Graham Couch: Iowa Basketball is a mid-major roster
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Iowa can shoot, which as it turns out is a critically important skill in the game of basketball, while Iowa State can't.
I agree that Fran has been way better this year than Prohm. Fran has gotten his role players to buy into their roles and they are clearly defined. Prohm doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason as to what he is doing with the supporting cast around Haliburton and Bolton. Nobody knows their role, or understands where they fit into the team. See Conditt, Griffin, Lewis. What is Prohm even doing with those guys?
I mean distributing minutes has to be brutal for Prohm since our role players are so inconsistent
I'm not going to take anything away from what Fran has done this year with Iowa. I think he's done a great job. Him and Prohm are however in different situations and should be judged differently.
I think everyone, including Prohm, thought that Nixon was going to be better than what he currently is. He's been flat out awful and almost unplayable. Sure he was playing down a level but he had a full year to get better at certain areas of his game and he didn't. He was suppose to be a good defender and I think because his offensive game is terrible, he now doesn't play defense. So, that's now requiring Prohm to dip into the freshman who frankly aren't ready to contribute a ton.
Another problem that we thought we'd have would be at that 4 position. Conditt, Jacobson, and Solomon are all 5's but Jacobson has played the 4 most of the year and he has not been good there at all. So now we're bringing in Lewis and Griffin, who have shown glimpses of ability in the past but not quite enough to substantiate quality playing time. However, because that 4 position is not producing at all on offense and struggling to defend on defense, we are starting to play Griffin and Lewis more because they're starting to provide a little bit more of a spark.
As far as Conditt goes, he's been pretty darn good at being a rim protector, but teams are now starting to try and stretch him out and get him out of the lane and he's struggled with that. Offensively, he hasn't been able to find much of a groove either and overall gets himself into foul trouble. Over the last few games Solomon has been really good and is making it very very hard for Prohm to take him out of the game and because of that, Conditt's minutes have gone down a little bit.
Conditt has been pretty bad since he entered the starting lineup. Think he is one of those guys that just plays better in the 6th man role?
Averaging 13.5 PPG on 42% shooting and having over 3 turnovers per game while having a DRtg of 105.4 in conference play is elite these days?
Yeah that could possibly be it, however it was almost impossible for Prohm not to start him when he did because at that time he was playing like the second best player on the team. But was Conditt flourishing because he was playing against the other team's second best player? I'm not quite sure but that could be an answer.
Conditt is still young. He's a kid who plays with a ton of emotion and has a lot of potential but obviously still has work to do.
He's a projected lottery pick.. Only elite players get that kind of recognition.
Oh I agree he had to put him in the lineup. Some guys are just more comfortable coming off the bench for whatever reason.
I'm still not getting all the lottery hype on Halliburton. He is a very good player, but I just don't see that kind of talent at all. But I've been wrong many times before.
OK you're right I guess we won't miss Haliburton much next year
Yes that is huge but you still don't get picked in the lottery purely based on potential, you still have to be an elite player.
I think if he was on a better overall team his numbers would be increased. I think it's also important to note that Tyrese is not a guy who's going score 20 ppg a night.. that's just not the type of player he is. He'd be averaging a double double if he'd have more capable shooters.