*** Official Maryland vs #13 IOWA STATE Game(day) Thread ***
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Looks like they played mostly a 7 man rotation against ASU with mostly spot minutes coming from another 2 guys. 3 guard lineup with a shooting guard and defensive minded forward rotating in off the bench.
They don't have nearly as much length at the guard position as Alabama did, so I think we see less turnovers in the transition game from ISU, and probably some better control on the glass.
Their main scoring option looks like Wells, who seems to be a slasher but doesn't shoot a ton from outside. Another starting guard, Trimble went off from 3 against ASU(MCD AA freshman, scored 31). Even with tonight's result only averaging 10 per game as a true freshman so he might be a bit of a wildcard. Their starting forward Layman is 6-9 and seems to be a solid scoring option at 14PPG.
Without watching any of their games, and completely basing my assumptions on the box score I think we will have less trouble with them than we did with Bama, but it seems like 2 of their starting guards are very skilled and have the ability to go off at any time so I could be completely wrong.
They don't have nearly as much length at the guard position as Alabama did, so I think we see less turnovers in the transition game from ISU, and probably some better control on the glass.
Their main scoring option looks like Wells, who seems to be a slasher but doesn't shoot a ton from outside. Another starting guard, Trimble went off from 3 against ASU(MCD AA freshman, scored 31). Even with tonight's result only averaging 10 per game as a true freshman so he might be a bit of a wildcard. Their starting forward Layman is 6-9 and seems to be a solid scoring option at 14PPG.
Without watching any of their games, and completely basing my assumptions on the box score I think we will have less trouble with them than we did with Bama, but it seems like 2 of their starting guards are very skilled and have the ability to go off at any time so I could be completely wrong.
demoncore1031
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Amazing how times change. I really felt like our guys didn't play so well tonight, we were lucky to get the win. Having said that it was pretty obvious that they couldn't keep up that 3 point shooting from the onset of the game. Every game is still kind of a mystery. Anything could happen. We have more guys to throw at other teams this year... that has to help. At this point losing any of our out of conference games would seem like a let down....
Bama shot prettyights out from 3 for most of the first half and we played like garbage and still went in with a six point lead. I think that's pretty telling of how good our team actually is.
This is how I feel about this game.
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CycloneErik
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I think we win by the same or more. Better team, but a better matchup for us. I also think we are all warmed up after yesterday.
Yesterday was Nader's first game in almost two years and he was definitely nervous. If Nader had played his normal game last night the score wouldn't have even been close. I think Nader has a solid effort with 9 points off the bench and we win by 16.
Yes, Bo Barnes was a McDermott recruit who didn't come here after the coaching change. He went to Hawaii for a couple years then transferred to ASU.
