All Halves MATTer; ISU ADV

[kso_FAN]

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.

[catastrophe]

I feel like we lost that game twice.  That is what hurts the most.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Predictable poor effort early, I had hoped we'd grown out of that. 

[renocat]

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.

[catastrophe]

Also sucks that the nail in the coffin was another BS foul call on that dunk.

[Powercat Posse]

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.

[Rage Against the McKee]

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.

['taterblast]

it has become routine

[420seriouscat69]

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

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I feel like we took a lot of bad shots tonight, and that helped isu on offense a lot

[The Big Train]

was pretty peaceful yelling at my TV with having nobody here to talk with

[kso_FAN]

I feel like we took a lot of bad shots tonight, and that helped isu on offense a lot

Settling for lots of jumpers.

[sonofdaxjones]

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

[Powercat Posse]

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.

[fun muffin]

All Havs MATTer

[MakeItRain]

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.

[MakeItRain]

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?

[michigancat]

Chris Babb has played in the NBA? Goddammit, Frank.

[michigancat]

^Me during the game

[Ptolemy]

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!

[Powercat Posse]

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.

[sys]

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

[Mixed-Nutz]

Dean was very hobbled, played him way too much in the first half.

[kso_FAN]

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.

[kso_FAN]

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.