The ball, and, more importantly, all 5 players moving on offense was incredibly refreshing. Brockington (after seeing him for all of28 minutes) looks like he can get buckets when needed, but the team effort created a lot of opportunities. I hope they can keep it up. Was fun to watch.
I'm in. TJ is the WAY!
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The ball, and, more importantly, all 5 players moving on offense was incredibly refreshing. Brockington (after seeing him for all of28 minutes) looks like he can get buckets when needed, but the team effort created a lot of opportunities. I hope they can keep it up. Was fun to watch.
I wasnt able to watch the game, but from the highlights I saw I liked the ball movement. Which is refreshing considering prohm didnt know what that was.
Really hoping TJ can get us some skilled bigs
Really hoping TJ can get us some skilled bigs
So, TJ has the team's attention.
They seem to be following instructions, the ball doesn't stick with any one player and moves with intent from one side to the other quickly, we don't drain the clock by dribbling and then go 1 on 5, we play our man and have help D on the backside and pretty decent recovery when the opposition gets a good rotation or skip pass and they block out pretty decent.
It WAS a lower level team. The Big 12 will be much tougher and we won't look as good and we will get exploited. BUT, I appreciated the organization, the willingness to work together and the hustle at both ends. That alone is a big improvement over last year.
I won't expect a lot and be pleasantly surprised if they get to .500. TJ has my trust for now. The next step is to take it to a level where he wins more than loses and then, ultimately, back to ISU's rightful place in the top 4 of this conference year in an year out.
They seem to be following instructions, the ball doesn't stick with any one player and moves with intent from one side to the other quickly, we don't drain the clock by dribbling and then go 1 on 5, we play our man and have help D on the backside and pretty decent recovery when the opposition gets a good rotation or skip pass and they block out pretty decent.
It WAS a lower level team. The Big 12 will be much tougher and we won't look as good and we will get exploited. BUT, I appreciated the organization, the willingness to work together and the hustle at both ends. That alone is a big improvement over last year.
I won't expect a lot and be pleasantly surprised if they get to .500. TJ has my trust for now. The next step is to take it to a level where he wins more than loses and then, ultimately, back to ISU's rightful place in the top 4 of this conference year in an year out.
Obviously has a way to go, but it was fun to hear Scott on the call too. He's just getting into it and will only get better, and given the chance I would take both of them on the call for the whole season right now.
I loved hearing Condit's effort when he was on the floor.
It nice to see that we actually have a B12 level backcourt and to see B12 level effort on both sides. I think this team is salty and cares, it goes a long way toward enjoying your team.
Noticed that too. Is there a bunch if stuff that are new points of emphasis for officials? Bad crew? New crew? WTH was going on?
A few thoughts..
- It was so awesome being back in Hilton. Even though we were playing a team of that level, the crowd was into it (referees probably helped). The place will be rocking for Oregon State.
- Tyrese Hunter is going to be special. The kid is going to make some mistakes as he learns to play at this level but even in his first game he played with poise better than a true freshman.
- The way the game was called (and the way we guarded them) made that score what it was. We probably win by 20 but at least cover the spread if we don’t hound them so much. Now, some of the calls were indeed atrocious, but our guys didn’t back down from the game plan defensively.
- Effort and intensity will not be an issue for us this year. It was a breath of fresh air watching us on both ends of the floor (minus turnovers which a lot are fixable)
- Guard play was great and it *seems* like any of Tyrese, Gabe, or Brockerington are able to get their own shot if they want to.
- It was the first game against a weird opponent in a game where the refs weren’t going to allow essentially anything. No one can tell how “good” we are from that game but there were a lot of small things to take away both good and bad. Love that we get to play a team Friday that will allow us to get a much better baseline at this point of the season.
Of course it helps that they won but the bad calls were a great way to force basically everyone to be in tough situations.
Very useful stuff to learn from last night.
I’m on record when TJ was hired that I did not like the hire at all. I had several reasons for that opinion.
However, after watching the game last night, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. Still too early to say if it was the right hire, but fundamentally the basketball was 10x better than anything I ever saw out of Prohm’s teams.
We all have to remember that he’s also working with a shell of a roster. We were supposed to have Javan Johnson, Hinson, and Foster too. Do you think that might have helped some? Uhhhh…. yes.
This team will likely not win many games this year IMO, but it doesn’t look like to me that it will be because they aren’t well coached and playing good fundamental basketball…. they just don’t have the horses yet.
As for some individuals….
Hunter- most talented player on the team. He’s special folks.
Brockington- best player on the team. Will lead us in scoring and will be the go-to guy.
Grill- I was impressed with him last night.
Conditt- looks like the same Conditt to me, hope he proves me wrong.
However, after watching the game last night, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. Still too early to say if it was the right hire, but fundamentally the basketball was 10x better than anything I ever saw out of Prohm’s teams.
We all have to remember that he’s also working with a shell of a roster. We were supposed to have Javan Johnson, Hinson, and Foster too. Do you think that might have helped some? Uhhhh…. yes.
This team will likely not win many games this year IMO, but it doesn’t look like to me that it will be because they aren’t well coached and playing good fundamental basketball…. they just don’t have the horses yet.
As for some individuals….
Hunter- most talented player on the team. He’s special folks.
Brockington- best player on the team. Will lead us in scoring and will be the go-to guy.
Grill- I was impressed with him last night.
Conditt- looks like the same Conditt to me, hope he proves me wrong.
Totally agree, having Hunter get in foul trouble and then have to close out a somewhat close game with 4 is extremely valuable to his development. Also Tre Jackson played some good minutes when Hunter was on the bench.
No they meant 0-1. They were saying that TJ and the team are 0-1 against the spread because they didn't cover the 15.5 last night.
Yeah and from what we’ve been told, TJ is a process and progress type of guy. So a game like that as a coach is going to help out him and the team a ton more than if we were throwing alley oops up 40 in the second half.
