[FalseMirage]

Sometimes in basketball an entire team goes cold. Or gets hot. It's a game of streaks. Today Iowa was on a 40 minute cold streak. Plus CU played a complete game.

[NewMexHawk]

Basabe is a major key to Iowa's play. With the lack of surrounding talent and big men in the lineup, as Duff mentioned, teams are now double teaming Basabe. It is going to take awhile for Basabe to figure out what to do or until he can get some help inside. Until then, the others are going to have to pick it up.

I am not going to get down on Basabe. He needs to get used to the new styles of defense being thrown at him. Take Iowa's ONLY real big out of the game and Iowa wills struggle. And at 6'7' or 6'8" that isn't a real big by any means.

Once we get the big recruits here, Iowa is going to have a lot of size and teams will no longer be able to double team Basabe. Teams will have their hands full with a 7'1" skilled player and even perhaps a 6'10" player at his side. That leaves Basabe one on one with opposing players inside.

In about 2 years or even toward the end of next year, Iowa is going to be very very tough inside. Just having a 7'1" player in the middle changes everything for Iowa. And the possibility of a 6'10" player playing next to him changes everything even more. Oglesby will have a season under his belt; Olesani will have a year under his belt and may provide some nice backup minutes. Basabe won't be double teamed everytime he touches the ball, and the rest of the team will have one more season under their belt. Iowa will not be depending on 6'7" inch guys to be their key rebounders, these guys will be able to help rebound AND run the floor with a couple of bigs in the middle.

So I am hoping that Iowa can have a nice season this year but they are going to have their hands full. Iowa is still a year or two away from being REALLY competitive in the B1G.

Write Creighton off and move on and continue to improve.

[sioux34]

NewMex, when Basabe watches the film of the Creighton game, it will be easy for him to pick out when the double teams come, and it should make it clear to him what he needs to do. I agree that he will see a lot of doubles this season. He needs to learn to pass out of them.