Bostinelosd, I love your post BTW. You are honest but not too much on the positive side (which I like). I also like that you stick up for your/my team and don't let the debbie downers get you down. Keep up the good work.:notworthy:
Post game thoughts
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Bostinelosd, I love your post BTW. You are honest but not too much on the positive side (which I like). I also like that you stick up for your/my team and don't let the debbie downers get you down. Keep up the good work.:notworthy:
I have yet to hear the Mac detractors give any suggestions as to what they would do to better the team/program. I'm very curious how they would go about fixing things.
I know what they will say!
Fire McD and the wins will produce themselves! Duh! Isn't that obvious that Greg is TRYING to lose!? Get rid of him and the W's will come rolling in!!!
Why focus your attention on me? Why not take realistic, hard look at our BB program and the man who is in charge of it? We are closing in on the end of year 3 and, as I've said before, the concrete evidence is that he is not producing as our head coach...period.
I want ISU to win. A good but not great KU team came in to James H. Hilton Coliseum today and basically had the game in hand the entire 40 minutes. I remember when KU used to bring a top 10 team in and not be able to come out with a win.
What would the pro-Mac crowd like to do to fix things? Or do you believe nothing is wrong? Keep doing what we're doing? Keep putting walk-ons in starting roles? Keep waiting until next year? Don't change anything?
This post looks pretty bad coming from a Cyclonefanatic "All-Star" ~ what does that mean anyway? It's ovbiously not being an "All-Star" for undying support and encouragement of the Cyclones. :wink:
Just my opinion though and I'm not an All-Star so my opinion doesn't matter anyway. No hard feelings - I just hope you can enjoy the rest of your weekend.......
That's great...and last year everyone was anxious and excited to see what Staiger, Eikmeier, and Buckley were going to do...they were all supposed to be making a difference.
I know what they will say!
Fire McD and the wins will produce themselves! Duh! Isn't that obvious that Greg is TRYING to lose!? Get rid of him and the W's will come rolling in!!!
If I was the coach, you're damn right I'd like to win. But, I can virtually guarantee I wouldn't. Working hard, being a nice guy, and wanting to win doesn't necessarily mean you'll win.
Greg has a chance to be one of the best representatives for ISU. I think the only thing missing is W's, and hopefully he figures out how to do that.
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I can easily identify things I think Mac can do better.
I don't think putting walk-ons in starting roles is anyone's ideal situation, and I would guess that Mac doesn't sit a McD All-American to play Brian Peterson.
Let a couple years of recruiting classes mature to the point where we have 5 scholarship starters and an 8 man rotation of scholarship players in the system. The recruiting classes continue to grow in talent and although we haven't produced wins, we are producing more and more talent to achieve those wins.
Nope, I just want to see ISU have a winning program again. A program the protects the home court (ie: wins at home), is competitive in its league, can make a run in the conference tourney, and is making the NCAA tourney on a regular basis. If McDermott was proving to me that he can do this I would be quite satisfied with him as our head coach...I am just not seeing any proof.
So do you think ISU should fire him after this season? Do we need to shake up the staff? Let's hear something concrete.
This was my first time seeing the team play this year and I must say that I was very disappointed. Other than Craig, they couldn't throw it in the ocean. IMHO we rely entirely to much on the 3 pointer. Perhaps what was most frustrating for me was the almost complete lack of offensive rebounding. There was often not even a white jersey in the picture for an offensive board. What is with that? When you shot as poorly as we did today, you better have the team crashing the boards. My daughters 3rd grade team put on a superior rebounding display too the Cyclones today. I am as pro-Cyclone as anyone and try to put a positive spin on anything cardinal and gold, but other than Craigs effort, there was NOTHING to like about the game today.
One thing I will say is KU was just having things fall today. How many shots did they bank in? 5?
How long will it be before that happens? How long is too long? I think next year is the year.
Man, I hate losing. But, I love ISU. I guess my mind is clouded by going to school from 1995-2000, and knowing that it can be done at ISU. I got to see some awesome basketball games, along with some poor ones. But, at least there were awesome times mixed in. Maybe with lower expectations, I could be happy in the lower third of the B12.
I will go into the next game cheering and wanting ISU to win. Hopefully I won't be pissed off afterwards, and wondering WTF?
Your answers would probably help--I don't know. The problem I have is that I don't see anything happening to correct the problems (we're still losing). I don't go to practice, I don't recruit. I go to and watch games, and I see us not winning. I come on here and see us waiting until next year.
I think Coach is an awesome person, and want him to succeed. However, my love for ISU is greater, and I want them to succeed moreso.
Because he wasn't fouling him on purpose. He was supposed to go out there and play really tough defense. Maybe force a turnover. If he fouls, so be it.
I wish we could find someone to complement CB untill we do that and get someone else to shot it will be tough to win. I look at Lucca for instance today and he stands around hoping to get the ball I hope he can learn to create a shot on his own that would help.
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