Twister Sister Summary - ISU Continues to Fade

[acoustimac]

Let's face it. CU is an average at best team. Not terrible, but not good either. But that places ISU in the unenviable place of being bad. And getting worse.

TSS – ISU Continues to Fade

Many people talked about how bad Colorado was as a team even though they were 9-1 at home. Watching the first quarter of this game you’d swear they grabbed a bunch of high school kids who had…

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[cyhobby]

You can stick a fork in them, they are done.
You can see it in their eyes and play.

 

[Dannynoonan]

It appears we are too small/unathletic to rebound except for Audi. What a kick in the pants to have it’s not even “fading away” it’s falling off a cliff. I didn’t see the game to tell if they were playing with poor body language, but let’s hope not. If they were its going to get really bad.

 

[ZorkClone]

Very frustrating. I lowered my expectations with Brown out, but I expected someone to step up more. The team is in a tail spin.

 

[throwittoblythe]

I'm normally pretty reserved when it comes to criticizing our WBB staff and coach, but the Baylor game broke me. Baylor had an obvious game plan to neutralize Audi. Our coaching staff made zero adjustments and refused to call TO to get our team organized. Our players looked lost and just tried to keep doing the same thing despite Baylor overcommitting to take it away.

Losing a star and another starter is tough and will come with lumps. However, this team looks lost and uninspired. We should beat teams like Cincy and CU on talent alone.

I have no more faith in this coaching staff. But I also know it's not going to change until BF decides to retire. I believe that's called "apathy."

 

[BoxsterCy]

I'm normally pretty reserved when it comes to criticizing our WBB staff and coach, but the Baylor game broke me. Baylor had an obvious game plan to neutralize Audi. Our coaching staff made zero adjustments and refused to call TO to get our team organized. Our players looked lost and just tried to keep doing the same thing despite Baylor overcommitting to take it away.

Losing a star and another starter is tough and will come with lumps. However, this team looks lost and uninspired. We should beat teams like Cincy and CU on talent alone.

I have no more faith in this coaching staff. But I also know it's not going to change until BF decides to retire. I believe that's called "apathy."

I am watching and paying attention but not investing emotionally in sports anymore. Maybe I have just outgrown (or out aged in my case) that but it just sets you up for disappointment whether it be your college team or your pro team.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

I am watching and paying attention but not investing emotionally in sports anymore. Maybe I have just outgrown (or out aged in my case) that but it just sets you up for disappointment whether it be your college team or your pro team.

I am at that point with pro sports. I try not to spend more than 30 seconds being down on the Vikings or Wild losing. I'll turn off the TV and just say bummer continuing with my day,

It's still hard to do that with Iowa State. Iowa State feels like part of the fabric of myself that Pro Sports could never get to.

 

[throwittoblythe]

I am watching and paying attention but not investing emotionally in sports anymore. Maybe I have just outgrown (or out aged in my case) that but it just sets you up for disappointment whether it be your college team or your pro team.

I can live with losses. Those are only within so much of your control. Baylor is a good team and Addy was clearly not herself. I could live with that loss under normal circumstances. What I can't handle is watching our team look lost while our head coach fumes on the sidelines with his arms crossed. I look for effort and good coaching. We are lacking both of those (effort is good in places but not across the board).

We have the talent we have which limits our ability to beat certain teams. But we should at least be able to handle programs like CU and Cincy if we just handle our fundamentals. We are not doing that.

 

[acoustimac]

Losing your best player, let alone another key contributor, is usually catastrophic. It is incredibly rare for a team not named UConn or LSU to recover from that kind of loss. Perfect example is when the Colts lost Peyton Manning in 2011. The Colts went from division champion to 2-14. And they are pros.

I’d really love to be able to attend practice to see what’s going on there. That's where most coaching takes place. What we see as lack of game time adjustments are also magnified by poor play. People called for “more Wilson and Paulk.” Turns out that maybe Wilson is better off coming off the bench. I’ve always wondered what a coach can say during a timeout to someone like Hare, “hey please make your shots?”

I’m being a little intentionally sarcastic and I do believe that there has to be two sides…one is the coaching staff making appreciable adjustments during the game and the other is players implementing said adjustments. I suspect there is a bit of failing in both.

 

[kcdc4isu]

Losing your best player, let alone another key contributor, is usually catastrophic. It is incredibly rare for a team not named UConn or LSU to recover from that kind of loss. Perfect example is when the Colts lost Peyton Manning in 2011. The Colts went from division champion to 2-14. And they are pros.

I’d really love to be able to attend practice to see what’s going on there. That's where most coaching takes place. What we see as lack of game time adjustments are also magnified by poor play. People called for “more Wilson and Paulk.” Turns out that maybe Wilson is better off coming off the bench. I’ve always wondered what a coach can say during a timeout to someone like Hare, “hey please make your shots?”

I’m being a little intentionally sarcastic and I do believe that there has to be two sides…one is the coaching staff making appreciable adjustments during the game and the other is players implementing said adjustments. I suspect there is a bit of failing in both.

If you have ever coached young people you have seen this. Plus it seems from watching the last two games players at times have not taken open shots, could be they fear that if they miss they will get pulled. This is not a way to play out of our situation they have to shoot if open and unless they are complete bricks the staff has to let players play.

 

[67CY]

I wonder if the players that are supposed to step up now, have been overlooked and received very little coaching at practice.

 

[ZorkClone]

I wonder if the players that are supposed to step up now, have been overlooked and received very little coaching at practice.

I think it’s more likely they are at the Big 12 backup level and we have two of those in the starting line up.

 

[acoustimac]

I wonder if the players that are supposed to step up now, have been overlooked and received very little coaching at practice.

Believe me…all of the players get practice time and attention. For example, today the reserves are getting most of the practice time while the main core rest their legs or do walk throughs. That’s pretty typical day after a game during the conference season.