Next Year

[Panther AC]

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Would love to get the New Mexico coaches kid. 2 years left and he is familiar with Iowa.

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Since his dad was an assistant coach at Iowa and two freshman guards have announced they are leaving Iowa City in the last two days, there's a good chance Neal will be a Hawkeye.

[BCPanther]

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Since his dad was an assistant coach at Iowa and two freshman guards have announced they are leaving Iowa City in the last two days, there's a good chance Neal will be a Hawkeye.

Totally disagree. With the hatred for Steve Alford in Iowa City, why would his top assistant's kid want to go there? Also, he would have been about 10 years old when they moved to Albuquerque, it's not like Iowa City was really home for him.

I'm guessing he ends up in the Pac12 somewhere.

[hoopfan]

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I agree with this except for I think Jeremy will get at least 35 minutes. I also think that Lohaus and Carlson will get at least 30 minutes each. Will be very interesting to see how the minutes pan out for everyone. I'm really hoping we get the albrecht kid (I think he'd fit right in at UNI) to be our point guard to let mccloud put some weight on.

Isn't Spike about 5'10" and coming off a pretty serious hip injury? I understand he played in the B1G, but I'd rather give McCloud the minutes and experience. Next year's team should be a better rebounding team which may allow them to get out in transition a little more than we saw this year.

I'm hoping we can find a wing who is at least 6'4". Otherwise when Morgan leaves we are looking at playing 3 guards who are all 6' and brown would be the only the perimeter player with any size. That worked 6 years ago, but the game keeps getting taller and more athletic and it would be a long season for those kids trying to battle bigger players every night.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I agree with this except for I think Jeremy will get at least 35 minutes. I also think that Lohaus and Carlson will get at least 30 minutes each. Will be very interesting to see how the minutes pan out for everyone. I'm really hoping we get the albrecht kid (I think he'd fit right in at UNI) to be our point guard to let mccloud put some weight on.

How often has a UNI post player played 30 minutes? I would tend to agree that Morgan could get more than 30 minutes, but I don't see it exceeding a 33 min/game average. The 2016-17 non conference won't be nearly as challenging and Morgan hopefully won't be required to play as extensively...especially won't be getting any spot minutes at the 4 like he did a few times this year.

[SteinPizza]

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Isn't Spike about 5'10" and coming off a pretty serious hip injury? I understand he played in the B1G, but I'd rather give McCloud the minutes and experience. Next year's team should be a better rebounding team which may allow them to get out in transition a little more than we saw this year.

I'm hoping we can find a wing who is at least 6'4". Otherwise when Morgan leaves we are looking at playing 3 guards who are all 6' and brown would be the only the perimeter player with any size. That worked 6 years ago, but the game keeps getting taller and more athletic and it would be a long season for those kids trying to battle bigger players every night.

Albrecht would potentially fill a real need for us, but I totally agree with what you're saying about taller wings. UNI needs more length, and the staff knows this. That's why there's been a quest for longer 2s and 3s for awhile. The staff's had a couple of guys crap out trying to get there, but at least they're not satisfied with starting 3 players 6'2 or less. Doing so really limits your upside as a team. 2010 was a great year, but if you want it to not be a one off, you keep moving the needle upwards on length and athleticism. While it may not be officially stated, the staff seems to be trying to do just that.

[unipanther2154]

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Isn't Spike about 5'10" and coming off a pretty serious hip injury? I understand he played in the B1G, but I'd rather give McCloud the minutes and experience. Next year's team should be a better rebounding team which may allow them to get out in transition a little more than we saw this year.

I'm hoping we can find a wing who is at least 6'4". Otherwise when Morgan leaves we are looking at playing 3 guards who are all 6' and brown would be the only the perimeter player with any size. That worked 6 years ago, but the game keeps getting taller and more athletic and it would be a long season for those kids trying to battle bigger players every night.

We will have tanner.... But more size Is never bad.

[CyCarp]

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Outside of a transfer, I expect:
PG: McCloud (20+)/Haldeman(15+)
SG: Lohaus (25+)/Haldeman (15+)
WG: Morgan (30)/Brown (15ish)
PF: Carlson (25)/McDonnell (15ish)
C: Koch (20-25)/Not sure who gets more between Friedman and Dahl)

This still leaves minutes for Conrey/Knar to get decent, spot minutes consistently.

It's pretty interesting to break your expected minutes down by class.

Senior: 30
Junior: 70-75
Freshmen: 65

It only adds up to 170, so there's still 30 minutes going somewhere - throw in some minutes for Dahl and Conrey and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect 70+ minutes from the freshmen. I don't know if we've ever seen a team with freshmen playing so many minutes. Next year is a huge bridge year for the program. If we can win with 1 senior and 4-5 freshmen contributing, we set ourselves up for a good run imo.

