*** Official IOWA STATE Vs TCU Gameday Thread ***
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Eek. About all I have to say about that...TCU couldn't miss, and the mentality to compete wasn't there tonight. Not a good combination. 15 minutes of competitive effort, maybe? Defense is nonexistent. Some good things from Lard again on offense, Jackson had it going for a while from 3...trying to be positive but not a ton there.
The film for this game won’t lie & will be glaring. That will be on both the coaches & the players, but the players need to start owning things. If they are going to play zone, those hands better be up the whole time. If man, then the pick and roll better be figured out. Hedge & how far, switch, trap, whatever the heck it is, decide on it & commit to it.
2 freshmen with 16 each, that is a positive..
Poor defense was easier to ignore when we had elite offense.
A big step back after the good game last Saturday.
Let's not get all gushy about TCU and Jamie Dixon. Our defense was laughable... oh and by the way they were 1-4 in conference play w/their starting PG out. No thank you to apathy.
I would not be surprised. Career high for Robinson with 17 assist/1 turnover. Career high for Miller. Managed to hit 4/5 wide open 3. Prob a career high for TCU FG%. Vlad missed 2 threes, otherwise 11/11 from the field.
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ISU Defense
I personally think Texas Tech is better. 
It really is this simple. When Donovan is on then they need to make every effort to go to him. No need for Solomon shooting 3's or Wiggs trying to shoot a contested 15 footer. Or Jakolby Long shooting a 3. Just drive and kick until he misses 2 or 3 in a row. He is an elite shooter and when he is feeling it they need to keep going to that well.
As for defense....they simply have no chance. Lard can't defend s stretch 4 (yet). Solomon doesn't have the foot speed to recover to the corners after helping on the pick and rolls. The adjustment should have been just having Wiggs go under every screen until Alex Robinson shows the ability to hit a 17 footer.
As for defense....they simply have no chance. Lard can't defend s stretch 4 (yet). Solomon doesn't have the foot speed to recover to the corners after helping on the pick and rolls. The adjustment should have been just having Wiggs go under every screen until Alex Robinson shows the ability to hit a 17 footer.
And were *this* close vs. some very good teams except K-Boo. They're a nice team and were in need of a well-played game, which happened to be on the same night that ISU decided not to play.
Fundamentals do need to get better though. Seems like a lot of these other teams look much more fundamentally sound, perhaps that's also an experience thing.
I don't think it was effort -- effort has been there from this group all year. They just don't know anything -- rotation, close outs ... they're lost.
Jamie Dixon is a very good coach, better resume than Prohm. I still like our team and I feel very good about the future but nights like these make you wonder where the fix will come from on the defensive end.
Edit - thank you, Jamie Dixon for taking your foot off the gas and not scoring 120
Jamie Dixon is a very good coach, better resume than Prohm. I still like our team and I feel very good about the future but nights like these make you wonder where the fix will come from on the defensive end.
Edit - thank you, Jamie Dixon for taking your foot off the gas and not scoring 120
Nothing that anyone says is going to make me feel better about this game. We played with intensity for a good chunk of the game, but the youth and inexperience glared like a deer in the headlights when they ran the same play 15 times and a new PG gets 16 dimes. I, more than anyone, have been pumping the brakes and understanding this team is rebuilding in the worst conference at the worst time to try to rebuild, but this game was HORRIFYING to watch us get torn apart. When we got a run started, we turned it over and killed whatever momentum we had.
I personally think Texas Tech is better.
They are but we had great ISU teams go to Tech and lose to bad Tech teams.
Maybe some payback is coming
We are insanely young, but we made even the worst Hoiberg defenses look elite tonight.
