HawkeyeNation Forum - View Single Post - Wins aside, Iowa has improved recently (seriously)

NewMexHawk · 02-09-2010, 04:34 PM

We have improved from getting our heads handed to us and getting blown out of gyms to keeping the games within 7 to 12 point losses.

Now comes the truly hard part. Playing a complete game and not letting part of the game get away from them and getting down by 10 and 12 points during the game. When they do, they rarely if ever can catch up again. We can stay with and even beat poorer teams or teams that are our equals or teams with star players hurt. But at some point of the game, the more talented teams always are able to take over the game for a period of time and there is nothing Iowa can do to stop them. Iowa gets down and is unable to come back.

That is what Iowa is going to have to improve on...can they do that against the more talented teams with the players that can take over teams? Players that we have no defense against? Players that we have no player that can defensively stop that player because our players just do not have the quickness or talent to stop that player? It was never more apparent than against OSU. OSU had four different players that could take over a game and we had no one that could man up against any one of those players. Any one of those players at one point of the game could take over the game.

On the other hand, we had NO ONE that could do something like that. And we won't next year either. That is the difference between Iowa and the better teams in the big 10 and next year's recruiting class is not going to change that. How does Lick ball change any of that?

02-09-2010, 04:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
NewMexHawk HN Legend Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,489	Re: Wins aside, Iowa has improved recently (seriously) - Doc article We have improved from getting our heads handed to us and getting blown out of gyms to keeping the games within 7 to 12 point losses. Now comes the truly hard part. Playing a complete game and not letting part of the game get away from them and getting down by 10 and 12 points during the game. When they do, they rarely if ever can catch up again. We can stay with and even beat poorer teams or teams that are our equals or teams with star players hurt. But at some point of the game, the more talented teams always are able to take over the game for a period of time and there is nothing Iowa can do to stop them. Iowa gets down and is unable to come back. That is what Iowa is going to have to improve on...can they do that against the more talented teams with the players that can take over teams? Players that we have no defense against? Players that we have no player that can defensively stop that player because our players just do not have the quickness or talent to stop that player? It was never more apparent than against OSU. OSU had four different players that could take over a game and we had no one that could man up against any one of those players. Any one of those players at one point of the game could take over the game. On the other hand, we had NO ONE that could do something like that. And we won't next year either. That is the difference between Iowa and the better teams in the big 10 and next year's recruiting class is not going to change that. How does Lick ball change any of that?