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

[Darius Bieber]

A lot of good teams lose on the road to mediocre teams clearly you dont know basketball.

Cincy isn’t a mediocre team. They're a horrible team.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

At some point you have to actually coach some offense. Having your offense be Brockington, Curt Jones or Milan hit contested shots only works so often.

But everytime I bump the Nate Schmidt thread I get crucified

 

[Cyhig]

It really appears that Otz teams have the same problems every year.

They just seem to hit a brick wall in January. Like clockwork

 

[isucyfan]

Jizzle got a happy ending. I did not.

 

[clonedude]

Wasted an all-timer from Milan

mostly after the game had already been decided though unfortunately.

 

[Cymark86]

Thankfully traveling Tuesday so won’t have to watch getting embarassed by UCF at home. UCF is long and athletic and I’m sure we will just double team their center all game to let their guards get wide open looks

This is such an absurd statement. You really think we’ll get embarrassed by UCF next week? Come on dude, teams lose on the road. See me in 2 weeks if it’s still this bad.

 

[cyatheart]

Scout is out. Isu hasn't adjusted. Either they do or this is what's going to happen.

 

[Thomasrickj]

Um, no. Bad loss today, but calling 16 games a "fluke" is not accurate.

Okay, then I’ll say it’s peaking too soon then falling apart. Exact same situation happened last year at t exact same time. Our guys are not ready to play and have not played a very good game since before conference play started.

 

[Inthesystem]

Look how happy we made their fans, maybe that’s the real victory after all.

Double treats for everyone.

 

[HoustonClone]

A lot of good teams lose on the road to mediocre teams clearly you dont know basketball.

Don't try and reason with Bieber when he is relishing the negativity. Let him have his day.

 

[tim_redd]

It took Milan catching fire in the 2nd half to prevent this from being a savage beat down.

 

[Pharmacy99]

Good teams don’t lose to Cincy

Go celebrate with your Hawkeye buddies. Your team won

 

[Clone95]

mostly after the game had already been decided though unfortunately.

Not really. His 6th 3 brought it to 5 points with 4 mins to go. His last 2 were the only ones after it was decided.

 

[cayin]

Down 5, the Bearcats had a long extended possession and I think 4 shots at the hoop, of course hitting their last one. We just couldn't get the rebound. On that same possession, Hiese almost got the turnover for us.
And what, 20 points off of turnovers? For the love of God, value the damn basketball!! Jacy Holloway where are you?

 

[HoustonClone]

Kansas pealed back the issues.

Cincinnati full fledged exposed them.

All the excitement of potentially winning the Big 12 and being a Final Four contender are out the door now. They’ll be lucky to win an NCAA tournament game. Is the team that lost to Pittsburgh back out there?

Step back off the cliff. Bad loss today, but geez.

 

[CYDJ]

Does LG's warranty cover TVs that kill themselves so they don't have to show any more ISU games this year?

 

[awd4cy]

A lot of good teams lose on the road to mediocre teams clearly you dont know basketball.

Cincinnati has 8 losses and it’s the middle of January. That’s not mediocre

 

[Erik4Cy]

1. Cut down turnovers NOPE (12)
2. Turn them over more NOPE (7)
3. Make FTs NOPE (17/27 63%)
4. Make 3pters YEAH (9/21 43%) *but mostly Momcilovic desperation 3s
5. Rebound NOPE (Cincy 37, ISU 29)

Revisiting my keys to 2nd half...yeah, we sucked

 

[CycloneSpinning]

I just don’t know how we can be so unready to play every single game. I’m literally every game since Purdue. Even the buy games

I wonder if we need to start games by not employing our trapping defense. Just play hard-nosed straight up man, create turnovers with good position and quick hands, and get to the rim on offense…and then once we have them down, we can shift into our trapping defense. The bad thing about the trapping defense is it’s soft against the three. If teams are tight or lack confidence, it’s not much of a. Issue, but when you play a Big 12 team on their home floor, they are assuming they are going to make their shots…at least to start. If they start hitting their threes…and we don’t..:we’re down 8-10 in no time.

 

[NY Chicago Fan]

Wow, what happened. I saw halftime score and figured they would win.

Box score looks like lost TO battle and Mom needs some help