We obtained the “moral victory” inside Hilton Colisieum today.
***Official TT postgame thread***
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@bthebutcher why don't you just post your thoughts rather than going around doing nothing but disliking positive posts?
not ready to fire Prohm yet. Much better effort today.
Totally horrible coaching at the end of the first half. That cost us the game. Going for 1 shot, waiting to take a horrible shot, and then giving them a wide open 3 by a great shooter. That was terrible coaching letting them score 6 straight to end the half.
Why can't Prohm see that when Shayok and Babb hold the ball and dribble for more than a second or two, our offense is stagnant and we get a bad shot. Get the ball out of their hands quicker.
Totally horrible coaching at the end of the first half. That cost us the game. Going for 1 shot, waiting to take a horrible shot, and then giving them a wide open 3 by a great shooter. That was terrible coaching letting them score 6 straight to end the half.
Why can't Prohm see that when Shayok and Babb hold the ball and dribble for more than a second or two, our offense is stagnant and we get a bad shot. Get the ball out of their hands quicker.
We couldn't go for one shot. At least 8 seconds short of being able to do that.
The same goes for coaching with Hoiberg's array of NBA talent.
I mean.... we’ve been shooting a defender top of the key 3 pointer to end the half for a while now. It’s what we do.
Getting to the tournament is the goal of every single Division I team in college basketball, so yes, if that is something that we do consistently, I'll be partly satisfied. Of course I want a Big 12 championship/Final Four level program, what a silly question that is. If Prohm can't get to a Final Four, he'll join 350+ other coaches who don't get to that level. But, if we can be a consistent finisher in the top half of the Big 12, be a high seed in the NCAA tournament on a consistent basis and make the occasional big run he will have done as well as any other coach in Iowa State basketball history. I did not have the demand that he instantly be the next Coach K the way some other posters apparently have. Certainly I would love for us to be like Kansas, at least with our on court success, but I'm not going to lose my mind if we don't win the Big 12 every single season.
I can tell you this much; we will not be getting any closer to a regular season conference championship anytime soon if we keep on cycling through coaches and coaching staffs every four years. I think we need to let Steve Prohm stay on through his current contract (and I'm not arguing for an extension btw), unless we have consecutive losing seasons and the program shows an obvious and drastic downward trend.
Probably speaks to the volume of refs that are actually available.
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Which gave us the severely unbalanced class that led to last year. So let's call this year 1, shall we? Upper division finish, 6 or 7 seed on the way.
CycloneErik
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Experience. People that shouldn't always seem to stick around in professions like that.
I don't think they decided it. I just despise Eades. It's irrational...but hey...that's the name of the game.
Yeah, at this point more people should be given a chance.
Yeah, because Nader, Burton, and naz were obvious pros when he took over.
Yeah even when they tied it late, it still seemed like they never had a chance. TT was just better & wanted it more. At least we didn’t quit though. Let’s hope they can keep it going and not quit 2 games in a row.
CycloneErik
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You have company in your feelings about Eades. He's awful. I have never seen him call a good game. Ever.
Good thing about March is everything gets thrown out the window now. They looked better today and hopefully that will carry into the tournaments where anything can happen. Heck, South Carolina made a final four in 2017 as the 7 seed after losing 6 of 9 to end the year
