*** Official #20 IOWA STATE vs Iowa Game(Day) Thread ***

[CycloneVet]

Holy crap this is a pathetic post. Gabe works his ass off on a daily basis. You are entirely missing what he does on defense. You are telling a player to quit the team. that's a next level of despicable, even for you.

One that carried us to a Sweet 16 No less

 

[Halincandenza]

Osun just isn’t what we hoped he was going to be. He is soft as charmin for sure. He should be dominating the paint but hasn’t really looked good at all this season. Holmes at least has his moments.

Part of it is the offense. They don’t put posts in good position to score.

 

[t-noah]

Can't shoot the 3. That is no major revelation. So we are trying to go inside. Our guys are seemingly totally passing up most midrange opportunities. They are there.

Tonight, we can't hit the 3, and can't go inside regularly. Nothing in between?

 

[HFCS]

Technically the game is not “over”. But we aren’t winning this game.

If we can get it within 10 I'll think we learned something and made the most of a disastrous half.

There is a chance Iowa falls in love with the 3 and don't hit 50%. Unless Jaz or Grill find their shot I don't think we can make up 20 with only Holmes and Jones scoring at the basket.

 

[ZuriCyclone]

When was the last game Iowa state came back to win in Carver down double digits. Brent Blum probably has those stats

 

[Didley]

Its only 20-18 if you reset the score at the 12:00 mark. Bright side?

 

[jdolson27]

The offense is just horribly bad. And Iowa isn’t even good defensively. TCU attacked the Iowa press and got easy buckets but ISU is struggling to break it.
On defense guys keeping getting lost and the traps aren’t working. They should have switched to playing them straight up.

I agree Iowa isn’t great at creating their own shots.

 

[cyatheart]

It’s just a three year slump.

He needs to get to the mid range, I don't know why they let him chuck away like that

 

[enisthemenace]

Hey All. I changed my shirt. All good now.

 

[madguy30]

The offense is just horribly bad. And Iowa isn’t even good defensively. TCU attacked the Iowa press and got easy buckets but ISU is struggling to break it.
On defense guys keeping getting lost and the traps aren’t working. They should have switched to playing them straight up.

Iowa's selling out on D.

When are people going to realize trends aren't always how it goes?

 

[67CY]

Now we see what we got when they don’t play TJ defense

 

[CySmurf]

Basically spotted them 20 while playing horrible on both ends, and then played even with them for the rest of the half while still playing horrible on both ends. I think TJ will have their attention at halftime.

It doesn't matter. This team, under its current construction, can't make up 20 points to a team that always has a woody to beat us...especially on their home court. Maybe we should have taken account that this is the team's first true road test this year. And they're failing miserably.

 

[HFCS]

Can't shoot the 3. That is no major revelation. So we are trying to go inside. Our guys are seemingly totally passing up most midrange opportunities. They are there.

Tonight, we can't hit the 3, and can't go inside regularly. Nothing in between?

I'm not sure anybody but Holmes can convert mid range.

Gabe can when he's hot, but if he's hot he could hit 3s too.

 

[Malone]

Osun just isn’t what we hoped he was going to be. He is soft as charmin for sure. He should be dominating the paint but hasn’t really looked good at all this season. Holmes at least has his moments.

I’ll agree that we’re not getting what we hoped for from Osunniyi. He’s just not heavy enough to impact the paint much in p5 ball, but worse he’s lacking between the ears

 

[Clonefan32]

This winds up a 10 point game at this point. TJ will have them fired up. Not sure it’ll be enough, but we have a run in us.

 

[Walden4Prez]

Let’s pretend could pull our heads out of our ******** in the 2nd half…with the foul trouble we are hosed down 20.

 

[Kaner04]

Osun just isn’t what we hoped he was going to be. He is soft as charmin for sure. He should be dominating the paint but hasn’t really looked good at all this season. Holmes at least has his moments.

He can’t back up anybody down low. Wherever he catches it he has to shoot it and it usually is 5 feet away from the hoop.

 

[DSM4Cy]

TJ needs to allow Tamin to have freedom on offense. The kid has so much potential, but he is only willing to take the shot as a last resort.

 

[clonedude]

If we held IA to zero 2nd half points, I still think we probably lose.

That is a GREAT thought…. if Iowa doesn’t score a single point this half…. would we win?

 

[CYDJ]

so someone said this was a no win game. Is it a noer win game if we get blown out without their best player? This could not be worse.