Graham Couch: Iowa Basketball is a mid-major roster

Pace of game will matter. Iowa will want a choppy, ugly, foul-infested slugfest. They could win that.

Clones will want open and free and fluid. Think they would smoke Iowa in that kind of game.

I think ISU will be OK as long as they hit shots, and THT doesn't try to play 6 tons of hero ball. He is great but sometimes he tries to do way too much.

Yeah, he gets caught up in old high school habits still occasionally, but it's coming along. Actually sometimes tries to do much in passing too. Eyes get big and the ball goes in several directions.
 
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Yes, I am sure that the first 8 games this year is a more representative sample of Bohannon’s shooting ability than the previous two seasons in which he shot 41+%.
according to espn stats the hawks are shooting 31.9% from three. Last year they were at 37.5%

Bohannon is on the Fran plan of getting worse each year you play for him. 2016-.416 2017-.430 2018-.308.

Very few players a markedly better after four years of frannie development.
 
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You also said Jacobsen isn’t going to help anyone at the power 5 level.

Because he was terrible at Nebraska. There’s another candidate for regressing to the norm, but it isn’t going to go the way Iowa State fans want.
 
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But as a team, percentage wise, 239 teams have been better. These two must be taking a crazy amount of shots to bring down the percentage of such a great 3pt shooting team.

8 threes a game...that’s pretty high volume. Also never said Iowa is a “great” three point shooting team.
 
People are figuring out how to guard Bohannon on the 3 point line, especially when they put in the entitled one and play Bohannon off the ball

Yeah, it's this tactic called 'guarding him'.

He'll get hot Thursday though.
 
Because he was terrible at Nebraska. There’s another candidate for regressing to the norm, but it isn’t going to go the way Iowa State fans want.

It's weird what a good coach can do for a player. Look what Matt Thomas, Nader, Burton, Shayok, Jacobson, etc have done once they got to Prohm
 
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It was a very strange thing, but the Alamo Bowl reps didn't care, so neither should anyone else.

Had to be a pretty stressful game I would think. I never would have thought Drake would have a good chance to win with under five minutes to go.
 

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