I feel tons better with the way that Monte has been playing recently at the point, he will be ready to go if Kane can't. Maybe Kane will play less point guard if he is able to go Monday. Monte has proven capable of being very smart with the ball.
***Official*** ISU MBB Meltdown thread...
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Not so much the loss... One of the main go to guys and floor general of our team goes down in the loss. Considering, if you have ever ventured over the the Rashad Vaughn thread, you will see people losing their s*** and jumping to conclusions over what a 18 year old retweets on his twitter page. So Yup, I could see some meltdowns from peeps over one of the most important pieces to this team going down in a loss at the beginning of the most important stretch in our conference play.
Funny thing is when I started the thread it was meant to be a thread that you could just throw all the garbage threads and posts of negativity that seem to overcome this forum anytime anything negative happens. For example, the way the football board looked like after the UNI loss.
Re: The Reason We Lost
Again, Spangler was shoving our guys at the shoulder blades when the shot went up. The Clones were shoved under the bucket. They need to expect Spangler to do the same everytime.
After reading the thread I feel like I got trolled. If you want a real meltdown, go to HN after the football teams wins a game, there is still a real meltdown.
Seriously though, ISU is off to a great start. It anyone had told you that it would take til game #15 before ISU lost, everyone would take that in a heartbeat. I still think if ISU goes .500 or better on the road against these guys (KU, KState, Oklahoma, Okie St, Texas, and Baylor) that ISU will win the Big12.
Seriously though, ISU is off to a great start. It anyone had told you that it would take til game #15 before ISU lost, everyone would take that in a heartbeat. I still think if ISU goes .500 or better on the road against these guys (KU, KState, Oklahoma, Okie St, Texas, and Baylor) that ISU will win the Big12.
Honestly outside of not executing in the last couple minutes I was pretty impressed with how we played. We got down 13 with 12 minutes left to a tournament team that was playing desperate coming off a home loss and completely dominated them for a ten minute stretch to eventually take the lead. It wasn't us simply getting hot from outside that got us back in it. Ejim, Niang, Kane all had stretches where they were scoring in the lane at will. When we play with a little urgency this team is darn near unstoppable. We struggled from three while Oklahoma was unconscious for most of the game. Got out scored 22-2 in second chance points yet we held a lead late and lost by 5.
If this was last year we would have lost by 20 today... I think we are going to see the best opening ten minutes of basketball that we have seen this year on Monday. This team is going to come out hungry.
If this was last year we would have lost by 20 today... I think we are going to see the best opening ten minutes of basketball that we have seen this year on Monday. This team is going to come out hungry.
Not sure of the negativity towards the thread. It was a decent idea, but corralling negativity on CF is a mythical unicorn. It ended up generating more positive responses than if he would have titled it "positives to take away from the game". It kinda does feel like he trolled deanvogs and clark. I approve.
I just rewatched the game and we really had our way offensively for much of the game. A few more of our threes fall and we probably win in similar fashion to the Iowa game. We were not far off our normal pace offensively or defensively. OU's offensive rebounding was troubling, but I can see Ejim and Hogue playing very energized on Monday. That loss could have come at a very good time for those two if we need to go without Kane.
I obviously want Kane in the lineup, but I refuse to think that we can't still beat Kansas AT HILTON with man-man running the show. His assist to turnover ratio is ridiculous. Everyone else just needs to step up and play like the are capable. I think there was too much "relying" on Kane during stretches of the OU game. Look for Niang to have a big game if Kane doesn't play.
I just rewatched the game and we really had our way offensively for much of the game. A few more of our threes fall and we probably win in similar fashion to the Iowa game. We were not far off our normal pace offensively or defensively. OU's offensive rebounding was troubling, but I can see Ejim and Hogue playing very energized on Monday. That loss could have come at a very good time for those two if we need to go without Kane.
I obviously want Kane in the lineup, but I refuse to think that we can't still beat Kansas AT HILTON with man-man running the show. His assist to turnover ratio is ridiculous. Everyone else just needs to step up and play like the are capable. I think there was too much "relying" on Kane during stretches of the OU game. Look for Niang to have a big game if Kane doesn't play.
I have never been a Thomas basher....but he should not have been on the floor tonight. Fred could have used the bench more. KU is very good.....we are top 20. Ku is top 10. If we hit our threes maybe we win....maybe. We never win at Lawrence with this team unless Gibson and Edozie contribute some freak amount.
This looked like Tinsley senior year against Baylor....team is out of gas already. That is what a bench is for. Oh well. More MickeyD's for Kansas.....you guys are better human beings than us lowly peasants in Iowa.
This looked like Tinsley senior year against Baylor....team is out of gas already. That is what a bench is for. Oh well. More MickeyD's for Kansas.....you guys are better human beings than us lowly peasants in Iowa.
This is what sucks about good starts and being ranked top 10 you just get ****** off when your team has a couple let downs.
This team needs the extra few days before Saturday. Shooting confidence needs to come back if we want to get back on track.
If that and smart shots don't start, a 14 game winning streak might be met by a 5 game losing streak.
So for the second game in a row we have a really bad night and our opponent has a really good one. I'd be a lot more worried if our losses hadn't come down to "don't miss just about every three". It'll even out soon enough and we'll be back on track.
Our outside shooting is abysmal, we might as well start counting them as turnovers, because we're handing the ball right back to them.
For the B12, we're 25-95 from trey; 26%.
For the B12, we're 25-95 from trey; 26%.
Not sure why people think KU had that good of a night. They shot OK, but almost all of their 3s were completely uncontested. They played good post D, but we had lots of open 3s that were just flat out bricks. There were plenty of contested 3s, but not that many. They had a great night on the offensive glass, but that's going to happen a lot against us.
Again, completely and utterly unprepared to start this game. Just like OU, when we make a run we're doing it just to tie instead of building a lead. This is a major problem that the coaches and leaders on this team need to fix. This is a good team, but we are not good enough to sleepwalk for 5 minutes of a game.
We got dominated for about 70 minutes in the past two games. I'm confident they'll snap out of this funk, but this was a pretty disheartening few days. I don't think this team has a real high ceiling, but they've proven they are tough and resilient.
There. Feeling better.
