This is amazing - the calmness on their faces in those timeouts in unreal, never a look of concern.
*** WBB: #9 ISU at #25 K-State Tuesday 6:30 ESPN+ - Game Thread ***
- Thread starter BoxsterCy
- Start date
K-State WBB | Press Conference vs. Iowa State
Video: K-State WBB | Press Conference vs. Iowa State. Women's Basketballwww.kstatesports.com
K-State's postgame presser if you want to watch.
@surly Thx for the link I got to watch the game. Lee is a force and those young guards are going to be handful for the rest of the B12 as they gain experience.
LOL politics is why I LOVE watching basketball. Gives me something fun. Glad your enjoying watching again Mitten. That's the part that really counts.
Agree.
Here's my take on "lucky" shots: Putting on a blindfold, turning your back to the basket and the ball goes in after you toss the ball over your shoulder, that's luck.
As I have aged I have come to believe that "luck", if one wants to label it that way, if very very often a product of prior preparation, regardless of the endeavor. Those who have prepared the most are much more likely to experience "luck". 50% percent 3 point shooters didn't get that way with luck. It is likely they have put up, quite literally, 10s of thousands 3 point shots starting in grade school, through middle school and high school and on the AAU circuit through hundreds of games and practices and individual workouts. Thus, they have prepared themselves in innumerable ways many of us cannot even begin to comprehend.
I watched Heather Ezell for four years shoot threes for ISU. She was kinda successful at it. She holds the school record for made threes, well over 250. In fours years of regular season play I do not remember her ever banking a three. Then, her senior year we are playing Michigan State in the Sweet Sixteen. ISU is behind the whole game until she banks a three near the end of the 4th quarter that, as I recall, either gave us our first lead of the night or tied the game. Luck? Nah. Heather prepared for that moment. I'm inclined to believe MEM did too.
I knew those ladies! I was on the WBB stat crew for three years during that period.
I took a charge from Tonya Burns in a pick-up game at State Gym. It was worth it.
I used to play some of those Friday afternoon pickups too. Man those WBB players were fundamental. When they set a pick, you weren't going through.
Oh, the nostalgia of our youth! Waiting your turn to play on the beaten up old wood floors of State Gym or Beyer Hall. Pretty but unattainable Tonya Burns…
But then you kinda lose me, like taking a charge ever happened in pick up games, and from a girl no less!
. Thanks for the memories!Oh, the nostalgia of our youth! Waiting your turn to play on the beaten up old wood floors of State Gym or Beyer Hall. Pretty but unattainable Tonya Burns…
But then you kinda lose me, like taking a charge ever happened in pick up games, and from a girl no less!
I wonder if they still do pick up games in Beyer? Last time I wandered campus it sure didn't look like State was used for pick up games any more.
Plenty of politics in basketball, Republicans are trying to set up winners and losers no so it is like a big 12 basketball game. This was not surprising if you have been following both sports for awhile.
Still plenty of pick up being played in the old part of state gym when I was in school after their major renovation 10-12 years ago
And I hope all these years later no one has let you forget the fact you took a charge in a pick-up game.
