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Title: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 24, 2017, 10:17:52 PM
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You can't play that poorly on the road in a half and expect to win. I'm not even that upset about the defense (besides helping off of the best shooter on the floor multiple times), but that offense was pathetic.

Again, too many key turnovers by key guards (overall TOs were good) and again the 3pt line is a problem.

Just another wasted opportunity on the road. Not a killer for this season, but you can only do this so many times and this team is good at doing it a lot.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: catastrophe on January 24, 2017, 10:22:31 PM
I feel like we lost that game twice.  That is what hurts the most.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on January 24, 2017, 10:24:37 PM
Predictable poor effort early, I had hoped we'd grown out of that.  :frown:
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: renocat on January 24, 2017, 10:29:06 PM
Sneed good but a freshman mistake hurt.  I hope Claws is not hurt too bad.  We did not crap our.pqnts and slink away.  Tough and we do not give up.  We do need a big scorer.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: catastrophe on January 24, 2017, 10:32:01 PM
Also sucks that the nail in the coffin was another BS foul call on that dunk.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Powercat Posse on January 24, 2017, 10:34:03 PM
1) Very true. You can't be that bad on O & D for a half,  and really expect to win in Ames. Had we been just average on either in the 1st, the uphill climb isn't 17 pts at the break.

2) obviously, I like our effort for a majority of the 2nd half, but it was clear we used a lot of energy, and it just felt like after we got the 1 point lead, Isu was due to make a counter run.

3) That said, we had chances. After taking the 59-58 lead, Isu only had 12 pts in last 12 Possessions. We just left some points and opportunities out there. DJamer is just struggling at the line. He got their 3x late and Kam 1x, and it produced only 3 points.  Sneed, who had some big 3s, had a great open look top of the key with 1:00 and just couldn't hit it. And then 4 TOs.

Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 24, 2017, 10:35:34 PM
Also sucks that the nail in the coffin was another BS foul call on that dunk.

The nail was already in the coffin at that point.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: 'taterblast on January 24, 2017, 10:39:24 PM
it has become routine
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 24, 2017, 10:42:38 PM
Sneed good but a freshman mistake hurt.  I hope Claws is not hurt too bad.  We did not crap our.pqnts and slink away.  Tough and we do not give up.  We do need a big scorer.
hang it up skinny. Sheesh
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on January 24, 2017, 10:48:33 PM
I feel like we took a lot of bad shots tonight, and that helped isu on offense a lot
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: The Big Train on January 24, 2017, 10:49:22 PM
was pretty peaceful yelling at my TV with having nobody here to talk with
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 24, 2017, 10:50:49 PM
I feel like we took a lot of bad shots tonight, and that helped isu on offense a lot

Settling for lots of jumpers.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: sonofdaxjones on January 24, 2017, 10:55:49 PM
Yes, you should be upset that ISU spread the floor and caused oscar's dumbasses to play help defense 22 feet from the basket leaving 3pt shooters wide open. #terrible
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Powercat Posse on January 24, 2017, 10:56:50 PM
33% 2pt, 33% 3pt. Only 4 assists, only got 2 ORs out of 20 chances, and 2 FTAs. 
We had 29 Possessions where we didn't TO the ball. 26 Pts those 29 times. Easily our worst half in awhile

Isu looked awful during our 20-3 run. Over 8 minutes, and their lone FG only happened cause DJamer got poked in eye/face.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: fun muffin on January 24, 2017, 11:32:43 PM
All Havs MATTer
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: MakeItRain on January 25, 2017, 12:13:54 AM
I feel like we took a lot of bad shots tonight, and that helped isu on offense a lot

Yeah. Whenever DJamer was off of the floor we looked like we had to take and make the Rock N Jock 25 point shot.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: MakeItRain on January 25, 2017, 12:21:30 AM
Are we still going with the three point lottery or are we watching closely enough to see that we give up an inordinate amount of unguarded threes?
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2017, 12:28:06 AM
Chris Babb has played in the NBA? Goddammit, Frank.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2017, 12:28:18 AM
^Me during the game
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Ptolemy on January 25, 2017, 12:32:05 AM
Also sucks that the nail in the coffin was another BS foul call on that dunk.

"nail in the coffin?" We were down 4 with 5 seconds remaining. Only oscar Weber can lose a 4 point lead with less than 5 seconds left!
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Powercat Posse on January 25, 2017, 12:46:41 AM
Are we still going with the three point lottery or are we watching closely enough to see that we give up an inordinate amount of unguarded threes?

Last 6 games, we have allowed 45.9 on 2pt%. Solid work
Last 7 games, we have allowed 63-134 on 3pt. That's 47.0% and 9 makes per game. Not so solid.
Each of those 7 teams shot at least 38%.  Take it as you want it. I will continue to see it as a problem.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: sys on January 25, 2017, 01:44:13 AM
Are we still going with the three point lottery or are we watching closely enough to see that we give up an inordinate amount of unguarded threes?

data says it's an ordinate amount.

