*** Official #3 IOWA STATE vs Arizona Game(Day) Thread ***

[CyGuy5]

Would have been a great half without the Tony Padilla manufactured 16 point run.

How in God’s name is this a final 4 crew

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

Very weird seeing CuJo this off but same time you can’t expect a guy to put up 20 night after night. Will happily eat crow when he puts up 20 in the second half

We definitely do need someone to step up if jones isn’t playing up to his crazy good standard. Even if it’s Gilbert or Jefferson. Just someone.

 

[Drew0311]

Things we need to do in the second half

1. No more Jackson jump shots
2. Jackson must finish at the rim
3. Jones becomes Jones
4. Chatfield needs to not do stupid fouls and rebound

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

We’re OK. Keep the ball pressure up on D. Clean up the turnovers. Jefferson Jones and Gilbert will get it going.

 

[RoseClone]

Arizona defense better than advertised. Our defense showing some gaps.

We have faced a lot of good first half defenses this year only to watch them peter out down the stretch. Again?

 

[ISU_Guy]

Gosh, this could be much worse
We have to figure something out offensively especially in the road

We do so much dribbling and ackward hand offs. Bigs are turning into a liability half the games and then they are good the next.

 

[cal-cyclone]

This is 4 seasons in and TJs no timeout usage is insanity. You have to break up that run

that's what I said about 6 pages ago. Yeah after Arizona got a couple of those big 3s we needed a timeout to settle down. It ended ok at the 1/2 but it sure seemed like we needed to take a breath and settle down a minute

that said we are 17-2 and TJ has done a great job overall. what the heck do I know?

 

[FerShizzle]

Tamin was fouled on the hand on that “flop”

Tamin was fouled driving baseline on a no-call that led to a turnover

Keshon was raked across the arm on his turnover

Jackson was hit in the elbow on his jump shot that hit only the backboard

Jefferson is being manhandled in the back on about all of his backdowns

Officiating from this “great” crew is not good.

I think the whistles will be tighter in this next half.

 

[jdoggivjc]

The flop call amounted to nothing. If that crumbles this team (it didn’t), there are bigger issues.

what would you call giving up a 12-0 run then?

 

[AllInForISU]

This is 4 seasons in and TJs no timeout usage is insanity. You have to break up that run

He took a timeout after an 8-0 run at the 2:30 mark. You don’t take another one with the half coming up. That would be stupid.

 

[awd4cy]

Very weird seeing CuJo this off but same time you can’t expect a guy to put up 20 night after night. Will happily eat crow when he puts up 20 in the second half

Arizona does seem to be guarding him well.

 

[ChickenNuggetMan]

asleep

Accurate lol

 

[Walden4Prez]

One concerning thing is our bigs our soft outside Jefferson. I think chats hustle but he’s almost becoming a liability at this point.

Chat should never be outside the 3pt line handling the ball, but we quite often have our bigs doing just that.

 

[HoustonClone]

Tamin was fouled on the hand on that “flop”

Tamin was fouled driving baseline on a no-call that led to a turnover

Keshon was raked across the arm on his turnover

Jackson was hit in the elbow on his jump shot that hit only the backboard

Jefferson is being manhandled in the back on about all of his backdowns

Officiating from this “great” crew is not good.

Agreed, and I am hopeful it evens out. But no doubt the "don't blame anything on the refs" crowd is going to dredge this one up later.

 

[IcSyU]

Arizona has a lot of length and it’s bothering CuJo.

And they're absolutely refusing to help off him. Seems like an intelligent decision.

 

[CySmurf]

We definitely do need someone to step up if jones isn’t playing up to his crazy good standard. Even if it’s Gilbert or Jefferson. Just someone.

Lipsey has...

 

[burn587]

Very weird seeing CuJo this off but same time you can’t expect a guy to put up 20 night after night. Will happily eat crow when he puts up 20 in the second half

Short rest after a big day on Saturday. He just doesn’t have the same pop to his shots he usually does.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

They are just hounding Jones on defense. There's a reason he looks off.

 

[NorthCyd]

I do feel like we are in this position in every road game, so at least the team should be used to it.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

Also am I going crazy or has Gilbert not been as aggressive going to the hoop even looking for a foul during conference play? I feel nonconference is was absolutely insanely good at that