Doc Sadler
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Giving up 74 points a game isn't bad when you average 80 (or whatever we do). Where does our FG% rank on defense? I'm guessing it is better.
Again, for god's sake, our defense has been good enough to win 18 games. We've beaten several teams that don't suck.
Part of that is due to our up tempo style. There aren't 276 teams ahead of us that also play up tempo.
CycloneErik
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Disagree on what? The theory if it? Because the theory is solid. If you average a bunch of points, the team you are playing will score more points. Unless you think we should win every game by 30 (like West Virginia just did!), then you are going to have to accept that our opponents will score points.
I'm not saying our defense is the best thing to ever happen, but it is much better this year and we are 18-5.
Again, I don't know where to look it up, but please find our FG% defense and post that and it's ranking on here. I don't think it will be outstanding, but it will be better than 276th or whatever. And that is much more relevant than 76 poings per game. Unless, you feel like we should win 80-50 every single game. Because we'll score 80. And I think it is stupid to expect us to hold teams to 50.
The 6th is fine. Our offense was before tonight ranked 1st or 2nd in most categories. The 3 point defense is bad.
But my whole point is that 74 points per game has to be taken into context and if you don't, you are really stupid.
People would be complaining about our offense being bad if we ran Wisconsin's swing offense. Does Wisconsin have a bad offense because of their ppg? No, because they are an efficient offense. Our defense seems more efficient than a lot are giving it credit for.
I don't know what you are talking about, but I do know that during the game tonight (before we sucked) the announcers mentioned that our defense was ranked in the 30's. I assume that was some FG% ranking.
If you want to ***** about giving up 74 points per game as being unacceptable, go right ahead.
Is 6th fine? Not many teams get past the middle of the conference and have success in March with that type of defense. 6th in combination with the 3P% and rebounding is definitely not fine imo.
If we are going to take context into it to dismiss the weaknesses on defense, we need to do the same to the offense- points per game is useless (our efficiency numbers on offense are not good IIRC). Plus, our 3P% is last in conference play.
all I'm saying is that I feel this team has the potential (p-word) to defend better than it is, which I feel is not great. KenPom has ISU 44th in Adjusted Defense. I think the #11 team should have a better defense than that.
if you want to ***** about people wanting more from their team after losing by 30 when favored, go right ahead.
Well you've convinced me. Iowa State sucks. They are lucky they won 9 games, let alone 18 at this point. There's no chance we make the NCAA tournament and we could easily lose out.
I think my point is that every team has weaknesses. Ours is defense. And if it was that bad, we wouldn't have won 18 games or 6 games so far in the conference. Our defense has been worse the past few games. That's not good, but hopefully they can fix it.
Nobody is doing that. Everyone wants more from the team after tonight. No doubt tonight's defensive performance was atrocious/non existent. The entire season though hasn't been bad.
Well, obviously the #11 team has earned that spot, terrible defense or not.
Again, I can see being upset about this game. But people are ******** about the entire season, which is ********.
Our interior rotations are still awful. We haven't been bad on the perimeter for the most part. I will say that George's is in foul trouble for a reason. All of that said, our defense isn't completely awful, just really frustrating at times. Tonight was an exception
