Saturday, February 05, 2005
Ding dong the streak is dead!!
For the first time since my sophomore year in college and Jamaal Tinsley was running the show Iowa State went on the road in a conference game and came home with the win! It's been an unbelievably frustrating couple of years with so many lost opportunities mixed in with some horrible performances. I think back to some of those games where it seemed like ISU was screwed by some fluke play or horrible call late in the game but they didn't leave too much doubt in this one. Well, except for the whole overtime part, but you know what I mean. Speaking of overtime, not only did The Streak end but a few other streaks ended as well. They hadn't won a conference game in overtime since the late 90's, hadn't beat a ranked team on the road in a long time, hadn't ever won at Texas (which was the first loss of The Streak).
My thoughts on a couple of players:
Curtis Stinson- Played well at times and was terrible at times. I was really getting frustrated with him at times when he would make a lazy pass and then jog down the court trying to pick up a basket cherry picking. I guess Wayne Morgan felt the same because Curtis was on the bench for about 4 minutes towards the end of the 2nd half until Clark fouled out with less than a minute. I have to give him credit for fighting back to have a good finish in OT. He ended up with a double-double 17 points, 11 rebounds.
The Man off the bench was obviously Tasheed Carr. He carried this team in overtime scoring 8 of our first 10 in the first half of the overtime including two huge threes. He finished with 22 points in 26 minutes. He and Clark are playing fantastically lately and it's no coincidence that ISU is winning. Carr outscored the entire Texas team in the overtime.
Will Blalock can really take over games when he needs to. He's so quick ionto the lane and is beginning to finish more often. He's really what keeps this team getting quick baskets like they do.
This team showed so much poise today. They were down 6 or 7 fairly late in the game but they didn't panic and played their game. The defense was what they needed again today and kept Texas on their heels for much of the game. The schedule sets up nicely for ISU to make a late season charge to finish 6th or maybe even 5th with some luck. It sure would be nice to have that Colorado game back, let alone Missouri. But, those are in the past and I'm just going to enjoy the heck out of this one.
They are on the road against Nebraska this week and should have a good chance to get a road winning streak started. Let's get it done.
My thoughts on a couple of players:
Curtis Stinson- Played well at times and was terrible at times. I was really getting frustrated with him at times when he would make a lazy pass and then jog down the court trying to pick up a basket cherry picking. I guess Wayne Morgan felt the same because Curtis was on the bench for about 4 minutes towards the end of the 2nd half until Clark fouled out with less than a minute. I have to give him credit for fighting back to have a good finish in OT. He ended up with a double-double 17 points, 11 rebounds.
The Man off the bench was obviously Tasheed Carr. He carried this team in overtime scoring 8 of our first 10 in the first half of the overtime including two huge threes. He finished with 22 points in 26 minutes. He and Clark are playing fantastically lately and it's no coincidence that ISU is winning. Carr outscored the entire Texas team in the overtime.
Will Blalock can really take over games when he needs to. He's so quick ionto the lane and is beginning to finish more often. He's really what keeps this team getting quick baskets like they do.
This team showed so much poise today. They were down 6 or 7 fairly late in the game but they didn't panic and played their game. The defense was what they needed again today and kept Texas on their heels for much of the game. The schedule sets up nicely for ISU to make a late season charge to finish 6th or maybe even 5th with some luck. It sure would be nice to have that Colorado game back, let alone Missouri. But, those are in the past and I'm just going to enjoy the heck out of this one.
They are on the road against Nebraska this week and should have a good chance to get a road winning streak started. Let's get it done.
# posted by Ben @ 5:39 PM 
