I thought we were the worst team in the conference with a mid-major coaching staff and roster?
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I thought we were the worst team in the conference with a mid-major coaching staff and roster?
Was nice to see 3 guys over 20 points last night. Bolton started off on fire, then slowed down in the 2nd half. It was nice to see Young play with some fire in his belly. This team has missed that this year. We miss having a guy like Lard who is unpredictable bur ridiculously athletic. A guy that makes the other team think twice about going inside. Solo was swatting everything last night. Fun to watch!
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CycloneErik
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Turns out it's a three-way dance!
Nope, clearly proved last night, ISU might be in the middle of the very bottom of the conference.
Amazing what happens when you make some outside shots.
Game looks a lot different when those open 3's actually go in. Hali and Bolton shot a combined 67% from 3, that's just absurd.
The only thing that kept the game close was sloppy handling (and a little bit of interesting officiating, but that's irrelevant). They were awful under the press, which I thought was strange because we easily broke it in a few games earlier this year. Bad day on that, I guess.
There were other episodes of terrible passing/handling too, all culminating to a disastrous 19 turnovers. Bolton, Young, Conditt and Hali were responsible for most of them. Conditt generally had a bad game, logging 3 fouls and 3 turnovers in just 10 game minutes.
On the bright side, shooting was infinitely better and Young and Bolton largely controlled the game. 51% total shooting, 46% from 3, 85% FTs (on 30+ attempts), 39 boards, 20 assists on 25 baskets, some steals and blocks... Not a whole lot to complain about here, other than the turnovers. I get that OKST isn't good, but we still went out there and beat a team we should beat, and it wasn't all that close for most of the game.
We might make 9th place! Good thing we have the tie-breaker with KSU & OSU for worst loss. Way to go Florida A&M!
CycloneErik
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When Halliburton is lighting it up, we can run right through them bottom feeders.
Well, until we don't. But still a nice win, because every win in every season is a good win.
As mediocre as things seem to look under Prohm, Ok St has to feel worse.
They returned nearly everything you need to compete for a tournament berth.
They returned nearly everything you need to compete for a tournament berth.
Will be interesting to see how they do with the Top 10 recruiting class they hired for next year.
We’re lucky that OSU is historically bad this year. I’m not sure who they beat other than probably us in Stillwater.
We really need an assistant coach who knows how to best coach our bigs. Prohm really runs no plays for them and they just spend the majority of the game setting screens for our guard-oriented offense. Under a different coach who knows how to utilize bigs (like Scott Drew, for example) Young and Conditt would be the type of players we hate to play against.
Let me know when Azubuike gets in the ISU uniform.
You don't need Azubuike. Go watch the kind of easy looks their offense got Landen Freaking Lucas.
Also let me know when we have multiple 5 and high 4 stars surrounding our big to open that up.
It's pretty easy for bigs when they're surrounded by guards that can hit threes.
