*** Official IOWA STATE vs #14 Texas Tech Game(Day) Thread ***

[ca4cy]

Welp we blacked out the crap basketball bingo card tonight

Missed open looks
Missed layups
Missed free throws
Out hustled (more than I've seen all year)
Gave up offensive rebounds
Live ball turnovers
No counters from the bench
Head scratching "rotations'
Barely broke 40
Etc

It's tough to say what might have happened if we had one of our really good defensive games because we saw nothing remotely close to that, but I THINK Tech still might have won by double digits. That were really good...and we were nowhere close to matching them in any facet.

 

[IFA Cyclone]

Their play once they hit the floor said only bad things. Chucking up terrible shots immediately. Eek.

I’m not sure they were much worse than most of the shots chucked up tonight.

 

[madguy30]

Effort isn’t an issue. We need someone to score to pull defenders off Brockington. As soon as Gabe and Grill missed their first few shots, the game was over. It was going to take one of those two getting hot to win.

I love Hunter but he had to have a night tonight and well I guess he had a night all right.

 

[AgronAlum]

Come of Fran. A shot clock violation is a team turnover, not an individual turnover.

 

[Blandboy]

Now Tre gets in, what an insult. TJ better be careful with this crap, you either suspend players or you don't. This is what drove me nuts about how Prohm handled Lard.
If they were on some kind of internal suspension I csnt imagine what they did, Juwan Howard punched a guy and got 5 games, they've been missing for probably close to a month now.

How long has TJ been your direct report?
TJ better be careful, or what?

 

[Acylum]

If we end up a #10, watch us win the first game, then get bounced by a #15 that beat a #2.

Sign me up.

 

[CycloneVet]

Have you ever played basketball. Not playing for like 2 weeks then getting thrown in is about as set up to fail as a guy can get.

Jfc I don’t give a **** if they hit shots or not. There is a reason that we don’t know that they aren’t playing. Even if they would have hit shots we still got smashed. But the amount of ******** people do about the playing time for 2 guys that aren’t that good is mind boggling to me. Tristan is soft and Jackson is marginal for this level of basketball. I’m sure they are good guys and good teammates.

 

[Jdk]

Thank god for the ten o’clock news so I could get rid of my burning eyes watching this **** show tonight

 

[scyclonekid]

Just yucky again.

 

[dahliaclone]

If it’s any consolation. I asked a few expert bracketologits on direct messages on Twitter if we could drop to a 10 and they all said for sure.

 

[madguy30]

Thank god for the ten o’clock news so I could get rid of my burning eyes watching this **** show tonight

Yeah when I want to cheer up in the 2020s I watch the news.

 

[Blandboy]

If it’s any consolation. I asked a few expert bracketologits on direct messages on Twitter if we could drop to a 10 and they all said for sure.

I like the 10 slot better than the 8/9

 

[CYDJ]

In hope next year we bring in phase 2 of the offense. When the other team jumps the passing lane, you pass behind them and do something with it from there. IF our opponents aren't stealing the ball for a Jordanesque dunk, they are pushing our offense completely past the timeline.

Our weaves are WAYYYYYY to predictable.

 

[bustamoveisu]

This game reminded me of the 2000 NCAA Tourney game when we piss pounded UCLA. We were the bullies on that awesome evening. Tonight, Tech was the bully and we couldn't do anything about it.

 

[Acylum]

Jfc I don’t give a **** if they hit shots or not. There is a reason that we don’t know that they aren’t playing. Even if they would have hit shots we still got smashed. But the amount of ******** people do about the playing time for 2 guys that aren’t that good is mind boggling to me. Tristan is soft and Jackson is marginal for this level of basketball. I’m sure they are good guys and good teammates.

I don’t disagree with anything you said but I think what people find perplexing is why certain guys are getting meaningful minutes only to be banished to the bench for seemingly no reason. Especially when we have a guy out there who couldn’t hit water from a dock and dribbles the ball off his foot half the time. And who is supposedly a defensive stopper but didn’t make the all conference defensive team.

 

[WastedTalent]

It's tough to say what might have happened if we had one of our really good defensive games because we saw nothing remotely close to that, but I THINK Tech still might have won by double digits. That were really good...and we were nowhere close to matching them in any facet.

It seems Iowa St's really good defensive efforts come with the offense making at least some shots.

There is very much a correlation between a lack of confidence on offense, and lack of effort of defense.

 

[Blandboy]

Hope we pick up some big horses in the portal; looked like men vs boys out there tonight.

 

[Wally86]

You still didn't post your lineup that would have been successful vs. Tech tonight.

Cato, Fizer, Ejim, Babb, Tinsley

 

[ClonesFTW]

If you want credit for the wins you gotta take responsibility for the losses, all I’m gonna say.

 

[CYDJ]

This game reminded me of the 2000 NCAA Tourney game when we piss pounded UCLA. We were the bullies on that awesome evening. Tonight, Tech was the bully and we couldn't do anything about it.

UCLA scored half it's points on dunks in the first round and the pundits didn't think we had a chance. That was a fun game. Actually attended in person with my 1 month old daughter. Not sure how I ever talked my wife into that.