***Offical ISU @ Drake Game Thread***

cyclone22

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u guys need to relax a little bit. Hoiberg will chew em out and they'll come out strong just like last game. The season is to young to be pointing out a million problems.
 

ISUcy08

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Nothing like losing to a terrible MVC team. It looks like 9th place in the conference wasn't actually too far off. Pathetic.

WE LOST?!?! Well that sucks.

.... Oh, there are 20 mins left.

Good grief. One half does not make a season. Nut up.
 

Covenant Clone

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Are we still going up-tempo as an offense? Didn't seem like we ran much on Saturday and doesn't sound like we are running tonight (although getting out-rebounded probably has something to do with it). Is our lack of a PG going mean we walk it up the court?

FIFY...this is going to be a big problem this year. We are completely discombobulated on offense.
 

BenEClone

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Cotlar is okay but this Dolph Pulliam is a disaster.

Interesting he was drafted in the NBA and NFL, but turned it down to take a job at drake.

The guy has player credentials and has his job because he is a fan. It's not his fault there is not more professional broadcast some of us can get. He must have been part of Maury John's "belly button defense". Drake was good and we had high hopes when we hired their coach to come to ISU. Sadly, he died shortly thereafter.
 

Cy$

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anyone catch when they said there center is stronger than Royce?

made me laugh my *** off

SC is horrible at boxing out..my word...too much standing around when the ball is put up...good switches for the most part but we're giving them way too many second chances.

Ejim is playing like ****...he needs to not rush on offense and assert himself more on offense....White is playing good...Babb is the best player from the first half...McGee is doing well..

I would play this lineup for the second half

PG-White (have him crash the boards)
SG- SC (have him defend fast breaks)
SF- Babb
PF- Ejim
C-Booker

Doesn't look like Allen is 100%...would have him sit to start but come in for Ejim and move Babb to the 4 when that happens...McGee switch with SC when he comes in...
 

IowaStateClones

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This is a guy I can see being a cancer to the team.

You are a clown, you are basing this on him playing injured and not boxing out on one play.

You been at the edge of the cliff from the start of this thread. Just jump off already so we don't have to read what Negative Nancy has to say about every play.
 

acgclone

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Are we still going up-tempo as an offense? Didn't seem like we ran much on Saturday and doesn't sound like we are running tonight (although getting out-rebounded probably has something to do with it). Is our lack of an experienced PG going mean we walk it up the court?

We have no one to dictate our tempo. It's like a football offense with a bunch of WR's and RB's trying to play QB.
 

pulse

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We do a really poor job of getting a body on a body after a shot on the defensive end. I mentioned this after the Lehigh game and no one wanted to agree with me, but it's true. Switching every screen just leads to lazy defense and poor rebounding.

I thought the defense stunk in the Lehigh game too. The 10 minutes it was decent in the 2nd half doesn't mean that we played well during the game. The other 30 minutes sucked. I don't think or D is horrendous this game (although not good), but our effort rebounding is non-existent and we're missing easy shots. Drake is playing harder, but they aren't playing very well either.
 

HFCS

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I'm just going to live with the Cyclone radio delay for the second half, I really could not even watch with that feces slamming into my ears.