***#12 Iowa State vs. Baylor (Saturday, 5:00)***
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Totally agree but Bill lets it happen every game
Unless we are changing the same mindset we've had on offense since pretty much forever under Bill, I'm not sure we can get right. It feels like we are what we are at this point.
Seemed like Diew was the only one keeping us in the game and we kind of went away from her late. How many shots did she get In the last five minutes?
Point guard needs to have a 2nd gear so she can beat you off the dribble, that’s part of the problem, Ryan doesn’t have that burst. Her 3 point shot is slow developing so she can’t hurt you that way either. She doesn’t have a step back. She’s a facilitator that needs the other 4 players to create action. They don’t, we stand around and watch her dribble. JMO
We are not dropping from #12 to NR in a week. Probably drop to #20 or so. An 8 spot drop would be pretty hefty. Lot's of parity in the #15 to #25 spots and by "parity" I mean mediocrity.
If we auger in twice next week than we are on the Top 25 bubble, probably outside of it. Obviously not a good start to a tough 4 game stretch.
I do agree that our title shot is now sort of a long shot relying on others to have losing streaks. Not impossible, OU and Texas are not top 10 level teams, but seems unlikely. Think we still could win one again some day but it will be in a much diminished league and won't be the same as getting one over Kim, Texas and the Sooners.
Just shooting 29% from 3 (and making a couple of wide-open layups) would have been good enough.
Sometimes players are actually open when all that non productive dribble is happening
That’s how bad the game was. It’s not 5hat Baylor is good. We were that bad.
I googled to see who she was and first thing to come up was an unfortunate story surrounding something she said.
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I feel like this has been a problem with Iowa State for at least 10 years but maybe my memory is just fading.
Unable to watch live so I pulled up the game on my ESPN+ subscription. It started several minutes into the first quarter and the cherry on top, it came up with "your event has ended" before the game was actually over. 
I guess they were telling me we had no chance to win so don't bother watching the end?
I guess they were telling me we had no chance to win so don't bother watching the end?
If we had a bench I’m sure things would look different. Losing two posts and having M&M disappear into some weird funk has weakened this team severely. Jordao is the biggest hit there.
Maybe getting to far out a head but not sure guard looks much different next year. We return two seniors, a sophomore as starters and add two freshman. That will be three starters and two potential bench guards. Our high ranking for the class comes from the bigs and not the guards so my expectations are TBD. Not an Iowan so haven't seen or heard much of the two Iowa gals.
Maybe there is a mid-major guard that would want a 5th year as backup. Didn't seem like much when Iowa's only add from last year was Molly Davis from Central Michigan but it gave them a solid bench player that could handle the ball and play some defense.
I read about this a while back and didn't give it much gravity. As to the incident, I am not going to hold much against her. I think I see where she went wrong...maybe she needs a better class of friends and classmates.
The secret lives of many here would hold some of the same high school stupidity, though that doesn't make it right. She apologized and doubt this is indicative of anything in her nature. Except, she will learn from her mistakes-which is a good quality.
