What does McDermott have to change from here on out?

[arganbright2]

You ever watch the other 4 guys---they are always standing around... I don't understand how McDermott has 100 set plays that the team can run, yet I only see guys standing around outside the 3 point line. Diante is not the problem with this team, I don't even know how somebody could point the figure to him.

I agree with the others that Craig can be alot more efficient if we run the offense through others. Might even help his offensive rebounding.[/quote]

 

[Ficklone02]

I don't agree with a full game full court press mentality, our numbers are very limited...I could see some of it here and there though. The main thing to me is to give your opponent some different looks, force them to adjust to you. One way to do that is by switching defenses.

 

[Ficklone02]

You ever watch the other 4 guys---they are always standing around... I don't understand how McDermott has 100 set plays that the team can run, yet I only see guys standing around outside the 3 point line. Diante is not the problem with this team, I don't even know how somebody could point the figure to him.

I agree with the others that Craig can be alot more efficient if we run the offense through others. Might even help his offensive rebounding.

[/QUOTE]
Although I don't like the "non-motion" offense....you can see what is going on. The others are keeping there spacing on the court (which is very important), while DG does his thing. But even with really good spacing he has trouble getting into the lane to threaten the defense, which is really what his job is as a point guard. So, although I don't like pinning it on him....essentially, we need a quicker more physical point guard to threaten the defense on a consistent basis to make our offense go.

 

[Cyclone90]

I thought I'd check out the stats before I responded.

NCAA& Ranking Summary

We're 312/334 in FT%. Yikes. We need to shoot free throws better. We're leaving points on the table and other teams are starting to catch onto this. You can tell they have a "hack-a-Clone" strategy, especially against Dendy and Gilstrap when they're in the paint.

I think those that have mentioned the press and playing Colvin more are right and it would help too. We're 301/334 in steals/game. Bring Christopherson off the bench and play Colvin and DG at the guards which should improve our quickness and FT shooting. Colvin is going to go to the line more than SC by driving. Driving to the hoop really helped our offense in the 2nd half the OU game. Colvin's FT% is poor for a guard at the moment, but hopefully that would improve with a bigger sample.

 

[tazclone]

I get that many are angry and upset that this program isn't where we all hoped it would be when McDermott was hired.

But he is still the coach this year, and probably next year as well. So, I guess I will go in a different direction than, "who could we get as a new MBB coach?" thread considering that this season isn't over with.

If you could tell McDermott to his face what he needs to do in order to get this program back on track, what would it be?

Please, none of this, "resign right now" smart *** answers. Please save that for other threads. We are adults, and I consider 99.9 percent of Cyclone fans as being very positive by nature.

Change the focus of the offense. He needs to quit focusing on getting Brackins his touches and utilize other guys. We have more scoring threats than Brackins and yet we **** away over half the shot clock trying to force him the ball. This leads to stupid passes that result in tournovers. When we do get it into him he either makes a bad pass out of the double team or he forces up the shot.
Right now teams are doubling Brackins and taking away passing lanes to him and from the double team. Set some plays for Gilstrap, Christopherson, and Ha ilton. Once we show teams we have other options, they will be forced to back off Brackins.

 

[tazclone]

Although I don't like the "non-motion" offense....you can see what is going on. The others are keeping there spacing on the court (which is very important), while DG does his thing. But even with really good spacing he has trouble getting into the lane to threaten the defense, which is really what his job is as a point guard. So, although I don't like pinning it on him....essentially, we need a quicker more physical point guard to threaten the defense on a consistent basis to make our offense go.[/QUOTE]
DG doesn't have a problem getting to the lane he has a problem finishing. He gets open layups pretty regularly. And do people notice how much better the offense moves when Brackins isn't in there? I am not saying sit Brackins, that is silly but I don't think the offense should go through Brackins. Utilize our other talent

 

[tazclone]

A little of topic, but why in the hell did McDermott have zero reaction to that double foul call towards the end of the game, in where Brackins got his 4th. That has to be one of the biggest BS calls I have ever seen, and McDermott had no reaction. If that were me, I would have been thrown out of the game.

Because it was a blocking foul and we were lucky to get the charge. not only that but it wasn't a great time to get teed up. Would have cost us two more points on top of them getting the ball.

 

[tazclone]

More like sit Scott C and start Colvin/Buckley. DG is better than a lot people on here give him credit.

Did you forget your sarcasm pirate.
Scott C is shottig 53% from 3 pt land and had 14 the other night. If anything the guy needs to get more looks

 

[tazclone]

More minutes for Colvin and Dendy. More pressing and trapping on defense. This team plays terrible half court defense, so why not try creating some more uptempo style and get easy baskets with the athletes we have. I don't buy the fact that we don't have enough depth to play full court pressure, just look at the 99-00 team, those guys averaged about 37 or 38 minutes a game. Pressing right from the start may get these guys to play a full 40 minutes for once.

