That's silly. No way to know that at all. They could have started up 14-0 on us and ended up losing. They're very good, but we beat them. That's all we can say at this point.
*** Official #2 Houston vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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Made it seem like he was a Houston fan. He sat next to sampson daughter after the first 5 minutes because we were “standing” too much during those first 5 minutes.
JFC all you have to do is actually watch this yrs team to see it is much more offensively talented including the 3 shot, then any of TJs previous teams.
I live in KC and have KU friends. Needless to say we don't talk basketball much. They don't seem to like my opinion of KU. You should hear the nonsense coming out of them these days. According to them everyone pays their players now so there obviously was nothing wrong in ever doing it. WTF? Start talking competitive advantage paying players while no one else can and they clam up and do the KU dickhead thing. They had a **** on their team last season and bought his son this year. Seems to be a lot of dicks around that program.
Rewatched the game yesterday morning, was just as good as live. Maybe better as I could listen to Fran - live I had 5 kids age 3-7 playing basketball/soccer in the living room.
Tamin is so good at forcing TO's in the middle third of the court. Loved the one people may not remember where he came up quick on a guy before he crossed half and surprised him, causing the guy to lose it OOB.
KG could not get a foul call on a drive to save his life but Tamin got them regularly. I'm wondering if refs just think KG flailing on all those, maybe overselling contact.
Houston had a physical hand on whoever had the ball when we were on offense. Freedom of movement was dead. Ball movement was great to overcome it.
Coming out 2-3 zone with just over a minute left was a nice switch up, we kind of fell back into man after a bit but confused and slowed down Houston. They ended up making the basket for the tie, but it made for less possessions which probably favored us at that point.
Tamin is so good at forcing TO's in the middle third of the court. Loved the one people may not remember where he came up quick on a guy before he crossed half and surprised him, causing the guy to lose it OOB.
KG could not get a foul call on a drive to save his life but Tamin got them regularly. I'm wondering if refs just think KG flailing on all those, maybe overselling contact.
Houston had a physical hand on whoever had the ball when we were on offense. Freedom of movement was dead. Ball movement was great to overcome it.
Coming out 2-3 zone with just over a minute left was a nice switch up, we kind of fell back into man after a bit but confused and slowed down Houston. They ended up making the basket for the tie, but it made for less possessions which probably favored us at that point.
Dang that is a tough question. It sure was a fun game to be at though. Beat a highly ranked team, but held on for the W so no crazy comeback that makes life exciting. But it was pressure packed and a ton of fun.
Son had surgery in December. The day after the surgery a comfort dog came into the hospital visiting patients. It apparently comes every Friday. It was a great dane which works out really well since it is tall enough to visit patients who are even flat on their backs on hospital beds. My daughter was so upset she missed him since she had left about 15 minutes before the dog arrived.
I think you've nailed it on KG. Tamin is much more under control on his drives. I do think there's an thought of not rewarding an offensive player for being out-of-control, and you can defintely describe KG's drives that way fairly often.
I think Thom works, or has done work, with the company that produces these videos.
Strongly disagree. I think they should jump to #1 if they pick up their 5th Quad 1 win on Saturday @ TCU.
I'd be curious to hear who you'd have ahead of them if you think they're "overrated" at #2?
FWIW Torrvik has Houston winning the conference in a landslide at 15-3. I don't think they go 15-3 but I would be surprised if they are anything worse than 13-5 which won the conference last year.
Gilbert was getting hand-checked so bad on Tuesday. His numbers weren't great in the box score but I was actually really impressed with him, got us going offensively with some early baskets, still put up four assists, and completely shut down Cryer, he's their leading scorer and he was a total non-factor. If he can improve his jump-shooting a little and develop a little floater he'll be a fantastic offensive player, and the defense is already there.
Liked this call. It was a bold move at a key point but it forced a tough mid range shot from Shead with awkward feet. Credit to him for knocking it down. He's one of the elite veteran guards in the game. Over 3,000 minutes of college basketball under his belt.
JFC? Really? Damn, didn’t think my take was controversial.
I’ve watched every minute this season and I do not see a drastically better offensive team nor a drastically better shooting team. Not in the eye test, and not in the stats.
Totally agree. Houston looked legit. Was thoroughly impressed by them. I think it’s one of the best wins of the TJ era.
Not that I am aware of. He was married 5 times. Shocking, I know.....hahaha.
Well yes in the stats.
We are shooting 35.8% from 3PT and are top 75 nationally in 3PT%. Milan and Tamin are both good 3PT shooters on a sizeable volume. Keshon has actually shot better in our higher quality games but his volume is super low just like at UNLV.
2023 - 33.1% (215th nationally)
2022 - 31.5% (278th nationally)
The season isn't over yet but here are the Kenpom offensive efficiency numbers:
2022-2023: #114
2023-2024: #51
They asked him if he ever had a better shooting team and he pointed out he had some pretty good shooting teams at Iowa State.
