I honestly don't have words...
- Thread starter dahliaclone
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*15 minutes left in the game....
Michigan State shut Stirtz down fairly easy. Not worried
My expectation is simply that we win the next game. And each next game subsequently until we run out of games. This seems reasonable.
We are significantly better this year
I think we're much deeper this year though.
Yeah, but Houston was missing one of their best players and weren't interested in competing after the first 10 minutes. To me, this was a more impressive win.
Not sure how you could come to that conclusion. Maybe, maybe not. Fizer was the most dominant player in the game, and Tinsley controlled every game. Our guards were tough as nails. It isn't like that team didn't have NBA talent.
Yeah, I don't know if last year's team was as good or not. It sure might have been. And to be fair, they were so beat up by the end of the year that they didn't seem great.
But there's just something different about this team. One thing I always said about the last few teams is you looked at them and watched them play and you never quite understood how they were good. You knew they were good because of the results, but most of the time I watched and I didn't see a top 25 or top 15 team, even though they were.
THIS team so far looks the part. Since the Thanksgiving tournament I watch them play and I'm like "yep, they're really good".
It doesn't hurt that we've been on an historic heater of a streak since the Creighton game. That's 4 games in a row where we just demolished our opponents.
We are much more balanced offensively. We have 6 guys you can't leave on the perimeter. We're making the defense move and attacking closeouts as opposed to forcing drives into a set defense. Momcilovic's game the last 5 games is the ceiling raiser. Defenses are scrambling to cover him. Toure is already an elite defensive guard and starting to bring some shooting. The pieces are just a better fit and producing a more free flowing game on offense while maintaining or exceeding the defensive effort. Our guys compete hard on the boards.
Until they prove otherwise, the LE team is the best in Iowa State history. You know must not have followed that team because they were tough as nails. I “hope” this team proves me wrong!
