Quote Originally Posted by bisonfan08 View Post
This is going to be a huge test, as far as high majors go we actually match up fairly well size wise with Iowa St as McKay at 6'9" is their tallest guy in their 7 man rotation, he is however far more athletic than any of our bigs and will be a tough matchup. Niang is their best player, AJ should match up fairly well with him but he needs to stay out of foul trouble which is going to be tough. Iowa St is so good because of their balance, all five of their starters are averaging between 13.8 and 16.8ppg and they can shoot. We will definitely miss Kory Brown on defense and in rebounding in this game which sucks. If we are going to win this game we are going to have to shoot at a very high percentage, get to the free throw line, not turn the ball over and keep McKay off the offensive glass. If we do that along with playing our normally solid defense we have a shot but if we start slow like we have the last couple games we'll fall behind and not be able to catch up. We've shot the ball fairly consistently at an average of 44% on the season but we have had the last couple games in the 30's in the first have and then over 50% in the 2nd half. I think we'll need to be over 50% for this game if we are going to beat this team on the road.
Only shot 37.5% in the first half, only got to the line 4 times, turned the ball over 8 times and McKay has 9 boards already...given that we haven't accomplished anything I thought we needed to in order to win this game only being down 6 at half isn't bad. If we can get Kabellis to stop shooting altogether and Dupree not to shoot from 3 it should help our shooting percentage a bunch. I'm okay with Clements shooting if it gets later in the shot clock, he's shown he can make big shots here and there but Kabellis is killing us.