**Wisconsin vs Iowa Basketball, 2-22-23 8:00PM BTN**

[hawkeyealum]

6 for 52 from three last two games, 3 for 24 nwestern, 3 for 28 tonight

 

[Geese]

Bill Cofield all time record at Wisconsin was 63-101

Lol

 

[ClintWalker]

This is typical Iowa basketball, some good games when they make shots and then the games like the last two.

 

[CamelTones]

Once again they went to their 3/4 court press after a make and had a player, this time Sandfort do the completely wrong thing and leave a 40% three point shooter wide open in the corner. Less than a minute later they didn’t even guard Hepburn in the corner on a simple out of bounds play.

This isn’t about effort on defense and ‘saving it for the offensive end.’ They’re fucking clueless 50% of the time.

 

[HawkBall23]

I hope Pat catches the sad again.

IDK about him, but watching Pat on a basketball court gives me anxiety.

 

[Hawkstrat]

I really hope Pat graduates and goes pro in being a rich kid with a podcast or something.

Kris played like a bitch tonight. Let white guys five inches shorter than him grab rebounds over him.

Hurts having one guy that can attack the basket.

 

[Hawkstrat]

Once again they went to their 3/4 court press after a make and had a player, this time Sandfort do the completely wrong thing and leave a 40% three point shooter wide open in the corner. Less than a minute later they didn’t even guard Hepburn in the corner on a simple out of bounds play.

This isn’t about effort on defense and ‘saving it for the offensive end.’ They’re fucking clueless 50% of the time.

That killed me. Sandfort was chasing the ball like a little kid playing soccer. I don't even know what he was trying to accomplish.

 

[Creed]

Intentionally trying not to win in the last 10 minutes was not a strategy I expected

They fucking quit. It was gross. I hate them all again.

 

[Uli Kunkel]

Can't wait to see Jack on the court!

 

[Kamala]

Once again they went to their 3/4 court press after a make and had a player, this time Sandfort do the completely wrong thing and leave a 40% three point shooter wide open in the corner. Less than a minute later they didn’t even guard Hepburn in the corner on a simple out of bounds play.

This isn’t about effort on defense and ‘saving it for the offensive end.’ They’re fucking clueless 50% of the time.

Correct, it’s about cancer-related hip structure

 

[CamelTones]

Went from a win against NW 4 days ago putting them in 2nd place in the conference to 9th place after tonight.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Kris should auto-correct to "Keegan's gay brother."

If he grew up anywhere but Iowa, he would've quit basketball. He would've been wearing a bowtie and entering spelling bees.

Connor getting chippy with everyone would be great if he didn't suck, too.

Patrick continues to just aimlessly wander around the court until he sees an opportunity to fuck something up.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Anyone drafting Kris Murray is not going to get a Keegan clone. I’ll leave it at that.

 

[Creed]

Went from a win against NW 4 days ago putting them in 2nd place in the conference to 9th place after tonight.

Ha. Fuck.

 

[Thanksgiving Dinner]

Shooting your way out of a slump is probably a strategy you can set aside when the other team's only legit big has 4 fouls. Goddammit Fran

 

[The Tin Man]

Keegan plays like Schwarzenegger, Kris plays like DeVito.

 

[Creed]

Shooting your way out of a slump is probably a strategy you can set aside when the other team's only legit big has 4 fouls. Goddammit Fran

The morons with the ball would have a wide open path to the lane and still chuck up a brick. That’s on their own dipshittery although Fran is also dumb.

 

[The Tin Man]

Fuck Fran for benching Kris with 2 fouls. Especially when it was Patrick’s ole defense that led to the foul. Patrick got to stay on the court though.

 

[CamelTones]

I actually thought the offense was mostly fine against NW they just couldn’t hit any shots.

Tonight they were just fucking terrible. At least 5 opportunities to take it right to the rim and decided not to. Rebraca should have had an easy 3 point play, didn’t make the layup then missed both free throws. They are so mentally fucked at the moment. It’s almost identical to the Eastern Illinois through getting down by 21 to Indiana stretch.

 

[Whatever]

What brand of ball were we shooting with tonight?

 

[Talkin' Goat]

What brand of ball were we shooting with tonight?

I believe it was a men’s ball, hence all the problems.

 

[ClintWalker]

Kris should auto-correct to "Keegan's gay brother."

If he grew up anywhere but Iowa, he would've quit basketball. He would've been wearing a bowtie and entering spelling bees.

Connor getting chippy with everyone would be great if he didn't suck, too.

Patrick continues to just aimlessly wander around the court until he sees an opportunity to fuck something up.

Three fantastic takes on Iowa basketball...snarky but all true.

 

[jabberjaw]

What brand of ball were we shooting with tonight?

It appeared to be Wilson

 

[CurdMan]

Just frustrating all around. Our only chance at offense tonight was Rebraca and the occasional drive by Perkins. I know Ulis isn’t perfect, but he’s at least not a complete jackoff on defense. I have no clue why he disappeared tonight in favor of Patrick and Sandfort.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

What brand of ball were we shooting with tonight?

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

Pat’s hips just didn’t have it tonight.

