The Official Iowa St. Prediction Thread

[AlphaMasonPatriot]

Love the aggressiveness by sherrod

 

[Washingtonian]

40-30 Iowa State with 16:46 left.

 

[polepino]

Damnit just can't sustain the effort... Now were playing like dookie again ugh

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[Patriot Lawdog]

Good fight. ISU is a good team. If we played like this all year things would be much different.

 

[Walter]

Defense is starting to suck

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Defense is starting to suck

Actually, the offense is the problem though. If you'd have told me, they'd have 50 at 12 minutes left, I'd have been very happy.

 

[Walter]

Oh hell no

AO is in

 

[polepino]

We've reverted back to our 1-2 pass forced shot/drive offense

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[gmutom]

Actually, the offense is the problem though. If you'd have told me, they'd have 50 at 12 minutes left, I'd have been very happy.

Well said, lawdog. We got lazy on offense with some bad shots and turnovers, which led to easy buckets the other way for them. We need to do a better job of getting some good shots. We were moving the ball really well the first half but now guys are standing around.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

We're even switching well within the zone. It's amazing how much better D we're playing. This is against a really good offensive team.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Copes banking in a jump shot. WTF?

 

[Washingtonian]

Bench outscoring the starters, 31-18.

 

[gmutom]

Copes banking in a jump shot. WTF?

Haha, no kidding. I was yelling "Noooo!" at my TV when he was shooting it. Interesting lineup decisions there. Allen and Marko were on the bench for a while. Okoloji earning some good minutes.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

No don't go back to man!!!

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Just not shooting it well enough. I'll take that any day though rather than seeing a layup line on the other end.

 

[gmutom]

I like that Moore is getting more playing time, but he obviously has a lot of work to do. Too much dribbling and too many turnovers today. Our zone defense looked good for most of the day but we still gave up too many points in the paint and offensive rebounds.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

I like that Moore is getting more playing time, but he obviously has a lot of work to do. Too much dribbling and too many turnovers today. Our zone defense looked good for most of the day but we still gave up too many points in the paint and offensive rebounds.

I don't think the offensive rebounds and paint points would look bad if we didn't stink shooting it today.

 

[Washingtonian]

Iowa State wins 79-67.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

I'll say this. If we played and coached all year like we did today, we'd have about 2 losses not 5.

 

[gmutom]

Allen didn't have a great first half but I love his mental and physical toughness. Kid just refuses to quit even when he's not playing well. Sherrod could learn a great lesson watching him from the bench.