Great reasoned perspective CYKO. Thank you for bringing balance and wisdom back to this thread.
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Great reasoned perspective CYKO. Thank you for bringing balance and wisdom back to this thread.
It is crazy to think teams will shoot a better percentage on their home floor that they are familiar with. Not to mention in front of their home crowd.
Some of the stuff on here is absolutely hilarious! Now someone claims that many of us are saying this team has "no talent!" That's crap. I have not read one post that says we have no talent. We have terrific talent. But it's talent with weaknesses. Weaknesses that opposing coaches and teams are exploiting. Other than TT, the "desire," effort, whatever, has been there. But weaknesses are weaknesses. Teams like KU and UK have talent with less weaknesses than our group. It happens. Fred gets more out of his guys than any coach in America, and yet he and his team are called out for not achieving at the level some on here want. Do you think they want that too? Of course they do! But guess what? They have a MUCH smaller margin of error. That's reality.
ISU’s greatest challenge is not with the level of talent on the team. Rather it is filling the hole left by an outstanding defensive assistant coach like Doc Sadler. Sadler had a reputation for demanding the maximum from his effort from his players in practice as well as games. He built teams that ranked as high as number 15 nationally in defense. Add that element to Fred’s immense skill set and watch were the team goes over time.
We %$(* at free throws. Teams that make deep runs in tourneys play defense and shoot free throws well.
We are going to be fine. Next year will be even better. Plenty of talent coming in, and Plenty of talent on the roster now.
We have leaders. We may not have a go to guy thats a "sure" finish at the rim when you need it, but we have leaders.
I didn't know this ZRF fool until tonight. But a quick look at his previous posts and I'm pegging him as a Kansas fan.
We've seen an improvement, no doubt. But I think we also need to realize that the situation we were in played a part in those two losses. First, I don't think it can be overstated that playing on the road on Big Monday is really, really tough. Add in playing two really good teams. I don't think it is a coincidence that we played well in the first half of both games and then kind of tanked. I think it is obvious that Kansas was extra hyped for our game. And Oklahoma is a tough match up for us. I think that Hoiberg knew that we had a good chance to lose to Oklahoma.
It's funny how people think that you are being negative by saying that Baylor or Oklahoma have a chance to beat us at home, but yet seem to think that we should have no problem beating Kansas and Oklahoma on the road.
Drives me crazy. Much like when people talk about how we give up leads.....the other team has something to do with that. We aren't playing against ourselves.
I respect the heck out of the players and coach Hoiberg. However, the team was lacking the toughness and leadership a great team needs. Do I still need to feel bad?
Well, this team had some serious toughness to be able to make all those comebacks. Just a horrible habit to get used to; playing with fire. NCAA tourney time and you can't get away with that.
