*** Official #23 BYU vs #10 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[GoSTATE71]

i dont know what you guys are so mad about. TJ finally committed to playing small for a whole 10:00 minutes of the second half and 2 OTs. its this teams best lineup and it should be obvious to all the staff at this point. they gotta play small a lot going forward. JJ is way more lethal at the 5 than the 4.

it sucks to lose but i think the team turned a corner in the second half.

Yeah this lineup is our best and it’s not close. Only issue is we’re gonna give up a lot of rebounds this way but offensively it’s about our only chance since Jackson/Chat add about nothing and while Heise has turned a corner he’s not a huge threat either. I’d still love to see Watson more purely because he’s athletic and is a good rebounder imo.

Jefferson
Milan
Jones
Gilbert
Lipsey

 

[daniel22]

Inexcusable not to even get a shot off at the end of the first OT.

Just like Auburn….have the last shot and we don’t get one off.

Too many opportunities to close this game out, but poor execution, careless foul or an offensive rebound given up and here we are

 

[GTO]

I know we lost, but incredibly proud of the fight in our guys to get back into it when it looked like we were dead in the water. To be honest with you, I would have preferred the ball in Cujo or Lipsey's hands for that last possession. I think most team are guarding against the drive with Gilbert and I could see that play coming. Oh, well. On to KSU.

PS: I really hate not playing every team twice in conference.

 

[simply1]

Should have done more hack a heita

 

[GoSTATE71]

Man, I love TJ and this team no matter what, but this one is going to take a while to purge from the system.

Little bit easier to swallow since they actually made a bit of a comeback and made it respectable

 

[madguy30]

Donovan Jackson. SMH.

He was reportedly sick.

 

[cal-cyclone]

We blew our wad trying to get back in the game. We were gassed.

so were they.

 

[CycloneVet]

Love TJ but he needs to go
To Lincoln and have Fred remind him of how offense works in the offseason. To go with TJ’s defense because the offense is terrible every game. Just long stretches of bad offense

Fred’s offense required shot making. Fred had multiple NBA players to do that. TJ has had maybe one and he’s a sophomore on the team with Milan. Nobody in 3 previous years is in the NBA

 

[HoustonClone]

Man, I love TJ and this team no matter what, but this one is going to take a while to purge from the system.

Yep. I literally just managed to purge the ******** loss at Arizona from the system.

 

[CoachHines3]

We’ll get byu again in 2 weeks

 

[NoCreativity]

No metric says we are worse than last year.

What about the losses metric? Or the Big 12 record metric?

 

[BigLame]

i dont know what you guys are so mad about. TJ finally committed to playing small for a whole 10:00 minutes of the second half and 2 OTs. its this teams best lineup and it should be obvious to all the staff at this point. they gotta play small a lot going forward. JJ is way more lethal at the 5 than the 4.

it sucks to lose but i think the team turned a corner in the second half.

Played small & were severely out-rebounded. We switched everything, so when a shot went up we had no one blocking Keita out, someone was out of position, or it was a guard who was outmatched. Pick your poison

 

[FallOf81]

i dont know what you guys are so mad about. TJ finally committed to playing small for a whole 10:00 minutes of the second half and 2 OTs. its this teams best lineup and it should be obvious to all the staff at this point. they gotta play small a lot going forward. JJ is way more lethal at the 5 than the 4.

it sucks to lose but i think the team turned a corner in the second half.

Reminds me of the scene from Dumb and Dumber when he says ... "so your telling me I still have a chance". Coaching staff can't even color a play for these kids. Big issues to solve for next season.

 

[dahliaclone]

We’ll get byu again in 2 weeks

Nine days

 

[madguy30]

We’ll get byu again in 2 weeks

You said they'd miss free throws!!!

 

[Darius Bieber]

We’ll get byu again in 2 weeks

Big 12 tournament is next week

 

[cal-cyclone]

Yep. I literally just managed to purge the ******** loss at Arizona from the system.

That one was worse lol, I agree. It took weeks to get out of the system. LIke a clogged pipe.

 

[awd4cy]

They pulled this same **** last year. Looked like an NBA offense then couldn't do anything in the tourney against a 6th place team from the A-10.

And seems like every year before that they always lost early. Only year I remember any kind of run is when they had Jimmer, and they might have still lost in the sweet 16.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Keita 15 rebounds-9 offensive, entire ISU team 24 rebounds-6 offensive

We were also rolling with a smaller lineup. Keita had a huge advantage. BYU also had a sh!t ton of long rebounds off bricks. The way we defend that is always going to be a risk.

 

[clone37]

You can nickel and dime certain plays down the stretch, but those didn't lose this game. Nor did they lose the Kstate and OKstate games. The Jekyll and Hyde effort this team has given at times, especially on offense, is just puzzling. This is who this team is. So good when they want to be, but just extremely inconsistent. We had a size advantage tonight, but sat 2 of our big men for the last 20 minutes because they were zeroes in this game. Chat and Jackson are good against teams with true posts like AZ, but can't compete against mobile athletic bigs.
I keep going back and comparing this team to Fred's last team. So good when they wanted to be, and very talented, but they had so many lazy stretches where they got down double digits in so many games. Bit them when it counted most against 14 seed UAB in the tourney.