Watch him sometime. He's easily our best defender when it comes to guarding a vacant area of the floor.
did you just ratio medifference is Warren used 1/85th of the allotted scholarships and had shown flashes of being a really good big 12 player (albeit on a bad team)
Lewis uses 1/13th and has never shown he can be anything more than a role player on a bad team
Lewis is worse than the "terrible" bench players who get minutes. It's not complicated
The fascination of scholarship players who aren't in the rotation by our fan base is mind boggling
Yep. Thank goodness Fred didn't coach FB too...The basketball forum is 10X as dumb as the football forum. The football forum has a fair share of game thread overreactions but cannot compete with the shear idiocy of the basketball forums. It both entertaining and perplexing.
I will ask more questions, then. Do you think the coach of a major college program is purposefully not playing someone who could help him win games? How many practices have you watched? And would you feel better if prohm just came out and stated the reasons Terrence isn’t getting any regular run?
Next years class is not the best in ISU history. Tim Floyd had the #2 recruiting class in '97. LE had the #2 recruiting class in I think '02(Haluska, Vroman , Barnes, Harper, etc.) and I'm almost positive the class with Stinson and Blaylock was top 10.It happens all the time in recruiting. Some guys are probably rated too highly, while some guys are rated too lowly. Some guys never excel their game while others improve drastically. That's why recruiting is very hard, especially at schools like Iowa State. It's hit or miss. We have a guy on our team currently that was a 3-star and is now getting talked about as one of the most dynamic players in the nation and a projected lottery pick, but I'm sure the upset fans aren't bringing that into consideration when discussing Prohm's recruiting tactics. That or the fact that we have the best recruiting class in Iowa State history coming next year.
It's the 21st century, man, and this isn't as compelling as complicated conspiracy theories.
Play Lewis is definitely NOT a hill I’ll die on. Here are the facts from last night that make people question this team and lineup.
1 shot attempt between Grill, Jackson in a combined 35 minutes of action. 23% from 3 for the team. If these are our guys, Prohm needs to get better at creating open shots.
EDIT: this was a close game until like 4 mins left. Credit to Prohm for being able to exploit KCs weakness to get us over the hump but this game should not have been close.
I think it was because our starters (even Hali at times) were playing terrible basketball.The Cave on here is basically a series of competing conspiracy theories.
Hanlon's Razor is in full effect --
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Prohm hung onto lineups with Jackson, Grill, Griffin, and Conditt out there way more than he needed to. I think that was intentional. He could have put the starters back out there, but I thought he was trying something and challenging those guys to go out and win the game... considering it was close until a few minutes remaining.
It was engineered to be close and more about trying something and giving those young guys some live-fire, close-game experience than trying to blow UMKC out.
I think it was because our starters (even Hali at times) were playing terrible basketball.
Don't forget that KC has 11 players they play regularly and they were determined to get their money's worth in the foul department. They played hands on and physical were willing to trade some fouls for some stops. But in the second half it caught up with them especially when ISU decided they would shoot free throws like Bill Fennelly was coaching them. ISU went for minutes on end with the only scoring coming from the free throw line and maintained the lead.
I understand ‘who should start’ and ‘how many minutes rotation guys should get’. I don’t get the ‘11th guy should be 10th guy’ discussions.The fascination of scholarship players who aren't in the rotation by our fan base is mind boggling
The Mike Warren of basketball.
i dont fault Prohm for Lewis, Long, or Carter. All were decently ranked kid with solid offers. Plus TJ identified Lweis and he's had some hits in the past
i do you fault Prohm for Leech, Anderson, Kasongo and Ernst. I don't know how anyone could look at those kids and think they were P5 level players.
Floyd's class didn't make it to campus.Next years class is not the best in ISU history. Tim Floyd had the #2 recruiting class in '97. LE had the #2 recruiting class in I think '02(Haluska, Vroman , Barnes, Harper, etc.) and I'm almost positive the class with Stinson and Blaylock was top 10.
So do fault Coach K or Calipari for their recruiting misses? They only sign Top 50 players and miss. If recruiting was straightforward you wouldn't have players at schools like Murray State or Davison in the NBA.
The reality for a school like ISU if the coach is wrong 50% of the time he has done a solid job. More important than the misses are the Mitrou Longs, Njaing and Halliburtons.