 

[hawkeyealum]

 

[nolookpass]

Connor has been solid this year but lol at those who thought the McCaffrey lads were top 100s.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Kris has a real effort problem.

I don’t think it’s effort. It’s just pure pantshitting, likely from being option #1 for the first time ever in his life.

 

[CurdMan]

Fran needs to be able to adapt when his team has a night like this. Rebraca had a clear advantage. Play him and your best defenders. Ulis, Perkins, Conner, and Filip needed to play the vast majority of minutes tonight. Sandfort, Patrick, and Kris brought nothing tonight and all detracted from what the second half game plan should have been.

 

[Fritz Fequiere]

Not like there were a bunch of in and outs either. Most of those 3s were off by a foot.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I really hope Pat graduates and goes pro in being a rich kid with a podcast or something.

Kris played like a bitch tonight. Let white guys five inches shorter than him grab rebounds over him.

Hurts having one guy that can attack the basket.

who are you talking about? Is it bad i have to ask that?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Fran needs to be able to adapt when his team has a night like this. Rebraca had a clear advantage. Play him and your best defenders. Ulis, Perkins, Conner, and Filip needed to play the vast majority of minutes tonight. Sandfort, Patrick, and Kris brought nothing tonight and all detracted from what the second half game plan should have been.

sandfort was fine. He is one of few guys who understands that offensive movement is, like, good or something

 

[Hawkstrat]

who are you talking about? Is not bad i have to ask that?

Sentence structure be damned, it's a fair point. Ulis can get to the paint but can't finish, Perkins has to settle for a midrange that sometimes goes in.

 

[CurdMan]

sandfort was fine. He is one of few guys who understands that offensive movement is, like, good or something

I really like his game but he was ineffective offensively and forced some bad looks. Also taking minutes from Ulis, who is capable of getting into the lane and a better defender.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I struggle to blame anyone for taking bad shots tonight when Kris was trying to not get the ball

 

[CurdMan]

The maddest I got was Kris missing the layup. Fucking dunk the ball man

 

[CurdMan]

I struggle to blame anyone for taking bad shots tonight when Kris was trying to not get the ball

I mean at some point Iowa needed to accept that shooting 3s wasn’t going to be the answer tonight. Rebraca getting into foul trouble didn’t help tho

 

[Fletch]

Sentence structure be damned, it's a fair point. Ulis can get to the paint but can't finish, Perkins has to settle for a midrange that sometimes goes in.

Ulis drives me crazy. He gets to the paint only to dribble back out 80 percent of the time. What’s the point of going in there if you aren’t going to make anything happen?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Ulis drives me crazy. He gets to the paint only to dribble back out 80 percent of the time. What’s the point of going in there if you aren’t going to make anything happen?

there was one drive to his right where there was absolutely no way they wouldn’t have called a foul. I don’t even remember what happened because I was pissed.

 

[Fletch]

Get ulis the fuck off the floor. Give me some Dix.

 

[The Dad]

Kris has a real effort problem.

So do Perkins, Patrick and Connor. A lot of fake hustle where they halfway try for a steal then take a break.

 

[The Dad]

Connor has been solid this year but lol at those who thought the McCaffrey lads were top 100s.

So…….basically Margaret?

 

[HiawathaHawk]

This blows. I’m not white knighting Patrick because he was awful and deserves criticism but he’s 7th in minutes played both of the last two games. He’s maddening and a big problem but Kris is way more frustrating to me. He’s playing beyond soft. He missed two layups horribly. Doesn’t want the ball, missing with 6 feet of space. No physicality.

 

[BBK]

Too bad. We're probably an 8 or 9 seed (possibly 7 or 10) in the NCAA tournament. Winnable 1st game, 2nd against a top seed.

A win tonight would have produced easier matchups. It wasn't meant to be

 

[HiawathaHawk]

The shitty thing is we played good defense for 30 minutes. They missed a couple good looks but didn’t get many. Then we completely fuck up a couple plays, they drill three 3’s and we pack it in.

6-52 from 3 this week. I’d estimate 20 of the misses were completely wide open. Unreal.

 

[hawkeyealum]

Too bad. We're probably an 8 or 9 seed (possibly 7 or 10) in the NCAA tournament. Winnable 1st game, 2nd against a top seed.

A win tonight would have produced easier matchups. It wasn't meant to be

So another quality NCAA showing

 

[BBK]

So another quality NCAA showing

With a 1st round win and a 2nd round partial blowout against a top seed, we call that the Tom Davis Special

 

[6deuce]

The shitty thing is we played good defense for 30 minutes. They missed a couple good looks but didn’t get many. Then we completely fuck up a couple plays, they drill three 3’s and we pack it in.

6-52 from 3 this week. I’d estimate 20 of the misses were completely wide open. Unreal.

Bump that 20 to 40 and I agree.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Too bad. We're probably an 8 or 9 seed (possibly 7 or 10) in the NCAA tournament. Winnable 1st game, 2nd against a top seed.

A win tonight would have produced easier matchups. It wasn't meant to be

This team just isn’t anything special unless shooting well. That’s not exactly a big revelation, but just shows how blah they are. I’m expecting a first round loss, but they could pull a S16 out of their ass and it would be equally dumbfounding.