There was a lot of speculation after he didn’t play vs. Tech but I have it on good authority that Cam will play tomorrow vs. Baylor. Don’t know how much or little but figured I could put any speculation to rest.
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Good. We need him and we need his rebounding for this game and for any chance we have to make any type of run in both Big 12 and NCAA tourneys.
Especially important to have Cam available to rebound and affect the low post play vs Baylor. Lard was a big factor in ISU's early lead the first game at Waco before he got hurt. Obviously Baylor, had a big rebounding advantage in the game at Ames.
CW said a long while back that for the team to make noise in March they'd need LW and Lard to be at their best. I think that still holds true now. They'll need whatever they can get from Cam Lard whether it's spot minutes or twenty minutes.
Guys......we're going to play three bigs at a time. 
Agreed and in an ideal world, they would have both been moved into the starting lineup by now and the whole rotation/sub pattern worked out and in place by now. Unfortunately, we won't have that...so I kind of feel we are stuck with the same thing we've been doing for last couple months. Which has been hit and (many) misses.
Not being a downer, just concerned we won't be going into tournaments with our 5 best players on the court at tipoff. (you can say that doesn't matter, but we are coming out of a late season slide....so something matters).
Lard is a beast and for whatever reason this team feeds off of his energy on the bench or on the court. That Texas game everyone looked like they forgot their morning pick me up and he was back in Ames. And the game last week vs TTech he was engaged with the team even though he had no minutes.
Honestly I thought we had seen the last of Lard in a Cyclone uniform.
Can has done nothing to prove he’s one of thd 5 best players.
Hoping he is is not the same. And neither is assuming he is based on potential or whatever CW thinks.
Yeah, in a perfect world LW and Lard would have been playing lights out for the last month and forced Prohm to move them into the starting lineup. But it is what it is. All we can do now is hope that the improvements we saw from the team last Saturday were signs of better things to come. If they had come out and folded against TT I'd be extremely pessimistic for this weekend and beyond. But instead they showed some pride and they pushed a really good team with everything to play for to the final minutes of the game. Maybe it's a reach but I consider that something to hang my hopes on.
I thought he might continue to dress but not play though the end of this season and then leave the program. We all know how that Prohm is personally invested in Cam Lard's career and life and I respect that, but it's fair to wonder what the final straw is or how many chances he gets.
He is...you can argue whether or not he has earned the right to be rewarded as one, but he is clearly talent-wise. I don't think that is even debatable.
Is Lard one of our best 5? Maybe one out of four possessions he’s in, he plays that way. Potential isn’t worth much this time of year.
But don’t you have to earn it in order to be labeled a good player. Potenti doesn’t matter if not followed up by results.
Surely we can find something else to speculate about?
Hope
FIFY. Any basketball team is but this one is exceptional even for that.
2018-2019 Iowa State basketball:
FIFY. Any basketball team is but this one is exceptional even for that.
Guys......we're going to play three bigs at a time.
I see you are a man of refined tastes. Just like this guy.
Dat look when you run out of awkward white dudes to put into the game.
Dollar store Wisconsin.
There are all kinds of variables. Agreed. I'm just suggesting that anyone that has watched a lot of basketball over the years would generally recognize that talent-wise he is one of our best players. I would argue top 5.
From there, you then look at effort, consistency, attitude...etc. to see if it works to play him more. So far, those factors have appeared to weigh against his playing time....and probably for good reason.
I'd argue that Cam has certainly shown the potential to be one of the 5 best and has been at times. He certainly SHOULD be one of our 5 best, but I don't think you can say it's materialized and that he is clearly one of the 5 best. When you ignore the potential and just look at production, he really hasn't done much. What Conditt did in 17 minutes vs. Texas was probably as good as any game Lard has had this year. Conditt also had 4 and 7 in 12 minutes vs. WVU.
I'd rather have Lard in playing big minutes, as he certainly has the potential to be a big difference maker, but we get all excited about Lard putting up 8 and 4 vs. OU in 20 minutes. But we're at the end of the season, and so far all of that potential hasn't really turned into production. I'm sure with consistent eligibility and minutes that would be different, but he can't stay out of the doghouse.
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