need a Midwest guy with strong Midwest connections.
It just seems to me that CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit to Ames to have prolonged success. The right coach for the job recruits the Midwest high schools and JUCOs first and foremost. Prohm and staff continuing to recruit guys from the Southeast (where they're from) - with no Midwest ties - is simply lazy and poor recruiting. That's why when those recruits get to Iowa for real, they are home sick and out of place. Fred, Larry, and Floyd all had success recruiting the Midwest high schools, JUCOs, and transfers. Canadians have even worked out well recently, It's all about the right fit, and it seems like CSP and staff don't understand the type of player they need to recruit. Look at Campbell's recruiting (Midwest focus) vs. Rhoads (Florida/Texas/Cali) - the results are night and day - we've been down this road before - we need a Midwest guy with strong Midwest connections.
The strength of this team next year will be our Bigs - Solo, George and Xavier but the weakness of this team is our coaching staff has no clue how to get two, let alone three of them on the floor at the same time.
lol, what? Say what you will about the coaching staff but they know enough not to put 3 centers on the floor at the same time.
I think Solo and Xavier will pair pretty well. XF has a little more outside ability so he can stretch the floor and not clog the paint for Solo. Really the only combination of these three that I can see not faring so well is the Solo/Conditt pairing. Spacing will be a real issue with those two playing together.
I don't think pairing any of them works well on the defensive end. And Foster has to adjust to shooting the college 3 so I don't that would work well yet either. Of course if he does come in and tear it up from 3 than that could work on offense but I think it would be a disaster on defense.
I don't think pairing any of them works well on the defensive end. And Foster has to adjust to shooting the college 3 so I don't that would work well yet either. Of course if he does come in and tear it up from 3 than that could work on offense but I think it would be a disaster on defense.
I would generally agree, but Solo has been switching a lot on defense lately and with all but good first step guards he has more than held his own, and he seems to have remarkably quick hands for as big as he is. Conditt on the other hand needs to improve his foot speed which is terrible.
Who? Don't say Naz or Matt Thomas. You could see the potential right away with those two, and they were still way better as freshman than the underclassmen ISU has now.