It boggles my mind that ZRF keeps complaining about who's playing after this start. Wait'll there's a 2 or 3 game losing streak!
What is the status of Osunniyi?
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The aversion to success continues this season for some.
I feel like some people won't accept BRE until he morphs into the second coming of Lew Alcindor.
Some still haven't accepted that ISU was a tourney team last year.
Stalker alert - My family and I were eating at Blaze pizza tonight for a PTO fundraiser and the whole basketball team walks in. Osunniyi looked totally fine. No boot, no limp, nothing. Even his knee seemed fine!
Well the good news is his leg is fine
The bad news is the entire team will be sick with food poisoning
I kid I kid
I think looking at RPG or even Per 40 is somewhat misleading.
First, we rebound at every position. We’re getting over a dozen boards a game just from our backcourt. This is not a scenario (and I’m sure by design) where the team lets the bigs in the middle clean up all the rebounds.
Second, this is probably due in part to where our opponents are getting shots from. Longer shots = longer rebounds which is going to give more to the guards.
Last, we lead the nation last time I checked in turnover percentage. Meaning there aren’t as many shots to be rebounded. We also play at a slower pace which contributes to this.
Does <4 per game for a 5 of that size getting nearly 20 minutes seem light? I will probably give you that. But I don’t think it’s as atrocious as it sounds when you consider the factors above.
This is why everyone is moving to these advanced analytics and away from the fantasy basketball-like view of production.
Osun and Jones is a really good 1-2 punch at the 5. Their games compliment each other and make it tough on opponents. They’ve frustrated some really good bigs this year. Osun will pull them away from the basket and find cutters and Jones will attack them and make them defend down low. Jones is kind of like that RB that may only get 1 yard per carry the first half but the 2nd is breaking 10 yard runs.
Not to mention our team will use our bigs to box out their bigs entirely and let the guards swoop in for the rebounds which has gotten our guards extra defensive rebounds.
Chris has stated this multiple times: the rebounding strategy is to let the bigs clear bodies and the guards grab the ball. Complaining about this is like when people complained about Niang’s rebounding numbers when the strategy was to have him leak out on the break. He’s doing what he’s supposed to.
There must be some mistake. That douch-turd Pemsl will not be in playing heaven.
Someone defined this concept as Jaz standing around after one of the Portland tourney wins.
The funeral was probably less depressing than reading ZRF's posts...
BRE is the exact thing that we love as Cyclone fans. The underdog who comes in, nobody wanted him, he works his ass off, plays hard every game, looks like Red Foo, and has brought his game from the "nobody wants him" place to "Man this guy is helping us win". Ill take that every day as a fan. I mean you can't have a roster full of BRE. However, you need a guy like that on every team.
The guy is a buffoon. He took a stance on Bob early and is going to ride that horse till the end. I'll give him credit, he isn't hide in the background like a lot of the 'I told you so, I am so much smarter than you' crowd but his takes couldn't be more wrong just the same.
I haven't checked the numbers but we seem to be doing well on the boards as a team so who cares what the individual numbers are
