Disagree. If they would call those fouls from the start it wouldn't take players long to adjust. Would not be 70 fouls per game.
*** Official #6 IOWA STATE vs Kansas State Game(Day) Thread ***
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They've been injured and may be pressing a bit.
I'm predicting we don't see as much 'I'm going in!' types of drives 10 seconds in to the shot clock Thursday.
Watson suffered a concussion in the last game. A Kansas State player clobbered him in the head, and to add insult to injury, they called the foul on Watson. I hope Watson is okay.
That was a bad deal. I think Watson is a key to our success going forward. He has fresh legs compared to some of the other guys which is important this time of the year. There is not a drop off on defense when he comes in and he is athletic enough to make the hustle plays that our program relies on to win. I think not having him for most of the game on Saturday really hurt us.
What do you know, Brent Blum & CW’s sentiment on the team is the same as mine.
Also, Brent just quoted this, since Feb 1st, ISUs effective FG % is ranked 294th in the nation.
Also, Brent just quoted this, since Feb 1st, ISUs effective FG % is ranked 294th in the nation.
I heard that too. Tired legs and banged up. A lot people on the board have been saying that is not the case.
Yeah, Blum & CW even said, right now I can’t see an elite 8 run unless something changes.
People were flaming some of us saying sweet 16 was a ceiling right now
That's kind of the problem with over dribbling and forcing it. Other players end up flat-footed watching Gilbert.
I don't have issues with guards getting downhill into the lane. Good things tend to happen. Gilbert had moments when he got too deep and really didn't know what to do. The end result was off balanced "chucks" towards the rim. Some of his attempts were bad. Bad enough the officials wont bail you out.
This is a total bs excuse. Gilbert, Milan, and Lipsey have played the most minutes and they are 22nd, 23rd, and 24th respectively in the Big 12 in minutes.
Cincinnati is the only team in the conference who's leading minutes guy is below us. Trey, Ward, Jones, and Watson will barely even get 15-20 minutes most nights. That's a really pathetic excuse and if there is some merit to it maybe Blum, CW and those guys need to explain why this teams stamina and conditioning are coming into question 3 years in a row now.
I personally don’t think it’s a stamina thing. They mentioned a lot of it are guys sagging off King & him not making them pay.
As well as a confidence issue for Milan.
KG is hurt & Tamin is hurt.
I don't understand the new rules on that. I guess Watson fouled his elbow with his face when he swung his elbow around. I thought that was now a foul on the player swinging the elbow. They called it a basketball move, which I don't entirely disagree with, but like targeting doesn't fall under how I understood the rule change. Was the review only to see if it was a fragrant 1, but the call otherwise couldn't be changed.
A week ago you were arguing with a blogger for not having Iowa State seeded high enough and now this week we may not make it out of the first weekend. Take a breath. Whatever happens will happen.
In my opinion, our performance each season under TJ has exceeded the talent level we’ve had on the team. We do it by playing harder than the teams we play. Minutes on the floor for an Iowa State player isn’t equivalent to minutes on the floor for another player on a different team. So yes, by March we have tired legs and we are banged up.
This team has more depth and more talent than the last two years, so I’m hopeful we can see a bounce back in the post season.
This team has more depth and more talent than the last two years, so I’m hopeful we can see a bounce back in the post season.
Well I didn’t see our offensive efficiency numbers until a couple days ago & they made me change my tune lol.
I wasn't able to watch the KSU game. But what I have seen this year, offensively, is they started shaky as they were trying to gel together. Then they got pretty smooth for a couple weeks around first half of February, and looked scary good. The last few weeks though, they have struggled. Guys look tired, hurt, scouted, and combinations of all 3.
I think the question for this team is - is the offense what it was at its peak, and they just need some recovery time? Or was that just a false spring, and it's not that great actually, and they just had a hot streak hitting shots? Honestly, I am not sure.
I think the question for this team is - is the offense what it was at its peak, and they just need some recovery time? Or was that just a false spring, and it's not that great actually, and they just had a hot streak hitting shots? Honestly, I am not sure.
From 2-22 just a few years back to #7 and headed for maybe a 2 seed. Not bad!
What if the mojo comes back in the game to go to the elite 8?
To me at least, it's much more the former. I think a notable thing is that when they were playing especially well during Big 12 play, the shooting efficiencies were generally good, but the Kansas and TCU games were the only two above a 55% effective field goal percentage. Even lately, the Oklahoma and BYU games are the two that stick out with especially low effective field goal percentages. The other poor offensive games have been generally not far out of line in Big 12 play in terms of shooting.
During a lot of Big 12 play, on mediocre shooting nights, they made up for it with especially low turnovers, high offensive rebounds, or a lot of free throws (or usually two of those three). In the recent stretch, and especially on Saturday, they also turned the ball over quite a bit and didn't get extra possessions. I don't quite know what that means as far as a solution is concerned, but it at least shows that shooting wasn't the sole driver of the offense we saw from mid-January to mid-to-late-February.
