Sorry. I mostly just feel kind of bad for Lard. He’s gotta be confused out there. He’s getting called differently than he did last year, and he has to adjust somehow.
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Sorry. I mostly just feel kind of bad for Lard. He’s gotta be confused out there. He’s getting called differently than he did last year, and he has to adjust somehow.
I and others have received crap this year for suggesting PRohm has flaws. It is becoming clear to many of these flaws. I would genuinely like to hear from anyone that thinks Prohm is still a coach above criticism and that we should all question whether or not he is right for the job.
You think we are getting bad karma because someone started a thread titled the start of Iowa’s collapse? You’re an idiot
I am not happy with this loss. But adjustments we’re made at halftime I feel on the defensive end. I saw flashes of the defense we played against Kansas at Hilton. Yeah TCU scored more in second half but they made big contested shots. I saw effort in the second half. This is college basketball, you don’t win every game you should. I loved Fred, but Fred didn’t win as many big12 road games and he couldn’t have recruited this squad. Don’t @ me.
The next perfect ISU team will be the first in the history of the program. Roster is still unbalanced but the pieces are there to keep building. This team will likely finish exactly where the real experts predicted and after missing the tourney last year and a guaranteed spot this year I'll continue to take the long game.
My criticism - I've never gotten the Babb love. He has stats across the board but I still expect him to be a leader which I don't see demonstrated on the floor. The young guys are too young to take the leadership mantle and the upperclassman - other than Babb - are still short-term fill-ins.
As much basketball as these guys have played since they've been like 10 there's not a whole lot you should have to coach of the basics. They play like they don't know basketball. If they watch film, there's a lot to see. Obviously it doesn't help, nothing changes.
Don't care anymore honestly, I told you guys 4 years ago this coaching staff was one of the worst in the conference. When you have the 9th best coach with the most talented team you get 5th place finishes.
Babb getting 39 minutes is the real tragedy. How are we so reliant on this man? Let Haliburton bring it up the floor while Babb gets a breather. Prohm needs to look big picture and start changing things up even if it costs us a game or two.
All I'm saying is Prohm chooses to play small ball, he doesn't have to. And it's also how he's chosen to build this team too. He loves playing 4 guards.
But then he complains after the Baylor game about how we basically lost because of Baylor's size killing us on the boards. That's on you Steve. You built this team.
Is Talley supposed to be the answer? Because Solo is out and throwing Conditt out there sure ain't.
Didn't you know, in the Big XII once you get swept by conference foe, they start taking away wins.
It could be worse I guess... imagine if we didn’t have top tier talent. Currently Prohm needs that much talent to be 5th or 6th place. Say we only had middle of the pack talent... do we even win a game in the big12?
Hate it all you want, but name one coach in the big 12 who is hands down worse than Prohm? Probably too early to tell on Boynton at OSU, but even his team has played good games this year with extreme limitations. Every other coach is at least on par with Prohm but arguably better.
Or name one season where his ISU team exceeded expectations?
Hate it all you want, but name one coach in the big 12 who is hands down worse than Prohm? Probably too early to tell on Boynton at OSU, but even his team has played good games this year with extreme limitations. Every other coach is at least on par with Prohm but arguably better.
Or name one season where his ISU team exceeded expectations?
Never understood how people can spend sssoooooo much time following a team they claim to hate. People find pleasure in all sorts of things - but wasting time pining away about a cross-state rival would seem to be far, far down the list.
He's never been above criticism, and is deserving of it.
It's been when posters act like he's the first coach to lose weird games at ISU or that a conference title is some sort of normal thing that's the problem.
But you're right, there are some trends that definitely deserve to be questioned.
I don't think he's above criticism. This is the type of road game ISU has played for years. The head scratcher is winning on the road and then losing games at home the way we have. Do you think 2 for 20 3 point shooting has anything to do with it today at least?
He built the team on the premise that Solomon Young would be available. That plan is scratched and it becomes a limited roster in that regard.
