[Herky] 2 amazing games - but I have questions

Tue Feb 28 06:36:17 PST 2023

thanks, Larry!

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:51 AM Larry Edwards <larryed6124 at knology.net> wrote:

>
>
>    1. At the end of the men’s game, after MSU missed the second free
>    throw and we had the ball down three.  Why didn’t Izzo have his team foul
>    us to prevent the 3-point basket?
>
> As for the notion of fouling up three in the final seconds, Izzo dismissed
> it, even as Iowa made four 3-pointers in a 29-second span.
>
> “No, I didn’t,” Izzo said. “We were supposed to switch that and we didn’t
> do that very well.”
>
>
> https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2023/02/25/michigan-state-collapses-final-minutes-loses-iowa/69943875007/
>
> MSU was out of timeouts to set anything up on defense so went with their
> normal alignment. A quick foul would have allowed Iowa to score with the
> clock stopped, then a quick foul by Iowa would have left Iowa enough time
> to advance the ball for a shot. Proponents of fouling with a three point
> lead generally want less than 5 seconds on the clock when doing so. 10
> seconds is too long to use that strategy.
>
>
>
>    1. At the end of the women’s game, I wonder why the IU coach didn’t
>    have the shooter deliberately miss the 2nd free throw.  If Iowa had to
>    rebound and go all the way down the court, I don’t see how we could have
>    made a shot there.  Or would we have just called a timeout after the
>    rebound and gotten the ball at midcourt anyway?  But there would have been
>    less than 1.5 seconds, maybe not enough time.
>
> “I knew to go tell the ref and be like, ‘You have to go look and see if
> the time is right,’” Clark said. “And, you know, they basically doubled it
> at that point. There’s a big difference between 0.8.(seconds) and 1.5 for
> me to get a shot off like that.”
>
> “They can go to the monitor any time in the last two minutes,” Bluder
> said, “and I’m glad they did.”
>
> Holmes made both free throws — Indiana coach Teri Moren said had there
> been that :00.8 on the clock, she might have had Holmes intentionally miss
> the second free throw — then Bluder called a timeout, which advanced the
> ball to midcourt.
>
>
> https://iowacollegehoops.com/2023/02/27/the-monday-tipoff-clark-shoots-and-runs-and-a-weekend-at-carver-rocked/
>
>
> When you can advance the ball to the front court, 1 second is enough to
> get a shot off. An Indiana free throw miss would have allowed a two point
> basket to win.
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"June Hauck" <jehauck at bellsouth.net>
> *To: *"herky" <herky at lists.herky.net>
> *Sent: *Monday, February 27, 2023 7:21:04 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Herky] 2 amazing games - but I have questions
>
> I actually met up with a friend from grad school.  We went to the Final
> Four together in 1980 and many Iowa games in the 80s and 90s.  Wonderful
> weekend!
> June
>
>
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>
> On Monday, February 27, 2023, 7:17 PM, Gwen McNatt Enokian <
> gmcnhawkeye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wish we had made plans to meet up!  I did run into old Herky members Sue
> Bailey. It was such a fun weekend!!
>
> My husband has been asking these questions over and over again. Maybe why
> Izzo blamed the loss on "piss poor coaching"
>
> Heading up to Minneapolis Wednesday!
>
> Go Hawks!
>
> Gwen
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 6:24 PM <jehauck at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> First, I can’t imagine a more incredible return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena
> than I experienced this weekend.  But I’m curious:
>
>
>
>    1. At the end of the men’s game, after MSU missed the second free
>    throw and we had the ball down three.  Why didn’t Izzo have his team foul
>    us to prevent the 3-point basket?
>
>
>
>    1. At the end of the women’s game, I wonder why the IU coach didn’t
>    have the shooter deliberately miss the 2nd free throw.  If Iowa had to
>    rebound and go all the way down the court, I don’t see how we could have
>    made a shot there.  Or would we have just called a timeout after the
>    rebound and gotten the ball at midcourt anyway?  But there would have been
>    less than 1.5 seconds, maybe not enough time.
>
>
>
> I can’t even remember the last time I was in CHA.  It opened the year
> after I left Iowa City so I haven’t been there many times.  The experience
> was a lot of fun, and I loved the ESPN College Gameday – the atmosphere was
> just electric.
>
>
>
> Go Hawks!!
>
>
>
> June H.
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