*** Official #2 IOWA STATE vs Kansas Game(Day) Thread ***

[exCYtable]

This team is losing in the first round. Always **** the bed when there is any expectations

The trolls are so freaking obvious tonight.

 

[xboxfever]

T.J.s teams have always been bad offensively. His style relies on turnovers to create points. When you don’t turn the other team over, you don’t score a lot of points. The half court offense under him has always been dog ****.

 

[isufbcurt]

Did the entire team just party until 3am last night? How were they not more focused to play a game at Kansas

According to Walter’s “we approached it like just a regular game”. Should have approached it like the ******* Super Bowl because you knew a struggling KU was going to approach it like that.

 

[DRH]

How are our daily habits going if we sleep walk the first 10 minutes of every game?? How does the #2 ranked team open games so passive and skiddish offensively over 3 weeks? Seems we need to break some daily habits…

 

[SoleCyclone]

Jesus I hate Bilas

Everyone is annoying when you're getting your doors blown off

 

[ChickenNuggetMan]

This loss isn’t going to hurt us really. If anything it will be a good learning opportunity for us to stop ******* starting slow and actually score in the first half of games.

It really did feel like we would start slow until it finally bit us in the ass

 

[KCyclone2010]

This 2nd half will tell me a lot. If we make a solid comeback and make it interesting, ok. If they look and play like that first half again? I truly think the wheels may come off moving forward. It’s too much a trend with TJs teams

 

[NoCreativity]

We even got ranked 2nd that same week. This is getting really similar to last years team. Look fantastic to start the year and slowly get a little worse, then fall of a cliff

The West Virginia game was right when Milan missed about a month though. We dont have any injury excuses this time.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

It’s lazy coaching. Just flat out laziness. Way too much iso ball. Move the ball around. Cut.

Again. Don’t blame TJ here. Blame Coach Schmidt. He draws up the offense. All of it.

 

[awd4cy]

They had a bunch of injuries and a guy out for a long stretch.

Do people even pay attention to how much that impacts a basketball team?

Injuries cannot be blamed for that slump after Arizona. We got completely embarrassed at home by a horrible KSU team then went to the Phog and basically looked like we do tonight.

 

[fsanford]

So pregame predictions
KU shoot 50% from 3
KU circling the wagons
Bill Self can still coach
ISU gets zombified at the Phog

 

[tim_redd]

This game is a loss. If we're a good team, we can't let it lose us another game on Saturday.

 

[Marcelason78]

Five TOs by JJ and 0-7 by Tamin. Tough to win on the road with those numbers.

 

[12191987]

The reverse-Auburn game?

Auburn’s win would still be way more impressive.

 

[GoSTATE71]

if they come out of half on a 8-0 run that’d be ideal. KU will come back down to earth shooting wise

 

[Big_Sill]

What sports channel / game can I watch without “highlights from the ISU KU first half”?

 

[inCyteful]

The ONLY positive is we aren't in foul trouble.

Really reaching here...

Yea, you generally have to be within a few of them to commit the foul.

 

[ClonesFTW]

That’s up there with the worst halves under TJ.

(Edit: excluding the Pitt NCAA tournament game…that entire thing was brutal)

It’s because our offense is our defense. If we aren’t playing good D, we have no half court offense to fall back on.

 

[madguy30]

I think this ends up being a 5 point game. Not sure we win, but we’ll at least make it interesting.

KU's big challenge is can they maintain this type of urgency that they really haven't had for a long while. They also have two guys with 2 fouls.

ISU's big challenge is to slow down a bit and just play some ball.

 

[jflattery]

What sports channel / game can I watch without “highlights from the ISU KU first half”?

"Technical difficulties"