Maybe I am overreacting, but this team may miss the NIT. Gonna be 8-5 in non-con. Need to be 8-10 in conference to be over .500 overall. I am not confident they can get there.
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Maybe I am overreacting, but this team may miss the NIT. Gonna be 8-5 in non-con. Need to be 8-10 in conference to be over .500 overall. I am not confident they can get there.
People disagree and rate it creative, it’s yet another indication how this isn’t really about basketball.
A couple weeks ago against KSU, that bunch was not competitive, they were a bunch of marshmallow's. They looked cold and disinterested. That thing was over when those winds started hitting ISU in the face when they left the locker room.
They were fortunate KSU did not have a high powered offense.
Drake they won, because it was Drake, but they were not competitive.
It happens.
I really appreciated this post. Reasonable, balanced, honest without being extreme, able to point out the successes along with the growth opportunities. So what the **** is wrong with you?????
That's my concern, as an offense, we don't pressure the defense very well. Makes us very easy to defend.
we are our own worst enemy in this case...our fan base is supportive and tolerant. We'll continue to put butts in seats despite having an under performing product and that will delay any decision by Pollard to make a change. $ matters and I see this correction taking a while unless Prohm can surprise many of us and show some things we haven't seen.
I'll keep watching and cheering for the guys. I hope they find a groove and prove me wrong.
I'll keep watching and cheering for the guys. I hope they find a groove and prove me wrong.
Do you actually understand how damaging telling the fans what he told cam would be for any other relationship he has with his players?
holy **** that’s bad.
During ISU's stronger eras did it become normalized to see ISU get beat at home?
Also the baggage that comes with them, LSU, Auburn, Arizona,try to get guys from those programs fans willing to make a deal with devil? (Rhetorical no need to answer)
Again, not the point I was responding too.
in most strong eras of Iowa state basketbsll the teams wouldn’t win at the conference champions (TCU and k state) either.
With the lack of non conference wins, this team will have win 9-10 big 12 games, go 1-1 against KU and Baylor, plus, at least 1 win in KC to sniff the tourney. The league is down so it's not crazy but we've go to be much better than we have been to this point.
So you were absolutely sure Nader was an nba player? Burton? Hell Matt Thomas was called a recruiting miss after his sophomore year.
I get this is the group think of the crewe, and there are real valid criticisms of his coaching strategy and stubbornness to change.
But this silly attempt to revise truth doesn’t make your case at all. In fact, it does just the opposite.
I think a person can be critical of in-game decision making of both CMC and CSP. However, there are way too many head-scratching non-competitive home losses. Something that CMC had not done.
I remember when this board freaked out in 2016 about a home loss to a ranked Baylor and West Virginia teams. They loss by five in each of those games.
In 2017 they loss to Cincy, KU and West Virginia at home. Those were all Top 25 squads but we loss by double-digits to West Virginia which hadn't happened in years.
In 2018 you had three home losses by double-digits (7 overall)...Kansas State, Milwaukee and Tennessee.
In 2019 you had four losses at home (Kansas State, Baylor, Texas Tech and then the TCU debacle where they led by 75-56 with 6:00 to go in the second half). That TCU squad managed to get to the Final Four of the NIT.
And then this beauty from last night where we lose to a bubble team on home floor. A game in which they spent all but 4 and 1/2 minutes with a double digit lead. 35 1/2 minutes of the game Iowa led by double-digits in Hilton. When the coach says we weren't ready in that situation the response should be "No **** Sherlock"
Its unacceptable and if it continues the students will be the first to leave and then the balcony seats will become sparse. There is no alternative to CSP at this point. He just needs to get better because JP isn't making any changes until 2023 at the soonest.
He had ISU on an upward trajectory.
Prohms trajectory is downward. Likely to miss the tournament 2/3 years and wouldn't surprise me if next year is a miss as well.
Iowa had a great game plan. Come out firing, be aggressive and try to get ahead. We can't score enough to make large come backs.
Losing to Kirk is a lot different than losing to Fran. One is an actual good head coach, and the other one is a meme due to his temper tantrums in games. I'm not sure why people are being so intentionally obtuse about this(well, I do know, but that's not related to the point.) The only thing Kirk and Fran have in common is that they both coach sports at Iowa. It's like if people were trying to compare Fred to Paul Rhoads.
I'm not sure whether you're really this dumb or you're just intentionally distorting what I'm saying in your frantic effort to stamp out any criticism of our program. Either way, I'll elaborate.
No, of course I'm not suggesting Prohm share publicly everything he says in private. I agree, that doesn't serve anyone and besides, there's no need - we all knew the source of Lard's issues anyway.
But how many games did we ask ourselves whether Lard was still in the doghouse? Whether he would play at all, much less how many minutes? Is he suspended or not? Once Lard got off his early suspension, it remained a theme throughout the rest of the season, and Prohm's vagueness about it all only fed the issue.
