*** Official West Virginia vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[inCyteful]

Whar' ZRF? I'm guessing they are probably starting another thread on TJ coaching issues.

He is on WV site dry humping their version of ZRF.

 

[Marcelason78]

Think he's on an involuntary vacation again

Z is following his own advice and has decided to put himself on ignore.

 

[madguy30]

Z is following his own advice and has decided to put himself on ignore.

Arbitrarily?

 

[NoCreativity]

Whar' ZRF? I'm guessing they are probably starting another thread on TJ coaching issues.

He has to be fuming that BRE and Pav played so well today.

 

[SolarGarlic]

It's kind of weird to me that it seems to place such little value on categorically winning the game.

It doesn't place "little value" on winning. It places zero value on winning.

 

[bosco]

BRE looking like Shaq leading the break. Is this the same guy from the last two years? Can we find him more eligibility

If Omaha or any prospective bigs have any doubts about our staff to develop players there should be a progression video of BRE from his first year to now.

 

[Letterkenny]

I dont think it's coaching. Jones is a senior who's played in the program for 2 years previously. The 3 things I've noticed the most is his body transformation (more chiseled...athletic looking), footwork, and playing within himself. Those particular things scream more hard work and film study on his part than coaching, not that coaching hasn't played some factor.

The dude literally went from the WORST player buy a country mile in conference play to a top 30 performer. That kind of jump, given the circumstances, is pretty much unheard of. McCullar took a jump but most of that was shooting and aggressiveness. If he wins conference MIP it would be a damned shame. Jones should win it running away.

Yeah, it's just a coincidence that Rob Jones, Conditt, Ward, and I'd even say Tre King all made huge improvements year-after-year under this staff.

 

[bosco]

I dont think it's coaching. Jones is a senior who's played in the program for 2 years previously. The 3 things I've noticed the most is his body transformation (more chiseled...athletic looking), footwork, and playing within himself. Those particular things scream more hard work and film study on his part than coaching, not that coaching hasn't played some factor.

The dude literally went from the WORST player buy a country mile in conference play to a top 30 performer. That kind of jump, given the circumstances, is pretty much unheard of. McCullar took a jump but most of that was shooting and aggressiveness. If he wins conference MIP it would be a damned shame. Jones should win it running away.

Actually if you remove the first sentence this might be ZRF's best post.

 

[bosco]

In a weird way I'm glad we had a stinker of a game. it was going to happen eventually and it did in a predictable spot.

Glad it happened at Hilton and against WVU.

 

[bosco]

You:

VS the guy she tells you not to worry about.

 

[flycy]

I have no idea why they didn’t foul immediately

Its because ISU is automatic from the foul line. Waste of time.

 

[jmb]

We weren’t on our A game but West Virginia at full strength isn’t as bad as their record indicates. That’s not a terrible team.

WV reminds me of us Tj’s first year w better scorers.

 

[t-noah]

This was the particular game I was most worried about. I'm not Nostradomus, but I think we protect home court along with winning in Orlando, and dropping one in Manhatten, KS. That particular game may be more important for them. Just my slant on things.

The boys have been doing better than expected. Why don't we just win out?

You see how easy it is to get ahead of myself (ourselves)? It should be fun the rest of the way. I hope so.

 

[t-noah]

Agreed. You have to think they got that particular game circled on the schedule for revenge factor reasons. I think we clobber em'.

I'm ready to clobber somebody! LOL

 

[t-noah]

Had no idea that coming into today's game WV won 8 of the last 9 against ISU

It will be a while 'till I like playing them.

 

[t-noah]

If Rob Jones somehow had one more year I’m pretty sure he’d be on most hated list of other Big 12 teams. Today he was just getting every loose ball and outrunning every WVU big man pretty severely.

Big Rob Charlie Hustle Jones!

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Listened to the game while I was working today. Watching the replay, Pav is straight balling out right now.

 

[goody2012]

Didn't we go up in KenPom after the Houston loss? It would be funny trying to explain analytics to someone 25 years ago.

If we beat the spread, going up. Lose against the spread, going down. It's not that hard.

 

[bosco]

Listened to the game while I was working today. Watching the replay, Pav is straight balling out right now.

... Only that Pavs is not a Big 12 calibre player (this year)...

 

[3TrueFans]

I like this one.

I'm not arguing he shouldn't be getting 20. I'm arguing it should actually be zero