HUGE win and gladly eating crow...
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I pulled it up quick when the game came on. Stub Hub was selling front row courtside seats for $7 a piece. I'm not quite sure what needs to happen, nor is it really my position to care, but an Athletic Department cant be very happy with that. What's court side Hilton? $180 vs a non marquee opponent?
The key was after that tackle and turnover after the replay showed it was pretty bad miscall the camera panned in on Lipsey and Kalscheur walking across the court to the bench. I would have loved to be able to read Tamin's lips but you could tell it wasnt crying or complaining it was more along the lines of and him Gabe saying "well we're gonna have to stop them now." Awesome.
Too bad they didn’t stay out of Tamin’s cylinder on the play before…
Oh well, all’s well that ends well.
We are, but Miles and Baugh are freaking freight trains with the ball. This is going to be a master class in foul management if we are to pull it off, because we're going to be in foul trouble 5 minutes in. I have no doubt that we're going to need Ward and Watson to play big minutes.
I expected us to make a play. I'm over the yips. Campbell and Otz have cured my Cyclone anxiety.
We don't have a Brockington type who can score big while consistently getting to the basket, but I think we are making much better decisions with the ball as a team. Lipsey's intelligence on driving selectively and his ball handling/distribution has helped negate what Brockington brought, even if he's not near the scorer. Osun brings athleticism and a pick and roll presence we didn't have last year.
But since we don't have a plethora of natural scores, players with size, or an abundance of athleticism, we need to manage shot selection, foul trouble, and rebounding discrepancy. As a team, we did most of those things well but Jones (who I'm not a fan of) and Holmes forced a lot of bad shots/offense, which led to misses/turnovers and lost possessions. Jones takes way too long to make his move and either gets doubled or stupidly puts the ball on the floor (which always backfires unless he does so quickly and decisively). Holmes took way too many bad shots and ill-advised shots that nearly cost the team. The rest (by and large) were great at managing their selectiveness and shot selection.
OU made a lot of lucky shots, many that were well contested with excellent defense. Blowing a huge lead is never good but it takes a lot of resolve to weather the storm and pull out a victory (especially on the road). Great win.
But since we don't have a plethora of natural scores, players with size, or an abundance of athleticism, we need to manage shot selection, foul trouble, and rebounding discrepancy. As a team, we did most of those things well but Jones (who I'm not a fan of) and Holmes forced a lot of bad shots/offense, which led to misses/turnovers and lost possessions. Jones takes way too long to make his move and either gets doubled or stupidly puts the ball on the floor (which always backfires unless he does so quickly and decisively). Holmes took way too many bad shots and ill-advised shots that nearly cost the team. The rest (by and large) were great at managing their selectiveness and shot selection.
OU made a lot of lucky shots, many that were well contested with excellent defense. Blowing a huge lead is never good but it takes a lot of resolve to weather the storm and pull out a victory (especially on the road). Great win.
Yup.
I like the way we play defense but it's frustrating, at times, watching us body someone 10 feet beyond the ark or reach in on a trap. Those are dumb fouls and ones we need to eliminate in this type of game. We will already have enough fouls on drives to the basket and I'm not sure that's realistically preventable (outside of playing tough perimeter D). We are going to have to "save" on fouls elsewhere if we don't want half the team getting 4-5 fouls.
For nostalgic reasons I will miss it...but it was absolutely dead last night! Sad...there were some loud games played in that gym between ISU and OU! Growing up it seemed like that place was more intense than KU's "gym" was...
No, I didn't see that. It may have happened, but I never got a definitive view on it and assumed he attempted a REALLY tough shot and was way off.
AND I admit I was having a little fun at Gabe's expense. I really appreciate him and what he brings to the team, I understand you make 0% of the shotqs you don't take, and I'm aware enough to see he sometimes misses pretty big.
Doesn't make me want anything different, because he's a Cyclone and doing everything he can to represent us all well AND bring home the Ws.
TCU is a TOUGH matchup for us. Two PG's, 2 wing forwards, and a beast in Lampkin at Center.
Defensively I worry about Lipsey. Miles and Baugh are REALLY good, and Lipsey can't guard their 3 as TCU is BIG after 1-2.
Defensively I worry about Lipsey. Miles and Baugh are REALLY good, and Lipsey can't guard their 3 as TCU is BIG after 1-2.
I bet Lipsey goes on Baugh. Gabe will get Miles.
It could be close. They may win by double digits. We could blow them out. One thing is for sure we'll muck it up and make any fan base lament they had to play after us.
Higgins might be slowing down but he is a hell of a lot better than most B12 refs.
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He's the only guy I've seen hit 5 in a row. Pure. Nothing but net shots. Then completely miss the backboard and standard on the next attempt. Boggling.
I think both ISU and TCU revealed that Baylor's defense is suspect. TCU was able to beat them down the floor and took advantage at the rim.
Not sure we will be that porous in transition D.
I ain’t gonna lie- I was pretty worried on that last 8 seconds…I think you’re a little further along than me on the Cyclone non-anxiety scale, but I’m getting there with more wins like this.
I saw that too…King McClure was going on about how ‘loud’ it was getting and I all could think of was that the gym looked about 40% full. They’re an embarrassment- good riddance.
