*** Official Eastern Illinois vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

@Sigmapolis Thank you for providing the music tonight. I was completely happy with the way with the game went 16-18 from the line solid defense the whole game, then slowly pulled away to a32(?)point win can't ask for more than that on the last game before Xmas break. I was a little concerned when Tre (?) came out wearing a back support type thing, he played just fine though and hopefully will be in good shape when coming back from break.
 
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Commentator Derrin Hansen is up to 9 "No doubt about its" for those of you scoring at home. Could be a career high for him tonight.
This is the worst thing about these ESPN+ games. Can't somebody tell him to say Absolutely once in a while?
 
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I'm in the camp that wishes our sched was more difficult but the league play will make up for it and this season is sandwiched between last year's Nike tourney and next season's Maui.
Tough to complain too much.
We are 100% doing what we should be to this lower level teams.
 
I still don’t think we are playing our best basketball yet. Still need to gel more. I think individually they re playing good. When everything starts to click I think we’re gonna be good
I think you are right. This is a team that is still getting to know each other. It will be interesting to see how things go when Ward is back in the lineup. I was hoping he might sneak in a game or two before conference as you would think it might take a game or two for him to work back in and get his bball legs under him.
 
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Well gosh darn it - what are we doing then?

Just trying to build a team and win some games at the expense of showing off our 5* bling?

TJ needs to get his priorities straight.

Or you could give him more minutes in these types of games to help his development. Not saying he should be be getting 20 minutes. But three minutes? In a blowout against a garbage team? Same with Watson. If they expect both to be back next year I don't understand why they don't see at least 10 min in a game like this. A seven man rotation against Eastern Illinois in December before a holiday break doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I'm not pissed or anything like that, and I trust Coach O. It's just strange to me.
 
This is the worst thing about these ESPN+ games. Can't somebody tell him to say Absolutely once in a while?
You'd think a guy in that business would be really keyed in on that kind of thing, just for professionalism's sake. But he's way, way past his prime at this point.
 
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Fun Bart torvik stat: If you filter starting 12/1/23... we have the best offensive EFG in the country... and second highest 3pt percentage!
Perimeter ball movement is much better than a month ago and is contributing to the second stat. ISU has been awesome at feeding the post against lesser talent which probably is the main reason behind the first one.

Despite all the new faces this year, this is an above average offensive team and above average defensive team I think. I want to get to the part of the schedule where we find out how well both hold up against stiffer competition. I think we are going to finish somewhere around 4-6 place in the league, just have to see how the ball bounces.
 
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