Offense looking pretty terrible so far. Some questionable lineup combos being thrown out there too. We need to use our size advantage and take it to the hoop
@ Northern Iowa 12/5
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Queue the Pom-Pom squad saying “it’s not Mooney’s fault the players can’t make a shot”
Golden needs to get in the paint. He’s got about 6 inches on the guy guarding him but he’s popping out for threes
Call me a hater and I know it’s only one half but AJ Green looked ok at the start but a big guard like Dji bothered him(0-3 fg). Not impressed so far but come on defense don’t make me eat this in the 2nd 😂
If we could hit the broad side of a barn, we would be blowing them out.
Looks like we were the first team to get hot from three. Their hot stretch is coming, though. Can anyone guess when it might happen??
8legs1dream
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UNI building a silo somewhere out there in the heartland with all these bricks they are heaving up from three
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Congratulations to Jacob Gilyard on setting the all-time steals record!!!
Closing well, and Gilly gets his record. Wrap it up and head home for exams.
Congrats to Gilly. Its been a blast watching each and every one of your steals! I hope you finally get your due in the NCAA Tournament.
Fantastic job holding Green scoreless for the final 35 minutes. Largely Isaiah’s work, but several other guys pitched in on the job.
We went into Iowa and came out with a win. We get to enjoy this win streak for 6 days until Toledo
8legs1dream
Team Manager
This time thankfully it didn't happen until there was only about 90 seconds to go, if we did it during our usual 5-6 minute to go mark it would have been another roller coaster ride at the end.
*checks final score*
The team played terrific defense. This was a good Tier 2 road win for the Spiders. Our Kenpom ranking should move up into the 50s. Moving in the right direction.
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My observations:
1. Thank god we won
2. Defense was better, although it may have just looked better because they couldn’t hit water falling out of a boat. Hard to determine which was the cause.
3. Really suspect lineups at times
4. Someone stick Nate in a film room and force him to watch his 2019 free throw form for the next week
5. I want to see more of Dji and Crabtree, less of nick and grace, even if that means we are without a 5-type at times.
1. Thank god we won
2. Defense was better, although it may have just looked better because they couldn’t hit water falling out of a boat. Hard to determine which was the cause.
3. Really suspect lineups at times
4. Someone stick Nate in a film room and force him to watch his 2019 free throw form for the next week
5. I want to see more of Dji and Crabtree, less of nick and grace, even if that means we are without a 5-type at times.
Nice to see the defense show up today. We didn't shoot it great and still were able to come away with the win. Gave up a few wide-open buckets underneath when we tried to help up high, and got backdoored a couple times, but overall we were pretty solid. Kept our guys in front of us, and mostly helped just enough to clog things up for the Panthers.
Oh, and loved the way we held them at arm's length down the stretch. Took the lead for good at just under 16 minutes to go, and once we pushed it out to double digits around the 10-minute mark, we never let them get closer than seven.
Oh, and loved the way we held them at arm's length down the stretch. Took the lead for good at just under 16 minutes to go, and once we pushed it out to double digits around the 10-minute mark, we never let them get closer than seven.
Dji and Wilson did a job on Green, that was the killer for the Panthers.
TBone, I completely agree with your fifth point. Crabtree started off slow and they didn’t give him enough time to make up for it.
yeah, the hype scared me. I expected to see more.
I know it's only one game and maybe he's a stud, but I don't see the NBA talk.
I believe we put mostly Zay and a little Dji on him and said "don't help ... stay with him". and he was a non-factor.
did the great Mark Schmidt not do that???
