My money is on Thomas for the simple fact that he has one of the NBA's best shooters as his future coach.
We need to encourage a coach shoot off to determine who gets top SG recruits.
My money is on Thomas for the simple fact that he has one of the NBA's best shooters as his future coach.
He needs to throw more chairs on the Titanic.A "slow start" didn't seem to be a problem last year when an even younger Iowa team knocked off Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan before we were even halfway through January. Fran's got to extract more out of these guys; they're not even close to living up to their potential.
My money is on Thomas for the simple fact that he has one of the NBA's best shooters as his future coach.
They got unlucky in where the ranked teams fell on their Big Ten schedule. They played Indiana, @Michigan, Michigan St, Wisconsin, and @Ohio St in 5 of their first 6 games. With as young a team as Iowa has it would have behooved them to play a stretch like that towards the end of the season. Last year all the wins came down the stretch as the team matured and Gatens started shooting lights out.
To be fair, having to play at Nebraska towards the end of the year was an awful big ask of such a young team too.
To be fair, having to play at Nebraska towards the end of the year was an awful big task of such a young team too.
I'm not worried about next year at all. Ejim and Naing our two starting forwards return. G will be a position of strength as long as Fred is here.
Plus I think our defense will be a little better next year. We will still have no problem shooting threes.
Small sampling compared to other coaches, but he's off to a ridiculous start in this category. starting with Diante, and of course Korie has certainly gone from below average, to above average. Some guys didn't need much help (Scotty, Chris Allen...) but definitely are allowed the freedom to prosper in a scorer's offense. It's only a matter of time before he's held in higher esteem nationally.
Now that is an interesting question...I will say yes. Maybe they'd do better with a coach who isn't such a rager.Here's a question. I think Iowa has solid talent returning. Does anyone think they would be better and win more games with a different coach?
It's rarely mentioned but Ejim went from "oh crap" taking open 3s to "oh yes" this year, especially in conference play. Pretty much every player we have improves their shooting steadily...unless like you said it's someone like SC who was already about as polished a shooter as they come.
I don't know if the stats show it, but when it's a good shot the other team is now making a mistake by not having him covered where last year it might have worked out for them. I don't think it's a total coincidence or just recruiting that we're a good shooting team.
I remember thinking early on in our non-con that we were atrocious at shooting FT's and didn't understand why with such a great "shooting" coach. I would agree that all of the players have improved their stroke and have become better shooters throughout the year. I can't wait to see what CFH can do with Thomas.
What did we rank for FT shooting in our conference (conf only games)?
2nd in the conference at .751