He did have a ton of great looks. Just couldn't make any. It's wild how if he doesn't maka a shot early you can pretty much count him completely out.
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He did have a ton of great looks. Just couldn't make any. It's wild how if he doesn't maka a shot early you can pretty much count him completely out.
He wasn't even close on a few of them. Then he finally nailed one and Tamin had just got fouled so it didn't count. I thought that might get him going
In general, if you force the other team to shoot contested threes, your defense has done its job. Milan has been our most consistent scorer. He has to keep shooting if he's wide open. Their defense was playing lights out, making it very hard to get the ball inside. I think honestly, our guys got a little down on themselves when the shots weren't falling and Ole Miss was scoring at will. Great teams are able to get themselves out of such funks, and maybe we could have if we were at full strength.
Set ball screens, get switches, and isolate the mismatch and play through that. We got looks. Just missed them
Set ball screens, get the swtiches into a mismatch, isolate the mismatch in the post and play through that.
Their D wasn’t playing lights out as much as people want to think. There were several times our big was open in the lane and everyone put up deep 3s instead. Then ole miss crashed the boards and it looked like they packed it in since we only had one rebounding.
Ole Miss is nothing special. They shot out of their minds last night... it happens. Milan was flat out bad... even he would admit that.
If Ole Miss shot their normal % and Milan hits even half of his attempts... ISU is still dancing.
If Ole Miss shot their normal % and Milan hits even half of his attempts... ISU is still dancing.
Agree. Ole miss doesnt shoot as well with a 7 point lead as a 17 point lead. They had confidence fueled by a huge cushion.
Closer game, they are tighter, and our guys dont lose hope and focus either.
I keep hearing this kind of "it was a one-off game" argument. But, this wasn't a one-off, but a pattern. Against BYU:
Against K-State:
Against Houston:
This was a pattern. You can argue the reason for it, but you can't argue that it wasn't a pattern throughout the season.
OMG, it was a sampling. Here is KU:
Here's TTU (which we squeaked by):
It was a f'n pattern.
Teams realized we trap the baseline. I can’t be the only one who saw teams would drive to just pull the defender off the corner 3 shooter, kick it out and they would drain it.
You're a little teste today.
So....it's a pattern that teams shot above average against us. Against which teams did those teams shoot below average?
I would add CuJo to that list as well. Beard did a great job of creating mismatches by our switching everything.
We ran into a perfect storm last night:
- An athletic team that plays defense
- A team with solid player and ball movement on offense
- An elite coach
- Players who made shots
It was a disciplined team. There were several times that I saw Tamin guarding their only big down low and they never took the bait to throw it to him to get double teamed. They would pass around and get Tamin out of there so they would t have an athletic player to help out.
We though, realized that that we could pass it down low and score early on. Then we thought, that is boring and i would much rather shoot a deep three instead and did that the rest of the way. No adjustments or butt chewings happened.
That’s good. I certainly think he could play a fantastic point forward role if he worked on his handles. He is an elite passer for a big man and would cause massive matchup issues if he recognized backside doubles faster and had a tighter dribble.
