Tamin Lipsey Commits
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A lot of course is missing a year due to the knee injury. Another is that he had a lot of excitement at a young age because of his size, probably had some thought he might grow more.
I think we will see him rise through the summer. He was a little rusty being out for so long, but I would say physically he is fully back and b-ball-wise is really close.
My daughter did an injury rehab with the guys that train Lipsey. He is back physically, and I would stronger and more explosive than he has been.
If you assume low and that all baskets are 2's, I'll take a dude who is either scoring or assisting 50% of the points for his team...
we were rolling at the end of that game after putting ourselves in a huge hole
if that UConn kid doesn’t drain that 3 pointer in the deep corner as the shot clock expired, I think we win the game. Went to a 6 point lead with about minute left I think.
but we were in total control for the last 5 minutes of the game
Edozie started in Niang’s place. It is hard to overstate how big of a drop off that is.
IMO the 2015 team was better but totally fell apart. No one is castigating Fred for it like they have been doing with Prohm. If you had been sitting in the stands that game you would have wanted to crawl out. Fred showed a real weakness in his coaching that game.
We also need to put into perspective that UConn had an answer for everyone and everything that year. While we had the pieces that year, it just takes so much to put a run together and that's what makes it so special.
I agree. I never understood why the Shayok team drew particular ire for not living up to expectations.
The last Fred team had six future NBA players and two other guys in the rotation who won all-conference honors (with McKay winning DPOTY and Hogue winning HM, if I remember this correctly).
The Shayok team had three future NBA players -- one of which (Shayok) only had a cup of coffee and the other two guys, Horton-Tucker and Haliburton, likely going on to long and lucrative NBA careers but they were only very young 18-year old freshman that season in Ames. Compare that to the last Fred team, which had experienced/upperclassmen guys (Niang, Nader, Morris, Thomas, BDJ, and Naz) who would eventually carve out roles in the NBA.
That team didn't win the Big 12 regular season despite controlling its own destiny with four games to go. Instead of going 4-0 to win outright or 3-1 to tie with Kansas, they decided to go 2-2 and fumble it away.
Then they lost to a trash UAB team -- #137 on BT that season, and Ohio State was #45 in 2019 for comparison.
I think that season is easily our worst missed opportunity and the largest spread between talent on the roster and actual accomplishments of the team. But for some reason you-know-who has maybe 1% of the ire regarding the BDJ chair-throwing/losing to a #14 as they have for the 2019 team losing to a #11 seed.
Gee, I wonder why.
Could you guys please start a thread to discuss Cyclone basketball history, instead of using a recruit thread? Seems like a better place for a perpetual conversation.
"You-know-who" wasn't referring to Hoiberg -- mostly to certain posters (or really just the one) who still complain about 2019 like Steve Prohm ran over their dog and boinked their girlfriend that season.
I get the warm fuzzy feeling about Fred given his origin story, but evidently he didn't care all that much about it when he left for the Bulls and took the Nebraska job, one of our historical tormentors. Jerk.
I suggest we have the same attitude. Fred's record as a coach has to stand on its own, and despite some of the talent he brought in, he only ever made the second weekend of the NCAA tournament once. He had two nice runs in Kansas City (though one was without Embiid standing in his way) and never won the B12 regular season.
It was a great era by the standards of Iowa State basketball, but it was not some transcendent success we can never equal again and had its fair share of missed opportunities, like the 2015 season overall.
Okay guys. No more Cyclone Basketball History discussion unless it pertains directly to Lipsey. Start a separate thread to continue your discussion if you like.
I am very excited for Tamin Lipsey and, considering how fast Hunter is blowing up, we might need him running the PG position sooner than we might imagine. Maybe even as a sophomore or even a freshman.
Lipsey is going to challenge the A/TO records when he leaves ISU. Kid is a facilitator whom others will LOVE to play with
He’s going to help rewrite Iowa State Basketball history.
If you guaranteed me today we get Hunter for two years I’d jump on it. I’m thinking it will be one.
The second year of the TJO administration sets up really nice if Hunter is who we hope he is and he stays a second year. Plus, that would give Lipsey and King an understudy year behind Hunter, Brockington, and Kalscheur before they depart and they can take over as more experienced sophomores alongside old man Grill.
Brockington has taken a redshirt. Odds of him sticking around for year 6 likely isn't strong.
