*** Official #8 IOWA STATE vs #5 Houston Game(Day) Thread ***

Malone

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They are legit, it just sucks our trio of guards can’t face them and they get to dodge Hilton.
Kind of looking at this game as Houston’s revenge for the Big 12 Tournament game last season.

We’ll get them back in Ames next year and will have a little something for them
 
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ISU is really trying to shorten this game and limit possessions.

And Houston doesn't like it so they're trapping all over to speed it up anyway.

Honestly I thought this would be worse at this point.

Tuesday in Stillwater is when things start to get spooky.
 

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Despite rough offense we have not looked bad. If we wouldn’t let cryer get to his step back 3 times this is within 8 and a couple of Milan shots from being neck and neck. We aren’t out of this
It's a step back 3. The degree of difficulty is insane. Get what you are saying, but man it's great D to force that shot
 

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The announcers are DBs. Bilas is awful.

Have to treat this as a developmental game. Down a dozen isn't terrible. They have a chance but some previous role player needs to step up and score.

Kelderman was better than I expected.
 

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Jefferson and Momcilovic are being double teamed in the half court. Houston happy to let anybody else beat them. Jackson is in foul trouble. To win this game, Tamin and somebody else are going to have to go off.
 

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They are legit, it just sucks our trio of guards can’t face them and they get to dodge Hilton.

It sucks that 2 years in they really haven't had to face our full homecourt environment.

Entirely dodging a game in Ames this year, and getting us during a winter break game last year that also had a snowstorm that kept a lot of our fans away.
 

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Our def has been pretty good. We are down two good defenders and Houston has 34 at half.
Even if Cujo and KG were playing 34 at half wouldn't seem that bad. And that is with them going off making a ton of difficult shots.

Plus Jefferson and Lipsy both had a bunch of bad turnovers. We need to settle down a bit, and value the ball.
 

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Do any of the Kenpoms of the world take into account that players are missing? I doubt it.
 

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