*** Official Baylor vs #7 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[1SEIACLONE]

The key was Baylor was hitting their 3 points shots, and ISU was not getting loose ball turnovers. Baylor really did a great job of limiting the turnovers for much of the game. It ended sloppy for ISU, but it's another conference win. Learn from it and move on.

 

[Clone95]

It wasn't that bad. Toure was a disaster and we have to be better at FTs but Baylor nailed 3 threes late that will makeup points fast.

Did enough to win.

TJ benched Toure for a long time for some of his lazy passes and he came in and immediately took the ball from the Baylor player and scored. That started our run to stretch the lead. Like that reaction to sitting for Toure.

 

[theyork]

what happened in the last few minutes of the game? ESPN game flow had isu up 72 to 58 with 2min left. what the hell happened? could isu have lost this game at the end or did Baylor make a shot to end the game?

 

[NENick]

It wasn't that bad. Toure was a disaster and we have to be better at FTs but Baylor nailed 3 threes late that will makeup points fast.

Did enough to win.

I wouldn't call Toure's play a disaster, but he obviously made freshman mistakes. Also had a huge, gamechanging play.

 

[GP4ISU]

Terrible performance. Like, about as poorly as we can play to end the game.

Motivation is a thing.

Honestly, other than a couple spurts, we didn’t play well the whole game. Lost the TO battle, ball movement, free throws, defensive intensity.

 

[3TrueFans]

I have to apologize on behalf of my wife as the downfall at the end of the game happened right when she called me after a 14 point lead was taken and stayed on the phone until the end of the game.

I never liked her

 

[CychiatricWard]

what happened in the last few minutes of the game? ESPN game flow had isu up 72 to 58 with 2min left. what the hell happened? could isu have lost this game at the end or did Baylor make a shot to end the game?

They did hit a semi wild 3 when we were up 72-66. That’s a most likely miss and if that happens we win by probably 8. It was not good but I wasn’t worried about actually losing the game.

 

[fsanford]

When a team is on a roll time off is sometimes a bad thing

 

[demoncore1031]

It wasn't that bad. Toure was a disaster and we have to be better at FTs but Baylor nailed 3 threes late that will makeup points fast.

Did enough to win.

Baylor was hitting crazy contested 3s for most of the game. If they were not hitting those we win by 25-ish points, even if we didn't play great. The team is gonna have to play really well and limit mistakes the rest of the way with a brutal schedule coming up.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

It wasn't that bad. Toure was a disaster and we have to be better at FTs but Baylor nailed 3 threes late that will makeup points fast.

Did enough to win.

lol we gave up an 11-0 run, it really was that bad.

 

[GP4ISU]

My hopes of a F4 ended today.

At least it ended with a win.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

When a team is on a roll time off is sometimes a bad thing

Sounds like they took a week off, TJ is getting soft on us.

 

[GP4ISU]

Baylor was hitting crazy contested 3s for most of the game. If they were not hitting those we win by 25-ish points, even if we didn't play great. The team is gonna have to play really well and limit mistakes the rest of the way with a brutal schedule coming up.

Yeah, Baylor not a good team. But it shows you what a team with nothing to lose can do. We are the hunted after all. Gonna get everybody’s best shot for two months.

 

[rosshm16]

That dog sh*t performance dropped us from 6 to 10 in Kenpom offense - not small movement.

Would be nice to be higher, but #5-#11 are separated by a single point per 100 possessions which doesn't seem like much. I think it's just a bunch of similar-metric teams clustered together.

 

[GP4ISU]

Purdue struggled at home and barely beat Oregon, Kansas has been struggling with Utah at home for awhile, **** happens. Not ideal obviously but it’s one game, TJ will have them focused. I would nervous to be TCU

It’s almost like they’re 20 to 23 year old kids…..

 

[EnkAMania]

They showed TJ after the Milan lazy pass turnover and I thought his head was going to explode.

 

[StLouisClone]

Drew might not sleep well thinking about these 2 sequences in a 3-point loss:

1) Drew's technical foul in the 1st half.
2) Baylor letting ISU run the clock down from 39 seconds to 18 seconds before fouling Lipsey.

 

[rosshm16]

I missed the Drew tech, what did he do?

 

[GP4ISU]

This exactly what this team needed. Starting with the lazy pass from Milan, TJ will run the tape over and over on how not to close out games. With the big teams coming up, they’ve got to learn how to value the ball in tough, close games.

They still using tape?

 

[ClonerJams]

I missed the Drew tech, what did he do?

They missed a moving screen on Buchanan that led to a Milan 3, and he kept barking to the refs about it. Funny thing is Baylor got away with the same thing in the 2nd half but TJ kept his cool because he isn't a child.