End of the day, splitting with tech isn’t the end of the world. We’re through the tough stretch, hope we can close out the year strong.
*** Official #15 IOWA STATE vs #18 Texas Tech Game(Day) Thread ***
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Yeah gotta keep it in perspective. Tonight didn't feel good, but it's a good thing we're all pissed off about it. Emotion has been missing in recent years.
Walker has offensive tools but bottom line he doesn’t defend and it’s noticeable even in mop up duty. Unfortunately his offensive tools don’t include dead eye 3 point shooter which we really need.
Is your brain really incapable of understanding this. It is not a conspiracy… the refs are just bad, and we have been on the u lucky end lately. That’s all it is. Random. We might be in the good end in a few weeks who knows.
The refs were terrible but this team doesn't welcome contact at the rim. We don't have much by way of muscle on our team.
Time to win the next 3 which would give us a road W. Very doable.
But play was very physical on both sides. There is a ton of hand checking and other fouls that by the book should be called.
Hand checks can disrupt a teams offense nearly as much as being contested on the way to the hoop
But Tech is smart you grab and grab until the refs call it, if they don't not Tech's problem.
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Ok, but we weren’t attacking to force those calls. I can’t figure out what’s complicated about this beyond a convenient distraction from the fact we just got outplayed, which happens on the road against good teams.
We don’t utilize the post and we rarely drive to the rim. Taking 3s and long 2s doesn’t lend itself to many foul calls
You also realize that fouls are allowed to be called outside the paint right? Just checking.
Go back and read the game threads for every conference game. It’s the same complaints every game. It’s time people realize it’s not incompetent refereeing every game. It’s a bad combination of aggressive defense and offense that doesn’t attack that leads to foul discrepancies.
Nope. I think that officials are basically just not held to account when they're bad, and are very easily swung by either crowds or being worked by coaches. Need to be able to talk to them better/ride them more, make it clear you won't let your team get pushed around. I frankly don't know the reason or the solution. Maybe I'm conspiratorial but the wide open landscape of sports betting these days makes me feel like I would have to be naive to assume no official ever has a stake.
Again, it wasn't the deciding factor tonight. Cyclones didn't shoot well enough. Tech played better, Adams clearly has done a great job scouting ISU and knows how to make them uncomfortable on offense.
I hate to lose, but I can’t fault the effort of this team. Who would have thought that we would be having this kind of season with a group of young men that were thrown together over the summer? They have their good games and not so good games, but they have made Cyclone basketball fun again. My biggest disappointment tonight was reading the negative comments directed at the players on our own team. Keep in mind that future recruits read this stuff. Are they going to want to play for such a negative fan base?
Agreed. Coming in I thought tonight was a Longshot. Time to sweep the rest of our January games and go from there.
That sucked and was an embarrassment . Can’t wait to see how they respond.
