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Old 03-19-2019, 08:02 AM   #21
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One thing I’m interested in, just about every year we have had an underclassmen guy break out in the tournament for us, it’s strange but it almost happens every year, starting back to Shaq Thomas vs creighton, Troy caupain against Purdue, Jacob Evans against st. Joes, and Jarron Cumberland the last 2 years was phenomenal against UCLA, Georgia state, and Nevada. So if history repeats itself someone like Keith Williams, Trevor Moore or Logan Johnson could have a breakout game for us.
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Old 03-19-2019, 08:20 AM   #22
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You made a great point earlier about iowa not being dribble penetrators. That would favor the cats ability to defend the 3.

And here, I agree completely as well. Iowa cannot handle Williams athleticism or Cumberland (who can). These 2 could create a lot of easy opportunities or fouls. But keith will have to play much better.
Thanks. I would think this is a game where we absolutely do not want to over help on penetration if they happen to try it. Stand your ground and force them to make contested 2's. We should not need to sag down much if at all....gotta stay glued to the shooters.

And you are right....this may be a perfect game for Williams to get his swag back!!
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Old 03-19-2019, 08:26 AM   #23
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its one of those games im intrigued to see how it plays out. we can't defend the 3, our defense against 3 point shooting is basically leave them wide open and hope they miss. it works out when 40% 3 point shooters go 5-25 like vs houston on sunday. however when they aren't off it can spell trouble.



on the flip side iowa doesn't appear to play very good defense. they can't stop 2 point shots, but we can't make them. they give up a ton of offensive rebounds and offensive rebounding is how we score.



should be a good one.
We can defend the 3 if we don't have to defend the penetration. Most of the teams we have played have a guard (or two) who can get in the lane at will. Davis, Martin, Taylor, Haynes-Jones, McMurray, Whitt, Jarreau, Adams, Gilbert, etc etc.

If we don't have to help (as much)...we don't have to leave the shooters open.
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Old 03-19-2019, 08:57 AM   #24
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Big game Cumberland is just a different kind of player. After watching him in the AAC tourney he just looks more like a leader, he is getting his swag back at a great time. Houston is much better than Iowa and if Corey Davis and Dejon Jarreau cant stop Jarron Iowa will be hard pressed to find someone to match him. Now with that being said we know what Jarron can do but in my opinion Cane Broome and Tre Scott are the X- factors to this game. Both playing very well currently and when Cane is scoring man we are tough to beat.
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Old 03-19-2019, 11:27 AM   #25
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We can defend the 3 if we don't have to defend the penetration. Most of the teams we have played have a guard (or two) who can get in the lane at will. Davis, Martin, Taylor, Haynes-Jones, McMurray, Whitt, Jarreau, Adams, Gilbert, etc etc.

If we don't have to help (as much)...we don't have to leave the shooters open.
we've had trouble all year, even before we started playing teams that were athletic. its been a big problem since the beginning of the season. we give up a ton of 3 point shots. 42.8% of opponents shots are 3's, and thats the highest our program has ever allowed (the number has been gradually going up simply because the game is changing, but it took a massive jump up this year).


look at the design of what we were doing. when houston would pnr both guards would defend the guy with the ball and brooks would suck up and stay on the guy setting the pick. then jarron had to cover 2 guys, one on the wing and one in the corner. at first he was staying back and the wing was shooting wide open 3 after wide open 3. then he stepped up but the corner was wide open.


the way we switch and help leaves us open to overloading a side. you can set up open shots with some good ball movement and screens, it doesn't just have to be from penetrating past our guards.


north carolina central, milwaukee, nku, teams like that were getting wide open 3 after wide open 3. none of them have an offense anywhere close to as good as iowa.
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Old 03-19-2019, 12:20 PM   #26
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I'm fairly concerned with Iowa.

Here is why:

Nevada: #7 on Offense, #108 on Defense
UCLA: #2 on offense, #85 on Defense
St Joes: #32 on Offense, #63 on defense

Iowa: #15 on offense, #115 on Defense


Seems to be that the teams who beat us in the tourney have top 30 and mostly top 20 offenses. Great offense always beats great defense. Im not looking past Iowa one bit, they are really dangerous


However, it does seem that Iowa Struggles when they play slower paced grind it out teams.
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Old 03-19-2019, 12:38 PM   #27
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But, Nsoseme is simply insane on the boards. He currently leads the team in Total Rebound Percentage (TRB) at 17.6% and Defensive Rebound Percentage at 25.0% - that means when he is in the game he grabs 1 of every 4 defensive rebounds (10.4% ORB).

In conference play he has dropped off a bit, but I think that is mostly due to his ankle injury that he seems to be full recovered from now. He still leads the team in conference DRB at 20.2 (4th on team with 12.4% TRB).
he's averaged less than 6 minutes a game since the beginning of february - kinda hard to have an impact no matter how good your per playing time metrics are.
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Old 03-20-2019, 08:53 AM   #28
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One thing I’m interested in, just about every year we have had an underclassmen guy break out in the tournament for us, it’s strange but it almost happens every year, starting back to Shaq Thomas vs creighton, Troy caupain against Purdue, Jacob Evans against st. Joes, and Jarron Cumberland the last 2 years was phenomenal against UCLA, Georgia state, and Nevada. So if history repeats itself someone like Keith Williams, Trevor Moore or Logan Johnson could have a breakout game for us.
IF we beat Iowa, I think you end up seeing Logan Johnson stepping up and playing the defensive stopper against Jordan Bone. He is too good to let him just blow by Justin/Cane all game. We lose by 15 points if those two are the primary defender on him all day. Plus it would be a huge wrinkle in the game plan for good ol' big game Rick Barnes.
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Old 03-20-2019, 09:19 AM   #29
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One concern I have with Iowa that hasn't been discussed yet is how we'll deal with going up against two skilled and aggressive bigs in Cook and Garza. We really haven't faced a frontcourt in the AAC that compares to these two.

Does any one else have similar concerns?
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Old 03-20-2019, 09:34 AM   #30
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One concern I have with Iowa that hasn't been discussed yet is how we'll deal with going up against two skilled and aggressive bigs in Cook and Garza. We really haven't faced a frontcourt in the AAC that compares to these two.

Does any one else have similar concerns?
Yes I have similar concerns. USF gave us some trouble with Yetna and Durr. They outrebounded us that game and Rideau ending up going off for 26 too.

The one good thing is they aren't a very good rebounding team so we should be able to still score but on the defensive end it may be a struggle. I am hoping that Scott can slow down Cook and that the matchup zone gives them some trouble. If we can start fast they may quit.
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