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Originally Posted by TheLongHaul
The reason we lost is simple. The three main guys went 11-40 from the field. KW had a bad game, Trevon went back to his typical self, and Jarron continues the biggest drop off of a player that I can ever remember. This team will not do well without those three. They had been playing better of late because KW has been playing better, but tonight all three were below average.
Not surprising to see the Vogt/Brannen haters come out of the woods after that game. But defense was not the reason they lost.
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There is no "reason we lost", it's a combination of things. The defense wasn't great by any means, but yes the offense was worse. But the offense created open looks, we just didn't make them.
Trevon missed shots he can and should make, there's not a lot that can be done about that. KW missed some makeable shots as well and also had only 3 rebounds. McNeal needs to learn not to shoot from 3 unless there really is no other choice (under 5 seconds on the shot clock).
Iowa played smarter than Tennessee on both sides. We only have three guys on our team who are threats to shoot from three, cover those three and dare the other guys (especially McNeal) to shoot. Tennessee left the Cumberland's open for three a number of times and got burned, Iowa left McNeal wide open and it worked.
On offense, Iowa took advantage of our bad defenders (Jaevin, Vogt, Sorolla). Iowa doesn't have elite athletes, but they played smart and took advantage of matchups. When you have guys on the floor who have huge holes in their games, it's an open invitation to smart teams/coaches.
We need to play guys with holes in their games (Jaevin, Vogt, Sorolla on defense, McNeal, Diarra on offense) but Brannen could make more of an effort to vary players and play to matchups (and tell McNeal he isn't allowed to shoot threes).