3PA/FGA:   35.4 152th
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Mixed-Nutz on January 25, 2017, 02:04:52 AM
Dean was very hobbled, played him way too much in the first half.
Title: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 25, 2017, 07:23:20 AM
The 2nd half we made great adjustments with our defense, but it was too late. We did a much better job with drivers and didn't help off shooters. ISU shot fewer threes and made less. Honestly, I put most of the first half on the players. They had to know the scout on ISU, anyone knows when playing shooting teams that spread you out that you can't help, especially on the ball side of drives. We did it over and over. Ervin helped twice off Thomas in a span of 3 or 4 possessions. You take your chances with ISU shooting tough 2s in the lane because they don't draw fouls and get to the FT line often. We did that in the 2nd half and their offense stagnated.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 25, 2017, 07:25:39 AM
Dean was very hobbled, played him way too much in the first half.

This helped. ISU is a tougher matchup for Wade on defense because he's defending a guard, especially when hobbled. Sneed helped out a bunch with his 2nd half defense.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Kat Kid on January 25, 2017, 07:35:27 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Skipper44 on January 25, 2017, 07:42:37 AM
The KK - Clent Stewart Fued lives!
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 25, 2017, 07:53:33 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Steffy08 on January 25, 2017, 08:36:09 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: catastrophe on January 25, 2017, 08:40:57 AM
Also sucks that the nail in the coffin was another BS foul call on that dunk.

"nail in the coffin?" We were down 4 with 5 seconds remaining. Only oscar Weber can lose a 4 point lead with less than 5 seconds left!

Yea, I misremembered the timing.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: kso_FAN on January 25, 2017, 08:46:22 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

Good points. The Stokes one where he turned it right back over was really frustrating still, and to me that was the nail in the coffin. The final one the game was pretty much over IMO. And the Wes one trying to pass to DJamer was in part a really good play by ISU. DJamer had a great seal and it looked to me like the lob would get there initially. Ervin most definitely was fouled, but that's rarely going to be called.

Still, its 4 TOs in key situations.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Kat Kid on January 25, 2017, 08:50:05 AM
The Ervin one was bad because he clearly could've split and dribbled through the double.  He basically did that, just forgot to dribble.  But they were all bad turnovers.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 25, 2017, 08:53:49 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

You can't win games with sophomore point guards sophomore point guarding.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2017, 09:31:23 AM
not one thing matters more than the other if you consider that ultimately something was going to make us lose that game.  facts are facts, oscar doesn't win road games against teams with a pulse.

eliminating one factor from the equation just presents an opportunity for another
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Steffy08 on January 25, 2017, 09:50:32 AM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

You can't win games with sophomore point guards sophomore point guarding.

So true....kindof like it is tough to win with young QB's.
We have been playing with young guards for four years now.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: PIPE on January 25, 2017, 10:11:48 AM
A lot of Brucexcuses  in this thread............

I guess we will have to wait until Stokes is a Sr then. Glad Wes is a SR and doesn't make late game TO's or misses FT's.....oh, wait.......dang :sdeek:
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: MakeItRain on January 25, 2017, 11:28:42 AM
Are we still going with the three point lottery or are we watching closely enough to see that we give up an inordinate amount of unguarded threes?

data says it's an ordinate amount.

3PA/FGA:   35.4 152th

That doesn't tell you a damn thing about the large number of unguarded three point shots we give up. That tells you that we guard shots inside of the arc better than we do shots beyond it. Of course when you don't put on heavy ball pressure, don't deny guard to guard passes, and generally play off to protect the paint, none of this is surprising.

I did say in chat that we had the inability to adjust and I was proven wrong. Putting more pressure on the ball and switching screens eliminated many of the open looks and surprise they shot poorly from the three point line in the second half. I'm sure the coaching adjustment had nothing to do with ISU's poor second half shooting, its just luck explained by some unrelated stat.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: sys on January 25, 2017, 11:33:25 AM
That doesn't tell you a damn thing about the large number of unguarded three point shots we give up.

it almost certainly does.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: pissclams on January 25, 2017, 11:56:57 AM
That doesn't tell you a damn thing about the large number of unguarded three point shots we give up.

it almost certainly does.
.

oh crap, it looks like what we have here is a good ol' fashioned "what does a stat tell you" off 
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: renocat on January 25, 2017, 06:01:57 PM
Okay.  You.basketball brains a question.  Did fatigue have a bearing on DJamer or Stokes missing free throws at the end of the game.  IMO the rotation of Bullnuts, Claws, DJamer, and Snud keeps them all fresh.  Did the injury to Claws affect DJamer?
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: michigancat on January 25, 2017, 06:12:48 PM


Okay.  You.basketball brains a question.  Did fatigue have a bearing on DJamer or Stokes missing free throws at the end of the game.  IMO the rotation of Bullnuts, Claws, DJamer, and Snud keeps them all fresh.  Did the injury to Claws affect DJamer?

