Re: ***Official ISU vs OSU Postgame thread***
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swarthmoreCY 
GD I hate these type of losses. At some point would it be too much to ask just to have a season where **** goes our way? Save me the you make your own luck bs. I have watched too many other programs have the ball bounce their way on the road to a magical season.
Saving our good fortune for the Big 12 tournament and March Madness?
Re: ***Official ISU vs OSU Postgame thread***
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fatkid1974 Seems like I've watched that game a hundred times over the last 20 years.
I had absolutely no doubt we would lose.
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I don't think we did anything wrong, just didn't have the home-court advantage, and also didn't have some shots fall while they had a lucky one fall in the last seconds. It tears your heart out, but what can you say. We also had a stretch where they were getting easy inside shots that our interior defense seemed to break down. I know that we can throw blame, but what good would that do? Cyclones played a great ballgame.
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tee1up I can just hear you if we foul with 25 seconds to go, they hit the free throws, we miss, and they win the game. That is just not smart, I don't think I have ever seen that work, let alone anyone try it.
Stanford ladies Bball did it 2 yrs ago to be Uconn.. BOOM .. just to name 1
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2020cy When I slash my wrists, do I cut parallel to the blood vessels or horizontal ?
I laughed pretty hard at this.
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NoHawk4Life really.. explain why
How about this. Almost every team in the country shoots better from the FT line then they do from the field closely guarded. You are giving the advantage to the other team who simply has to make one of two for the lead. Then you have to make a basket. Your odds of losing just went way up. You are assuming that they were going to score. That was very much in doubt. After all, they had a 5 second violation on that possession that just wasn't called but should have been because it was 7 seconds or more.
I'm really trying to be nice here, but there is a reason you never see someone intentionally foul in that situation in a tie game. This is nothing like the debate of to foul or not when up by 3.
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ISU42 What is this "new school" idea of handing out wins? Dumbest idea I've heard in a while.
How is it handing them the win, when you give yourself the ball with a chance to tie the game (or win if they don't make both FT) with more than 2.5 left on the clock?
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akclone Gibson is a huge liability.
The game is too fast for him.
He really needs to step up because we need some defensive backup.
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LutherBlue I had absolutely no doubt we would lose.
Same. It was blatantly obvious when Smart his that stupid shot at half and the nail in the coffin was that boneheaded play by Ejim.
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Wesley He really needs to step up because we need some defensive backup.
Did you just imply Percy Gibson and defense in the same sentence?
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mitten1975 I don't think we did anything wrong, just didn't have the home-court advantage, and also didn't have some shots fall while they had a lucky one fall in the last seconds. It tears your heart out, but what can you say. We also had a stretch where they were getting easy inside shots that our interior defense seemed to break down. I know that we can throw blame, but what good would that do? Cyclones played a great ballgame.
We were in foul trouble and no backups on the bench that we trust for defense.
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NoHawk4Life How is it handing them the win, when you give yourself the ball with a chance to tie the game (or win if they don't make both FT) with more than 2.5 left on the clock?
Why not play D, rebound their missed FG attempt, & then take the ball down in a tie game w/ a chance to win?
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Final42b I think I'm going to just stop watching Wednesday night road games.
trust me, its not possible. I quit every most addictions but this one is unbreakable.
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VeloClone How about this. Almost every team in the country shoots better from the FT line then they do from the field closely guarded. You are giving the advantage to the other team who simply has to make one of two for the lead. Then you have to make a basket. Your odds of losing just went way up. You are assuming that they were going to score. That was very much in doubt. After all, they had a 5 second violation on that possession that just wasn't called but should have been because it was 7 seconds or more.
I'm really trying to be nice here, but there is a reason you never see someone intentionally foul in that situation in a tie game. This is nothing like the debate of to foul or not when up by 3.
This is just the way life is for ISU. The chances of OSU making a tough, closely contested shot to take the lead were 100%. The chances of them making both free throws had we fouled were 100%. Had they needed another 60 footer or banked in 3 pointer at some point, I would put the chances of them making it at 100%.
We just don't win these games on the road.
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VeloClone How about this. Almost every team in the country shoots better from the FT line then they do from the field closely guarded. You are giving the advantage to the other team who simply has to make one of two for the lead. Then you have to make a basket. Your odds of losing just went way up. You are assuming that they were going to score. That was very much in doubt. After all, they had a 5 second violation on that possession that just wasn't called but should have been because it was 7 seconds or more.
I'm really trying to be nice here, but there is a reason you never see someone intentionally foul in that situation in a tie game. This is nothing like the debate of to foul or not when up by 3.
You clearly know everything about basketball (if it were 1975 still) so not worth talking to you anymore..
