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Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

Halincandenza said:
I have talked to Iowa fans too and told them their best bet of winning games this year is playing smaller. They wanted Freeman and Krikke in the lineup at the same time. Fran's lineups make zero sense. Krikke should be on the bench as a bench scorer because he is horrible defensively and isn't a rebounder. Start Freeman at the 5. he will go through lumps because he is a freshman but he can at least block shots and give you things Krikke can't. Put Sandfort at the 4. He is a stretch 4 in todays game. He isn't a wing or a guard, he isn't fast enough to drive by guards on offense and he isn't quick enough to guard guards on defense. Take Patrick out of the starting lineup. Have Dasonte Bowen play the point and Perks and Dix as the other guards.

Why they didn't go after more in the portal is just a failure of Fran's philosophy to basically only get HS guys which is dumb anyway because he takes this holier than thou approach that I am not going to deal with AAU coaches or other third parties in recruiting which means he is gambling on guys that aren't highly rated recruits and only a certain number of them will pan out and typically they are projects. They should have never taken Harding and instead went out and got an experienced guard.

I think it is hilarious too because some of their fans try to claim that the only reason Iowa State gets black athletes to play for ISU is because they pay them. They literally have a poster claiming the only way to get black athletes out of "urban" areas is to pay them.
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I don't know about Sandfort at the 4. He looked absolutely silly trying to guard Tre King
 
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Sigmapolis said:
Imagine the dire situation you are in if you imagine C-Mac would improve things.

Such a shame. Couldn't happen to a nicer program.



Would C-Mac even get any minutes on this Iowa State team?

Most of the PG minutes are going to our latest Point God in Tamin. Gilbert and Pav are better for the remainder. I don't think C-Mac brings anything in terms of shooting or perimeter defense that would justify him as an off-ball SG over what you get out of Gilbert, Pav, Jiggy Curt, and MM out there.
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Yeah, no. He would be the 5 option at guard
 
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This has been mentioned oftentimes before, but it bears repeating. I believe that part of the slide in UNI Panther basketball is at least indirectly a result of Franny's recruiting. Can you imagine JorBo, Dix, Kreiner, Harding, Baer, either of the Sandforts, Pemsl, etc on UNI's team? I think UNI maintains success if that occurs - because each of those players would have learned to play decent defense - a staple for teams that want to have any type of success in the post-season.
 
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kentkel said:
This has been mentioned oftentimes before, but it bears repeating. I believe that part of the slide in UNI Panther basketball is at least indirectly a result of Franny's recruiting. Can you imagine JorBo, Dix, Kreiner, Harding, Baer, either of the Sandforts, Pemsl, etc on UNI's team? I think UNI maintains success if that occurs - because each of those players would have learned to play decent defense - a staple for teams that want to have any type of success in the post-season.
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Fran is such a bad coach, he's taking down two programs within in the state.
 
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kentkel said:
This has been mentioned oftentimes before, but it bears repeating. I believe that part of the slide in UNI Panther basketball is at least indirectly a result of Franny's recruiting. Can you imagine JorBo, Dix, Kreiner, Harding, Baer, either of the Sandforts, Pemsl, etc on UNI's team? I think UNI maintains success if that occurs - because each of those players would have learned to play decent defense - a staple for teams that want to have any type of success in the post-season.
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That and losing Coach Green
 
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Cyched said:
This meme is making far too many appearances on this forum as of late.

Need to either fix the jimlad emoji or provide a crash course on detecting humor and sarcasm
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It's a meme that makes a very important point.

I did mark my post with the jimlad.

Cyclonepride said:
That and losing Coach Green
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Iowa's MVC-level talent with Green as a defensive coordinator sounds like a very competitive team in the (depleted, we have to admit, after Wichita and Loyola and Creighton departed the conference) MVC.
 
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NWICY said:
Wait this class or the one coming in next yr? This one needs lots of seasoning before being respectable.
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I'm curious how many of them will stick around if Fran decides to hang it up after this year. The cupboard could be pretty damned bare for the next coach, which, with the portal and NIL, isn't as big of a deal anymore, but still
 
Mr Janny said:
I'm curious how many of them will stick around if Fran decides to hang it up after this year. The cupboard could be pretty damned bare for the next coach, which, with the portal and NIL, isn't as big of a deal anymore, but still
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This is why, if I was an Iowa fan, I would want Fran to leave after this year. Even if the Frosh class decided to leave as well, I would be hopeful that the AD would hire a new coach who'd be 100% on board with using the Portal & NIL to get players. That said, I hope Franny decides to coach at Iowa until he's 75!
 
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Mr Janny said:
I'm curious how many of them will stick around if Fran decides to hang it up after this year. The cupboard could be pretty damned bare for the next coach, which, with the portal and NIL, isn't as big of a deal anymore, but still
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I think their top recruit is a legacy.
 
I’ll just never understand how Fran and his staff are such awful recruiters. They’ve never even got close to a 5-star recruit. Woodbury doesn’t count.
 
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