Evansville at Northern Iowa

[sixth ace]

I don't mean to be real cheeky but where's the fella' always talking about season sweeps before the start of the season. UNI and WSU have something to tell you.

If ya talking about me let me say Congrats on your broom

[PantherSigEp]

Its too bad, he already lost one full year to a freak broken arm while lifting weights...

I still cringe thinking about how that must've gone down or looked. Ugh.

[Ricardo del Rio]

Fun fact: (Sorry to pile it on Ace fans) UNI has made 31 3's in it's 2 match-ups against the Aces this year. If you counted the 2 FT's on the made 3-pt fouls tonight that means the Panthers scored about 95 pts on the Aces this season as a result of shooting from behind the arc. I wonder what Marty's game plan should be if they were to meet in STL? Hmm...

If my Aggie arithmetic is correct, it is 47.5 points a game.

If I was Coach Simmons, I would push the perimeter defense out a step or two. Or maybe, it doesn't matter.

[The Color Purple]

D.J. Balentine is a player any coach would love to have on his team...too bad Marty will NOT guard the three-point shooters, always doubling down on the post and causing defenders to have to run out to try to stop the perimeter shot. It has killed us all year...in fact, killed us for several years! Mock getting those two early, and in my opinion, questionable fouls, that took him out of the game less than 4 minutes in, hurt us with post play, but still we give away too many games by watching our opponents hit threes!

Proud of Balentine! Frustrated with our coach! We need to CHANGE our defensive tactics!!!

If you think the game plan was to leave open their shooters you're crazy. 75% of their 3's were in transition and when we couldn't keep our man in front of us. The help side defense has to stop the penetration which leaves the three point line open. Our guards made Deon Mitchell look like Chris Paul. Our double downs are because we don't have big guy who can defend a skilled post player well enough without fouling. Hence the extreme foul trouble Mock, Howard, and Moore were in against Tuttle, the best big man in the conference. The double downs and help defense at least take away easy lay ups. The biggest problem is unwillingness/lack of ability to move their feet and stay between their man and the basket

[shocktheheart]

D.J. Balentine is a player any coach would love to have on his team...too bad Marty will NOT guard the three-point shooters, always doubling down on the post and causing defenders to have to run out to try to stop the perimeter shot. It has killed us all year...in fact, killed us for several years! Mock getting those two early, and in my opinion, questionable fouls, that took him out of the game less than 4 minutes in, hurt us with post play, but still we give away too many games by watching our opponents hit threes!

Proud of Balentine! Frustrated with our coach! We need to CHANGE our defensive tactics!!!

If you think the game plan was to leave open their shooters you're crazy. 75% of their 3's were in transition and when we couldn't keep our man in front of us. The help side defense has to stop the penetration which leaves the three point line open. Our guards made Deon Mitchell look like Chris Paul. Our double downs are because we don't have big guy who can defend a skilled post player well enough without fouling. Hence the extreme foul trouble Mock, Howard, and Moore were in against Tuttle, the best big man in the conference. The double downs and help defense at least take away easy lay ups. The biggest problem is unwillingness/lack of ability to move their feet and stay between their man and the basket

If Evansville is having problems with UNI's big men...then you are in for a long day tomorrow at WSU. WSU is going to run a lot more than UNI as well especially off turnovers.

[UNIFanSince1983]

D.J. Balentine is a player any coach would love to have on his team...too bad Marty will NOT guard the three-point shooters, always doubling down on the post and causing defenders to have to run out to try to stop the perimeter shot. It has killed us all year...in fact, killed us for several years! Mock getting those two early, and in my opinion, questionable fouls, that took him out of the game less than 4 minutes in, hurt us with post play, but still we give away too many games by watching our opponents hit threes!

Proud of Balentine! Frustrated with our coach! We need to CHANGE our defensive tactics!!!

