Marial Shayok Commits to ISU
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Hogue, Ejim, Georges is more of a 3 than a 4.
I will agree that Shayok probably has a more rounded game and a bigger body to throw at people, but Jackson is one of the best shooters in the conference.
We need shooters. Losing our best one without any obvious snipers coming online after him does make me a little worried about our spacing next year.
Our half-court offense struggles because we lack two things...
-- big men who are skilled enough to beat anybody one-on-one on the block
-- enough shooters to space the floor for drives or those same big men
An offense based on slashers might suffer a little. I am sure the obvious solution is just to turn on the nitro jets and base our offense around transition, however.
I had to look back to double check, but Clyburn was really the last impact Small Forward we've had at ISU. The elder Babb might count, but he was more of a long SG. Anyone else that has been 6'6-6'7 has been a stretch 4. We've done a lot with multiple 6'4ish 2 guards, but Shayok should really add that length that we've been missing since the elder Babb was here.
On a lot of other teams they would be, but for ISU they ended up playing that stretch 4 and stayed inside a lot more. Hogue and Ejim were often our biggest post threats in their years here.
Watched a little of the coaches call in show and Prohm was asked who spends the most time in the gym and he said Marial.
Cyclonepride
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The discussion on forwards we've had are kind of misleading because we've been deliberating playing 2's as 3's and playing 3's as 4's. Move some of those 4's back to 3's and we've had a hell of a group (Ejim, Niang, BDJ, Nader, Burton).
The best part about this is it might not be which means this team could be pretty special next season.
If anyone needs a dose of kool-aid listen to Jake Sullivan on the fanatics yesterday when he talked about next year's team.
Iowa State could be really f'in good according to people within the program. They are very high on the incoming freshmen and the guys that are sitting out this year.
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