I’ve never understood the Connor fandom personally. All my Hawkeye friends despise him on and off the court.
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Last year it was distributing, i know you guys go crazy when i talk about his post entries but it was important when you have Garza and 3 guys surrounding him. He played ok to good defense but i admit it went downhill probably because of the old hips. Next year he needs to be a bench 10 to 15 minute guy without Garza
Distributing? He had the second highest turnover percentage on the team and Toussaint, Bohannon and even Ulis had higher assist percentages. He sucks at defense too
He wasn’t very good at that last year. He honestly struggled at everything. It was very very bad. Luka covered up a lot of his issues.
We turned it over so little that even still it wasn't that bad. Someone has to be highest. It was a 3.6 to 1 turnover average and that's pretty good. Add in he was often time the one throwing it into Luka which is a tougher pass than swinging it around on the perimeter. I think I'd have to start with step 1 of basketball to make you understand "the little things"
I disagree. I don't think you have as efficient offense as we did with someone struggling at everything.
20.6% turnover percentage is not good. Rasir Bolton was at 18.8%
Connor didn’t do nearly enough to qualify for a starting role. The guy averaged a little over 3 points on a top 10 team lol. Cmon.
He scored in double figures twice all year. He didn’t make a single basket in the post season. He shot 27% from the 3, yet shot 38 more 3’s than 2’s on the year because he’s a terrible finisher and can’t get by anyone. He’s a coaches son and “does all the little things” but shot 58.6% from the FT line...
Yes you can.. It’s not like Connor was unplayable in that he turned it over every single play or took terrible shots or that he was an absolute liability defensively. But being a good “post feeder” isn’t worthy of a starting role.
Mccaffery would never dribble and stop the ball like Bolton does so it impacts the turnover %. Lets use the hard numbers how many times did you turn the ball over. One averaged 3.2 and the other 1 a game.
Towards the end of year i agree his defense took a nose dive. I don't think you could categorize it that way over the year
To completely ignore usage is just dumb
How can a coach's son shoot 58.6% from the FT line? Heck, those are Shaq numbers. And to think that all the Iowa outside shooter numbers were padded by having Garza in the middle (often sucking up two defenders). The team's to margin certainly benefited by have the usual sure-handed Garza...just get the ball to him and let him work. What are the to numbers going to be next year when the generational player Garza is gone? Better? Teams are simply going to press out further on the 3 point shooters next year.
I wasn’t saying Connor was bad defensively. I was saying wasn’t terrible in every single area, but he didn’t do anything well either. Averaging 3.6 assists a game doesn’t justify averaging 3.3 ppg, shooting 27% on the only shot you’re allowed to take, and being a 58% FT shooter.
Im not ignoring it but it's going to be skewed the way the offenses are set up. You have to see that. I think bolton is ok playing out of position a bit but he makes a lot more mental mistakes than Connor if thats your argument
He made a lot more mistakes because he always had the ball in his hands. Connor actually turned the ball over a lot considering his usage