*** Official Cincinnati Vs #19 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[enisthemenace]

Offense is horrible. No movement at all.

 

[CyJack13]

25-24? Hoiberg is rolling over in his grave with this score

 

[cyclone101]

Never thought I'd say this but I like our defense better than our offense this year.

 

[heitclone]

Playing exactly the way Cincinnati wants it. Also, we might want to work on our half court offense a little more in practice.

I'm not sure you can criticize something we haven't seen

 

[cyIclSoneU]

Never thought I'd say this but I like our defense better than our offense this year.

The offense misses Niang in the worst way

 

[stormchaser2014]

Crazy how cheap tickets for our road games are.

 

[cyclonedave25]

I don't know how many second chance points they got, but if you take away even half of those and we make our free throws, we are probably winning by 12 points right now.

 

[sheepplucker]

Think they need to scrap the whole the bigs are just here to clean up the glass narrative they had before the season. If the posts are not more involved in the offense this could be a pretty ugly year.

 

[awd4cy]

Also, Bowie is going to leave a lot of points at the ft line this year. Frustrating for games that are gonna come down to the wire.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Well that was a cluster ****

That's Cincy's game. Need to keep it up on defense, rebound much better and break down the defense rather than settle for jump shots.

Our three point shots seem to be a "we'll, gotta get up a shot" rather than purposeful. Along with breaking down the defense, id like to see some plays to get intentional threes off, stretch out the D a bit and open driving lanes.

Oh, and get the defensive rebounds and make them pay for crashing.

 

[ianoconnor]

Whar rebounding?

 

[carvers4math]

I can't see much, Hilton looks dark as a dungeon on my TV

 

[jkclone]

pathetic. if naz doesn't hit 3's he's a liability. let's just keep jacking up shots because that's scoring us a lot of points. do they not realize when they move the ball around they score? The defense is the only thing that is redeemable from this half

They are playing really disciplined defense. When we are moving it we really aren't getting the open shots we normally do.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Getting Burton back should help too.

They're tough to drive on when they're allowed to grab.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Whar rebounding?

Same place as Edozie probably.

 

[bosco]

seriously. in practice does Prohm just shrug when they practice offense because that's what it looks like

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

My halftime take: Cincinnati is an excellent defensive team (boring, too). They're getting out and defending the wings well and we don't have an inside game outside of Monte's drives. ZERO offensive rebounds in the first half by the Clones. Hopefully, we can start to loosen up this defense and not give up so many offensive boards.

 

[helechopper]

Not much ball movement.

Naz and Matt are not the elite shooters everyone ordained them to be. Though I'm sure they'll kick the rust off as the season goes on.

Cincinnati playing D on our guys, making it difficult to create space to shoot and get in the lane.

CSP better get some movement in the offense and get some run outs on turnovers to make the flow feel like Cyclone basketball and not wresting.

 

[67CY]

Pass the ******* ball

 

[bosco]

They are playing really disciplined defense. When we are moving it we really aren't getting the open shots we normally do.

maybe right but the ball is going into the hoop more when they move the bball around vs them just shooting 3's because they feel like it.