**** WBB: Cyclones at West Virginia - Gamethread - 12 noon Fox TV ****

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I’m struggling to come up with what I would be trying to do if I was Bill to close this gap.

Try to get them into foul trouble by drawing contact? I think we’d need to have our best day at the 3 pt line to catch up.
 
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CYDJ

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Make no mistake. Our gals are losing this game. If you are not athletic enough to match the other team, you have to do the little things correctly and shoot VERY well. I think that is the team Bill tries to recruit. We are not presently acting like the kind of team.

AND the refs are really letting a lot go. Spotted 5 easily called displacement in the second quarter. 2 called on us, 0 of 3 called on WV. They need to improve their performance in the second half.

There is no rule that says the team who is not very good automatically gets screwed by the officials.
 
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No Kane didn’t…Geesh…she went there for grad school. Jordan was a really decent post player and sadly injuries shortened her time here.

That is the most laughable comment yet. Grad school is demanding. Much more so than undergrad. She gets to have her education paid for and play ball. You’re on a major negativity roll today.
I mean, if we are being honest , Kane busted her butt to make herself into a serviceable role player. Give the coaching staff a little credit because at the beginning she was no where near P5 level. We’ve had ton of those type of players recently.
 

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Make no mistake. Our gals are losing this game. If you are not athletic enough to match the other team, you have to do the little things correctly and shoot VERY well. I think that is the team Bill tries to recruit. We are not presently acting like the kind of team.

AND the refs are really letting a lot go. Spotted 5 easily called displacement in the second quarter. 2 called on us, 0 of 3 called on WV. They need to improve their performance in the second half.

There is no rule that says the team who is not very good automatically gets screwed by the officials.
Fully agree. After watching the men yesterday, I was already braced for today. The WV women get away with even more because they are even worse at fouling so much that everything can’t be called.
 

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The posts here today are as boring as the game. Stupid comments about Crooks. Some even saying we don't have any P4 talent. Even badmouthing players from previous years. And so on. There is something seriously wrong with this team, and glib comments like we're seeing here don't come close to answering the question - what is wrong with this team? The team is no where close to the sum of its parts. I wish I knew the answer. But beating up a bunch of girls while they are already down is not the answer. I get the frustration; but no one is more frustrated than these girls. And yes, as Acoustimac said, we are a mid-B12 team - something many people on CF projected at the start of the season, even when the team was grossly overrated as a top-10 team.
 

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I’m struggling to come up with what I would be trying to do if I was Bill to close this gap.

Try to get them into foul trouble by drawing contact? I think we’d need to have our best day at the 3 pt line to catch up.

They aren't going to let us shoot wide open threes. Their perimeter defense gets lost with all of the pressure defense talk but it's been pretty stellar.

I am guessing they aren't happy with scoring 13 pts in threat 2nd quarter but they still only gave us 15 so we didn't get it down to 10 or 12 at the half.
 

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we are a mid-B12 team - something many people on CF projected at the start of the season, even when the team was grossly overrated as a top-10 team.
I think the main assumption behind this projection was that Crooks and Brown, who were very good players as true freshman, would develop into even better players as sophomores. That hasn't happened, and is emblematic of the larger problem I see with CBF's recent teams (little if any substantial player development).
 

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I'm just thinking about next year....our guard play without Emily is absolutely horrendous....we are doomed
Why are you so doom and gloom? This isn't the year I hoped for but a try to show some positivity. These girls work the as@@es and I will not sit here and add to the negativity. I am sure these girls aren't pleased either.
 

CYDJ

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We really need to learn that wide open college players make 3s at a rather high rate. Both men's and women's.
 

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Has any player gotten better from last year? I see regression but not improvement.
I just said as much above, but it's been a big problem, and not just this year.

Emily Ryan, great player, but in what way has she improved as a player from five years in this program? I don't see much. Many other examples of players peaking as frosh/sophs and plateauing or even regressing.

Maybe that's normal in the women's game, I don't know, I mostly just watch ISU.
 
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Why are you so doom and gloom? This isn't the year I hoped for but a try to show some positivity. These girls work the as@@es and I will not sit here and add to the negativity. I am sure these girls aren't pleased either.

I don’t see anyone personally attacking players or anything - are we not allowed to talk about how this team has clearly regressed from last year?
 
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