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

And Toure needs to play and even bigger role. Not sure why anyone thinks Lipsey is ever actually gonna be healthy. . I said it a month ago, if this team wants to be elite it's gonna be by his play.
 
Jizzle didn't join the team until mid-December & he makes a difference for them. However, they still are not a very good team. Just aren't

Who is the Dawg on this team? I mean if the other team is being all handsy & physical, who plays strongly through it, even potentially getting an offensive foul, but gets up & into the opponent's faces & says, "ain't going to F matter"? I don't see anyone filling that role. We are too nice & too soft. When we go to the rim when contact occurs we get pushed away from the bucket & don't stay on course to then make the shot & get an "And-1". And it's not to start a bench clearing incident (although one might not be bad in the near future), but we need to develop our mental toughness. Currently our nonverbals display... well, negative waves across the board. Milan's shooting may have saved the day for someone to have as much confidence as he showed. The rest? severely lacking
 
Cinci did an remarkable job of passing out of doubles, and their threes went down at an unprecedented rate. Add to that we turned the ball over at an impressive rate, and it's amazing that we were within nine.

The problem is that no one on cinci is good enough to waste a double team on.

Big 12 teams know how to attack out defense andTJ refuses to adjust or throw in a new wrinkle.
 
Cinci did an remarkable job of passing out of doubles, and their threes went down at an unprecedented rate. Add to that we turned the ball over at an impressive rate, and it's amazing that we were within nine.

They shot 29% from 3. Below their season average…
 
Brend starting off by saying ISU started well today in the first 5-10 mins... but then started playing bad. Wut? We were down 10 at the 10 min mark.
 
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This team also just isn’t that fun to watch right now. If you take a loss but played hard it’s fine. It’s when you just do really ridiculous stuff like dribbling with no one around and lose it, careless turnovers, etc.
 
Milan had a great scoring game, but only had one rebound in 34 minutes of play. Heise had 0 rebounds in 24 minutes. That needs to change.
 
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