Graham Couch: Iowa Basketball is a mid-major roster
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Your takes aren't always bad, but this one about Bolton being a poor player is. He's a slightly shorter, slightly poorer shooting, yet slightly better defending version of Lindell Wigginton. He's only a sophomore, and he's already on equal footing as one of the highest ranked recruits in ISU history. He's young, so he's not going to always play clean and consistent. You're gonna take the bad with the good at this point. He's been a big key to our offense, without him defenses would suffocate the hell out of Haliburton and we would have nobody else on the roster to help facilitate offense.
Frederick is not a bad defender at all. As much as you watch you should know this. If he was the worst defender on our team we would be way way better.
I've watched a lot of Iowa basketball and I'd agree. I'm not sure who the worst defender would be.
He has the worst defensive rating on the team
That zone hides a multitude of sins for Iowa defensively. To their credit, they have been doing quite well with the zone this year. They still give up a ton of points though.
Pick nits? He was 19-24 for 247 yards and 2 TD's passing plus had 12 carries for 102 yards and 2 TD's rushing vs TCU. He was phenomenal that game
So you think he was bad vs Oklahoma? He threw for 5 TD's and ran for another. Lol
The argument starts at "he was bad against Baylor, TCU, Iowa, and OU" and then transitions to "well he didn't complete that one pass that could've won the game".
If the argument was that Brock had situations this year where he played poorly / didn't make the play, that would be true. But blanketing entire games based off of a couple of situations would take away the things he did do well in those games.
Use whatever numbers you want. I think he's a pretty good defender and one hell of a player overall. He's better than most hawk fans anticipated (including me) and only a RS Freshman. Should have a really good career.
Bolton is a pretty good defender and one hell of a player overall. Not sure if this was the 2nd or 3rd time he got weekly hardware from the Big 12
What am I saying that is wrong? Purdy had a good year statistically, no doubt about. He just wasn't clutch, and that isn't even debatable. Or are you seriously trying to say he was clutch in '19 for ISU?
I'm not bashing Bolton. He is being asked to be your 2nd or sometimes even 1st scoring option. I think that's a lot to ask of him at this point. Fredrick is comfortably Iowa's 3rd option and that role seems to fit him perfectly. He has shown he is more than just a spot up shooter.