*** Official IOWA STATE vs #8 West Virginia Game(Day) Thread ***

Cycl1

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Not the night for the criticizing. I'd even vote to.open Hilton on Sunday.
I mean its great we had a shot with a minute left, but we absolutely **** the bed at the end. The game turned when we couldnt inbound it and our guy didnt know he could, or should, be moving on the baseline. It was then punctuated with stepping out of bounds on a break, and finalized with a corner 3 airball to finish us off. Hopefully some more time playing gets these things out of our system. Showing up and actually trying is half the battle. Basketball is fickle enough that real effort should get us some wins this year.
 

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Yep, I know it's ridiculous. But that was the latest reminder of how he's not the man for the job.

I can't be in practice, so I give passes on poor execution.. Honestly seen alot of balls on boards etc not bounce our way, so given him a pass on alot this year.

But that timeout was a terrible idea and lacked game awareness.

I dont think he's a good coach and I want him gone also but ffs if you can't see the difference with how they played tonight compared to the last couple games I dont know what to tell you.
 

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I mean its great we had a shot with a minute left, but we absolutely **** the bed at the end. The game turned when we couldnt inbound it and our guy didnt know he could, or should, be moving on the baseline. It was then punctuated with stepping out of bounds on a break, and finalized with a corner 3 airball to finish us off. Hopefully some more time playing gets these things out of our system. Showing up and actually trying is half the battle. Basketball is fickle enough that real effort should get us some wins this year.

These players desparetly need a win.
 
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Did you ever consider they had an off night because we had a good game plan to disrupt them?

How about that they aren't very good, they almost beat a top 10 team on the road, they are 18-22 yo college kids who play for the school I went to and have cheered for my whole life and I actually want them to win no matter who the coach is?
 

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Did you ever consider they had an off night because we had a good game plan to disrupt them?
Nope. The metrics show that they were off on their usual points. We jumped up on our statistics mainly our shooting percentage. I'm not going to take this as a trend. This game is an anomaly that ended in a loss.
 
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I dont think he's a good coach and I want him gone also but ffs if you can't see the difference with how they played tonight compared to the last couple games I dont know what to tell you.
I sew the difference... But that's not been the norm. I also saw alot of balls bounce our way tonight that kept this game closer than it potentially could have been, and is making 3 pointers we've been missing before.
 

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One good thing from this game, Conditt actually showed up for a game.

One down thing for this game. Foster has a lot work to do.
 

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Guessing you've been talking to Pollard about your availability, then?
No, but Iowa State basketball has had too much success the last 35 years to suffer a fool like the current HC. He inherited far more than any of his predecessors and has managed to drive it into the ditch in a few years. It’s painful to watch. But watch I will because I will be an Iowa State fan long after Prohm has left.
 

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FT difference hurt but so did 21 turnovers. Tough one to lose but there were a lot of things that we did well that we had struggled with all year. Ball movement was much better, we got a lot of good looks going to the basket and not settling for 3's and we battled them on the boards. They have a huge advantage there but we had more guys boxing out and getting in the lane for rebounds than we had all year.
37-9 free throw differential. ISU had 21 turnovers. How is that good coaching?
At least a half dozen of those turnovers were bogus charging calls. The coach doesn't have the whistle.