We are fine!
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I'm not so sure about that? He just doesn't seem to have that "it" factor to me.
Star players don't EVER score zero points. NEVER. Jordan, on an off night, would still put up 20. Clyburn is just not a very aggressive player and can't really create his own shot it seems?
Obviously he will have some decent games, but big time players don't ever have games like this. And it's not really the first time it's happened this year either. He's had several really poor games already.
McGee is the best offensive player we have.... PERIOD. I don't know how many times he has to prove it for people to believe it. He's money. He will never score zero as long as he plays enough minutes.
Add Percy to the mix. He is definitely good around the basket and his defense has improved.
Yes, as far as I'm concerned, if you can't live up to lowly Michael Jordan, why are you even playing basketball?
Wesley, Percy chucks it up every time he gets the ball. I'm not so sure more playing time for him is the answer.
Based on what I have seen, this would be my starting five:
McGee
Clyburn
Babb
Ejim
Niang
Yes, Clyburn had one bad game, but he lit up against BYU. Don't ditch him yet.
The others have been the most consistent presences on the team.
Lucious may need some time to cool down. Fred knows best, and I don't know if this is how Korie is wired, but beginning a game on the bench may help out. Besides, I think the five I listed would give us the best chance to win.
McGee
Clyburn
Babb
Ejim
Niang
Yes, Clyburn had one bad game, but he lit up against BYU. Don't ditch him yet.
The others have been the most consistent presences on the team.
Lucious may need some time to cool down. Fred knows best, and I don't know if this is how Korie is wired, but beginning a game on the bench may help out. Besides, I think the five I listed would give us the best chance to win.
I am still seriously ****** off about that loss. Clyburn and Luscious just didn't want it badly enough and the rest of the team follows their lead. Korie is just such a stupid player and the fact he has talent enables him to play like such a moron. The fact they didn't come out of halftime motivated is the most disturbing part.
You can't lose rivalry games due to a lack of effort.
You can't lose rivalry games due to a lack of effort.
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Perhaps. Time will tell. It could also be like the Northwestern game from Mcdermott's last year, in which people said the same thing, "we'll be fine, Northwestern is an awesome NCAA-bound team" (they went to the NIT that year), and which instead exposed weaknesses in the ISU team that would be exploited over and over and over again all season long.
Always sucks to lose to Hawks but we lost some tremendous talent from last year, we're still in the process of figuring out how to replace that, and all three losses were away from home.
Color this "normally negative flipper outer guy" as not worried.
LET ME MAYOR COACH.
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For those saying we are fine take off your rose colored glasses we are not fine right now. I think we will turn it around and the potential is there, but right now we are not fine. What do you expect Lucious to do when Ejim, Booker, and Clyburn not scoring. Gibson or Niang for Booker and Mcgee for Clyburn until these two get their head out of the sand. Iowa had more intensity than we did and well less turnover's, if this not taking care of the bball continues we will be in trouble.
The people that cared about this rivalry game who are from Iowa, were in gold and black. I think this game meant a lot less to our players, than it did to Iowas. Kudos to the Iowa kids who played their hearts out to win this game because it meant so much to them personally.
The concerning part to me is that we seem to have no discipline at all. It's just a bunch of guys running around trying to get theirs, which usually amounts to a cross-over and 25 foot three pointer being jacked up.
Iowa had more desire than us. They wanted it more. They weren't whining babies like Ejim was.
Marble is Iowa's best player and he didn't do squat last night. Let's not pretend that this was a game where everyone on Iowa was unconscious.
We're either an incredibly undisciplined team or Fred wants that garbage offense we were running last night. Neither scenario is good.
We've lost to every decent team we've played.
One of the great things about our problems last night is they are all easy fixes. Playing harder, smarter passes and shots, better fundamental defense, better fundamental rebounding. Believe it or not on a team like this those fixes aren't that hard. No coach wants to see his team lose, but in some ways it's better to lose like this and have the talent to have won and to go out and finish in the top of the Big 12 then to play your *** off, lose, and only have the talent to be an NIT team.
Yup. Just have to beat Drake and we should be 10-3 going into conference play. 10 wins is very possible in conference play. Just like last year, we will get better as the season progresses. Lucious will get better; remember he is still learning the system
