Are we even a tournament team?
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CycloneErik
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To give this the respect it deserves, your mom's a tournament team.
I hate post game stupid posters. Are we a tourney team? Why because we lost in the road to the 12th ranked team? So dumb
Can you read? It’s cause we haven’t hit 20 wins.
20 wins means nothing these days. Where have u been?
We’ll be in the tournament and will be competitive with whoever we play. Nonetheless, it will be much more enjoyable the rest of the way to realize who we are. We were never a realistic contender to win the league and if we can beat OU and WVU at home to finish 10-8 we should be thrilled. If we win a game in KC and/or the tourney it’s icing on the cake. We don’t have the offensive talent to be more than that and it’s not worth the aggravation to expect more.
20 wins gets you in, 25 a top 4 seed. Those are the rules.
People forget that we're far overachieving for the level of talent we have. We're running at ceiling level most of the time and if another team can take away a single guy, adjust to our D, get an advantage in fouling, or have a single guy get hot on their side, it hinders us greatly.
We've been Top 3rd of league in wins the past 2 years on roughly 8-9th place talent.
I just think it's hilarious that people keep getting upset or questioning TJ or the players when we're in year 2 after a 2-22 season and years ahead in the rebuilding process. When you have Jones playing more than 1-2 minutes a game, you know you have talent deficiencies.
To those that disagree that we lack talent and point out the blown leads, I'd say you're proving my point. TJ can coach a bunch of lower level guys to a hell of a first half, despite not having great shooters, amazing athleticism, great size, or much consistency from any position.
But, we're going up against teams that also have coaching staffs and make adjustments. When they are able to adjust to how our few scorers are playing and account for the schemes, those leads fade. That's evidence in my eyes of a lack of talent being able to keep up with the changes other teams make. TJ can only make so many adjustments if the shots aren't falling and he only has 1-2 guys that are legit scorers.
Yes, we are a very easy upset looking forward, anybody that thinks we're not capable of losing to anybody on any night hasn't paid attention to what we have to work with on the roster. However, we've also proven that our coaching can get us into any game and if a couple guys get hot, the players can keep us in those games.
We've been Top 3rd of league in wins the past 2 years on roughly 8-9th place talent.
I just think it's hilarious that people keep getting upset or questioning TJ or the players when we're in year 2 after a 2-22 season and years ahead in the rebuilding process. When you have Jones playing more than 1-2 minutes a game, you know you have talent deficiencies.
To those that disagree that we lack talent and point out the blown leads, I'd say you're proving my point. TJ can coach a bunch of lower level guys to a hell of a first half, despite not having great shooters, amazing athleticism, great size, or much consistency from any position.
But, we're going up against teams that also have coaching staffs and make adjustments. When they are able to adjust to how our few scorers are playing and account for the schemes, those leads fade. That's evidence in my eyes of a lack of talent being able to keep up with the changes other teams make. TJ can only make so many adjustments if the shots aren't falling and he only has 1-2 guys that are legit scorers.
Yes, we are a very easy upset looking forward, anybody that thinks we're not capable of losing to anybody on any night hasn't paid attention to what we have to work with on the roster. However, we've also proven that our coaching can get us into any game and if a couple guys get hot, the players can keep us in those games.
So if the penalty for losing closely to another 3 seed on the road is getting bounced from the tourney all together, I have to imagine ISU would be the #1 overall seed if they had won today.
Nonsense = nonsense
Nonsense = nonsense
Good troll job by OP and many fell for it.
I’m not sure MANY fell for it. But most every one on here has zero patience for BS right now.
Yeah there are some legit criticisms and discussion but the negativity is getting old. We're playing in one of the toughest leagues of all time with pretty mediocre talent and doing pretty damn well.
