**2021-2022 Iowa Basketball Season Thread**

[Pedro]

You're talking about three really good-to-great players combined? C'mon, Keegan's good, really good with the potential to be great...but let's not get carried away before the conference season starts.

 

[douglasbader]

You're talking about three really good-to-great players combined? C'mon, Keegan's good, really good with the potential to be great...but let's not get carried away before the conference season starts.

Read what I wrote again.

 

[kenos]

In my memory, healthy Ronnie > '21-'22 Keegan, but that's about it. Enjoy him while he's here.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Read what I wrote again.

I don’t think anyone wants to do that, Douglass.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Doug rn

TikTok

vm.tiktok.com

 

[Russell Ziske]

Doug is correct. Murray has an instinct & feel for the game, that is as good as anyone who’s played at Iowa.

 

[SuperHans]

Who else from the Metro is going to Hilton this year? Normally I refuse to step in there - but only one Saturday conference game in Carver this year.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Who else from the Metro is going to Hilton this year? Normally I refuse to step in there - but only one Saturday conference game in Carver this year.

i will be there smirking

 

[Squat Cobbler]

Sports Illustrated with a new mock draft out. Keegan is at #9.

NBA Mock Draft: Banchero, Smith and Holmgren In the Mix For No. 1

The top-three conversation is heating up with college basketball in full swing. Here's our first look at how the 2022 draft could play out.

www.si.com

There’s a case to be made that Murray has been the best player in college basketball so far, and while Iowa hasn’t played anyone of quality yet, it’s hilarious in hindsight that Murray was so under-utilized as a freshman. While he’s on the older end for a potential lottery pick, Murray is gathering real steam among scouts right now with his sheer productivity, appealing athletic tools and versatile two-way skill set. The NBA continues to place a premium on skilled, jumbo forwards with well-rounded complementary skills, and Murray has also taken a major step forward as a scorer, while doing most of his damage in the flow of the game. Teams will be closely monitoring his progress as a shooter, but he appears to be trending in the right direction on that front. Murray should be able to defend wings and bigs, impact the passing lanes with his length, rebound and play in transition, capitalize on easy baskets and knock down open shots. There may be some debate about his upside, as he’s not a shot-creator or playmaker by nature, but most of what he’s good at is highly translatable to NBA value.

 

[SuperHans]

Sports Illustrated with a new mock draft out. Keegan is at #9.

NBA Mock Draft: Banchero, Smith and Holmgren In the Mix For No. 1

The top-three conversation is heating up with college basketball in full swing. Here's our first look at how the 2022 draft could play out.

www.si.com

There’s a case to be made that Murray has been the best player in college basketball so far, and while Iowa hasn’t played anyone of quality yet, it’s hilarious in hindsight that Murray was so under-utilized as a freshman. While he’s on the older end for a potential lottery pick, Murray is gathering real steam among scouts right now with his sheer productivity, appealing athletic tools and versatile two-way skill set. The NBA continues to place a premium on skilled, jumbo forwards with well-rounded complementary skills, and Murray has also taken a major step forward as a scorer, while doing most of his damage in the flow of the game. Teams will be closely monitoring his progress as a shooter, but he appears to be trending in the right direction on that front. Murray should be able to defend wings and bigs, impact the passing lanes with his length, rebound and play in transition, capitalize on easy baskets and knock down open shots. There may be some debate about his upside, as he’s not a shot-creator or playmaker by nature, but most of what he’s good at is highly translatable to NBA value.

the negatives in the last sentence seem to be jumping the gun

 

[MikeyJoe]

it’s hilarious in hindsight that Murray was so under-utilized as a freshman.

Was he? As a true freshman he played 44% of available minutes last year. I guess he could have taken minutes from Connor, but that would have totally changed how the team played with Garza on the floor.

 

[Bob Sanders]

Was he? As a true freshman he played 44% of available minutes last year. I guess he could have taken minutes from Connor, but that would have totally changed how the team played with Garza on the floor.

It's revisionist history, much like the people who claim Kittle was under-utilized at Iowa while ignoring the fact that Kittle wasn't even physically ready to play until his redshirt junior year and then played injured for most of his senior year.

Keegan looked like a very athletic baby deer last year, just figuring out on the fly how athletic and how talented he actually was. This year he is much more polished as a scorer, both off the dribble and from the post. The wider sports world is apparently incapable of realizing that the guy playing last year wasn't the same guy playing this year.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

It's revisionist history, much like the people who claim Kittle was under-utilized at Iowa while ignoring the fact that Kittle wasn't even physically ready to play until his redshirt junior year and then played injured for most of his senior year.

Keegan looked like a very athletic baby deer last year, just figuring out on the fly how athletic and how talented he actually was. This year he is much more polished as a scorer, both off the dribble and from the post. The wider sports world is apparently incapable of realizing that the guy playing last year wasn't the same guy playing this year.

it is the same guy though.

