*** Official West Virginia vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Caleb is hurt. He was a giantic part of this teams success when he was healthy
Biggest mistake Otz made tonight was playing Osun in crunch time when West Virginia went small. Not good enough offensively to take advantage of the size mismatch. Couldn't stay in front on the defensive end.
Hilton was rocking. 15 minutes to review the call didn’t help our momentum.
I think making the Tournament 3-4 years in a row is something to be pretty grateful for as an Iowa State fan. I’m 45 years old and watched many good teams and great coaches. Not too many can get to that tournament consistently. Hell I love Dana Altman but Oregon is about to miss the tournament for the second year in a row and they play in the PAC-12. Can you imagine what we would be doing here?
I thought the same thing. That was the turn-back moment. Momentum dagger. Basketball’s weird.
I'm not convinced the talent thing is true. Blowing a 23 point second halfead to Tech, losing our composure twice now against WV and OSU, and getting beat at home by a bad OU team is more between our players' ears and making coaching adjustments. Those things have all been abysmal.
Been saying on here a few weeks that we need three guards hitting. When three have 15+ or score 40+ it's very very likely a W for us. Now tonight Holmes and Gabe got 42 but Jaz had 5, Lipsey had 3 and Grill had 0.
At the same time, this is what is annoying when people get up in arms at any criticism of TJ. Of course he has flaws, everyone does.
You wouldn't be worried if we have 3 years in a row of horrific meltdowns in the 2nd half of the season? That seems like a major thing to worry about. I'm not saying I expect this or that out of TJ right now, but surely we all believe we can do better than play well early, get scouted, then suck after that right and limp into the tournament with a seed way worse than we could have.
If we're all cool with middle of the pack Big 12 team at best and never strikes above that let me know so I can stop talking about it, because the disconnect is too far apart then.
Maybe sportswise, but it's been a little longer for you.
Grill getting hurt on that Texas player missing the free throw was the detriment to the season.
So at t
OSU has lost 5 in a row I don't see them winning at Tech
Agreed. But his lack of composure has been a huge part of several close losses, too.
Yes. It would be generally unreasonable for people to throw tantrums if we make the tournament but we are #75 in the country in offensive efficiency. If it looks pretty on offense but we go to the NIT is that going to give people warm fuzzies.
No, I'm not going to be worried about it.
3 years in a row of making a tournament (if that happens--I didn't think they would the last two seasons) is really good at ISU.
It'll be like 'hey, ISU's decent at basketball. Cool.'
Id disagree with this. I think a couple bad hires over the last 15 years have people's perspective off.
Power conference programs that care about basketball are generally more likely than not to make it most years, and that has increased over the last couple decades.
