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Is Fran building a regional powerhouse or just calling Iowa fans idiots and morons?

rholtgraves said:
I think Iowa can improve marginally on defense but I don't know that they will improve enough to make much of a difference because it is their guards that were the biggest weakness on the team in terms of defense. If you can't stop anybody on the perimeter, you don't have much of a chance of being good on defense.
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Correct, it's pretty hard to change slow and unathletic. At the P5 level defense is NOT just effort.
 
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srjclone said:
All you have to do is watch 90 seconds of highlights to see that, that is an untrue statement.
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The dude literally jumped over a guy and dunked on him during a game at 240 lbs but he's not more athletic than a skinny kid from Muscatine. Lol
 
CyTwins said:
Lol this isn't close to true. He just put up 36" vertical jump at 240 lbs!
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He also had a 25” standing vertical and his highlight video doesn’t show him blowing by guys off the perimeter- he gets to the rim by using spin moves, shielding defenders with his body, etc. He’s not super explosive.

Also, pretty sure JW had a 34 or 35 inch vertical when measured like a year and a half ago. Pretty safe to say it has increased since then.
 
benjimill said:
He also had a 25” standing vertical and his highlight video doesn’t show him blowing by guys off the perimeter- he gets to the rim by using spin moves, shielding defenders with his body, etc. He’s not super explosive.

Also, pretty sure JW had a 34 or 35 inch vertical when measured like a year and a half ago. Pretty safe to say it has increased since then.
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#NotAthletic #YMCAGame




 
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On a different note there has been highlights of THT from the tryouts and his name is all over Twitter but I can't find anything on the entitled one. Did he even participate?
 
If Joe has to have 2 full time trainers working with him 7 days a week now, it makes you wonder what he was doing his senior year in school. THT is going to school Joe. THT already has the D1 type body. The guy is a beast!

Any time the wind blows in Iowa City, Fran gets really worried.
 
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cycloner29 said:
If Joe has to have 2 full time trainers working with him 7 days a week now, it makes you wonder what he was doing his senior year in school. THT is going to school Joe. THT already has the D1 type body. The guy is a beast!

Any time the wind blows in Iowa City, Fran gets really worried.
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Probably thinks Mrs Fran is angry
 
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benjimill said:
He’s much more athletic than Baer, and Baer has terrible defensive awareness. Aside from being a surprisingly decent shot blocker and being ok at jumping passing lanes, Baer is really bad defensively- especially on the perimeter.

I wouldn’t really consider JW skinny- seems to have a pretty standard build for a college basketball player. In any event, he’s not so skinny that he is going to be regularly overpowered and dominated physically.

Sure he’s not a great athlete, but he is a pretty good one. He is pretty similar in athleticism to THT, and Iowa State fans are creaming themselves over that guy.
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benjimill said:
THT isn’t a great athlete, we’ve been over this before. THT has a ridiculous wingspan, but he and JW are very similar in terms of overall athleticism.
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Benji definitely subscribes to the school of thought where if you say something enough then it will become true.
 
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