Iowa State Daily article about Prohm and LW
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What about the game where we destroyed Kansas and Lindell played 17 minutes with 2-11 shooting?
You'll have to point out where I said it was better without him. Simply saying we were winning and Prohm had a forumla that seemed to be working so it was wise to ease Lindell back in.
I actually wonder how the season would have gone if Lard and Wigginton had not returned to the team. I understand that the ceiling was higher with them, but they sure seemed to bring issues with them. We had obvious chemistry issues in 2017-2018 and then again the second half of this year. I thought some of the issue might have been Jackson the first year, but I doubt that now and I'm pretty sure the issue wasn't NWB.
Agree with the article 100%. Its also obvious to me that alot of you commenting have never played sports at a high level. Chemistry issues will arise when you know you are a better player and you are forced to watch the game from the bench the first 6 minutes of every half.
Not to mention when you are the better player, lose your spot to no fault of your own, then get put behind two freshman who havent payed their dues yet.
I shouldnt even mention the fact that Prohm publicly came out after the season and apologized at how he handled the situation. Oh, and he pretty much lied to everybody saying Lindell would be put back in the lineup soon. He should have been put back as a starter over TH, he hit the freshman wall about halfway through the Big 12 season and we ended up with 2 guys starting who were the exact same player and had minimal impact on the offensive end.
Overall, Prohm completely botched Wigginton and Lard this year.
Not to mention when you are the better player, lose your spot to no fault of your own, then get put behind two freshman who havent payed their dues yet.
I shouldnt even mention the fact that Prohm publicly came out after the season and apologized at how he handled the situation. Oh, and he pretty much lied to everybody saying Lindell would be put back in the lineup soon. He should have been put back as a starter over TH, he hit the freshman wall about halfway through the Big 12 season and we ended up with 2 guys starting who were the exact same player and had minimal impact on the offensive end.
Overall, Prohm completely botched Wigginton and Lard this year.
lol. My favorite part of the article was the initial claim of inconsistent rotations and then explained how he consistently entered the game at the same time off the bench every game.
I think Wigginton and Lard had a hand in botching themselves too.
Well, if there's anything that I know about Prohm, it's how much he cares about himself and his own image.
Couple of bro looking mf'ers anyway.
I was actually tracking with some of what you were saying until the bolded line. Are you saying TH and THT were essentially the same player?
I should note, both of these dudes have Nova Scotia listed in their profiles. One of them is also usually commenting on Iowa State basketball posts on Instagram crapping all over Prohm.
As a communications person, I need to point out the last six words of that sentence have quite another meaning, regardless of whether it was written that way intentionally.
There's a reason I haven't read the daily since I was attending ISU. It's great for a student newspaper, but it's still a student newspaper.
Perhaps, because it wasn't good for LW??? In real life, you need to be productive under circumstances that are best for your team/organization. If it was better for the team for LW to come off the bench, then he needed to learn how to "get himself going" under that circumstance. Isn't college supposed to prepare you for real life? In my experience, people who need to be coddled in order for them to produce suck the life out of an organization.
Read the wikipedia article on Bob McAdoo. He had been a starter all his life, and he disliked not starting for the Lakers, but he knew if he came off the bench as they asked him to, he would achieve something much bigger than the immediate gratification of starting...he could win NBA titles...which he did with the Lakers. Apart from the Lakers, during his NBA career, McAdoo started a lot of games, mostly for mediocre/losing teams that rarely made it to the playoffs.
I totally agree and basically said as much a few post down from the post you quoted. It's a complex situation where things can't be viewed in a vacuum. But I was more responding to the posters who suggested his play didn't warrant starting. We know what he's capable of, and I think it's a coach's job to get as much out of his players as possible. And maybe Prohm did just that this year-- who knows...?
This column lost all its validity with no mention of LW’s defense and how it impacted him not starting and playing more.