 

[SuperHans]

wrong thread

 

[Kamala]

It's revisionist history, much like the people who claim Kittle was under-utilized at Iowa while ignoring the fact that Kittle wasn't even physically ready to play until his redshirt junior year and then played injured for most of his senior year.

Keegan looked like a very athletic baby deer last year, just figuring out on the fly how athletic and how talented he actually was. This year he is much more polished as a scorer, both off the dribble and from the post. The wider sports world is apparently incapable of realizing that the guy playing last year wasn't the same guy playing this year.

And he hasn’t played any good teams this year.

 

[Geese]

Ash is just padding the stat sheet look at all those minutes

 

[The Dad]

Ash is just padding the stat sheet look at all those minutes

He’d get 33% more playing time if he didn’t act like a sideshow clown every time he set foot on the floor.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

It's revisionist history, much like the people who claim Kittle was under-utilized at Iowa while ignoring the fact that Kittle wasn't even physically ready to play until his redshirt junior year and then played injured for most of his senior year.

Keegan looked like a very athletic baby deer last year, just figuring out on the fly how athletic and how talented he actually was. This year he is much more polished as a scorer, both off the dribble and from the post. The wider sports world is apparently incapable of realizing that the guy playing last year wasn't the same guy playing this year.

Also, Keegan is allowed to improve as a player. It's silly to assume he would be the same player last year as he is now

 

[Wanderer]

it is the same guy though.

You don’t know that.

 

[Wanderer]

He’d get 33% more playing time if he didn’t act like a sideshow clown every time he set foot on the floor.

He’s like the kid who’s the worst guy on a 10 year old rec team who comes in at the end of the game, launches air balls and does everything to get attention while his mom yells incessantly.

 

[kenos]

Ash needs to figure out that a crucial part of being the try hard garbage time fan favorite is acting like you don't know you're the try hard garbage time fan favorite.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Lol

 

[kenos]

Bring in Bart Casey as his personal coach.

 

[eclone]

Sports Illustrated with a new mock draft out. Keegan is at #9.

NBA Mock Draft: Banchero, Smith and Holmgren In the Mix For No. 1

The top-three conversation is heating up with college basketball in full swing. Here's our first look at how the 2022 draft could play out.

www.si.com

There’s a case to be made that Murray has been the best player in college basketball so far, and while Iowa hasn’t played anyone of quality yet, it’s hilarious in hindsight that Murray was so under-utilized as a freshman. While he’s on the older end for a potential lottery pick, Murray is gathering real steam among scouts right now with his sheer productivity, appealing athletic tools and versatile two-way skill set. The NBA continues to place a premium on skilled, jumbo forwards with well-rounded complementary skills, and Murray has also taken a major step forward as a scorer, while doing most of his damage in the flow of the game. Teams will be closely monitoring his progress as a shooter, but he appears to be trending in the right direction on that front. Murray should be able to defend wings and bigs, impact the passing lanes with his length, rebound and play in transition, capitalize on easy baskets and knock down open shots. There may be some debate about his upside, as he’s not a shot-creator or playmaker by nature, but most of what he’s good at is highly translatable to NBA value.

"skilled, jumbo forward" is not a term I've heard before. I assume it's a stretch 4 that can dribble?

 

[Will McCoy]

"skilled, jumbo forward" is not a term I've heard before. I assume it's a stretch 4 that can dribble?

Niang fall under that category or is he a 3 by NBA standards?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I don’t see anything about Murray that qualifies as jumbo, except, you know

 

[Shawneemicks]

Jesus Wade

 

[eclone]

Niang fall under that category or is he a 3 by NBA standards?

Maybe? He's certainly Jumbo and can shoot, but not tall or long.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Jesus Wade

Wade was a stretch 2 in college.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Jesus Wade

Kinda creepy that you know my nickname

 

[Greg Obrecht]

Jesus Wade

That’s lofty praise.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Wade was a no stretch zero in college for the fucking record

 

[Shawneemicks]

Just the worst, gutter living piece of shit on earth

 

[Shawneemicks]

No offense @L. Wade Childress

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Wade was a stretch 2 in college.

But that’s just counting your relatives.

 

[kenos]

I stretched a pretty good two this morning.

 

[KitKatApples]

TWITA

 

[TJones3312]

 

[KitKatApples]

Because he had 18/9 against one of the better defenses in the country?

 

[douglasbader]

 

[TJones3312]

His timeline is awesome. Totally sane.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

That guy literally created a fake Twitter handle for the sole purpose of not getting Tyler Ulis to come to Iowa.

 

[nolookpass]

Will Joe "the Key" Toussaint leave early for the NBA?
Maybe, maybe not.


-Nolook Peterson

 

[BBK]

@milkstheone?

 

[hawkeyealum]

@milkstheone?

Works for beebs

 

[Stu Beagle]

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

 

[Hawkstrat]

Fran needs to implement some sort of 'no more than 2 whites out in public' rule.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Does Patrick have a regular place to live?

 

[CurdMan]

I really dislike Austin Ash.