Sluggish Cyclones limp past Texas Southern

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Originally Posted by Steve

Fred made the point that with the time off before the next game that he could afford to go with the starters for a longer period since they would have time to get their legs back under them. Not a real need to use the bench in the last game. You don't just hand out playing time to the bench because they would like to play.

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I understand and agree with what you've said but what happens when our guards need a breather late in January and DP is the only option to spell them. Instead of working out the kinks now, he'll have to learn on the fly against good teams.

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Originally Posted by jbhtexas

At this point, it's not like there is a lot of tape of any team for the present season that can be used for game prep. Perhaps ISU just doesn't have the talent to D-up a good player from a mid-major conference.



Generally people aren't "very pleased" with a team when they don't play well.



I just found it interesting that you were "very pleased" with a performance that would get ISU wiped off the floor in a conference game. That's all.

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Well, we didn't play a conference game yesterday did we. Very pleased with a Win. Pretty standard really.

Give the kids a break. They just came off an emotional road victory versus a rival 1.5 days before and they have finals starting on Monday. They still pulled off a double-digit victory.

JVB looked a lot better, though still got into foul trouble. We only had 8 TO's in the whole game (TS had 14). And not that it makes much of a difference, but the ESPN boxscore has both teams with 38 rebounds a piece (ISU had 2 more OREB's).

Obviously, that kind of game could end up in a blow-out in B12 play, but that's why we have these tune-ups now.

cloned4life,

The basketball game yesterday was the worst basketball game I have seen in a while. It was awful to watch. We played horribly. Which is to be expected. But it was BY FAR the worst game we played this year. There is not even a close 2nd.

We may have played bad against UNI but that is b/c UNI forced us to look bad. We looked bad yesterday b/c WE made ourselves look bad. That is the difference

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Originally Posted by Clones85'

cloned4life,

The basketball game yesterday was the worst basketball game I have seen in a while. It was awful to watch. We played horribly. Which is to be expected. But it was BY FAR the worst game we played this year. There is not even a close 2nd.

We may have played bad against UNI but that is b/c UNI forced us to look bad. We looked bad yesterday b/c WE made ourselves look bad. That is the difference

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Define........"in a while"? Maybe you weren't blessed to see us a couple of seasons ago about this time of year rip powerhouse Jacksonville State by 6.........only to lose three days later to South Dakota State. And who can forget those games soon to be on ESPN classics against Colorado and Nebraska last year? And these were done with a veteran head coach.....and future NBA talent. Oh yes.........it can get worse!