Maybe not solely, but a lot of it. Keyshon and Tamin are what made the defense go.
*** Official Ole Miss vs #15 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Well, I hear you there, and didn't mean that I have any advantage on anyone here, either. LOL
I don't really know what two things can be true in regards to my comment, but I don't think there was any coaching around ISU's performance tonight. ISU just played like **** and Ole Miss had one of their best shooting games of the season. Sorry, but I'm not going to lay this one at the feet of Beards superior coaching ability.
No hate for Gilbert from me. He was one of our best, if not best player, when clicking and healthy.
Auburn's one of the 2 best teams in the country. On a neutral court we almost beat them. Split hairs about which team showed up for whatever amount of minutes, yada, yada, yada. 4 Big XII teams are in the Sweet 16. We beat 2 of them (AZ, Tech) and lost the other ones (BYU, UH, AZ) in close games with guys out/playing injured in those losses. And obviously Auburn's also in the Sweet 16.
You're right, we shouldn't be down 26 vs Ole Miss, but St. John's shouldn't shoot 28% and lose as a 2 seed to a 10 seed. 16, 15 & 14 seeds should never beat 1, 2, & 3 seeds. Teams have bad games in the Tourney, often times inexplicably. And if you do, you'll go home. I still think overall, there are plenty of positives to take away from this season.
I'll continue to say... win or lose, our player's post-game interviews, impress me to no end. Tonight? No exception.
Our young men/player's are more mature than the majority of us.
Our young men/player's are more mature than the majority of us.
And Tamin with a bad groin struggled to get back
So I’ll agree that we obviously didn’t play well tonight as a whole, but a lot of that had to do with their guards getting what they wanted, coupled with the fact they shot out of their minds. Add in Milan not hitting….game. We rely so much on pressure D and turnovers, when we don’t have the horses to play that way and have to rely on a half court game…it’s not a good setup.
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The St John’s teams and the teams that do get upset or in our case ran out of a gym in the second round all have the same thing in common, they have a massive flaw. St John’s had struggled all year shooting with any consistency and that came up to bite them. Our massive flaw is that we can’t score in a half court against tournament level teams unless cujo bailed us out and this years team really struggled to defend/force turnovers compared to the other teams. All I’ve been saying is it has to be addressed this off-season because I think last years team had an identity, they were going to play like Houston. This years team seemed to back off that, but still for the most part had about the same gameplan in the half court which is why I think they hit so many issues even when healthy.
He was salvageable.
Kidding. Curt was great! He is a great player and Cyclone, and will be missed!
I like to hear this
Sure, a team that shoots 34% from three for the season, goes off for 58% against us. Yes, several were open shots but most were not. Meanwhile, we can't hit our open threes. Such is life as a Cyclone.
Silly...he ran the "make the shot" plays while ISU kept calling the "miss your open shot" play.
It's more than that clearly. Nothing was good tonight, not one persons fault. We were beaten in every phase of the game handily.
