Virginia board, if you're curious.
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Georges is a man on a mission. Playing like a man possessed. You can see it in his eyes. I think the only person that can stop him right now is himself.
As someone who used to live in Virginia, the fans from Charlottesville are analogous to our pals in Iowa City.
I was actually looking forward to playing a team with a real fan base after Iona and LR. I didn't realize Virginia fans would be such **********. They're making fun of our acceptance rate, the state of Iowa, and basically giving zero respect to our offense.
Geographic smack talk has always been the lowest form of smack talk. It's basically what you have to resort to when you have nothing else
The topography where I was born is better than the topography where you were born!
I love reading opposing team's forums because it's fun to see who's actually watched the team and who is just basing their entire opinion off of seeing them in a game or two in the tournament. Our fans do that too, but I have fun reading Virginia's forum.
They say we shoot a lot of 3's - well that's semi true, but it's slightly overstated. Of the 68 teams in the tournament, ISU coming into the tournament ranked 20th in percentage of points scored from 3 pt. UT Chattanooga and Maryland are both only 0.2% lower than ISU, and another 14 teams are each less than 2% lower than ISU. That means ISU, while above average for points scored by 3, is not that far above the middle of the pack. Also interesting to note that of the 19 teams above ISU only 6 are from mid or low majors. The other 13 are from power conferences, and 3 of those low/mid major teams won their first round games.
The following tournament schools score a higher percentage of their points from 3 than ISU:
Oklahoma, Michigan, Syracuse, Michigan State, Duke, Villanova, Iowa, Kansas, Texas A&M, etc.
Also interesting to see how they are kind of disregarding Niang's skill - which to me is hilarious. I could understand why because he's not that athletic, but the more you watch him the more you realize how skilled of a player he is. Some of the angles he uses off the backboard and also getting his shot off of other players is actually kind off ridiculous. Haven't seen a lot of players that skilled with angles and anybody who has watched enough basketball, with an objective mind, would realize that if they've seen him and others play a lot.
If he wasn't skilled, he wouldn't be 2nd all time in scoring at ISU because his athleticism isn't that great. A lot of players use their athleticism in college to score points in the post and it works. Niang can't do that - so he has to use his skill. They need to think more about that one because out of everything I read, that was one of the most ridiculous things that showed they haven't really watched a lot of the guy. He can be shut down - we've seen it before - and he'll have a tough task with players like Brogdon - but to say he's not that skilled is just highly laughable and shows that they've barely seen him actually play.
It's like the racism of sports. It's completely illogical, especially when you're talking about high major teams when most of the players on the team who play aren't even from around where the college or university is. We have players from the Chicago area, NYC area, Toronto area, Boston area, Charlotte, Milwaukee, and Dallas area. There are 3 players on the team from Iowa and I believe they're all walk-ons.
They say we shoot a lot of 3's - well that's semi true, but it's slightly overstated. Of the 68 teams in the tournament, ISU coming into the tournament ranked 20th in percentage of points scored from 3 pt. UT Chattanooga and Maryland are both only 0.2% lower than ISU, and another 14 teams are each less than 2% lower than ISU. That means ISU, while above average for points scored by 3, is not that far above the middle of the pack. Also interesting to note that of the 19 teams above ISU only 6 are from mid or low majors. The other 13 are from power conferences, and 3 of those low/mid major teams won their first round games.
The following tournament schools score a higher percentage of their points from 3 than ISU:
Oklahoma, Michigan, Syracuse, Michigan State, Duke, Villanova, Iowa, Kansas, Texas A&M, etc.
Also interesting to see how they are kind of disregarding Niang's skill - which to me is hilarious. I could understand why because he's not that athletic, but the more you watch him the more you realize how skilled of a player he is. Some of the angles he uses off the backboard and also getting his shot off of other players is actually kind off ridiculous. Haven't seen a lot of players that skilled with angles and anybody who has watched enough basketball, with an objective mind, would realize that if they've seen him and others play a lot.
If he wasn't skilled, he wouldn't be 2nd all time in scoring at ISU because his athleticism isn't that great. A lot of players use their athleticism in college to score points in the post and it works. Niang can't do that - so he has to use his skill. They need to think more about that one because out of everything I read, that was one of the most ridiculous things that showed they haven't really watched a lot of the guy. He can be shut down - we've seen it before - and he'll have a tough task with players like Brogdon - but to say he's not that skilled is just highly laughable and shows that they've barely seen him actually play.
It's like the racism of sports. It's completely illogical, especially when you're talking about high major teams when most of the players on the team who play aren't even from around where the college or university is. We have players from the Chicago area, NYC area, Toronto area, Boston area, Charlotte, Milwaukee, and Dallas area. There are 3 players on the team from Iowa and I believe they're all walk-ons.
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I can't wait until they see all the cardinal and gold waiting for them in Chicago. A friend used to live in the DC area, talked about how obviously there are fans from all over the country there, always claimed UVA fans were the worst, said there were arrogant, stuck up, looked down on the out of towners. Social media seems to reinforce that.
We have two scholarship players from Iowa - Brady Ernst (Clinton) and Jordan Ashton (Mt. Pleasant)
You're right. One is a walk on. Anyway, not even close to the main point of what I wrote - and Ernst has not played more than a small handful of minutes this year. The point is that most players on the team are not from Iowa pretty much none of them actually get meaningful minutes except Ashton for awhile.
Here's their full game against Duke that the Blue Devils won on a buzzer beater. We have similar Ken Pom numbers as Duke, although I do think we're better than them.
[video=youtube;nJN-evJVVCw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJN-evJVVCw[/video]
[video=youtube;nJN-evJVVCw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJN-evJVVCw[/video]
Exactly, when ultimately we win:
Virginia - Confederacy
Iowa - Union
/thread. :wink:
Seriously, Virginia is a nice state, but it's kind of low to argue geography. **** 'em
That message board only makes sense if I still lived in 1993. Who ever is paying to keep that board up and running should ask for their money back.
A bunch east coast elitists from the ACC. Fans seem like a bunch of dorks but their basketball team is the real deal.
Clones are going to have to make shots, defend, rebound and stay out of foul trouble. It's a great opportunity.
Looking forward to sea of Cardinal and gold take over the arena.
Clones are going to have to make shots, defend, rebound and stay out of foul trouble. It's a great opportunity.
Looking forward to sea of Cardinal and gold take over the arena.
