#15 Wichita State vs. Indiana State GAME THREAD

[another shocker]

I hope it was a wake up call to our players and coaches. Be prepared + motivated and play like there is nothing to lose. Lets hope teams have to get used to that.

we'll have to see how this wichita state team responds to the "sucker punches". last years team, of course, got "koed "in their final two games vs ilsu and vcu.

good thing the time to "punch back" is coming a bit earlier in the season this year. they'll have to wade through some punches before st louis.

[Kung Wu]

Almost 20 hours after the carnage and finally we get to the real reason why our beloved Shockers were taken down. You sicken me...much like a cow patty in the hot Texas sun.

I know. Like a bovine flu infested cow patty ...

[TerreHaute]

Nice thoughts, TerreHaute....btw, is Cummings your first get from Coffeyville? I've played golf with the Red Ravens coach in a couple of events, and a very nice guy. Cummings looks like a nice pickup.

He may be our first? Can't think of anyone else in recent memory. Think he will have a good career as a Sycamore.

[1972Shocker]

Many are not as enthusiastic as I am about Nick, but I am here to tell you that he is a scoring machine. Get him the ball in a little bit of space.

I would say the Indiana State coaching staff, for one, shares your enthusiasm for Nick. It appeared the Sycamores were very aware of Nick and they were very focused on not letting him beat them from the outside.

Turns out that the was a great decision by Indiana State.

[SHOXAAC]

insu was so well prepared + motivated, with nothing to lose. 'shockers may as well get used to it.

uni will probably bring that same formula this saturday. and at ilsu and at siu and at cu etc., will bring their best, too.

I hope it was a wake up call to our players and coaches. Be prepared + motivated and play like there is nothing to lose. Lets hope teams have to get used to that.

[another shocker]

insu was so well prepared + motivated, with nothing to lose. 'shockers may as well get used to it.

uni will probably bring that same formula this saturday. and at ilsu and at siu and at cu etc., will bring their best, too.

[SHOXAAC]

We had to scrap plans to attend last minute due to illness. Seems like that's going around all over the place lately.

Almost 20 hours after the carnage and finally we get to the real reason why our beloved Shockers were taken down. You sicken me...much like a cow patty in the hot Texas sun.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I dunno that he should play more, but when he is in the game I think we should run stuff for him.

Bingo! We have a winner.

[Snapshot9]

When are we gong to learn to defend against the dribble drive. Too often an opponent will get past the first guy and then have a clear path to the baskiet. We stood around and just passed back and forth around the arc last night. Half the time, Van Vleet acts like he doesn't know what to do. Armstead's shooting was terrible last night, usually we can count on him scoring more. This better be a wake-up for the team, that they can NOT take any team for granted. They played the first half uninspired.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I am glad that my drive home is not as long as iam4wsu's is.

Any reference to Butch Cassody works for me.

We try to get there at 6:20-6:30 to watch the shoot around. At one point Wiggins made 9 straight 3's, missed one, then hit 7 in a row. We never got him a single look.

I get to the arena about the same time. I like the shoot around and I really enjoy Wiggins. I remember his streak, but I was not counting shots. I just knew he was shooting lights out. He does that at most every shoot around.

Many are not as enthusiastic as I am about Nick, but I am here to tell you that he is a scoring machine. Get him the ball in a little bit of space.

An aside: I just hate it, when Malcomb is throwing up contested 3 balls, early in the clock and out of rythm. Some of his corner 3 balls last night stood zero chance of going in.

[Ricardo del Rio]

This has also bothered me lately as well. Again, it gets even further magnified with losses. 90% of the 3 pointers MA takes can literally be taken at any point of time, every time down the floor. He acts like it's 5th grade HORSE. Just chuck and duck. He needs to find a dictionary and see what the main purpose of a point guard is. Shooting is not high on the list of what they do, especially when you're not that good at it.

For how great a defender and ball stealer MA gets credit for, he's worse as a guard that takes bad shots and turns the ball over, thus neutralizing something he does best at.

Fixed.

[Ricardo del Rio]

I would think in an overload you really need to make quick passes on the reverse flow, skip passing when it comes open. Our passes seemed very slow in happening last night, I thought.

In the first half, it looked like the Shockers were walking in molasses.

[Ta Town Shocker]

We had to scrap plans to attend last minute due to illness. Seems like that's going around all over the place lately.

That's understandable. I was referring more to the lack of single game ticket sales as row 34 was empty for the most part. To the best of my knowledge there weren't really any promotions for this game like there have been in the past for weeknight games.

[pinstripers]

they did the "guess the attendence" game.

[Kung Wu]

Considering our ranking and the opponent I thought there were too many empty seats. IIRC they didn't bother doing a "guess the attendance" game as it may have been a bit embarrassing. The crowd was lackluster at best in the first half. The second half was much better until people started filing out at the under 4 timeout. The game wasn't over at that point and it was a bit disheartening to see people leave that early.

We had to scrap plans to attend last minute due to illness. Seems like that's going around all over the place lately.