Iowa State Post Game Thread

[temery]

Nm

 

[temery]

 

[YoungFree]

Clingan showed up BIG TIME

 

[WhereistheDove?]

1. Whoever on the ESPN production crew that’s deciding we need all of these unique camera angles… stop it.
2. ISU punched back several times and UConn avoided a big run and was able to turn the momentum back each time. That has been a consistent theme this year.
3. It was not especially pretty. It was the rock fight we expected. Sanogo struggled. Hawkins was in foul trouble. And this team still won by 18. Great teams need to be able to win games like this. The complete domination of the glass helped.
4. ISU coach is aggressive. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone go into halftime with three players with three fouls and another two with two fouls.
5. Clingan is huge and pretty polished. They just had no answer.
6. They exposed Joey C on defense more than he has even the last couple games. He really needs a rim protector behind him. Still an incredibly impressive offensive player.
7. AJax facilitated incredibly well and was much more aggressive at taking it to the basket. Do more of that!
8. Alleyne… not good today. He’s totally out of sorts right now. Gotta imagine he figures it out but I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
9. Karaban continues to execute in every facet of the game. I can’t remember a UConn freshman as polished as he is.
10. Welcome back to the top ten.

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

Never expected this coming into the tournament. My expectations are through the moon with this team now. ALL ABOARD!!

 

[elmcityboy]

TOP 10 TEAM

give it to me!! what a season this could be...

 

[BGesus4]

Hurley got some hardware for the trophy case. A very nice piece to build off of

 

[uconnfan68]

1. Whoever on the ESPN production crew that’s deciding we need all of these unique camera angles… stop it.
2. ISU punched back several times and UConn avoided a big run and was able to turn the momentum back each time. That has been a consistent theme this year.
3. It was not especially pretty. It was the rock fight we expected. Sanogo struggled. Hawkins was in foul trouble. And this team still won by 18. Great teams need to be able to win games like this. The complete domination of the glass helped.
4. ISU coach is aggressive. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone go into halftime with three players with three fouls and another two with two fouls.
5. Clingan is huge and pretty polished. They just had no answer.
6. They exposed Joey C on defense more than he has even the last couple games. He really needs a rim protector behind him. Still an incredibly impressive offensive player.
7. AJax facilitated incredibly well and was much more aggressive at taking it to the basket. Do more of that!
8. Alleyne… not good today. He’s totally out of sorts right now. Gotta imagine he figures it out but I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
9. Karaban continues to execute in every facet of the game. I can’t remember a UConn freshman as polished as he is.
10. Welcome back to the top ten.

An absolute rock fight.

 

[lonsharkin51]

That was the most enjoyable, rewarding day of hoops I've experienced since April 2014

 

[elmcityboy]

five years ago we lost our third game of this tournament 67-102 in one of the most humiliating sports-watching experience i have ever endured

dan hurley the carpenter.

 

[Umami Zen]

Great job on the boards..Awesome defensive pressure.. Joey was everywhere.. Andre was the difference maker w/ his hustle/defensive skill.. He did not goal tend on that block! Wore them out with our depth.

 

[Northbound]

It’s a cery good and cery deep team that will play defense. Lots of optimism.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

I freakin love this team. They get punched in the mouth and they keep under control and punch right back. Championship mentality!

 

[WrenchFan69]

The backup center to our potentiall All-American just won MVP in an early season tournament with 4 top 25 teams... And there's a chance he's not even our best freshman off the bench. Wow

 

[Dutch Boyd]

Things can go wrong and we can still win. We can win pretty and ugly. It’s gonna be a fun season.

 

[Punkbo]

AJ and Clingan were the stars of the show, but I also want to mention Newton. After not playing much in the first half due to foul trouble, he made some very clutch shots at important times in the second half. Another great win!

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

I missed the haiku in the Oregon game and then purposely sat out the Alabama and Iowa State ones to preserve mojo integrity

 

[nadavtheman]

Wait until we actually play well. 6 points combined from Hawk and Songo. 17 turnovers (seemed like more). But we can overcome it unlike the past because we are Super deep at every position. Many weapons. Contributions from all. Let's enjoy this!!!!!

 

[navery12]

We just played a not great game against a legitimately good P5 team, got basically nothing from our 2 best players (Sanogo and Hawkins), and won by 18. This team is special

 

[husky8273]

great win. 19 turnovers only concern

 

[jibsey]

Our players are fighters out there, that's all Hurley. We ou toughed them and had too many answers. They were completely whipped at the end and the lead just pushed up.

 

[Umami Zen]

BTW.. All of this hard work in second half done with Hawk on the bench..

 

[3rdbass]

Clingan showed up BIG TIME

Hopefully he is here 2 years at least. He is a special big man! WOW!

 

[3rdbass]

AJ and Clingan were the stars of the show, but I also want to mention Newton. After not playing much in the first half due to foul trouble, he made some very clutch shots at important times in the second half. Another great win!

Don't forget Diarra who gave us great minutes in the first half and then for some unknown reason didn't play a minute in the second half.

 

[LIuconn]

Tuned in late. Why didn’t hawk play in the last 13 min?