*** Official #24 IOWA STATE vs #20 BYU Game(Day) Thread ***

[Tpups21]

Keshon has been good. He makes dumb decisions too often but he’s good.

Keshon just plays out of control too much offensively. Always going 100 mph.

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Not a fun loss (is any loss fun really)?

BUT

TCU lost to Cincy on the road tonight, Baylor lost to K-State on the road tonight.....hell last week Kansas lost to UCF........road losses are going to happen in the best conference in college basketball.

The best thing to do is to forget these games and move on. Let's go beat TCU!

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Unless you’re Cincinnati

Turns out Cincy isn't all that bad.....they beat #19 TCU tonight and are 6 points away from being undefeated in conference play

 

[t-noah]

On to the next game

Yup. It's basketball. On any given night you can play great (if you have a decent team, and we do) or get walloped.

 

[simply1]

Depsite BYU's best efforts, the Cyclones appear laser-focused on cashing this under.

lol

 

[cyclo120]

I think all of us have thought it internally can you imagine this team without Tamin, let’s hope he is good to go.

 

[Bob f]

But also exercises memories of middle fingers and karate kicks and toothpicks and ****

Dude. Word. Till the day comes i will always question, what if George didn't get hurt. Arguably the best team in our history. And yes I cried after mich st loss in 2000

 

[danvillecyclone]

Gotta grab some road wins.

When is our first road win?

How many can we get?

Do we go 0-fer?

0-2 so far.

TCU
Baylor
Texas
Cincy
Houston
UCF
Kansas St

 

[NWICY]

Gotta grab some road wins.

When is our first road win?

How many can we get?

Do we go 0-fer?

0-2 so far.

TCU
Baylor
Texas
Cincy
Houston
UCF
Kansas St

Well no better time than Saturday

 

[fsanford]

Gotta grab some road wins.

When is our first road win?

How many can we get?

Do we go 0-fer?

0-2 so far.

TCU
Baylor
Texas
Cincy
Houston
UCF
Kansas St

who knows a lot depends on Lipsey's health.
But I don't think Texas is well coached.
Honestly in this league you cannot even try to figure out where wins on the road will come.
That goes for most everyone.

Ideally you wish you got WV and OSU twice.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

I was surprised by the length of BYU, they just rolling in guys that could rebound or tap the ball out and keep the play alive. Coming in they were one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the country, and they lived up to their billing tonight. We tried to come out in the second half and push them off the 3-point line, which opened up holes in the defense for them to backdoor us to death.

Sometimes you just have to tip your cap and move on to the next game, we are not as bad as we played tonight, and BYU is not as good as they played tonight, we have a lot of conference games left to play. But, boy do we need to recruit a shooter or two.

 

[NY Chicago Fan]

Agree. He snapped his L arm toward the BYU players mid section, then quickly retracted it without his hand hitting the player hard or at all, it seemed to me. Then he quickly held onto his L mid arm, perhaps like something popped or subluxed? Just speculating.

So, yeah, I guess they (TJ/postgame) are saying something shoulder (?) but don't know more than that yet. It could be serious or just a minor tweak of something. The shoulder can be very tricky. I hope he didn't injure or strain his rotator cuff.

I saw that on that late foul he was called for. He looked to be in pain as he held his left arm after what did not look like much on the play.

 

[t-noah]

The BYU students singing "na na na hey hey hey goodbye" is about my tipping point. I'm done.

Let’s just say I’m looking forward to BYUs visit to Hilton on March 6th.

Yes, and the weird psychedelic sh!t they do behind the goal to intimidate the FT shooters...

For some reason, I'm liking Utah just a little more tonight. Stay tuned next year!

 

[cayin]

TJ needs to figure out a workable defensive scheme for this group to use against perimeter shooting. Whoever said they were worried that BYU would be kryptonite for ISU's defense was spot on.

We were running at guys and they were using the momentum of our guys running to the spot against them. I don't have the answers but they seemed to be way better schematically than us, especially after half time. When we had the ball, everything was hard, none of our guys were free or open, they had us locked down. It was hard to watch as BYU made everything look so easy when they had the ball. They had cutters, they made the extra pass, they hit shots. They just seemed to have a much higher basketball skill level than what we have.

 

[2forISU]

I think all of us have thought it internally can you imagine this team without Tamin, let’s hope he is good to go.

It's the difference of making the tourney or not.

 

[cycloneML]

Im surprised a TJ coached team shoots so many turn around jumpers. Gotta be the lowest percentage shot in the game.

 

[CloneLawman]

Im surprised a TJ coached team shoots so many turn around jumpers. Gotta be the lowest percentage shot in the game.

Milan should have the green light on turn arounds. Keshon should not.

 

[madguy30]

I was surprised by the length of BYU, they just rolling in guys that could rebound or tap the ball out and keep the play alive. Coming in they were one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the country, and they lived up to their billing tonight. We tried to come out in the second half and push them off the 3-point line, which opened up holes in the defense for them to backdoor us to death.

Sometimes you just have to tip your cap and move on to the next game, we are not as bad as we played tonight, and BYU is not as good as they played tonight, we have a lot of conference games left to play. But, boy do we need to recruit a shooter or two.

They were great at keeping the hands busy and making ISU really struggle with the handle/passes, etc.

They weren't supposed to be good on defense but teams do improve on the season and find games where it comes together.

I'm not sure how people stick with the 'well they lost to someone two weeks ago so they can't be good tonight' mantra but it's a thing.

In some ways the verdict is still out on ISU for what they can do. Hopefully they can just find a way to the tournament.

 

[madguy30]

That team was so loaded with talent. Nader, Monte, Matt, George all NBA players. Melvin 1st team all big 12, Deandre Kane just a beast. That team was final 4 ready until the GN injury.

There's analytics behind this but their defense (or lack thereof) would have held them back and likely not have them favored after the UConn game.

 

[Cyclonepride]

The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking tendonitis for Lipsey. I have a lot of experience with that in my shoulders and elbows, and it will be going along just fine and then you put pressure on it from the wrong angle and it feels like your arm suddenly caught fire. Hopefully that is it and he can ice it up. Pretty sure it's his off hand, isn't it?