My biggest takeaway from the night is King McClure is a HORRIBLE play by play announcer and no offense to CW, but he's no Scott Christopherson either.
*** Official #25 Texas Tech vs #11 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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I was starting to wonder if having a short roster helped them with the officials too. It seemed they were more lenient and allowing more contact by Tech players. Might have been subconsciously avoiding getting the players in foul trouble.
I don’t think the difference that great, although Hunter is small. Bigger difference is in the willingness to foul.
Baylor is a bigger physical mismatch imo
Looks like a pretty straightforward pass/layup to me: I dunno maybe it got knocked out of his hands by the off-balance defender but it didn't really look like it.
These guys just have bewilderingly bad ball security at times. Outside of TH, I had very little faith in any of them dribbling in traffic in this game -- and that would include IB in this situation. With that officiating crew, there's no guarantee that a foul would've been called before the ball was stolen. Second-guessing IB's decision to make a fairly routine fast-break pass is just armchair quarterbacking.
It was a little reminiscent of the disastrous UAB game in how on and off the ball freedom of movement was completely restricted and not called. The difference was that kind of game was something this team can function in.
It was hilarious when Naldony was basically bear hugging Gabe (I think) for like 12 seconds and they finally called a foul.
I wonder if Porter Moser will be implementing some form of that defense at OU's practice today. Hopefully, ISU can come up with a counter-strategy.
You had confidence in TH? He was TO prone too
ISU needs it to keep things humming in the W/L column in conference. @KU on Tuesday and home against another ranked opponent in UT. Then they play @ Tech the following Tuesday. If the guys could go 3-3 in this stretch they will have proved to me at least that they’ll finish top 4 in the league.
I think going 2-4 is going to be tough. I don't see them going 3-3 but if they do then yeah I would think they could finish 4th in the conference.
I would love any lurking KU fan to post some images and video from the past five years in college or NBA where a defender fouled a shooter on the elbow with his chin and made no other contact.
I have never seen it but the announcer, some on twitter and some KU fans appear to think this is a common call in modern basketball.
You could petition to change reality so defenders can be called for fouling face to elbow, but this is not the reality we currently live in.
An aside on Kunc's taking one in the chops, I noticed #3 from TT later hopped off the bench during a stoppage and shook Kunc's hand by way of apology which I thought was pretty classy. He certainly didn't need to do that.
Not a good job with the game plan or adjustments last night, but the front-runner for national coach of the year deserves a pass now and then. I thought the offensive game plan and execution (other than shot-making) was outstanding against Baylor. Not so much last night.
While last night is a little unsettling, it's also kind of the best tool for a coach. Get a win but make tons of mistakes and quite frankly get lucky to escape with the W. The free throw defense was on point last night.
I'm pretty optimistic we will be able to just chalk this up as a weird game. Come out and get a W at OU and all is forgotten.
You are not allowed to change your shot to force contact into a defender. It's a force of emphasis in the NBA for refs to watch, as for the last 8 years or so (mostly done by Harden and Steph), guys would jump into defenders, stick out their elbow or leg to gain an advantage.
Last night's call was close, but you can see the Tech player lean his elbow into Kunc to make contact for a foul. If it doesn't hit him in the face would they have called it a foul on Kunc? I think so, but any contact made above the shoulders by the offense is going to be called some sort of foul usually.
On BartTorivk we got a game score of 97 and had a 6.6 point lead on average the entire game. I don't know how you get much better than that but reading through the game thread you would have thought it was a Prohm coached team vs Tech.
Yes noticed that too - came out at the TO to make sure Kunc was OK. Got to hand it to TTU, they might be the first team that matched ISU's effort and intensity for a full 40 minutes, Baylor included. Those dudes played HARD.
That was like a Bo Ryan Wisconsin vs. Thad Matta Ohio State game. Ugly, intense, and physical.
