It’s a sport, none of it is that important. The whole season is geared to make the tournament, sounds like you wasted every minute to spent on this team to me. Worst of the worst fair weather fan.
Who ever the is person in charge of working with the offense should be fired on the spot
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Right on - For all the pregame hype, Hinson was terrible with several very flat shots from the 3 - no hurt feelings on not having him.
Completely agree. It would be hypocritical to say watching this years team is fun but watching Iowa football is boring.
Make Iowa State basketball fun to watch again
This. It was oddly satisfying watching the TCU/Arizona St game last night where guys could actually create (and make) their own shot off of step-back jumpers and getting to the lane.
It's hard to tell if the offensive system works when you have 2 or 3 players at most on the court who can score at any given time. Osun and rob have absolutely no offensive talent. Throw the ball at the hoop and hope for the best. Jazz has about 1 game out of every 6 where he will make a few shots. I am confident Watson will find his offensive game but he isn't ready now on that end. Ward is an athletic freak but no offensive skill. Lipsey is an absolute stud at everything except shooting. You have to have him out there with all he does but he has to be surrounded by capable scorers . I'm confident he will improve his jumper before next year. So we basically had Holmes, Gabe and tre king with any semblance of offensive talent trying to compete at the highest level. If 1 or 2 of those 3 guys struggle yesterday is the result. Embarrassing. The next 2 recruiting classes are a great start but we need some capable shooters and post players in the portal to be a realistic contender.
Did anyone watch the Drake game? At half time the talking heads were talking and one interrupted the conversation to point out how bad so many offenses were. He said putting up 20-25 points in a half is horrible basketball and shouldn’t happen. ISU’s game sucked but we weren’t the only ones.
College basketball sort of sucks right now in general. It's like a fumble drill for a lot of games and then occasionally someone makes a decent play.
TJ has done well in the portal but Brockington was the only guy he’s gotten so far that could really shoot and even he was a bit streaky. So I hope Tamin works a ton on his jumper and is encouraged to take a lot of perimeter shots in the non-con to build confidence. Likewise with Biliew and Momcilovic who seem to be more talented scorers than the guys we’ve had. Give the young guys the green light early rather than nursing them along and leaning so much on mid-major transfers who’ve already peaked offensively. At this point I’m willing to lose a couple non-con games if it makes us better later in the season.
The Beach! / sarcasm. Seriously, I was working. I started to watch the game, but it just got off to such a bad start, I decided to jump back into work for a bit until the game turned around, but that never happened unfortunately.
So far like with Lipsey and Hunter I've liked that they've been able to get in and be effective essentially off the bat.
That was a bitchy comment by me, but I hardly spend all my time ******** on CF. I'll keep that in mind though, as I can see how that is annoying.
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I agree. It is just a sport and not all that important in the big scheme of things in life. Once upon a time, I was that guy who went to every game, rain or shine, win or lose, didn't go to weddings on game days, etc. However, I have evolved and try to prioritize things with it. I still love the sports, but I do pick and choose what I attend and watch. I enjoyed this season for the most part. They had a winning season, had some GREAT wins, made the Tournament, and I enjoyed the two games I attended. I like TJ, and I think the future of ISU basketball is bright. I was hoping for a better outcome yesterday, but it just a bad game.
It’s very interesting how the pendulum swings on this. 3 years ago people were DYING for effort, toughness, “big bodies”, and defense…
Now people want “fun to watch” again?
TCU has a great coach who recruits players who FIT HIS SYSTEM...Besides defense I don't know what TJ's system is or why he cant recruit better shooters!
Hopefully and I say HOPEFULLY...next year we will have better shooters and more wins!!
esp BEAT TEXAS AND K-STATE!! (On the Road)
Right. And my point is that I think TJ and staff should have put more emphasis on developing Lipsey’s perimeter game from the jump. I think he can make them, he just didn’t have to to dominate HS games. By early in the Big 12 season teams started to play off him and it limited our offense. So next year, tell Tamin, Biliew and Momcilovic to shoot it from day 1 and let the chips fall where they may. They are probably going to be our most talented scorers even with some new transfers. Maybe Watson can be on that list too.
They packed the lane and gave us the outside shots. We didn't hit them. Also missed our usual bunnies and didn't make free throws.
