*** Official Tennessee State vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

Talk about dodging a bullet if true - that would mean probably not ready for Kentucky, but would likely be ready for next weekend, assuming we can survive without him Sunday.
I hope so... but CW is right about this... NEVER believe what coaches say... they always lie to the public.
 
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Toure and Heise are such x-factors - if they can continue playing like the did today, we'll be fine against Kentucky.

I also think Tennessee handles Virginia in the other matchup

Without Jefferson that may be best case. Rick Barnes in March vs. King of Rock Fights TJ Otz? Things could be worse. obviously have to get by Kentucky
 
Obviously we will miss a TON with not having Jefferson.... but like with anything... there might be one or two positives even with all the negatives.

As many have said.... the ball tended to stick at times with JJ in the game. He had a tendency to hold the ball too long, dribble too much occasionally, and because of that turned it over at times too much also.

I don't think it was just a coincidence that we had such good ball movement today without JJ. So that might have been a positive?

But the amount of negatives are HUGE... with the most being rebounding I think. I worry about that... so we just have to make shots!
 
We sure got stuffed at the rim a bunch by those undersized guys.

The offset of that I guess is that when we engaged in an end to end game how freaking easily we got in there.
 
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You don’t think I know that? You really think I believe Otz is listening to some nobody on a message board? I sure hope he doesn’t.

It’s still dumb though. I will die someday still believing that. Would all of you be saying that “building some chemistry” in a meaningless ending of a game was worth it had we lost Lipsey or Milan? Easily could have happened. Those guys were kinda dirty too…. guys were going down all over the place.

I doubt I’ll change anyone’s mind on here…. it is what it is. We got away with it thankfully. Move on.
Just ignore the group of idiots who want to tell people on a FAN board how to be fans. It's just dumb of them. If they don't want to hear opinions, why get on a FAN board?
 
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Obviously we will miss a TON with not having Jefferson.... but like with anything... there might be one or two positives even with all the negatives.

As many have said.... the ball tended to stick at times with JJ in the game. He had a tendency to hold the ball too long, dribble too much occasionally, and because of that turned it over at times too much also.

I don't think it was just a coincidence that we had such good ball movement today without JJ. So that might have been a positive?

But the amount of negatives are HUGE... with the most being rebounding I think. I worry about that... so we just have to make shots!
As others pointed out, Nate seemed to excel with the pressure / being told to go get aggressive knowing we were down an option.

Honestly, he’s quicker, a better rebounder, finishes around the rim better, and a hell of a lot better ball handler. We give up size, but if he can play 80% of what he did today…we’re gonna be fine.
 
As others pointed out, Nate seemed to excel with the pressure / being told to go get aggressive knowing we were down an option.

Honestly, he’s quicker, a better rebounder, finishes around the rim better, and a hell of a lot better ball handler. We give up size, but if he can play 80% of what he did today…we’re gonna be fine.
Heise had that look in his eyes that I have never seen from him.
 

Well, some good news. He turned his ankle like there were no ligsments left in there.

The only hope that he'll be back Sunday it that he has done this several times before, I suppose that if the swelling is down and they tape/brace him good he might be good for Sunday.

Most likelty, he won't be ready for 2-3 weeks. meaning: He might be ready next week.

Fingers crossed for ready Sunday, but doubtful, from what I saw.
 
just don't like his turnoffs
Again....all year...
(Show me one other player you've discussed like this. Just one.)
Jefferson sucks
Jefferson is a ******* mornon
Jefferson is a clown
Jefferson is waste
Jefferson is so over rated
I don’t know what I am missing but Jefferson is terrible