This team really responds to White. When he comes out fired up, it rubs off on everyone else, and vice versa. I feel like Fred needs to challenge him a little more and get him to keep his intensity up the whole game.
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Considering the fouls were nearly even, rebounds were nearly even, turnovers WERE even, I'd consider the score was right about where it should be. ISU shot better from the field, but Iowa closed the gap in the 2nd half.
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Maybe...remember these are two bottom feeder teams from the Big 10 and Big 12. I have seen nothing from ISU that indicates anything better than a 6-12 conference record. We may finish ahead of Tech? Anyone else?
I just want to see what we can do when we put together an entire 40 minutes of good basketball.
The 1st half was what I expected out of this team all year. Then the 2nd half had to start. Uggh.
We were up by 21 pts at the half and I said to myself that we need to win this game by 30+ pts. If we can win the 1st half by 21, we can certainly win the 2nd half by 9 or more, even if we let up a bit, was my thinking. Never in my dreams did I think it would get down to 8 pts. No reason for that IMO.
I thought the refs were ok, but Iowa did get the benefit of a lot of ticky tack fouls called on ISU.
Paul Doerrfeld announcing the game nailed it IMO when he talked about how we needed to break Iowa's 2nd half press. We always got ourselves into the corner when we crossed the half court line, which is bad enough, but then we never had anyone flash to the middle which was wide open. As Paul kept saying, if someone would flash to that open spot, we'd probably end up with a dunk on most occassions.
This team just HAS to develop a killer attitude to have any kind of success in the Big 12 IMO. If you're up by 10, you need to make it 20. If you're up by 20, you need to make it 30, and so on. Royce was almost non-existant in the 2nd half it seemed like. He played his rear end off to get us up by 21 at the half, and then seemed to put it in cruise control the 2nd half. That won't work in the Big 12 Royce. You gotta come 100% every time down. And the lazy defense and lazy passes came back in the 2nd half too.... just like we've been playing most of the year.
Fred just needs to get this team to bring it for 40 minutes and we'll be just fine. If we hadn't let up tonight, we win by 35+ IMO.
The 1st half was what I expected out of this team all year. Then the 2nd half had to start. Uggh.
We were up by 21 pts at the half and I said to myself that we need to win this game by 30+ pts. If we can win the 1st half by 21, we can certainly win the 2nd half by 9 or more, even if we let up a bit, was my thinking. Never in my dreams did I think it would get down to 8 pts. No reason for that IMO.
I thought the refs were ok, but Iowa did get the benefit of a lot of ticky tack fouls called on ISU.
Paul Doerrfeld announcing the game nailed it IMO when he talked about how we needed to break Iowa's 2nd half press. We always got ourselves into the corner when we crossed the half court line, which is bad enough, but then we never had anyone flash to the middle which was wide open. As Paul kept saying, if someone would flash to that open spot, we'd probably end up with a dunk on most occassions.
This team just HAS to develop a killer attitude to have any kind of success in the Big 12 IMO. If you're up by 10, you need to make it 20. If you're up by 20, you need to make it 30, and so on. Royce was almost non-existant in the 2nd half it seemed like. He played his rear end off to get us up by 21 at the half, and then seemed to put it in cruise control the 2nd half. That won't work in the Big 12 Royce. You gotta come 100% every time down. And the lazy defense and lazy passes came back in the 2nd half too.... just like we've been playing most of the year.
Fred just needs to get this team to bring it for 40 minutes and we'll be just fine. If we hadn't let up tonight, we win by 35+ IMO.
Thats on paper. Watching the game ISU controlled the game for the most part. Played sloppy at times, but Iowa just looked like horse ****. They are bad bad bad.
Most boring game ever?
It was pretty fast paced at the beginning and ISU raced out to a big early lead. But after that? OMG. The refs slowed it down sooo much that it was really hard to watch. I know you guys won so it was a little better for you, but man....it was ugly. A stoppage every 15-20 seconds it seemed. ISU would get a ticky-tac foul and then they would call a make-up call on the other end of the floor right away. Awful stuff.
BTW, the game got a lot suckier when ISU stopped going to RW. Is he 40? Cuz he is a MAN.
Anyway, boring as all get out, but good game Clones. Well deserved win.
It was pretty fast paced at the beginning and ISU raced out to a big early lead. But after that? OMG. The refs slowed it down sooo much that it was really hard to watch. I know you guys won so it was a little better for you, but man....it was ugly. A stoppage every 15-20 seconds it seemed. ISU would get a ticky-tac foul and then they would call a make-up call on the other end of the floor right away. Awful stuff.
BTW, the game got a lot suckier when ISU stopped going to RW. Is he 40? Cuz he is a MAN.
Anyway, boring as all get out, but good game Clones. Well deserved win.
Re: Most boring game ever?
I usually find watching Iowa to be very boring.
I usually find watching Iowa to be very boring.
Re: Most boring game ever?
1st half was great from the ISU perspective.
The 2nd half was difficult to watch. The refs were so unbearable early on. I almost stopped watching because it was so annoying but I knew Iowa was capable of coming back so I stuck with it.
1st half was great from the ISU perspective.
The 2nd half was difficult to watch. The refs were so unbearable early on. I almost stopped watching because it was so annoying but I knew Iowa was capable of coming back so I stuck with it.
Re: Most boring game ever?
It's big time college basketball. The refs just needed to let everything play out and stop anticipating calls. I felt you couldn't look at another player without getting a foul called at one point in the 2nd half.
It's big time college basketball. The refs just needed to let everything play out and stop anticipating calls. I felt you couldn't look at another player without getting a foul called at one point in the 2nd half.
Re: Most boring game ever?
What are you talkin about? You are a Chiefs fan... should be used to that. :yes:
What are you talkin about? You are a Chiefs fan... should be used to that. :yes:
Bad bad bad enough to pull within 8 with 38 seconds left.
Sorry to tell you, ISU and Iowa aren't that far apart. The 2nd half of the game showed ISU has a lot of weaknesses, and it wasn't a fluke that Iowa got back in the game. Iowa simply started making shots that they were missing in the first half.
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The thing is Iowa was playing their balls off and ISU wasnt playing very hard.
So far I would agree and that prediction might be optimistic right now but this team still could get a lot better. We just aren't there yet right now, but who know by January or February this team could end up being much improved from what they are right now.
