Love Lipsey but he’s had 1 good year shooting the ball. It’s been brutal the other 3. Under 30% this year as a senior.
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Yeah the thing that’s frustrating is we’ve now elevated to a really good team that is consistently top 15 and top 10 ranked. We’re fortunate but now it’s people wanting to break through the next level. I’d love an elite 8 but I just don’t see it happening this year and we’re gonna regress a bit next year if I had to guess
Also shooting like 67% at the foul line which is atrocious for a guard
Yeah, batemon needs like 30 minutes, can't run with any combination of 3 of...Buchanan, toure, lips, and Heise. Just way too easy to guard with 3 of those guys in there. and after the first round the trap won't get us anything other than dunks against us. So if you insist on trapping, you gotta have batemon out there basically the whole game.
Rah rah is an interesting way of describing setting up a culture and operations that fosters excellence.
He's the right man for the job but I don't think he's one of those guys that's a brilliant strategist.
We basically got zero production from Toure and Lipsey, especially in the first half. Thats never going to make things easy, especially when “not so great” Jefferson showed up in the first half.
As much as we love Lipsey, the criticism is warranted. He’s not immune from that despite playing 4 years here. It sucks to say it, but it’s true.
This team just isnt athletic enough to go far. They look slow.
And, honestly, that's great for a program like Iowa State.
We can complain about T.J. all we want but he's elevated this program to its ceiling tbh. There's still an NCAA tournament left and who knows, they can get hot but I think it's important for us all to take a step back and set realistic expectations for what this team is.
The hot start to the season, the blowout at Purdue namely (a Purdue team that looks a bit fraudulent in retrospect) then the top 5 ranking set our expectations to a stratosphere that this team is incapable of reaching so when we look at the season as a whole thus far, the team is doing well all things considered. The loss today sucked though so there's no sugar coating that.
NCAA tournament success is what the team will be measured by but it is incredibly disappointing we aren’t even going to be a top 4 seed in our own conference tourney for the second year in a row.
When you're getting payed to do something at a relatively high level criticism is fair.
It would be nice to have a higher ceiling at some point. Recently even teams like NC State, SDSU, Loyola Chicago all had magical runs in the tournament but we can’t even sniff anything past the second weekend.
