I dont think we would be undefeated without him. This team can dominate teams on both ends of the floor. I dont see us losing as many close games this year as we have the last few.
FifyVery unimpressed with ISU defensive coaching at this point.
Imagine that from this brain trust.A lot of knee jerk reactions about Sadler because of this loss.
Color me unimpressed at this point in the season. Perimeter defense has been pretty poor during conference play.
A lot of knee jerk reactions about Sadler because of this loss.
A lot of knee jerk reactions about Sadler because of this loss.
Wow - I didn't see much "scrambling" out there, even when down by a lot. C'mon. We didn't fly at shooters, didn't hit the floor for loose balls, didn't block out, didn't rebound with any ferocity.LOL revives a thread praising an assistant coach for his positive effect on our defense after our worst defensive game of the season. Using, obviously, a sample size of one.
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Sadler has helped. Our defense has improved. I'd be happy to point out the improved challenges, rotations, and walled post positioning for you. Scoring D is slightly up, but I didn't have time to look at possession adjusted which I am sure is down (as our scoring is up, and our Opp shooting percentage is down). Use larger sample sizes if you want to make a point on a team characteristic.
In the game tonight, once we got in a hole, we were in scramble, double defense. This by nature, if the other team is able to pass out of it/swing the ball, creates open shooters. To WVU credit they were able to do just that and continued to knock in those shots.
The defense is clearly better this year. If you don't recognize that, you don't remember last year very well.
Now, whether the better defense is Sadler or better defensive players - probably both.
Defense is about playing percentages. Overall we are better statistically. Unfortunately WVU made the shots.
To be fair, it's no coincidence that almost every team we played in conference shot great from the peremeter. At least above their average.
With that said, WVU has shot out of their minds that game. Won't be as fortunate in Ames I am betting.
To me, from opening tip, many of the players didn't even appear to want to be there. Looked disinterested and when they went cold and WVU seemed to make everything, they shut down.
Very unimpressed with Sadler at this point.
Yep, Fred is paying the price for no inside shot blocker.Our main issue to this day is size. A rim protector would help a ton, as would more front court depth so that we could challenge more aggressively at the rim. With these weaknesses, we have to help and scramble and a team that moves the ball well will get open shots. And hopefully not drain most of them like tonight.