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Funny thing, i seem to remember the same thing in 04-05 in the morgan era. Even last year there were signs of it from time to time, when the first trap hit, they throw it to the closest possible player who was inexplicitly a center, and the other shoe dropped resulting in a steal for a fast break dunk. I remember Larry's second to last year when we couldn't win to save our souls and the games were just terrible to watch, but noone wanted to fire larry for that, he just didn't have the right players.
I find it funny that the players that left, in the common opinion of the common people on this board, didn't have a work ethic or desire to win. However it is almost universally agreed that WM recruited Stinson and Blalock for the LE era. Neither CS or WB has ever been called a less than hard worker with a strong desire to win, and they were WM recruits. Why do you and others suppose that would change when wayne took the reigns of the program. When did he suddenly decide to stop recruiting hard woking kids who wanted to win, with the obvious exceptions that are often made of CJ, marsden, and Clark?
Talent is all over the place these days? really? for every george mason, an exceptionally senior laden team with a very good recruiting area, there are about 50 SWMST or whoever you will. We hear about the small schools making good, but we don't hear about the 250 other D1 teams who are not in a major conference or making good that specific year. They all have players, even Denvelr had a stud this year, but it takes more than one talented players and a buch of sub-par players to win at our level. The "role-players" on the LE teams would have been stars had they gone to a school like Denver or a similar school, but at ISU they are not regarded as star players.
Finally the teams you listed, most have completely different styles of D, UCLA is terribly boring, and the other teams score a ton. If we score 72+ per, I will be much more happy than I am now. All we know for sure is what has happened in the past, and regardless of what he may say, mcd ran/runs a tedious offense. One last thing, in 2005 WM's d was better in most every category than mcd's 06 d.
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Here's some stats for you to chew on discom. In 2004-2005, ISU averaged 68.1 points per game and our opponents averaged 64.7. That same year UNI averaged 72.2 points per game and their opponents averaged 66.5. Now, you said Waynes 2005 defense was better in most categories than GMac's in 2006. Well, it was except the most important one. In 2006, UNI scored 65.6 points per game and allowed only 57.8. Since it's hard for you I'll explain 57.8 is 6.90 points per game LESS than what Wayne's team averaged in 2005. A couple interesting things there, GMac hit your 72 point magic number in 2005 and Wayne didn't yet 2005 was the only year Wayne made it to the NCAA Tourney. We don't even want to look at this years stats for Wayne because they are atrocious. We averaged about 74 points but gave up 78. Once again you're talking out your ass without really kowing anything. Just another blow hard free board complainer.
