That sucks.......I guess I would be pissed off too if I was the "commissioner of Iowa Junior college athletics" too....lol.
More people need punched in the face these days it seems.
*** Official #2 Houston vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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More people need punched in the face these days it seems.
Good idea. The odd thing is I believe he was there with Houston. After this all went down he sat next to Sampson’s daughter the rest of the game. Literally on his phone the entirety of the game. Until we found out who he was I thought he was some
Big donor for Houston. To find out who he actually was had me in complete shock. It made no sense and he was a complete embarrassment. After the game ended my friend was sure to show him we knew who he was and he tucked his tail between his legs and scurried out as fast as possible.
We did a great job of tracking down the 50/50 balls and competing last night. There wasn’t anything that we didn’t contest or go for.
If you aren't worried, cool. The offense has been an issue and continues to have some gaps. Look no further then A&M when we were up 20 or Pitt in the tourney last year. It's a good thing Houston had 12 TO's because ISU struggled to put the ball in the hoop for 7+min stretch. ISU has to find a way to produce extra baskets and have some consistency from the bench. As I mentioned, great win but I have some concern again with the O.
Skimmed coogboard game thread, one dude claimed it was just a BB play shouldn't have been a flagrant. Most were more sensible than that.
Last year our offensive efficiency was in the 120-130 range, depending on the site.
This year we are top 30.
Skewed heavily cause of ****** teams that we beat up on. Big12 is a meat grinder and there isn't many teams that we are going to score 70+ points on.
Just providing some context. Not that these ratings are the be all, end all, but ISU has an offensive efficiency on par with Kansas this year, but it happens to be only sixth best in the league. We do have the second best defense though. The #6 offense and #2 defense in the Big 12 at the level it is at, should win you a bunch of games.
I don't think ISU goes far without both. While the minutes can fluctuate based on matchups and how each is playing, but when both guys can play 20ish minutes, they are both very effective. I don't think it would be possible to do what is asked defensively of either guy playing 30 minutes. They have to expend a ton of energy. Where Ward really can shine is against the long athletic teams that hammer the offensive glass like VCU. Tre and Rob are both physical guys that will clear space, but against those super rangy guys that can get up off the floor they give up some tap outs on the offensive glass.
I wouldn't say our rebounding is necessarily worse with Rob vs. Ward, but it's a bit different. Rob's a lot more going to clear space and the guards have to rally and clean up the glass. Ward's going to typically go up and get the board. Lipsey, Gilbert, C. Jones and Pavs do a good job chasing down boards in space cleared out by Rob and Tre. That was one of the big adjustments after the tournament. Guards started cleaning up the defensive glass, Pavs getting some run, and now with Ward back this is a good rotation of complimentary players.
Funny how I once thought the future of the program was Hunter and Foster.
And it still is... in a sense.
They're just named Lipsey and Momcilovic.
And it still is... in a sense.
They're just named Lipsey and Momcilovic.
I think this is a really good point.
I was really impressed with Houston last night. They've got all the pieces to be really good, and once again, make a deep March/April run. I really believe that. I loved their defensive tenacity, their rebounding, athleticism, shooting, multiple playmakers off the dribble, etc. They, to me, looked like a conference title contender.
For us to keep them to 53 points was a GREAT defensive effort. Clearly our best of the season, at the best possible time. Really impressed with Gilbert's defense, really impressive with Milan's improvement, really liked the defensive 'jolt' that Watson provides. Was certainly not "perfect", as we did let one of their guys get a lot of rhythm shots, and their bigs definitely were able to get some rebounds that you would 'hope' we would get - but overall, so many positives from the Cyclones last night. That is a really, really, good team that ISU beat.
With that said, offensively - while acknowledging again that Houston is REALLY freaking good offensively - I do worry a bit on this side of the ball. The numbers/metrics do NOT back up my statement here, but I will say it anyway - I do not think we are a better offensive team than we were last year. Obviously, Tamin has improved, and there are a lot of positives. But I really worry about our ability to score in conference play - moreso than last year. I know the narrative tells us that this years' squad is full of better shooters and scorers - I'm just not seeing it. Against Q1 type teams thus far, our guys really struggle to shoot, struggle to finish at the hoop, struggle to dribble/take care of the ball.
Overall - REALLY loved the defensive effort last night. With Hasan playing like he has, I actually think our defense can be like we've seen the last 2 years. I'm more worried that we'll end up being just as 'subpar' (overall) offensively that we have been.
At OU we were 8/11 from the free-throw line, while OU was 13/16, last night we were 18/22 while Houston was 8/12. Last night we were plus 10 shooting FT's while at OU we shot 5 less.
Now if you can sit there and say we are going to shoot 10 more free throws a game more than the team we are playing, I would agree we can get by only making 3 three pointers, but we know that is not going to happen on the road in this conference. We have to shoot the ball better, it's that simple.
Hasan is averaging 10 pts off the bench in his 3 games post-injury. That's pretty consistent bench scoring. After watching Ward for these 3 games, I don't think we lose that A&M game with him. Also, the more comfortable Milan gets, the less likely we'll have those droughts. Houston is legitimately the #1 defense in the country, and, during that 7 min field goal drought we hit 5 free throws. We didn't get to the line last year, so the droughts were even worse.
Pretty good showing against the #1 defense in the nation. Only 12 turnovers against a team that had a TO rate of 27%.
What if nothing is linear in sportsball?
And what are we referring to when we say 'worried'? What's going to happen if ISU makes the tournament and doesn't win it?
Our offensive #'s are skewed cause of crappy teams we played. Only team that we have scored over 70 points on that has a pulse is Iowa (90)
VA Tech-62
A&M-69
OU-63
Houston-57
A BB play where Bob's head is the ball? Lol
I bet we score 70 on Saturday
Most efficiency metrics are adjusted for an average opponent and by pace, so if we mostly only play top 20 defenses the rest of the season at an extremely slow pace (as the last two games have been), we don't need to score 70 to have a top 30 offensive efficiency.
