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Hogue gets a nice mention
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"the glue to this whole operation is Hogue"
I guess it had to happen with Ejim moving on.
Hogue averaged 17.7 points and 7.3 rebounds in the Cyclones' six postseason games last March and tallied 34 points along with six rebounds in their final game against UConn.
This is pretty incredible when you consider Georges was out the last 2 games so he wasn't drawing all the attention. I don't know that Hogue will ever have the consistency we were used to with Ejim and we haven't had the four years to spend with him but I think he will be just as valuable to the team next year as Ejim was this year.
It's officially a man-crush.
This is pretty incredible when you consider Georges was out the last 2 games so he wasn't drawing all the attention. I don't know that Hogue will ever have the consistency we were used to with Ejim and we haven't had the four years to spend with him but I think he will be just as valuable to the team next year as Ejim was this year.
It's officially a man-crush.
Good comparison! I've been wathing some team USA this summer and that makes sense. Faried talks a little trash too, I love it.
You're right about the 4 years, it's too bad he doesn't have more time. I do see a lot of similarities between his game/contribution last season to Melvin's frosh/soph campaign. I don't think we'll see the leap that we saw from Melvin Jr to Sr year, but it'd be great if we consistently saw near double/double action Melvin gave his So/Jr years.
I'd be curious to know if the staff has been working with him at all to develop his outside shot. He took the fewest threes of anyone with significant minutes last year, and if he could start getting them to fall like Ejim did in his last couple years, he'll take his game to a whole new level (I'm salivating at the thought right now). He might be seeing more time on the perimeter with McKay down low, too.
Really excited to see his role in the new offense. Can't wait!
threads like this make me not able to wait for the 14-15 version of: [video=youtube;blxNPHEO51Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxNPHEO51Y[/video]
I can't get used to the hype ISU is getting, I love it.
What really blows me away is that Hogue isn't even our best player, but he stacked up the point on UCONN when he was needed. I can't wait to see this team hit the floor.
What really blows me away is that Hogue isn't even our best player, but he stacked up the point on UCONN when he was needed. I can't wait to see this team hit the floor.
Somebody needs to tell me how/why/when that video came about in the first place.
What I wouldn't give for them to play it at Hilton just once as an introduction...
Regarding Hogue, not often you hear so little about a guy who almost led the conference in rebounding his first year of major conference ball. He was almost a second Ejim last year, and his surge in the tournament (both of them, actually) coincided with a little slump from Melvin--unfortunately, too, given the timing, Niang's injury, the stakes of those games, and that being how he finished he career in an Iowa State uniform.
A Hogue next year somewhere between his last year (which was really solid) and a CPOY would be rather a nice bonus to go with all else returning and progressing. All we seem to lack is absolutely proven "superlative" players like Kane and Ejim, but I have to think that's more of a mentality of reading a star into a great team (and last year was a great team with so many productive nodes) rather than a one-man army carrying the whole. We play well and we play together and I'm sure people are going to have no problem seeing Niang as taking up Ejim's place of consistency, Monte/BDJ doing the same for Kane, and Hogue becoming the "third star."
Does the name Georges Niang ring a bell for you? You know, the guy who's on just about every sportswriter and basketball analyst's watch list for the upcoming season?
