It makes me laugh when Kansas fans says we are the worst fans in the world. I simply point to picture of Kansas football game everytime.
What I Don't Understand...
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It makes me laugh when Kansas fans says we are the worst fans in the world. I simply point to picture of Kansas football game everytime.
This. At the end of the day it stings a little more when these guys go on the road to play a top 25 team and lose by 1 point in a game in which they really only played well for about a total of 7 to 10 minutes. Yeah... Make that 11 or 12 minutes of playing well and that is a W.
The expectations for this program are rising and there is a reason. When you play ranked teams on the road that are shooting out of their minds, killing you on the boards, you simply are struggling for 75% of the game, and it takes a step back 15 foot jumper with 4 seconds left for that team to beat you? Yeah... your team is quite simply in a different class then they are. You watch that and it's hard not to think... "Had this ISU team played a full 40 minutes against that team they would have won by 20 or more".
I just take solace in the fact this team is a year away of potentially bring ISU something I thought I would never see them do in one of the 2 major sports of football and basketball. So I enjoy the wins and do sweat the losses.
So do you believe they intentionally didn't play hard? Like, are the players trying to throw the game? I don't understand this train of thought. Why would they not play to win? Playing poorly doesn't necessarily mean that they're not trying.
Hoiball is addictive, its poetry in motion, its based on tempo and pace, it's what we want to see and when we don't fans can develop misplaced emotions - many of these opposing teams by their style of play are admitting they can't beat us straight up - so they are slowing the game down by taking the clock down to 10 seconds on the offensive end, fouling to stop the break or easy baskets, playing zone or pressing, calling time outs to stop runs, anything they can think of to screw up our offensive rhythm/tempo and its worked on 3 occasions - it's frustrating, I get it, we've seen the frustration in our own players. Look at it this way we are now talented, athletic, and good enough for teams to have to play this way to even have a chance. CFH and the team will adjust.
I am a little less confident in this than you are. I think both the coaches and the players are to blame for Baylor's utter dominance on the glass. Edozie never played. Hogue only played 24 minutes with two fouls. McKay had three offensive boards, which was great, but no defensive rebounds because he was too eager to go for blocks instead of boxing out. I didn't see the in-game adjustments from either the coach or the players I hoped to see and that is why it was a frustrating game.
Some years, we just don't have the talent to contend for a conference title. We do this year, but it seems like we have clubs in our bag we're not using.
I think there is a lot of overreacting to the 19 offensive rebounds because that is what Baylor does.
For comparison, Baylor got 19 offensive rebounds on 40 missed FGs against ISU (47.5%). Baylor got 17 offensive rebounds on 35 missed FGs against KU (48.6%).
For comparison, Baylor got 19 offensive rebounds on 40 missed FGs against ISU (47.5%). Baylor got 17 offensive rebounds on 35 missed FGs against KU (48.6%).
I think what the OP doesn't understand is we need to start winning these winnable road games if we want to win a Big 12 Championship. Otherwise, if we're good with a top 3 finish then yes, we can all relax.
