*** Official #4 Auburn vs #5 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[CychiatricWard]

That was a humdinger of a game. Didn’t flinch just didn’t get a win. Looks to be a great season!

We flinched a lot in the second half

 

[madguy30]

I am so sick and tired of Iowa State basketball getting up by 15-20 points and blowing it. That’s inexcusable

Do you watch much college basketball?

 

[Clonefan32]

I am so sick and tired of Iowa State basketball getting up by 15-20 points and blowing it. That’s inexcusable

Listen I get it, but a big part of that lead was their second best player being hurt. With him in it’s a different game.

Good game. Get the next two and move on

 

[ISU_Guy]

Dribbling into three defenders could not have been the play

ISU will learn from that loss

The biggest issue is we are probably going to have to play IMO the best team In The tournament if we beat Dayton (assuming unc wins)

Don’t care leaving the island 1-2 after blowing an 18 point lead sending us to the championship side

Just sucks is all. We just had to many errors at the end

 

[CycloneVet]

Rebounding is our problem. Nobody boxed out just watched a lot of the game

Good thing it’s early

 

[cdface]

we've been pretty spoiled the last couple years, but man i really REALLY wanted that one....

 

[jspeels]

Bruce Pearl is just such an a$$hole. Still got some Hawk in him.

His team acts just like him! They aren’t likeable!

 

[Walden4Prez]

Fred was amazing at those. Definitely miss that.

I don’t miss Fred….I like a team can spell defense.

 

[Cyclones8824]

Sucks that we lost but good to see we are just as good as a team so consider to be the best in the nation.

 

[CYedUp]

That was a really bad last set play if you can call that one. Not one pass

 

[Malone]

TJ has failed a lot at the end of games with his plays. We need to just start letting them play instead of calling a time out. Don’t let them get ready for what we are going to do

Again TJ isn’t drawing up plays

 

[exCYtable]

Would have loved to see a kG kickout to Milan who I don't even think was out there on the last play. Just way too much Gilbert trying to do it all himself tonight.

 

[awd4cy]

Well…. only fitting that hero ball loses the game for us.

I’m telling though…. Auburn is SUPER talented. We did not play well in the 2nd half and still could’ve won it.

I think we have a special season ahead of us folks!!

Auburn will win Maui. Probably was the championship game tonight

 

[yler4cy]

It’s the same play that is always run when TJ wants to run out the clock. They needed to run the normal offense regardless of how much time was left on the clock.

Remember McDermott's last few seconds play call. It seemed the exact same, take it down to 10seconds and hope for a prayer.

 

[Big_Sill]

Hate that timeout

 

[ClonerJams]

You mean Nate Schmidt? TJ doesn’t call sh*t

My feelings about him running the offense

 

[alenz95]

I did not understand the timeout into the last offensive set at all. Thought we might try to go quick for the 2 for 1 and get the last shot. Instead we just run clock out and turn the ball over. Gross ending to an otherwise very fun game.

 

[cyfan92]

Makes me sick losing on a turnover and giving up an offensive rebound

 

[cymac2408]

Not a good 2nd half but the boys fought hard and it was early season battle. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

 

[BigLame]

We are a terrible team out of timeouts, he should have just let it play out.

No different in football. A weakness in TJ's armor for sure.
Early in the season, but a little disappointed considering the experience of our backcourt in a lot of what happened. A LOT of forcing things & also downright panic in situations. Hopefully we build from this quickly.