Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

[GTO]

Garza is the most decorated player to ever come out of Iowa.

Most decorated but least successful (accomplishments in both college and pros)? If so, you may have a point.

 

[ISUTex]

Keegan Murrays 47 point game was only because of the guys on his team. If the defense hadnt collapsed on Sabonis all night and the trapping of Monk he doesnt get those good looks. System shooter.

Didn't Acie Earl score 50 one time in the NBA? What a legend.

 

[ISUTex]

Most decorated ? Doug McDermott.
Best NBA career? Jeff Hornacek? Don Nelson?
Best Player? Tyrese Haliburton.


Good luck in Des Moines Lucca.

 

[CyPunch]

Trilly sure thinks Fran isn't going anywhere anytime soon

 

[Mr Janny]

Trilly sure thinks Fran isn't going anywhere anytime soon

Yeah, of you listen to Ross Peterson, he's been openly asking if the Iowa AD is going to let Fran go during the season. I'm not sure if he's just trying to stir the pot or if he actually thinks that, but there's no chance in hell that's going to happen, short of Fran putting his hands on a ref or player, which I guess is more likely for Fran than most other coaches, but Iowa could lose 10 straight games, starting right now, with home attendance in the single digits, and they'd still give him to the end of the year.

And a total crater-job is really the only way Fran would get shown the door after this season.

Iowa is going to win some games in the Big 10. They might even get to .500 in the conference.

Fran haters have to hope that he decides to hang it up or move on, because it's very unlikely that he's going to be forced out.

 

[CyPunch]

Yeah, of you listen to Ross Peterson, he's been openly asking if the Iowa AD is going to let Fran go during the season. I'm not sure if he's just trying to stir the pot or if he actually thinks that, but there's no chance in hell that's going to happen, short of Fran putting his hands on a ref or player, which I guess is more likely for Fran than most other coaches, but Iowa could lose 10 straight games, starting right now, with home attendance in the single digits, and they'd still give him to the end of the year.

And a total crater-job is really the only way Fran would get shown the door after this season.

Iowa is going to win some games in the Big 10. They might even get to .500 in the conference.

Fran haters have to hope that he decides to hang it up or move on, because it's very unlikely that he's going to be forced out.

Agree. They will go 7-13 or 8-12 minimum. The Big Ten is bad. There are free wins to be had.

 

[Gunnerclone]

I thought that was Steve Deace for a second

It 100% is Steve Deace?

 

[GTO]

 

[GTO]

They are such fake tough guys/ dorks.

 

[GTO]

 

[Cyclone06]

 

[dafarmer]

Probably both. I feel Garza is the only one that has won the Wooden award.

Wooden hands and feet.

 

[madguy30]

And the whole arena could hear it loud and clear I bet.

 

[clonedude]

OMG…. is Eickholt 12 years old?

He sure acts like it.

 

[cytor]

What a worm.

 

[BryceC]

FTR, I like Freeman, and I think he should end up having a quality college career. And Omaha is far from setting the world on fire to put it generously mild...

But despite the struggles, unless people expected Omaha to be a gangly stiff try-hard Lurch who's all elbows and knees with a 25 inch vertical, dubious athleticism, and a relatively low ceiling (high floor tho.)...

...I don't think anything Freeman does or will ever do approach anything Omaha has been projected or even hoped to be capable of doing. They are in and will always be in different worlds with different paths, parallel universes even.

That is to say, if Omaha figures it out, then the basketball world is his and everything in it. He would (theoretically) at that point be able to do it all and have it all. If Owen Freeman maximizes, then he will be a really nice college Center that can do a few things really well and a few things absolutely horribly and hopelessly bad.

In the era of postion-less interchangeability and versatility, this is just classic iowa and emblematic of iowa bball as a whole for a very long time. Your comment is a very iowa fan kind of comment to make. The subject as a whole is out of your depth. The game has managed to pass all of you by.

There just isn't anything to discuss here. The difference is that ISU doesn't need Omaha this year to be a really good team. Iowa needs Freeman to play very well to be an okay team. That's all there is to it.

 

[dafarmer]

Don Smith( Aziz?) would run circles around any Iowa troglydites.

 

[CysRage]

OMG…. is Eickholt 12 years old?

He sure acts like it.

Somehow the Iowa “media” Is just a bunch of Hawkeye ball washing fanboys.

 

[CyCity]

4.2 ppg on 37% shooting so that tracks.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Being an elder I can assure you that John Johnson and Downtown Fred Brown's Hawk team of 1969-70 would have crushed any of the Garza teams and both Johnson and Brown were 10X the NBA player that Garza is or ever will be. Was in a full Dana House den watching the NCAA game they lost 104-103. Wonder how many more it would have been if there had been a three point shot? Pre-rivalry (we didn't even play each other) and that was probably the most entertaining Hawk season ever. Sort of the ABA era high octane style.