*** Official #25 IOWA STATE vs #17 TCU Game(Day) Thread ***

t-noah

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Probably minority but not surprised that “losing Jaz” was not a catastrophic deal. I found CW’s claim a few weeks ago that we as fans weren’t worried enough about losing Jaz pretty odd. Jaz is a wonderful Cyclone and has to be a nightmare for other teams because of his smarts and effort. But he wasn’t crazy effective this year, has very little post-game, with not much bulk (which limited him last year guarding the bigger bigs in conference), and getting Tre King is the biggest boost we’ve had in years mid season. I think we’ll keep rolling, and this should allow Jaz the ability to slowly work his way back without rushing.
And perhaps depending on line ups Jaz can have less to do and lean on his strengths to compliment everything else when he gets back.
We have been making lemonaid out of the Jaz injury, so far. Still, he might likely miss both KU games, before he is ready to come back. That is tough.

On the other hand, can we beat KU without him? I think so, the way we've been playing. We will have to play our best.
 

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Missed most of the game attending to a household mechanical issue and then listened in the car on the way to the hardware store as we pissed a 9-point lead down our legs. Went inside, came out, and lo and behold -- WIN! Hoo-hoo!
 

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Missed most of the game attending to a household mechanical issue and then listened in the car on the way to the hardware store as we pissed a 9-point lead down our legs. Went inside, came out, and lo and behold -- WIN! Hoo-hoo!

I couldn't watch any but followed on my phone as I ran errands. Although I'd leave my phone in my car if things were going well.

Repeating but if I'm a coach I'm thrilled with the win but also glad in a way that that lead was blown to not let the players get comfortable.
 

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Agreed we will need Jaz and he'll still win a game or two for us yet but he was just playing too much and didn't fit what we need from a 4. I'm looking forward to him being a small 5 for a few minutes and Tre being at 4 so we just open up the entire court
 

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According to Miles, he's quite pleased with the game! "It showed we can play with anybody," Miles said. "We didn't play our best game on either defense or offense. We shot bad from the line, we had a lot of turnovers, and we still only lost by two. It shows how good of a team we are.""
..."And not counting that we had only 13 personal fouls and they had 21. They were 3 of 9 at the foul line yes, but we were only 16 for 28. That's horrible! The refs tried to help us but we just didn't finish the job!"
Our free throw defense was excellent.
Indeed! The refs couldn't affect our stellar FT defense. LOL
 

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Tre King is one of those guys that makes HUGE hustle plays on defense. Active with deflections and other plays that don’t show up with the box score. I think we really lucked out getting this transfer. Seems like a level-headed guy too..

I don't think luck factors into TJ's recruiting.
 

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Missed most of the game attending to a household mechanical issue and then listened in the car on the way to the hardware store as we pissed a 9-point lead down our legs. Went inside, came out, and lo and behold -- WIN! Hoo-hoo!
Almost the same, coaching youth bball all day and that was the part of the game game I caught on the radio!
 

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Refs did everything in their power to screw us out of that win…but they didn’t count on Gabe freakin Kalscheur
They tried so hard to give tcu that one I was getting so mad. The last 2 should have been offensive fouls for a kick
 
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