*** Official #20 IOWA STATE vs Iowa Game(Day) Thread ***

[ClonerJams]

Struggling to figure out how the team getting punked tonight by Iowa beat UNC.

UNC looks like Memphis from last year. All the talent in the world, no idea how to play together. It will still be a Q1 win for us at the end of the year at least.

 

[Halincandenza]

TJ needs to allow Tamin to have freedom on offense. The kid has so much potential, but he is only willing to take the shot as a last resort.

Tamin isn’t going to take over offensively. He isn’t that player. At least.l not yet

 

[BigLame]

Majority of the 3's we've given up are wide open looks. Our traps haven't been on time & we've allowed the ball into the lane then collapsed & weren't able to contest shooters at all. Seem slow/dead-legged out there. Maybe we had a different game plan defensively, too. Just uncharacteristic to be that discombobulated on defense. Maybe this just happens 1 out of 9 times and that may happen more so on the road.

Offense is a struggle. This will be more common occurrence with the composition of this team as we all know. Figure out the defense & make this 2nd half respectable, then just get the F out of IC & back to Ames so we can lick our wounds and move on with the season, hopefully with some lessons learned.

 

[arobb]

Struggling to figure out how the team getting punked tonight by Iowa beat UNC.

UNC was highly overrated.

 

[simply1]

Two choices on defense. You either continue to double the post and hope they revert to their normal shooting on the perimeter, or you push the defense out tight and hope that our foul laden bigs can defend decently without fouling in the paint.

I don’t see anything from out bigs to indicate they can not foul out

 

[HFCS]

I don't completely understand him.

I thought he was going to thunder dunk it and he pulled it down and threw some insane wild pass.

 

[Walden4Prez]

The only thing worse than watching this game is the ******* hyvee commercial with Mahomes and Kelce…lock and load.

 

[GTO]

Usually Grill's good on defense. Tonight the defense is poor, so yes, he needs to shoot. But Caleb is only good for about 5 good shooting nights a season. And he's had 1 (maybe 2).

I would rather he take ALL of Gabe's threes.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Last Cyhawk game that was this bad that I can remember was when they had us by 20 at half in Hilton and we came back and beat them. Tougher task this time, on the road, and without the offensive firepower. Likely have to hold them to 20 ourselves to get back in it.

 

[SwirlyBird]

I HATE IT WHEN TEAMS PLAY LIKE ****

 

[FerShizzle]

Who? What evidence do you have that anyone will do better tonight?

He’s the worst shooting shooter I have ever seen shoot a shot.

 

[dirtyninety]

Britney Griener would windmill dunk on this team.

 

[clonedude]

If they score 10 more I don’t think we could win

Agree…. I think 10 would definitely do it.

 

[t-noah]

Agree. Seems we are also making some unnecessary passes instead of taking a shot

Easy to pass the blame here. But maybe this is a game that highlights over-coaching?

At some point our guys just have to play and hit shots. And... you know, hitting shots, not so easy for this team.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I don’t see anything from out bigs to indicate they can not foul out

Jones is about the only one of the 4 that had a reasonably normal half, that's for sure.

 

[madguy30]

Everyone knows Wisconsin is going to beat Iowa by 20 this weekend right?

WI isn't that good.

ISU is having a horrible night regardless of oponnent.

 

[arobb]

Britney Griener would windmill dunk on this team.

Yes, he would.

 

[ISU_Guy]

I think we are finding that UNC and Villanova are not very good (right now) we have no other good wins.
We didn't show up tonight and it shows. Feels like the TCU football game.

 

[stateofmind]

First time an Otz team looks like a Prohm team

Guess you forget the 36 point game against OSU last year or the big XII tournament against TTU.

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Check out the incoming recruiting class.

yeah I'm well aware...wish we had them now