*** Official West Virginia vs #3 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[cyfanbr]

How do I watch the "after dark" podcast?

 

[NATEizKING]

That was pleasant

 

[rosshm16]

Nice to see the team respond to my critical remarks from the first 10 minutes.

 

[FerShizzle]

Milan with 26 points on 13 shots and zero FTs attempted is a ridiculously efficient scoring outburst.

 

[cydnote]

You ever feel like your wife looks at the BB schedule and plans date nights on game days?

That’s how I feel.

Anyway, didn’t get to watch this one. How are we looking?

My wife looks at the schedule and proclaims that IS our date night

 

[HFCS]

I thought Tyrus Magee was a great 3 pt shooter...but Milan...holy cow!

Niang was pretty great with a set shot and has made a long nba career of it, but I think Milan is now our best set shot 3pt shooter now. He releases higher than Niang to my eye.

Most of our other best shooters would take a lot of shots on the move or get a high release with a jump shot. McGee really ran around like a maniac to take a difficult shot. Cujo did a lot last year too.

 

[Brockchili]

Royce's skillset scoring wise was fairly limited to the paint. I swear I saw some stat that season that the more he scored the worse the team did, like we were undefeated if he scored under something like 15 or 20 and did pretty poorly if he scored more.

The tourney game against Kentucky proved it. He played well ... And that was it.

 

[twincyties]

the metrics liked that game. isu was 33.49 prior to tip-off and is nearly caught up with arizona now.
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Thanks for posting this. I always forget to screen shot before the game!

 

[FerShizzle]

Thanks for posting this. I always forget to screen shot before the game!

we should all pony up for a shared cyfan login to kenpom so we can manipulate the data and look back in time.

 

[BCClone]

The fighting Fred’s shot 32% and still beat MSU.

 

[HFCS]

Thanks for posting this. I always forget to screen shot before the game!

Curious how much Gonzaga dips in metrics going overtime with what would easily be last place big 12 team.

 

[CycloneVet]

Niang was pretty great with a set shot and has made a long nba career of it, but I think Milan is now our best set shot 3pt shooter now. He releases higher than Niang to my eye.

Most of our other best shooters would take a lot of shots on the move or get a high release with a jump shot. McGee really ran around like a maniac to take a difficult shot. Cujo did a lot last year too.

Niangs dribble drive, spin, baby hook, how’d that go in game was legendary

 

[clonechemist]

Niang was pretty great with a set shot and has made a long nba career of it, but I think Milan is now our best set shot 3pt shooter now. He releases higher than Niang to my eye.

Most of our other best shooters would take a lot of shots on the move or get a high release with a jump shot. McGee really ran around like a maniac to take a difficult shot. Cujo did a lot last year too.

Agree - most of our historic 3pt shooters needed to take higher difficulty shots because they were small and had to move around to get space. And we’ve had some truly great ones- Willoughby and Sullivan may be at the top of the list for me? Along with McGee and CuJo

But Milan’s shot and his ability to get it off due to height will make him lots of money at the next level. Niang was serviceable at ISU but made huge leaps in his quick release and accuracy to fill that role in the NBA. Milan should be a plug-in floor spacer immediately

 

[Brockchili]

Milans defense was stellar this game. Pleta, Heise, and Batemon all contributed in their own way, there was no real let up from the starters to our bench. Poor West Virginia.

 

[rosshm16]

Sullivan was great at getting his shot off for a shorter guy without any hops to speak of. His release was crazy-fast.

 

[Thomasrickj]

Momcilovic has balls of steel. He has to be the best shooter in the country.

 

[FerShizzle]

Curious how much Gonzaga dips in metrics going overtime with what would easily be last place big 12 team.

they dropped 1.05 NET. a massive drop for a game that they won.

 

[AllInForISU]

Frankly I’m not worried about his draft position, he won’t be an all star but he has a high floor and he could go to any team and get minutes as a floor spacer. He could easily make $100 million plus over his career just filling that role

Agreed. Just saw a lot of people thinking he will be a lottery pick. I think the only potential lottery pick on this team is Toure (not this year either) and that’s not even close to a sure thing.

 

[Pizzapitter]

Adapting to the NBA.
Milan will do so, much moreso than the aforementioned.
For those that haven't noticed, his d has vastly improved

 

[twincyties]

Curious how much Gonzaga dips in metrics going overtime with what would easily be last place big 12 team.

I don’t know by that would have been a quad 3 loss.