Nixon and Connor are awful I'll give you that. Jackson has some potential moving forward. He's a great on ball defender for a true freshmen. He still has work to do when he's off the ball
Nixon and Connor are awful I'll give you that. Jackson has some potential moving forward. He's a great on ball defender for a true freshmen. He still has work to do when he's off the ball
Haliburton is/was our best guard. If Wieskamp got hurt your best guard would be Frederick or Toussaint and they're worse than Bolton
Our best guard has shot 50% from the floor with 142 assists to 61 turnovers, but you knew that already.
How can you lead the nation in assist to turnover ratio while playing 30+ mins and be awful? I mean, honestly, taking care of the ball and putting teammates in good position to score is a huge part of the game. He shoots basically the same % from 3 as Bolton who is supposed to be a scorer.
3.7 actually....if you're gonna round it'd be 4.
Heres an interesting question from a post on HR. Who wins in a matchup between Iowa in Fran's 1st season and ISU's group the rest of the season?
Cartwright/Jackson
Gatens/Bolton
May/Nixon
Basabe/Jacobson
Cole/Young
Bench would be:
Brommer/Conditt
Marble/Lewis
McCabe/Griffin
Cartwright/Jackson
Gatens/Bolton
May/Nixon
Basabe/Jacobson
Cole/Young
Bench would be:
Brommer/Conditt
Marble/Lewis
McCabe/Griffin
3.7 but I'm not surprised YOU would round down in this one instance. So he would be 8th in the Big 12 in assists.
While I agree with you, still pretty crazy that you could even have a debate about that.
I mean Buddy was trying to debate Toussaint and Connor were better than Bolton. Many Iowa fans tried to debate Stanley over Purdy. All it takes is some idiots to start spewing nonsense
Goes to show how difficult winning is for non-blue bloods that lose boatloads of production from the prior season.
Even just a steady non-flashy player like NWB.
I will still debate that Connor is better for Iowa than Bolton would be. Iowa does not need a guy shooting 39.8% from the field chucking up 15 shots a game and turning it over 4 times a game. Connor does not shoot the ball well and limits his shots to 5 a game. He understands taking care of and passing the ball is his role on this offense and he does it as efficiently as anyone.
Bolton is better for ISU because even if he doesn't do it efficiently, they need someone to score. That's not Connor's skillset.
Connor is Iowa's Draymond Green. If you ask Green to be Golden States top 1 or 2 scorer, he doesn't do it well. He's better off as the 4th or 5th option and doing everything else at a high level. ***of course I do not think Connor McCaffrey is as good as Draymond Green.
Bolton shoots over 40% and is taking tough shots. Connor shoots 34% and only shoots when he's wide open. Connor aka Draymond averages 1 more assist per game than Bolton
I stand corrected. Bolton is at 40.6% this year and under 40% for his career. His shots are not all tough. He got plenty of open looks with Haliburton at the point. The point still stands. Connor does only average 1 more assist per game but 1.8 less turnovers as well. If Bolton is going to be "the man" for ISU the next two years, they are going to be in trouble unless he gets major help.
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