Seeing Jeremiah Williams in there. Want to give him a shout out as he scored 14 with the game winner for Rutgers yesterday. Really wish we could have had him last year. Good to see he's back in good health
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Seeing Jeremiah Williams in there. Want to give him a shout out as he scored 14 with the game winner for Rutgers yesterday. Really wish we could have had him last year. Good to see he's back in good health
"In my ripping the player... I'm just continually singling him out in the game threads."
It's really sad. Have some positivity and enjoy the game. You consistently show a lack of basic bball understanding. Texas got unbelievable hot in the second half.
I am of the opinion that zrf failed to make the intramural broomball team and his goal is to make it miserable for everyone else.
Big 12 should fine the UT SID for the biggest lie of the year: “UT vs. Iowa state on the national LHN network.” Nothing national or network about it.
'He's terrible....I'm not ripping on the player'.
It's a fascinating thing to observe.
'This rainy/windy weather is ****** and awful but I'm not complaining about it'.
Just chatted with Tamin’s parents at the airport. Kid is just a stud athlete
Some on here really need to get some perspective, and remember TJ has more BBall and Coaching knowledge in his little toe than most of us do combined.
It was just his second game of the year, seems to have breathed some life into their offense - his first two games were road wins.
Some thoughts on the game, having only watched the play-by-play and highlights
- @ZRF nailed one thing ahead of the game - we needed "bad Abmas" to show up and got it
- The 4-game tech foul streak is bananas, I've never seen anything like that
- Disu is really really good. We had him in foul trouble with the big lead, but never got the 4th on him
- Offensive rebounding won us the game - they did a great job on the boards.
- Milan's continual improvement is amazing to watch, outside of his spectacular offensive skillset. His defense has improved so much over the course of the season, and now he suddenly has 4 HUGE offensive rebounds in the last 2 games. He had 8 total offensive rebounds on the SEASON before that
- Right now Keshon is our leading scorer with 309 pts, and Tamin and Milan have 284 (Tamin on 1 fewer game). I still think Milan ends the season as the high scorer. My prediction is that at a key point in the season TJ is going to tweak the offense to run through Milan more and he'll have multiple 20-pt games
- I'm changing my tune a bit - number of made 3s has been absolutely determinative in conf outcomes:
- In our 3 conf losses, opponents are averaging 12 made 3s per game and shooting 43%.
- In our 6 conf wins opponents are averaging 6 made 3s per game and shooting 30%.
- @ZRF nailed one thing ahead of the game - we needed "bad Abmas" to show up and got it
- The 4-game tech foul streak is bananas, I've never seen anything like that
- Disu is really really good. We had him in foul trouble with the big lead, but never got the 4th on him
- Offensive rebounding won us the game - they did a great job on the boards.
- Milan's continual improvement is amazing to watch, outside of his spectacular offensive skillset. His defense has improved so much over the course of the season, and now he suddenly has 4 HUGE offensive rebounds in the last 2 games. He had 8 total offensive rebounds on the SEASON before that
- Right now Keshon is our leading scorer with 309 pts, and Tamin and Milan have 284 (Tamin on 1 fewer game). I still think Milan ends the season as the high scorer. My prediction is that at a key point in the season TJ is going to tweak the offense to run through Milan more and he'll have multiple 20-pt games
- I'm changing my tune a bit - number of made 3s has been absolutely determinative in conf outcomes:
- In our 3 conf losses, opponents are averaging 12 made 3s per game and shooting 43%.
- In our 6 conf wins opponents are averaging 6 made 3s per game and shooting 30%.
He usually puts up good numbers anyway, but Tamin is one of the best Cyclones I've ever seen at affecting the game positively in ways that don't show up in a box score. If there were stats for:
- First-touches off a miss that lead to a teammate getting a rebound
- Tough passes that lead to someone else getting an easy assist
- Disrupting passes or dribbles that lead to someone else getting a steal
My thought heading into the game is that he's obviously a great shooter/scorer, but he's little and isn't a physical player, our bigger/stronger guards should be able to muscle him around on both sides of the ball, and they did that for sure. Gilbert and Lipsey both separately put him on his ass with hard bumps the first couple possessions. I don't think he was ready for that physical play. On defense, those two and Curtis were all three mostly getting into the lane whenever they wanted when Abmas was on them. He looked like a pretty weak defender.
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Pavs and Watson's advanced stats per EvanMiya suggest they are guys that should be bordering between DNPs and spot minutes in certain situations. That's what they're getting. If you drop the min. possessions, Watson is similar overall to Pavs, slightly better. Not surprisingly the offense is better with Pavs and defense better with Watson.
On the flipside of your typical arguments, Rob Jones is significantly better than Ward in BPR overall, and even both offense and defense, Adjusted Team Efficiency overall, offensive adjusted Team Efficiency, Adjusted Team Defensive Efficiency by a large margin. I love Ward, and I do think we keep seeing his minutes creep up, particularly against the longer teams that are more inside-out focused. But Rob has outplayed him per advanced stats overall. Ward deserves some leeway returning from an injury.
TJ has nailed the personnel and playing time. When things weren't going well for Curtis Jones, he stuck with him over Pavs and Watson, and that was clearly the right move. He's stuck with this roughly 50-50 minute breakdown between Rob and Ward, and that looks to be the right thing to do. He's playing King as much as he can and getting spot mins from Watson or going small w/ Milan at the 4, and that's working.
TJ's rotation and minutes are working. The only one of your arguments that you have made that hold any water is you play Watson over Pavs when needed. And that's a marginal difference over few possessions, so I'm not sure that would work out. So I still say these guys get spot minutes because they help King and the guards, particularly Gilbert and Milan maximize efficiency by having gas in the tank and not worrying about foul trouble so much.
And maybe in past years TJ was just saying, if a program like ISU is going to make final fours, we need complete commitment at practice, in workouts, whatever it is, and Rob exemplifies that. Rob's playing time in past years (not this year) was greater than production suggested. But we've got a monster culture at ISU, and Rob's a big part of that. As much as coaches want to think patronizing players for it, or chewing them out if they don't, you get the actions that get playing time. Period. That's the language players speak.
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Agree completely and the other thing I would add to that list is forcing turnovers that aren't counted as steals - taking charges, forcing travels, knocking the ball out of bounds off the opposing player, etc. I wish there was a tracked stat for "forced turnovers" in addition to steals.
Somewhat related, I've always liked the "Fouls Suffered" (i.e. how many times you got fouled) stat in the European leagues, not sure why we don't track that here. It's a good stat!
Pav and Watson both gave us nice boosts in limited minutes last night, not sure what all the fuss is over here.
Pav and Watson both gave us nice boosts in limited minutes last night, not sure what all the fuss is over here.
I'd like to see how common it is for a 15ish point lead get to single digits in the 2nd half at some point across the board.