Hilton magic is dead

Normally you'd have a redshirt junior or senior big man you've developed over a couple years. We had to settle for Holden and Bowie because it's what we could get with the lack of time (aka no time to develop someone). Freshman ready to play at a high level don't generally end up at Iowa State.

That's not what happened.
 
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Glad the bandwagon is going to be a lot less packed next year. It's to the point where "fans" are partaking so they can come to a website and throw ***** fits.

Here we go again.....the "you are not a real fan if you complain about the coach or team" posts. Signed....a "fan" who will call it like I see it but will still watch every game I can. It can happen, you know.
 
Such fickle fans on here.

We just simply are a one dimensional team who at times can play with the best in the nation and at other times can get run out of the gym.

Doesn't mean Hilton isn't a tough environment.
 
Here we go again.....the "you are not a real fan if you complain about the coach or team" posts. Signed....a "fan" who will call it like I see it but will still watch every game I can. It can happen, you know.

Is that what's happening here? Where are you calling it when we win? Not on this site.
 
Such fickle fans on here.

We just simply are a one dimensional team who at times can play with the best in the nation and at other times can get run out of the gym.

Doesn't mean Hilton isn't a tough environment.

If we play like that much longer (as in the next two years), it will certainly mean that.
 
Is that what's happening here? Where are you calling it when we win? Not on this site.

So you own this site? I'm on here every day....just don't post much. Because of responses like this. And don't call my commitment to the Cyclones into question based on what I post about.
 
Hilton Magic is not dead. I lived through the McDermott years where we had to scratch and claw and still couldn't get to .500. Hilton Magic is a lot like the President of the United States...it is larger than any one man. At least I hope so.
 
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Let Prohm get his guys in. This is still a factor of Fred's legacy - not recruiting while looking for an NBA job.

Not sure Prohm is the guy for the job, but not judging him off of this season.
Hoiberg left an outstanding veteran team when he left, so the "recruiting" you talked about, which includes babb, burton, and jackson, is on Prohm now. The Malou and Lard situations were unfortunate, but you could see that coming.

If you watch the games, he takes the ball out of Monte's hands, runs awful lineups, his half court offense is a joke, and tonight I hope everyone enjoyed that zone D he ran in the second half as much as I did. The guy has ruined one of my favorite things to watch, and that is ISU BBALL. I tried to give him time, but he's had his time, and his recruits, which is basically Solomon Young, Bowie sucks and Holden is... meh. Guys needs to get.
 
Such fickle fans on here.

We just simply are a one dimensional team who at times can play with the best in the nation and at other times can get run out of the gym.

Doesn't mean Hilton isn't a tough environment.

Yeah right, the fans are completely dead because they know Prohm cant coach at this level, they decided to change all the lighting up so now you cant see half the crowd, we still havent beaten a team good team at Hilton in a full calendar year now. Just pathetic.
 
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Fred planned in-bounds plays. Prohm's plan is to in-bound the ball and set up "the offense".

Fred made halftime adjustments. Prohm does not. Tonight, the team was heading out of the tunnel with 7min on the clock.

Last week, with K-State, they spent the first five minutes of the second half trying to force a 3-point attempt into Matt's hands. That WAS the offense.

It was as though he expected K-State to keep giving open looks. In that situation, you play a half-side ball set and attack the hoop in 3v3 situations. They had a guy backside babysitting Matt. With one guy out of the defensive rotation at all times, the offensive efficiency goes up. How was that not attempted/executed?

Prohm was successful at Murray b/c he had two NBA point guards spaced out nicely over his 4 years. There are currently about 30 bonafide NBA talented players in the NCAA with half of them camping out on 6 teams. If a team has one, they take over ball games (no offense needed) and will carry a mid-major to 20 wins a year.
 

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