Good. Don't know about Patrick but Conner is a douche just like his dad
Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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It is obvious that Kriener is better than Nunge - but the following is a quote from Fran about JN:
“(Nunge has) got to fight through it. One of the things that hurt him, was when I put Kriener in and he played well, so he didn’t get back in as much. I got to be able to go back to him and kind of let him play through it a little bit more than I did. But it wasn’t one of his better nights clearly,” McCaffery said.
So, RK plays well and Fran says that it hurt Nunge?! Amazing take, Fran. I think a competent coach would respond in this manner: RK played well and we need everyone else to perform like he did. The players that do that will be the ones who play.
He never disappoints at being so stubbornly locked into playing his sons and keeping a rotation of 13-14 players - so glad he is NOT our coach!!!
Ryan Kriener could get the NCAA player of the year and yet that gif will always be the best thing about him period.
He's literally Paul Rhoads. Got people interested in the program again but can't recruit to sustain any type of success
It's evident Paul wasn't a good HC but he's extremely bright and a nice guy.
You can't even say the latter about Fran which gave Paul a longer than necessary opportunity at ISU.
Jack Nunge was the 2nd leading scorer in Iowa's game against us 2 years ago, starting ahead of Garza, after Garza had been starting in previous games. I thought he looked decent, especially for a freshman. Only non-native Iowan in double figures for Iowa in that game.
I literally laughed out loud when I read this. Well done.
First time I have set down and watched Iowa play this year, you know you are in trouble when the starting lineup is made up of 5 white kids in basketball.
Their center is a very good player, the new point guard played well, but he will have trouble seeing the floor with Mad Fan as coach, playing behind his son.
Not sure the younger son can play at this level, I know he is a freshman, with a high ranking, but he is rail thin, shows little muscle at all. Everything I have read about people that go through cancer treatment is they struggle to gain weight the rest of their lives. Plus most people fill out from that 18 to 20 age span, I looked it up, he is already 19 and will be 20 in March.
Iowa will win a few games when they are lighting it up from 3, put overall while being tall, they are not athletic at all. They will struggle when their opposition is hitting from 3 point land and they can get out and run. Typical Iowa team under the Mad Hatter
Their center is a very good player, the new point guard played well, but he will have trouble seeing the floor with Mad Fan as coach, playing behind his son.
Not sure the younger son can play at this level, I know he is a freshman, with a high ranking, but he is rail thin, shows little muscle at all. Everything I have read about people that go through cancer treatment is they struggle to gain weight the rest of their lives. Plus most people fill out from that 18 to 20 age span, I looked it up, he is already 19 and will be 20 in March.
Iowa will win a few games when they are lighting it up from 3, put overall while being tall, they are not athletic at all. They will struggle when their opposition is hitting from 3 point land and they can get out and run. Typical Iowa team under the Mad Hatter
That's kind of my point though...if he looked decent and was a starter it's like why in the world would you redshirt. Fran's 10 year plan though...
I assume they are as bad as one would expect a Missouri Valley program to be when competing against a major conference team? For those few that do care enough to watch, how do they continue to benefit from such a FT disparity?
Are they so overmatched that they’re flailing around and getting sympathy calls?
If they’ve found a guard that can defend and still have that center with Giantism, they could be pesky.
Are they so overmatched that they’re flailing around and getting sympathy calls?
If they’ve found a guard that can defend and still have that center with Giantism, they could be pesky.
Yep and of course like any set of brothers they say the youngest is supposed to be the best
What I saw was a team that really misses Tyler Cook. Although never to be accused of being a lock down defender...his athletic ability alone I think covered up the many liabilities of Garza, Nunge and Kreiner.
They thought they would be better without Cook and Moss. For real
Not all of the fouls were wrong - but there were many in this game. One time, Kriener got the ball at about the FT line and just held it out in front of him. Three DePaul players knocked the ball out of his hands and a ref blew his whistle and called a foul. There were at least half a dozen bogus calls like that. The irony of this was that, shortly thereafter, A DePaul player beat Jorbo to the hoop (surprise, surprise) and Jorbo was initiating contact with his body the entire way to the hoop and NOTHING was called (should have been an and-1).
Now, I think that this is part of the game plan for Iowa - take it to the rim and get fouled and shoot more FTs than your opponent (can be a very good strategy). So, you would expect Iowa to shoot quite a few FTs. But it's the large FT discrepancy (in CHA anyway) which is truly head-scratching for me. It's like the refs don't want the Iowa bench to reach Francon 1, so they call a lot of bogus fouls on the visiting team.
