*** Official IOWA STATE vs #14 Texas Tech Game(Day) Thread ***
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Probably not many out there like Tech, fortunately. At least not ones like them in rd. 1.
Brockington must have made a deal with the devil before the West Virginia game. He has been a shadow of himself since then.
He is a liability out there. Like, literally I don't know how his playing time can be justified when his shot isn't falling. Our defense and rebounding take massive hits when he's out there. Watch the tape, whenever there is an offensive rebound or wide open shot for the opposing team, it is because he either got beat or missed an assignment. He has no ball handling ability either. Just a total disaster when he isn't making shots. It is plainly obvious that he can't play consistently well at this level, and has shown why he was originally committing to play in the Summit League out of HS.
The belief that was so vital early on has started to wain. The players looked a little distant and vacant from the opening tip tonight. I do think they'll come out ready to play next week though.
Has Brockington indicated he's not coming back? He has another year left.
And honestly tonight's an example of why he should. He still has some things to work on in his game.
I think Brockington is a great player and team mate. Amazing numbers on the season - leading scorer and rebounder. A warrior. TT took him out of the game.They were taller, longer, stronger and played super hard. Hard to scheme your way out of that.
It was a significant physical mismatch across the board - including IB. I think they are an extremely hard match up for many teams / especially one offensively challenged. When you cannot shoot, and the other team knows it, there is not much penalty for the defense being overly aggressive. If they go for the steal and do not get it you must make them pay by scoring. We cannot. Not many teams can copy the TT game plan. I would not be surprised if we win a game in the dance.
I get the feeling people have just decided to ignore TJ's recruiting history at ISU.
I wouldn't go this far.
Especially when that was his big selling feature when he was hired.
Even the staunchest defenders were like he’s not a great X’s and O’s guy, but he sure can recruit.
If he ends up not working out here, it certainly won’t be because he couldn’t get dudes.
I keep saying it but put even a poor man's Niang at the top kicking off the offense with better shooters off the wing and the 'what is ISU even doing!?' stuff would likely go away.
I mean, I’m cool with the sacrificing offense to guard the hell out of people “habits” being the culture of the program
But there has to be more than one and a half guys that can initiate an offensive set. I mean who on this current roster, other than Brock and Tyrese, would play at all on any other team in this league?
That’s why I’m wondering how people can be so up in arms. This was never a one year turnaround. Let’s see what happens with a couple of full off-seasons to bring in guys
If we’re still this overmatched in 2024, then people can be concerned
Day after (and hungover post): last night sucked. They put both guns up.... right up our back side and pulled the trigger.
We can argue all we want about the spectrum of fans looking between 2 wins last year vs. 20 wins a NCAA bid this year.
Put me in the middle of that. Fingers crossed the feeling of not playing a B12 team in the NCAA for the round of 64, is enough to get this team back to what they can be. I hope last night wasn't too deflating.
Because even with me being in the middle of that spectrum, if we somehow get a NCAA win, even if it's just one this year, then there is no arguing this year was ok.
Hope our guys can flush last night and go back to work.
We can argue all we want about the spectrum of fans looking between 2 wins last year vs. 20 wins a NCAA bid this year.
Put me in the middle of that. Fingers crossed the feeling of not playing a B12 team in the NCAA for the round of 64, is enough to get this team back to what they can be. I hope last night wasn't too deflating.
Because even with me being in the middle of that spectrum, if we somehow get a NCAA win, even if it's just one this year, then there is no arguing this year was ok.
Hope our guys can flush last night and go back to work.
ISU has had more talented teams not get 20 wins or not win an NCAA tourney game so anyone should be elated with a win with this roster if it happens.
And if not, there's still an NCAA tournament to watch and lots to start doing outside in the spring.
I AGREE when I saw those gold uni's ...I thought ...Here Comes Another Blow Out to Tx Tech!
ISU was doing well early with great chemistry and it was pretty obvious how limited they were in most aspects so the 'what happened!?' calls are pretty baffling.