Stokes injured his ankle.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: PIPE on January 25, 2017, 07:59:38 PM
Stokes is only a SO, that explains it
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: sys on January 25, 2017, 08:45:46 PM
Did fatigue have a bearing on DJamer  missing free throws at the end of the game.

#notmypowerforward.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Clevey 2 Times on January 26, 2017, 10:17:48 PM
Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

Good points. The Stokes one where he turned it right back over was really frustrating still, and to me that was the nail in the coffin. The final one the game was pretty much over IMO. And the Wes one trying to pass to DJamer was in part a really good play by ISU. DJamer had a great seal and it looked to me like the lob would get there initially. Ervin most definitely was fouled, but that's rarely going to be called.

Still, its 4 TOs in key situations.

Wes throwing the pass to DJamer was a bad decision, although DJamer had sealed his defender. The angle -- throwing a pass over the top from the top of the 3 pt line to the middle of the paint is one of the more difficult ones on the floor. That pass gets stolen a lot.

But, the bigger issue, 4 turnovers in crunch time. This is our problem right now more than anything.

Secondarily, we don't have a killer in late game situations. Iowa State has Morris, which is probably the main reason (as well as some seasoned vets) that they'll finish ahead of us in conference this season.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: michigancat on January 26, 2017, 10:29:39 PM


Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

Good points. The Stokes one where he turned it right back over was really frustrating still, and to me that was the nail in the coffin. The final one the game was pretty much over IMO. And the Wes one trying to pass to DJamer was in part a really good play by ISU. DJamer had a great seal and it looked to me like the lob would get there initially. Ervin most definitely was fouled, but that's rarely going to be called.

Still, its 4 TOs in key situations.

Wes throwing the pass to DJamer was a bad decision, although DJamer had sealed his defender. The angle -- throwing a pass over the top from the top of the 3 pt line to the middle of the paint is one of the more difficult ones on the floor. That pass gets stolen a lot.

But, the bigger issue, 4 turnovers in crunch time. This is our problem right now more than anything.

Secondarily, we don't have a killer in late game situations. Iowa State has Morris, which is probably the main reason (as well as some seasoned vets) that they'll finish ahead of us in conference this season.

The even bigger issue is the 20 point deficit early in the second half
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: Powercat Posse on January 26, 2017, 11:13:57 PM


Wes and Kamau had some all-time Shane Southwell/Clent Stewart-esque turnovers with the game on the line.

Sneed finally got some minutes and some touches/good looks.  Unfortunately, it took Claws being completely absent.

The crazy thing is we had 2 turnovers the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then 4 the last 4 minutes.

Three in the last 53 seconds.

Honestly, though, the only one that made me mad was the inbounds at the end.
Stokes made a great steal and was excited and, well, sophomore point guards are going to sophomore point guard.
Ervin's was after a great hustle play on the offensive rebound; a more seasoned veteran would have called timeout, there, but I'm not mad at him.

Good points. The Stokes one where he turned it right back over was really frustrating still, and to me that was the nail in the coffin. The final one the game was pretty much over IMO. And the Wes one trying to pass to DJamer was in part a really good play by ISU. DJamer had a great seal and it looked to me like the lob would get there initially. Ervin most definitely was fouled, but that's rarely going to be called.

Still, its 4 TOs in key situations.

Wes throwing the pass to DJamer was a bad decision, although DJamer had sealed his defender. The angle -- throwing a pass over the top from the top of the 3 pt line to the middle of the paint is one of the more difficult ones on the floor. That pass gets stolen a lot.

But, the bigger issue, 4 turnovers in crunch time. This is our problem right now more than anything.

Secondarily, we don't have a killer in late game situations. Iowa State has Morris, which is probably the main reason (as well as some seasoned vets) that they'll finish ahead of us in conference this season.

The even bigger issue is the 20 point deficit early in the second half

Yes, the 20 pt deficit was the biggest issue.  We had 3 TOs in first 19 2nd half minutes. Those were spaced out and part of the flow.

The late Ervin/Stokes TOs were hurtful. The last one wasn't (down 4 under 10 seconds is 1/100 chance of winning).  Honestly, the missed FTs were just as harmful as the 2 TOs I mentioned. We had four trips to the line. Could have shot 8 FTs. Only came away with 3 points there.  But once again, can't play poorly and get down by 20.

WV got down 11 at our place in the 2nd half. Then took a 68-67 lead. Then we Outscored them by 5 the rest of the way.  Their issue wasn't the 3 TOs and 7 pts in the last 10 Possessions.  Their biggest issue was allowing a 12 pt lead in the 1st half turn into a 11 point deficit, 13:00 minutes later.
Title: Re: All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV
Post by: catastrophe on January 27, 2017, 09:19:41 AM
Obviously it's tough to argue that  putting ourselves in a 20 point hole cost us the game (I think they showed that this was the first game in Cats history that we ever even dug ourselves out of that kind of deficit), but the inability to finish close games against decent opponents is definitely a disturbing trend.