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Category: Marcus Smart Honorary Flop Award.
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Hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with him. But defensively, he is just not fundamentally sound. Seemed better last year. His mistakes are in his head and with his feet. He needs better position and playing the angles better. I love him contesting shots, but sometimes you got to let it go. I agree, he gets some bad calls, most players do, unfortunately part of the game. I feel like this whole season for him has been 2 steps forward and 1.75 steps back. He has physical skills. I hope he and the staff can get him up to potential in Feb. we are very good. With him at his potential we are top 10 - imo.Lard gets legitimate fouls, but gets at least one ******** one every game. It’s too bad he can’t stay on the floor, cause we’re best when he’s out there.
He CAN be a bit like a bull in a china shop, banging into players as he rotates to help. Hopefully, he'll continue to contribute and find ways to not end up with so many quick fouls. I'm sure the coaches are showing him video of his angles etc. I totally agree about his feet on the defensive end. Man, he can be such a game-changer though.Hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with him. But defensively, he is just not fundamentally sound. Seemed better last year. His mistakes are in his head and with his feet. He needs better position and playing the angles better. I love him contesting shots, but sometimes you got to let it go. I agree, he gets some bad calls, most players do, unfortunately part of the game. I feel like this whole season for him has been 2 steps forward and 1.75 steps back. He has physical skills. I hope he and the staff can get him up to potential in Feb. we are very good. With him at his potential we are top 10 - imo.
He CAN be a bit like a bull in a china shop, banging into players as he rotates to help. Hopefully, he'll continue to contribute and find ways to not end up with so many quick fouls. I'm sure the coaches are showing him video of his angles etc. I totally agree about his feet on the defensive end. Man, he can be such a game-changer though.
Hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with him. But defensively, he is just not fundamentally sound. Seemed better last year. His mistakes are in his head and with his feet. He needs better position and playing the angles better. I love him contesting shots, but sometimes you got to let it go. I agree, he gets some bad calls, most players do, unfortunately part of the game. I feel like this whole season for him has been 2 steps forward and 1.75 steps back. He has physical skills. I hope he and the staff can get him up to potential in Feb. we are very good. With him at his potential we are top 10 - imo.
I think they're a top 10 team now. With Lard at or near his potential, it's scary good.Hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with him. But defensively, he is just not fundamentally sound. Seemed better last year. His mistakes are in his head and with his feet. He needs better position and playing the angles better. I love him contesting shots, but sometimes you got to let it go. I agree, he gets some bad calls, most players do, unfortunately part of the game. I feel like this whole season for him has been 2 steps forward and 1.75 steps back. He has physical skills. I hope he and the staff can get him up to potential in Feb. we are very good. With him at his potential we are top 10 - imo.
Lard fouls:Lard is just a self-perpetuating foul machine right now.
I thinking knowing that he's not getting much run makes him go after everything and everybody.
This is fun right now but I just want to get to the spot where it's pretty much guaranteed that ISU is 'in' and then really enjoy everything else after that.
If I was a ref... I would be so fricking sick of the awkward position WVU basketball constantly puts me in during their games and would eventually put my foot down, call all the fouls, and not enable their brand of foulball to continue. Their style is everything the NCAA is trying to remove from the game.
Also, let’s move the charge circle out another 3 feet. So many players are getting undercut at its current spot. And the ‘drawing’ the charge is the worst thing about basketball. It’s such a subjective call that has huge momuntem swings and is frequently incorrectly called.
This is fun right now but I just want to get to the spot where it's pretty much guaranteed that ISU is 'in' and then really enjoy everything else after that.
We’re halfway through the conference season and battling for the conference championship. Barring a Fran McCaffery level monstrous melt down against a relatively friendly remaining schedule, we’re in the tournament.
as others have said, this is why they usually lose early in the NCAAs because they get refs that don't allow their "thugball" style. The same can be said for KU except that they get refs that don't allow Self to intimidate them![]()
Hard for me to figure out what’s wrong with him. But defensively, he is just not fundamentally sound. Seemed better last year. His mistakes are in his head and with his feet. He needs better position and playing the angles better. I love him contesting shots, but sometimes you got to let it go. I agree, he gets some bad calls, most players do, unfortunately part of the game. I feel like this whole season for him has been 2 steps forward and 1.75 steps back. He has physical skills. I hope he and the staff can get him up to potential in Feb. we are very good. With him at his potential we are top 10 - imo.
Gotta keep it going.
Texas is 4-4 in the conference and looked OK last night.
They're also a really tough matchup.