*** Official St. John's vs #23 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[Die4Cy]

Good solid win. Coulda' been a letdown, look ahead sandwich with the little sqwakeyes next up, but Cyclones looked tough and efficient today. Amazing defensive efficieny against a fast paced, talented team and assisted 17/24 FG (70% assist rate) on offense.

A good warmup for Thursday, SJ plays similarly to Iowa.

 

[Pope]

A 10 point lead was very tenuous with the old Cyclone teams because of our mediocre defense. With TJ's team, a 10 point lead is more like a 16-18 point lead.

 

[madguy30]

The game wasn't called poorly, but oddly. The foul trouble was distributed to players who usually aren't in it.

If anything ISU has had some good experience working through foul trouble good and early this season.

Fairly called or not, foul trouble will happen at some point.

 

[trevn]

Disagree they might not be as good as their record but still a decent team.

I’m not saying it’s not a good win. It is. I’m more saying I was unimpressed with their team. Mike Anderson isn’t a great coach and they play like his teams always play. They have some athletes but they aren’t a team. They will feast on teams that hand them the ball over and over again and lose to teams that can actually play a half court game.

 

[Pope]

A good warmup for Thursday, SJ plays similarly to Iowa.

Very true. We must come out with enormous intensity and aggression.

 

[Malty Flannel]

Great job of ISU of closing the door when SJ started clawing back in. SJ got it down to 9 and a lot of past ISU teams would have let that dwindle down to a 1-2 possession game. These guys scored 6 straight after that and put it away

 

[JBone84]

I figured we'd win 70-58. Not sure St. John's can get to 58 now.

Close!

 

[madguy30]

Very true. We must come out with enormous intensity and aggression.

Gonna need to watch the touchy fouls. Iowa will try to force the issue and make ISU reach/swat.

Also ISU needs to be careful as they pass the ball around the perimeter. The only reason Iowa kept it to twenty last year was due to sloppy play on the skip/side to side stuff.

 

[cyclonedave25]

Love that we get 4 days of rest before the Iowa game. And Iowa still has to play Duke Tuesday. I want our suffocating defense to overwhelm them.

 

[heitclone]

Caleb Grill 7pts 10 boards 5 steals 2 dimes

 

[singsing]

Nice win..Great coaching and I like our roster. Green's work with our bigs is evident. Robert Jones' game has come a long way. Lipsey is solid! Plays within himself and seldom makes a mistake. Grill's gonna be our leading scorer by years end if he keeps up this shooting. What I've seen Texas and ISU are the best conference teams I've watched..gonna be fun!

 

[madguy30]

Nice win..Great coaching and I like our roster. Green's work with our bigs is evident. Robert Jones' game has come a long way. Lipsey is solid! Plays within himself and seldom makes a mistake. Grill's gonna be our leading scorer by years end if he keeps up this shooting. What I've seen Texas and ISU are the best conference teams I've watched..gonna be fun!

KU will get things figured out but it may not be for a while. That's their thing.

 

[Pope]

Gonna need to watch the touchy fouls. Iowa will try to force the issue and make ISU reach/swat.

Also ISU needs to be careful as they pass the ball around the perimeter. The only reason Iowa kept it to twenty last year was due to sloppy play on the skip/side to side stuff.

As TJ likes to put it, we must dictate the pace of the game and IMPOSE OUR WILL.

 

[Cyclonepride]

KU will get things figured out but it may not be for a while. That's their thing.

They will, though I don't think KU has a big that can match up with Robert Jones. Yeah, I just said that.

 

[KremitGreens]

Very boring win… just how I like them. Never really any doubt and solid defense as usual!

 

[t-noah]

I figured we'd win 70-58. Not sure St. John's can get to 58 now.

I see you're kinda new at this. Missed it by 3 points!

I'm sure you'll get better with practice!

 

[t-noah]

So we kept Kachexie in with 3 fouls? And I’m trying figure out the offensive foul

Lol…not sure what my autocorrect was thinking…

Kazoontite - Gesundheit!

Same thing!

 

[ClonesFTW]

Love that we get 4 days of rest before the Iowa game. And Iowa still has to play Duke Tuesday. I want our suffocating defense to overwhelm them.

If they somehow beat Duke they would have to play again Wednesday as well.

 

[madguy30]

If they somehow beat Duke they would have to play again Wednesday as well.

Kind of a weird thing to schedule but at least they have their built in excuse if ISU wins.

 

[ISUTex]

Just watch Jones..He moves and plays help defense beautifully!! I'm really starting to have huge respect for him as his game evolves. You can see he's been working.

He and Jaz are my two favorite players. Bought my son a "Big Rob Energy" shirt. Kid loves it.