If you think the game plan was to leave open their shooters you're crazy. 75% of their 3's were in transition and when we couldn't keep our man in front of us. The help side defense has to stop the penetration which leaves the three point line open. Our guards made Deon Mitchell look like Chris Paul. Our double downs are because we don't have big guy who can defend a skilled post player well enough without fouling. Hence the extreme foul trouble Mock, Howard, and Moore were in against Tuttle, the best big man in the conference. The double downs and help defense at least take away easy lay ups. The biggest problem is unwillingness/lack of ability to move their feet and stay between their man and the basket

If Evansville is having problems with UNI's big men...then you are in for a long day tomorrow at WSU. WSU is going to run a lot more than UNI as well especially off turnovers.

If they were having trouble with Mitchell driving in and kicking Van Vleet will kill them. However, We are averaging 7 more points per game in conference games than anyone else. We really really run this year. This is not the usual UNI team that plays defense and slow down on offense. I have a feeling WSU will win by around 25 points, and Ballentine will probably be held to a season low. Cotton will be all up in his grill all day.

[Wufan]

If they were having trouble with Mitchell driving in and kicking Van Vleet will kill them. However, We are averaging 7 more points per game in conference games than anyone else. We really really run this year. This is not the usual UNI team that plays defense and slow down on offense. I have a feeling WSU will win by around 25 points, and Ballentine will probably be held to a season low. Cotton will be all up in his grill all day.

Ballentine will score 10+ points in the last 10 minutes.

[uniftw]

If they were having trouble with Mitchell driving in and kicking Van Vleet will kill them. However, We are averaging 7 more points per game in conference games than anyone else. We really really run this year. This is not the usual UNI team that plays defense and slow down on offense. I have a feeling WSU will win by around 25 points, and Ballentine will probably be held to a season low. Cotton will be all up in his grill all day.

Ballentine will score 10+ points in the last 10 minutes.

He'll probably get 25-30 points. He was bailed the heck out by a crap ton of calls in the UNI game. Their entire offense was predicated entirely on nothing by him running off of 3 screens and then shooting as soon as he caught it.

UNI wasn't "letting" him score but they took the strategy of Ballentine will get his but don't let anyone else beat us and it worked.

[UNIFanSince1983]

If they were having trouble with Mitchell driving in and kicking Van Vleet will kill them. However, We are averaging 7 more points per game in conference games than anyone else. We really really run this year. This is not the usual UNI team that plays defense and slow down on offense. I have a feeling WSU will win by around 25 points, and Ballentine will probably be held to a season low. Cotton will be all up in his grill all day.

Ballentine will score 10+ points in the last 10 minutes.

He'll probably get 25-30 points. He was bailed the heck out by a crap ton of calls in the UNI game. Their entire offense was predicated entirely on nothing by him running off of 3 screens and then shooting as soon as he caught it.

UNI wasn't "letting" him score but they took the strategy of Ballentine will get his but don't let anyone else beat us and it worked.

We held him to 8 at Evansville. That is what makes me think it is possible Wichita (the best defensive team in the conference by far) can do that or better.

[uniftw]

[quote="UNIFanSince1983"]
They are making a much more conscious effort to get him shots than they were early in the season...

One thing I noticed during the UNI game is that he is very good as doing a flop/flail/whatever coming off of his 800 screens trying to make it look like he is being held, pushed, tripped, etc... That got him a ton of whistles the other night. He shot 21 free throws (making 19)...the rest of UE shot 11 free throws combined (going 6-11). He took 40% of their shots and had their only 3 point makes.

I wouldn't be surprised to see WSU hold him down though.


Ballentine will be exactly like Colt...Marty will run the ever loving s*** out of him. He'll put up a ton of points but the team will have a very low ceiling because no one around him is going to develop enough to be a consistent threat. They may have a good game occasionally but a team simply can't win with just 1 player taking 40% of the teams shots and scoring 35-50% of the teams points. UE will be lucky to get their first season over .500 in league play in YEARS using this type of game plan