Really happy CSU beat #8 Creighton who beat Iowa convincingly in Omaha. CSU is going to be a potential tourney team at the end of the year so the buffs need this win for their resume. Quality road wins are valuable at the end of the year. This buff team should not be a bubble team but with HCTB, anything is possible so lets get the quality win on the road. TO do that Diop and Dak should not play. We dont need their height and we can find other games to give them valuable experience. With the top 8 guys getting the time we should easily handle CSU, even on the road in a hostile environment. We have enough senior presence with DiSilva, Obrien Lamkin and Hadley along with the experience of Simpson, and Hammonds that the environment should not be a problem. We should crush them on the boards and even with Nique and Stevens we out athlete them pretty much across the board.
THe key will as usual be TOs. HCTB team identity has always been high turnover but early this year i thought maybe we had turned a corner. After FSU im extremely in the camp that deep down this team is going to be a typical high-turnover team for HCTB. No excuse for this team to have more than 10 TOs in any game. Cody, DiSilva and Lamkin especially have got to figure it out, maybe OBrien as well, and HCTB ought to be ashamed if this team cant figure it out. Disilva is mystifying to me. For 4 years we have watched him give up weak strip-the-ball turnovers. If he cant improve his grip strength he can certainly figure out how to protect the ball. Every team we play knows they can strip the ball from him and until he proves otherwise, it will continue to happen. That wont play well in the NBA BTW.
10 TOs or less and the buffs win easily. 15 or more and we lose without a doubt.
THe key will as usual be TOs. HCTB team identity has always been high turnover but early this year i thought maybe we had turned a corner. After FSU im extremely in the camp that deep down this team is going to be a typical high-turnover team for HCTB. No excuse for this team to have more than 10 TOs in any game. Cody, DiSilva and Lamkin especially have got to figure it out, maybe OBrien as well, and HCTB ought to be ashamed if this team cant figure it out. Disilva is mystifying to me. For 4 years we have watched him give up weak strip-the-ball turnovers. If he cant improve his grip strength he can certainly figure out how to protect the ball. Every team we play knows they can strip the ball from him and until he proves otherwise, it will continue to happen. That wont play well in the NBA BTW.
10 TOs or less and the buffs win easily. 15 or more and we lose without a doubt.
