Hawkeyes as a 3 point shooting team

It sounds like Lickliter is going to turn the Hawkeyes into a 3 point shooting type of team. Butler had a history of making quite a few 3 pointers a game and it seems like he is focusing on getting some sharp shooters on the team as quickly as possible.

One of the things I hated about the Hawkeyes when Alford was coaching is how often they shot 3 pointers. But, I’m still pretty excited about Lickliter.

The thing I have hated about Iowa shooting 3 pointers over the recent years is they never really had enough shooters to do it well. Every year it seems like we have one guy who hits quite a few but is pretty inconsistent despite ending up with a relatively good overall percentage. Then everybody else seems to have really poor percentages from beyond the arc. That isn’t a very good formula. Plus, the big guys at Iowa just haven’t been that impressive recently

I remember way too many periods of guards just dribbling or passing the ball around the arc until the shot clock got low and chucking up a 3. When the offense moved and picked and executed under Alford it was great. But there were almost always 8-10 minute stretches were the ball wouldn’t go through the hoop.

Hopefully Lickliter will get enough real shooters that can consistently run the offense to get nice, clean, open 3 point shots. It seemed to work at Butler. Hopefully he’ll be able to get the same kind of players to come to Iowa.