So all you guys want to go up tempo with 7 schollarship players. Interesting. Not onlythat we aren't exactly stellar at pressing or running.

 

[bawbie]

So all you guys want to go up tempo with 7 schollarship players. Interesting. Not onlythat we aren't exactly stellar at pressing or running.

I keep hearing this "7 scholarship players". the announcers keep saying it. Which one of our 8 guys we are playing isn't on scholarship?

1. Brackins
2. Hamilton
3. Gilstrap
4. Christopherson
5. Garrett
6. Dendy
7. Colvin
8. Buckley

We only had 7 scholarship players until Colvin's suspension was lifted.

 

[Cloned4Life]

Did you forget your sarcasm pirate.
Scott C is shottig 53% from 3 pt land and had 14 the other night. If anything the guy needs to get more looks

Agreed. I always said, when Lucca was in, he better try to shoot 10 3's a game. He's gonna make at least 3, probably 4 or 5, and maybe gets hot and makes 8 or 9. That's HUGE and that's what you have to do when you have a good shooter on the team...

The same applies to Scotty, IMO. Make sure he gets at least 7-10 shots from deep a game. It'll make everyone better because of the shift the defense has to make.

 

[Cloned4Life]

DG is better than a lot people on here give him credit.

At the point guard position, unfortunately he's really not better than what people are giving him credit for. At that position, his flaws are more than obvious after 2.5 years of watching him.

He's got a lot of talent, is pretty athletic, and can do good things both defensively and offensively for this team...but the day when he doesn't have to be our "best" option at point guard is the day that Iowa State basketball takes a step forward.

 

[Dryburn]

Actually Diante has the most assists in the Big 12 and a 2 to 1 assist to turnover ratio. I could only imagine how many more he could have if he was allowed to run up and down the court every game.

For conference games, he only ranks 14th in assist to turnover ratio. His ratio is now 1.45. He still gets some assists, but the turnovers are increasing rapidly in conference.

 

[tazclone]

For conference games, he only ranks 14th in assist to turnover ratio. His ratio is now 1.45. He still gets some assists, but the turnovers are increasing rapidly in conference.

Because he is trying to force the ball into Brackins. I would love to see how many turnovers we get trying to force the ball into Brackins. the team has this mentality that Brackins has to touch the ball everytime down the court and we make stupid passes to try and accomplish that goal.

Look at the last game. Brackins had 4 turnovers and Iwould bet that we had atleast 4 more trying to force the ball into him. that is eight of our eighteen turnovers. At halftime, OU had 15 points off turnovers (if I remember correctly). We have to quit forcing the ball into Brackins

 

[tazclone]

I keep hearing this "7 scholarship players". the announcers keep saying it. Which one of our 8 guys we are playing isn't on scholarship?

1. Brackins
2. Hamilton
3. Gilstrap
4. Christopherson
5. Garrett
6. Dendy
7. Colvin
8. Buckley

We only had 7 scholarship players until Colvin's suspension was lifted.

Correct, sorry 8. I still don't like the up tempo. especially since Gilstrap is nursing a knee injury and Scotty is fighting mono.

 

[Blandboy]

His address.

 

[WalkingCY]

His address.

Nice! I agree.

Seriously though, he needs to dress up in a mock-turtle neck with an adidas logo on it (black) - and coach with emotion like Larry.

Or just travel down to Miss. St and ask Larry if he would like to switch. Either or....I would be comfortable with.

 

[IowaSTATCyclone]

He needs to find a dirty player and turn him loose. We need to hack everything in the lane. We need to lose violently, and win a few through intimidation. We need to stop playing close and start playing mean.

I still can't see this team's personality, but going against a sort of "Mo Valley Nice" type would be a start.

 

[Cyclonestate78]

The coach isn't turning the ball over. The players are making bad decisions and poor passes. You take away half of the points we gave up in turnovers and we win this game and Tech also. You can't give the ball away like we are. That gives the other team more attempts to score and us less, its simple. Take care of the ball!!!!!

Well... if we are having issues with fundamentals at this point of his tenure then what is the problem? GMAC either isn't coaching them on the right things in practice or the players just aren't D1 material. Either way that is a huge issue that rests squarely on the staffs shoulders.

 

[Cyclonestate78]

He needs to find a dirty player and turn him loose. We need to hack everything in the lane. We need to lose violently, and win a few through intimidation. We need to stop playing close and start playing mean.

I still can't see this team's personality, but going against a sort of "Mo Valley Nice" type would be a start.

You bring up a great point. This team really hasn't established their identity yet. I hadn't really thought about that until now. It sounds ridiculous really but at the same time we don't have that one thing that when people look at our team they identify it with one thing right away. That being said it isn't as shocking to see the teams lack of success because we can't really identify anything that we can really hang our hat on.