Was watching the game at a bar tonight without audio. When watching a game without audio it gives you a better focus on watching in more detail. Main observation outside of our 3 point accuracy tonight was the aggressiveness and confidence from Heise. He will be a difference maker in a tourney win for us, mark my words.
Really nice game from Heise
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Almost like the coaches know better than CF posters.
It is almost like it was a mistake to play him only 11 minutes in an OT game at AZ, just two days after a game at ASU.
Crazy how bench guys play better the more they get consistent minutes.
Just chiming in to eat my crow as a big heise critic, he has aggressive lately and making a big difference. Love to see it, he puts up 6 a game would be huge for us
Last four games Nate Dog is averaged 12 points on 65/64/83% shooting, 4.0 rebounds, 1.3 turnovers, in 29 minutes per game.
He has been hard to take off the floor…who would have thought!Last four games Nate Dog is averaged 12 points on 65/64/83% shooting, 4.0 rebounds, 1.3 turnovers, in 29 minutes per game.
I probably have more confidence in him than just about anyone right now.
It's a long season for sure!
He's a totally different player on offense and it's awesome. A couple weeks ago he couldn't get rid of the ball fast enough now he's hunting his **** and driving the lane. Makes this team so much more dangerous. He also seems to always get into it a little with the other team. I think his defense gets under their skin
All it took was some confidence. You can tell something “clicked” during the Colorado game. And he has played very, very well each game since then
I’m glad he found his confidence right before tournament season. Couldn’t have happened at a better time
Confidence and it looks like they gave him a different approach on shooting. It looks like a quicker release and decision.
And in general yeah it's confidence with attacking in different ways on offense. Imo he's always been good on the rebounding and defense.
I think he just didn't have to do as much early in the season with Gilbert and Jones and is just taking more shots now and with more shots comes more baskets and confidence and it all compounds.
I think everyone *wanted* this version of Heise but it hadn’t showed that it was possible at this level.
I *wanted* Enaruna to show out.
Sometimes it never dies though. Very thankful it has. Team is far greater when he’s a threat to hit an open shot.
^ Milan is getting credit for spacing but they’re not sagging off Nate nearly as much sow as when he was0fer conference play.
I’d add Lipsey to that list of confidence. Whether it’s him getting fully healthy or realizing Gilbert and Curtis aren’t there at the moment.
Last few games Tamin has felt like last year.
I’ve noticed this as well. Early in the season his shot looked like a flick. Almost like pop a shot. He looks like he’s actually shooting/following through now vs being his wrists in front of him.
CW was 100% correct if you look at the context he said this in. Heise was frustratingly average for much of this season, maybe even below average offensively. His recent uptick the last couple of weeks is a very welcome attribute to this team, and more of what many were expecting from him the moment he stepped on to campus. We need him to continue to play at this level and not regress back to the first 23 game version.
Nate has stepped it up and become a consistent contributor on the offensive end of the floor. Heise was playing too well tocome off the floor last night.
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Since people seem to think this was SO funny 3 weeks ago, I’m gonna stress what I said towards the end! I want him to contribute and succeed because the team will…..that is what is happening for the most part. Milan being back has helped that. You can’t ignore that as of Feb. 11 his stats were bad in Big 12 play. I’ve never rooted for failure. Go State!
