My 6-2 235 lb -late 40's out of shape self could totally take either in one on one. No problem. I mean, what are they? 6-11 and 6'5? Shiiiiiiit.
*** Official #3 IOWA STATE vs Texas Tech Game(Day) Thread ***
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My 6-2 235 lb -late 40's out of shape self could totally take either in one on one. No problem. I mean, what are they? 6-11 and 6'5? Shiiiiiiit.
Interested to hear what he has to say about all 8 of our guys! Some might be disappointed on here.
everyone deciding to take a jab at you for ten straight pages was far more annoying than what you said in the first place
how many hands does that guy shake while in Ames for 12 hours? he certainly doesnt pay for any food or drink.
No...but I picked ISU 85-82. That should count.I said 83-80 tech.
does that count
I want my props, man! 
Not to mention the complaints after a game about who plays are just a little bit different than a coach having to figure out who to play based on what he thinks they will do.
After Orlando a lot of people thought Gilbert should play a little less and Jones should basically be out of the rotation.
Heise didn’t finish the game great. But at the time you need stops, he’d played really well most of the game, and rolling with him made a lot of sense.
That game reminded me of the 2000 team's road dawg mentality. I'm starting to believe.
I hope having to rally from a double-digit deficit doesn't become too frequent. The team has shown it can do it, and on the road, but that's a hill you don't want to climb too often.
The way they just kind of kept hanging around yesterday and tightened up enough to at least give a solid chance was impressive.
Tech was impressive on their own end with often having an answer when ISU would close the gap.
This is an obvious point that people either ignore or don't recognize to start with.
Highlights are up on YT. Many buckets from Tech were TOUGH shots that ISU guarded very well; about all ISU's players could have done at that point was shove the guy over I guess.
Heise and Jackson weren't the only ones on the ball when Tech was scoring including OT, and they weren't the only ones giving up offensive rebounds.
I don't know if assignments on the box/clear out are getting missed or what but opponents have had kind of free reign to the ball for put backs.
This year's team has more front court size and depth. The 1999-2000 team had 4 guys who averaged 33+ minutes/game. Those guys were amazing.
Tinsley 33 MPG 11.0 PPG
Horton 35 MPG 8.7 PPG
Nurse 35 MPG 12.5 PPG
Johnson 25 MPG 9.1 PPG
Fizer 34 MPG 22.8 PPG
Shirley 18 MPG 7.7 PPG
Rancik 15 MPG 5.5 PPG
Fizer had the same kind of jump in production that year that we are seeing this year from Curtis Jones.
I decided a couple years ago that gamethreads (while in-progress) are not for me. I know I'm not alone. I watch the games, yell at the TV, question TJ, players, and refs, but not only do I see no point in posting negative comments, especially calling out players, I can't even keep up with the thread in real time!
To each their own. I don't go back through the thread. However, I do like to check in post-game, especially after a win. And I'm compelled to call out inaccuracies and exaggerations.
On to KU! Go Cyclones!
What I've observed is that it's partially poor box-outs by us, but also quite a bit of opponents deliberately crashing the boards (sending more guys than we can box out one-on-one), likely because it's been shown to be effective against us. The drawback to this strategy is you then don't have as many guys back on defense. We don't seem to push it up the floor much to take advantage of this when we get the rebound, I would guess because we think our strength is our half-court offense.
Opponents also shoot a lot of threes against us that end up with long rebounds that favor the offense.
The Vegas money was on TTU. Everyone that was in despair mode must not have realized that. This is the Big 12, every road game is going to be a dogfight. Sack up and get used to it.
'13-14 too. Iirc they'd be down double digits deep into the 2nd half.
So far ISU has been down double digits in a couple of games but have gotten it down to 5-7ish by half.
