Poll: ISU -5 vs OK St
- Thread starter ClonesFTW
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OSU has actually played worse than us so far. Lose this one and Pollard better be making some calls to raise buyout money.
OSU finds ways to hang with teams at time. To me it comes down to ISU making 3's, or realizing that the 3's aren't falling and moving the ball until they get an inside shot. We will see if our gameplan will change this game, which it doesn't seem as if it has all year so I am not holding my breath.
This is the frustrating part, seems like we have the mentality of "if the 3's aren't falling just keep chucking them up because eventually they have to start falling right?" The strength of this team should be establishing an inside game and moving the ball to open up some lanes to drive to the hoop. If we can force the defense to collapse some instead of daring us to take low percentage shots it might make the outside shooters more comfortable and shoot more 3's in rhythm possibly. Instead seems like we are intent to just chuck up 3's then trying to go inside after we've already dug a big hole.
Just feels like we keep trying to fit a square peg into a round hole with our offensive strategy. The fast pace and 3 point sprees are fun to watch but this team could still run a face pace offense without settling for long jumpers early in the shot clock. Almost would like to see them ugly things up a little when shots aren't falling and run a press on defense like WVU does. Try to create some offense with your defense once in awhile. I think we have enough athletes and depth to be more physical and aggressive on defense at times. Part of it may just be this group of players needs to accept the limitations they have and just focus more on the things they can do well and get better at that instead of hoping that the lid eventually comes off the basket and they start hitting outside shots consistently from game to game. There isn't 1 guy on this team hitting over 40% from 3 and only Haliburton and Lewis (only 19 attempts though) who is even hitting over 35% from there. The 2nd and 3rd most 3ptA in volume are from Nixon (.235) and Bolton (.301) If someone hasn't hit their stride from 3 by now it just isn't going to happen...
