I was listening to one of the local pundits tonight, T Hines from the Ames Tribune. He had some fairly obvious layup answers about ISU's defensive performance and about the offensive difficulties against NDSU last Saturday.
He felt that ISU was terrible on defense, and the offense needed to find a quicker pace to be productive. He stated that in the past ISU was better when they kept up a quick pace.
While I don't disagree with much of that, I would think the best thing the offense could do for the team as a whole is to obviously score points, but with a down defense it may be just as important to play TOP with the ball as well. I feel a lot of the time we are too impatient which leads to a lot of .45 second offensive possessions and turnovers.
In an ideal world you could have both, but with this team this year and with a fairly young/inexperienced Defense it may be smarter to have points and take 5-6 minutes than always having the mentality of we gotta score 50 to hang with this team. I also understand we probably aren't capable of this feat every possession.
I wondered if anyone else has a thought on this?
He felt that ISU was terrible on defense, and the offense needed to find a quicker pace to be productive. He stated that in the past ISU was better when they kept up a quick pace.
While I don't disagree with much of that, I would think the best thing the offense could do for the team as a whole is to obviously score points, but with a down defense it may be just as important to play TOP with the ball as well. I feel a lot of the time we are too impatient which leads to a lot of .45 second offensive possessions and turnovers.
In an ideal world you could have both, but with this team this year and with a fairly young/inexperienced Defense it may be smarter to have points and take 5-6 minutes than always having the mentality of we gotta score 50 to hang with this team. I also understand we probably aren't capable of this feat every possession.
I wondered if anyone else has a thought on this?