[DownGoesKansas]

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Could see a lot of interesting lineup combinations.

One I am looking forward to:

McDonnell/Carlson/Morgan/Lohaus/Haldeman - Still reasonably big but filled with shooters.

Doubt we ever this but it would be interesting:

Dahl/Koch/Carlson/Morgan/PG - talk about a massive lineup (I think replacing Koch with McDonnell is one we will actually see though)

We be very interesting to see how it plays out.

With regards to minute distribution, I almost guarantee that Morgan plays close to 35 and Klint 30, especially in games that are reasonable close. After that I am not really sure. Wyatt with a big chunk of time and then McCloud/Haldeman/Brown filling in the PG and time that Morgan and Lohaus do not play.

No clue how the remaining post minutes will be distributed between Koch/Dahl/Ted/Luke. Koch the obvious favorite for more.

[Username]

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It's pretty interesting to break your expected minutes down by class.

Senior: 30
Junior: 70-75
Freshmen: 65

It only adds up to 170, so there's still 30 minutes going somewhere - throw in some minutes for Dahl and Conrey and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect 70+ minutes from the freshmen. I don't know if we've ever seen a team with freshmen playing so many minutes. Next year is a huge bridge year for the program. If we can win with 1 senior and 4-5 freshmen contributing, we set ourselves up for a good run imo.

Yeah, but when some consider Morgan to maybe be an even better player than Tuttle, combined with a solid 2nd in command Carlson, the rest just need to fill roles. Unfortunetly the biggest problem I see is no 2nd great perimeter defender like they had with Wes. Brown will be good, and still could contribute, but honestly how often are Brown and Morgan going to play together if at all.

[run&blade]

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We will have tanner.... But more size Is never bad.

Seeing the 4a title game, Tanner will need to work his butt off to see the floor ever. He wasn't quick aggressive or anything.

If his name wasn't Lohaus I honestly don't think he would get a sniff at Uni.

[panther-state]

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Seeing the 4a title game, Tanner will need to work his butt off to see the floor ever. He wasn't quick aggressive or anything.

If his name wasn't Lohaus I honestly don't think he would get a sniff at Uni.

Yeah...we know dude. Worst recruit in UNI history. Jacobson has lost all knowledge and control of recruiting.

FIRE COACH JAKE!!!!!

Another enlightening assessment from R&B and his quick glances at stats and watching a single bball game.

[run&blade]

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Yeah...we know dude. Worst recruit in UNI history. Jacobson has lost all knowledge and control of recruiting.

FIRE COACH JAKE!!!!!

Another enlightening assessment from R&B and his quick glances at stats and watching a single bball game.

I missed the post where I said fire the coach. Please share what you think makes Tanner a great piece to the Uni puzzle. Feel free to tell us what skills he has that make him D1 material.

Iowa city west had all the hype of multiple division one players. Frankly change the last names and you might have one. The one didn't have a last name of lohaus or mcaffery.

How many division one players come out of Iowa high school averaging less than 10 points a game?

Uni doesn't need a bushel basket of tweeners that are not all that tall and unable to create their own shot.

[panther-state]

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Hey, send your complaints to Jacobson. That's clearly where they start considering you've been talking for ages about how we overrecruit unathletic chuckers for guards and not enough JUCO bigs.

I'm with you though. Jake is literally insane for recruiting someone who averaged so few pts after coming back from a leg injury only months ago. Should have pulled the scholarship after the State final. Not sure why Jake doesn't just go to Quikstats and start sending out schollies based on PPG. It has to be that simple

[run&blade]

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Hey, send your complaints to Jacobson. That's clearly where they start considering you've been talking for ages about how we overrecruit unathletic chuckers for guards and not enough JUCO bigs.

I'm with you though. Jake is literally insane for recruiting someone who averaged so few pts after coming back from a leg injury only months ago. Should have pulled the scholarship after the State final. Not sure why Jake doesn't just go to Quikstats and start sending out schollies based on PPG. It has to be that simple

Want to get over the top? It will be done with grad transfers, regular transfers, and or JUCOs. If you don't agree with that then so be it.

Uni will never get to an elite eight or better with straight high school recruiting.

[Panther_BBall]

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What do you guys think the conference will look like next year? I think UNI has the potential to finish in top 3 and if we finish in top 2 with all these freshman that'd be huge. P.S. According to verbal commits the Brzoja guy from Evansville is going pro.