*** Official Virginia Tech vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Literally no one here is saying that 1 or 2 or even a handful of games make a season. JFC with this sh*t.
Sound advice. I was going to scan thru all these posts. I think I'll pass and check in again tomorrow, game time.
Hopefully we show a pulse tomorrow. It is funny though how a couple of games has completely changed the thinking of the fans about this team, and it's players.
About middle of the road in experience this year. Out of all of division I we are 144th in experience at 1.99 years.
Tough start for an Oz team… it’s going to be a long season. Let’s hope they can scrape a few wins … they are getting outplayed by sub 100 Kenpom teams …
I mean.. VTech was 49th..
Also VTech is considered a tourney team on KenPom as well.
Yeah this is by no means a bad loss. Tech is good and hit shots. We shoot a mediocre FT % and we probably win or it's really close. Nothing to panic about yet
First loss of the season is always a bummer, no matter when it occurs. Might be easier to absorb in mid-January ... actually, no, it'd be hard then, too. 
Losing yesterday is no big deal. The way we played Thursday and Friday is a tiny bit concerning. Offense seemed very stale. Sometimes I don't understand our switching on defense.
They'll get things figured out.
They'll get things figured out.
We are certainly not a veteran team. Tamin just a sophomore as is Watson. Milan and Omaha freshmen. And as you said, many newcomers.
It's not like we lost to VT because of effort or talent. Feel like there are a few areas that have stood out in the tournament against better competition:
- Poor Free Throw Shooting. Even if we only shoot in the high 60's against VT we lost 5ish points.
- VT got at least 6 points off under basket inbound plays.
- 3 Point Differential. VT: -18pts (39percent vs 24percent) / VCU: -24pts (43p vs 15p)
- We lack consistent jump shooters. I mentioned 3 point shooting in the prior point, but it seems guys aren't willing to take open 10-15 footers.
We are lacking an identity on offense right now. We need to turn people over and get out and run or we need to change our starting lineup. We only have one shooter in our starting lineup. I think maybe we need to have King come off the bench and let Milan play the 4. Right now we have two guards that like to get to the rim and two post players who have no outside shot. That mix doesn’t work.
There really isn’t much of an offensive system. It’s just not TJs strength, but this is still a relatively inexperienced staff, and they’ll keep learning and getting better. There have certainly been some shooting limitations the past couple of years that drastically limited what the staff can do. But there is some offensive skill, so hopefully they. A figure out how to get some matchups to exploit. Saw a little of it with Milan down on the block.
We have some good defenders, but so far they have not been turning teams over. Also, guards were going under screens a lot yesterday, even against shooters. Not sure if that was intentional or just a mistake. Gabe was so damn good at anticipating screens, beating the screener to the spot and making shooters’ lives difficult. Gilbert can be very disruptive defensively, and Jones gets after it, but they have a way to go to approach what Gabe could do defensively.
Yeah, those were killers.
Did VT notice something in film to see tendency/vulnerability of how ISU has defended inbounding? A one-off could happen, but seemed like a strategic thing. I don't claim to know, just curious, as a discussion point.
Late to the party here, and I know similar sentiments have already been posted, but I am seeing A LOT of irrational overreactions to a loss on a neutral court to a pretty solid ACC program in this thread. I would have been more upset had we actually lost to VCU.
Could we have played better? Sure. And all of the missed FT's, particularly the front ends of those 1 and 1's, were backbreaking.
But it's only the 6th game of the season. Waaaaaayyy too early to start waving any sort of white flag.
Tomorrow's game against T A&M will also be a tough one. Decent chance we come back to Ames 5-2. And it still won't be reason for panic, unless we get blown out by 25.
Could we have played better? Sure. And all of the missed FT's, particularly the front ends of those 1 and 1's, were backbreaking.
But it's only the 6th game of the season. Waaaaaayyy too early to start waving any sort of white flag.
Tomorrow's game against T A&M will also be a tough one. Decent chance we come back to Ames 5-2. And it still won't be reason for panic, unless we get blown out by 25.
Sorry folks, wasn't clear. Was taking about the Texas tech loss on the road under hoiberg.
Uhh...we are #1 in torvik on forced turnover percentage not sure what you're looking at.
Our opponents have more turnovers than fg makes.
We have the wrong guys taking the shots and they're also taking bad shots. Milan could have scored another 20 last night if they'd gotten the ball to him.
