*** Official #12 IOWA STATE vs #18 Baylor Game(Day) Thread ***

[madguy30]

A win

You expected a win?

 

[Malone]

Consider the source, their is a reason he is on multiple handles.

There, man, there. Not their.

 

[cyclonestunners]

You're congratulating a team that tried to game the clock and bank a win by starting the clock early?

F Baylor.

How did three team game the clock? Is a clock operator. Give me a break.

 

[acoustimac]

And to think that about a week ago, I was ripped on here for suggesting the men needed to work more on free throw shooting

 

[Cyhig]

So where’s the extra .2 then? If they can determine kt was started .5 early, why not go to 1.5 instead of 1.2?

Because they blew the play dead with 0.7 seconds left

 

[Clonehomer]

We should’ve been given more time on the clock. I think we got screwed on that one.

We shouldn’t have had a chance out of bounds to start with. Hard to say you were screeed when you were handed a gift.

 

[jspeels]

I said on the missed free throw and rebound,.,no less than 1.5! Should have been and we win! Aggravating

 

[Cloned4Life]

Is every loss unacceptable?

I don’t know what other word to describe a coaching philosophy that leads to so many amazing things yet is perfectly OK with leaving shooters open and not adapting. “Welp, some nights some teams will just make those shots!”

In a game where SO many things are out of a coach’s true control, that one is beyond crazy to me. We lost because of coaching. Do we win sometimes - maybe even a lot of times - because of reaching good coaching and strategy!? Yep! Which makes it even more frustrating that this one specific symptom is so impossible to cure.

 

[rosshm16]

F*** Baylor

 

[JDS]

The clock mishap actually helped us I think. Wish it would have been 1.4 instead of 1.2.

Clock mishap is the only reason we had any chance. Needed to draw up a quicker developing play with it though

 

[CycloneErik]

Yeah the other guys weren’t drawing fouls, just missing bunnies.

Between bunnies and missed FTs, we definitely had a billion chances to win this one.

 

[Cyclones8824]

Tough loss, but hopefully it gives us some extra rage to beat up the Longhorns!

 

[AuH2O]

Got screwed due to the refs not knowing how much time should have been left.

Not how it works. Late or early clock starting and play starts they time it out. Different situation but similar to our win vs UNC in the tourney.

 

[cyfanbr]

How is it shameful though. For you?

Semantics. All I’m trying to say is tht we played hard, but had one of the worst outings of the season outside of Gilbert. Had one or two other players had an average night and win this one, maybe even comfortably.

 

[jctisu]

So much to unpack in this game. Almost stole this one on a couple of occasions. Both teams would have felt they let one slip away if they lost. Just so happened it was us and oh so close with that last shot.

But as mentioned, the first half was soooo bad defensively and giving up offensive rebounds everywhere.

Our free throw percentage is a joke, and this team needs to get better as a whole. Even shooting 70% as a team gets us in a much better spot as a team. That shouldn’t be hard at all.

And then of course the offense, defense and turnovers in the final four minutes really hurt.

 

[ISU_Guy]

The one time Cyclone commit with the steal and go ahead bucket to win... if you didn't see this coming months ago when the schedule was announced, you haven't been a Cyclone fan long enough.

I fully expect this from Tyrese tues

 

[acoustimac]

You expected a win?

Well, duh

 

[rochclone]

Who gives a ****. Everyone should melt down over this. This is why we'll never come close to ever winning a Big 12 championship.

How did John Kurtz get on this board?

 

[ExCyment]

Not sure you run a play that needs a pass with 1.2.

Well no quit in the team. Rebounding was brural, FTs weren’t good and Baylor shot great from

We lost 0.8 seconds because of clock operator error. What a joke

Actually we gained a time out and the ability to throw the ball in. Just a shame he took one to two tenths too long to shoot that.

Are clock operators local, or brought in with the officials?

 

[RezClone]

We didn't play good at all. But we also had it. I feel like we lost by 30... and also we should have won at the same time!

WTF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT!?!?!