BLUM: Believe the Hoiball hype

[NWICY]

Dang it Blum you've filled me with so much Kool Aid, I feel like I'm going to explode.

 

[CRcyclone6]

This is making my type 2 diabetes worse. Up the metformin dose DR!!

 

[Cycsk]

It's hard to be "win it all good" with that mediocre of a defense. Of the last 44 Final Four participants, only one (2011 VCU) ended its season with a defense outside of the top 50.

It's hard to win multiple games in a row without being fairly decent at getting stops, especially because you never know if your team's shots are going to fall in those big games in weird arenas.

Aren't we known for winning unconventionally?

 

[deadeyededric]

If Monte Morris has a great sophomore season this team will go a long ways!

 

[bawbie]

It's hard to be "win it all good" with that mediocre of a defense. Of the last 44 Final Four participants, only one (2011 VCU) ended its season with a defense outside of the top 50.

It's hard to win multiple games in a row without being fairly decent at getting stops, especially because you never know if your team's shots are going to fall in those big games in weird arenas.

You can look at it two ways: last year, when we were 'win it all good' without a highly ranked defense was an aberration, or that Hoiball changes everything and the next trend doesn't require a top 20 defense to win. This year should tell us a lot.

 

[AuH2O]

Love the point at the end about foul trouble. The last couple years, if a post player got beat it usually led to a dunk as Georges or Melvin backed off to avoid drawing the foul. With the added depth this year, they should be able to afford to foul.
Rarely did ISU commit smart fouls in the paint. More often than not a foul in the post was pretty weak and led to and 1 situations.

It always seemed like Ejim and Niang were pretty tentative defensively at the start of games and the 2nd half, too. Once they made it through several minutes without a foul they seemed to turn it up.

 

[peteypie]

You can look at it two ways: last year, when we were 'win it all good' without a highly ranked defense was an aberration, or that Hoiball changes everything and the next trend doesn't require a top 20 defense to win. This year should tell us a lot.

Defense won championships in football too until the west coast offense and eventually the spread came along. Just saying. Hoiberg is on the cutting edge of college offense, we are the team to buck that trend.

Our defense should be better than last year, but we don't necessary have to fall in line of a top 10 defense to make the final 4 because we are that unique on offense.