Official Missouri Post Game Thread

[BryceC]

We had two NBA guards on our team (yes, they get drafted if they stick around for senior year). Darn well better make the tourney.

Absolutely and utterly disagree here. They left because that draft class was the weakest since 2000. The next year was going to be extremely deep. That was their best chance and they knew it.

 

[BryceC]

I'm not making "excuses". I still don't see a tangible reason why he is failing.

We don't have enough talent. There you go.

 

[BryceC]

I'm sure some parent will buy them treats after the next home game. Just hope the Big 12 still hands out ribbons to everyone that participates this season. YOu know it breaks the kids hearts when they don't get that stuff.

The team is getting rewarded for how they play, and how they are coached. I don't feel bad for the staff for 1 minute. They seem just as lost as the players.

I can't stand the.... We played hard and that's all that matters. Save it for your 5th grader and his team.

Take it easy big shooter. You just have to have perspective on this.

You are still in the "anger" stage of grief for our program. There are many in the "denial" stage here as well. I've moved on to an amalgam of "Depression/Acceptance".

 

[galactawitz]

Yes the team did play hard tonight. But when you lose it always means you couldve played harder. A loss is a loss just like a win is a win. The only time you can say you tried your hardest as a team is when you win.

I think I get what you are saying, but you have to keep in mind that theoretically both teams are trying hard and trying to win. So even if both teams are trying their hardest someone has to lose.

I do believe in moral victories. To me Texas was one. Problem is last night wasn't to me. It was a situation where Missouri was trying to give us the game, and when push came to shove we didn't take the opportunities.

I keep waiting for the switch to flip with this team and the lightbulb to turn on. I still have hope that we will see some good basketball by the end of the year. Maybe I'm crazy.

 

[tman24]

We have an NBA PF and an NBA SF on this team... what's their excuse?

Forwards require someone to get them the ball. If the Guards cant even get up the court because they are constantly stepping out a bounds, bouncing the ball off their foot, or force passes to the forwards which turn into turnovers. Colvin is already playing better than DG but he is still not ready to take the lead.

 

[bawbie]

You lose all respectability when you say you agree McDermott is accountable and he says so. Yes, I know that McDermott SAYS these things, but what is he accountable too? "Accountable" generally means you have negative consequences for poor/unsatisfactory performance. There is no negative consequence for McD other than people ripping him on a message board. He's not in danger of losing his job. That's what "accountable" means in college spots. If you don't perform, you don't get to keep your job.

He's accountable to his boss. You seem to think you know what goes on between McDermott and his boss, but you know absolutely nothing. You are making assumptions that there are no consequences, but don't know what you are talking about. What you mean to say is that YOU can't see any consequences, so being the all powerful, know-it-all oracle, there aren't any consequences. Neither the world nor ISU basketball revolves around you, just so you know.

I know we probably can't afford to fire McDermott, I'm just saddened by how far ISU basketball has fallen, and it blows my mind that fans like you continue to support it's death out of some blind loyalty to the man who coaches that program.

I have no loyalty to McDermott, and you REALLY need to stop saying that. It's pitiful that you can't understand that some people support ISU basketball, period. It's just pitiful. I have said since last offseason that I expect to make the tournament this year, and I will think about the coaching situation after the season, when it is appropriate to discuss that. My view is that the coach is part of the team, and calling for the coaches head, and ripping the coach in every ******* post, is giving up on the team, which is still working hard and giving a good effort in the recent games. And for that view I get repeatedly attacked by "fans" like you who have nothing better to do with their time and energy than to rip on the team and the fans who support them through think and thin.

I'm a Cyclone fan first, I support ISU, NOT Greg McDermott.

Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, this is true of the people you continually malign as "blind loyalists" as well.

 

[CycloneErik]

He's accountable to his boss. You seem to think you know what goes on between McDermott and his boss, but you know absolutely nothing. You are making assumptions that there are no consequences, but don't know what you are talking about. What you mean to say is that YOU can't see any consequences, so being the all powerful, know-it-all oracle, there aren't any consequences. Neither the world nor ISU basketball revolves around you, just so you know.




I have no loyalty to McDermott, and you REALLY need to stop saying that. It's pitiful that you can't understand that some people support ISU basketball, period. It's just pitiful. I have said since last offseason that I expect to make the tournament this year, and I will think about the coaching situation after the season, when it is appropriate to discuss that. My view is that the coach is part of the team, and calling for the coaches head, and ripping the coach in every ******* post, is giving up on the team, which is still working hard and giving a good effort in the recent games. And for that view I get repeatedly attacked by "fans" like you who have nothing better to do with their time and energy than to rip on the team and the fans who support them through think and thin.



Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, this is true of the people you continually malign as "blind loyalists" as well.

I didn't know there was an Iowa State before Mac got here, even though I graduated here in 1995.