Turned out to still be a loss, but it was nice to see them fight back and really bring the energy. For a while it seemed like we were just going to go away quietly when we were down 15.
The good was we were able to force Iowa into a lot of TO's and convert points off of them. We also cut down on our own TO's (we were +17 in TO's), but our half-court offense did not look very good and Iowa absolutely dominated us on the boards (they were +17).
We needed to make better use of Vogt inside in the second half. Vogt finished with 11 points, but only had 2 second half points. Garza beat him up on the boards, but Vogt was able to score on Garza in the 1st half. We needed to make more of an effort then we did in the 2nd to get Vogt the ball. Vogt actually was relatively good on defense.
We were just 6-24 from three, some of that was Jarron forcing up bad threes. Some of it was Williams, McNeal and Scott missing wide open threes.
I know I like to hate on McNeal, but he and Diarra were largely responsible for our run that brought us back. They both brought high energy and intensity on defense and forced Iowa into a spurt of TO's. It's unfortunate that they are two of our best defensive players and also two of our worst offensive players. Still they do enough that they should get some minutes to give us the intense defense.
The good was we were able to force Iowa into a lot of TO's and convert points off of them. We also cut down on our own TO's (we were +17 in TO's), but our half-court offense did not look very good and Iowa absolutely dominated us on the boards (they were +17).
We needed to make better use of Vogt inside in the second half. Vogt finished with 11 points, but only had 2 second half points. Garza beat him up on the boards, but Vogt was able to score on Garza in the 1st half. We needed to make more of an effort then we did in the 2nd to get Vogt the ball. Vogt actually was relatively good on defense.
We were just 6-24 from three, some of that was Jarron forcing up bad threes. Some of it was Williams, McNeal and Scott missing wide open threes.
I know I like to hate on McNeal, but he and Diarra were largely responsible for our run that brought us back. They both brought high energy and intensity on defense and forced Iowa into a spurt of TO's. It's unfortunate that they are two of our best defensive players and also two of our worst offensive players. Still they do enough that they should get some minutes to give us the intense defense.