Needs

Between now and November, the Iowa State basketball team needs the following:

-More players who can create their own shot
-More players who are not afraid to take a good shot
-More time learning the offense
-A 50% increase in each players upper body strength
-A true offensive threat in the post to compliment the retrofit that Juri is
-That uncoachable, unbuyable feeling that you can win any game, anywhere, anytime

The one thing ISU already has a full stock of:

-Heart. Guts. Gumption. Whatever you wish to call it.

Plenty of teams would have packed it in at halftime and started thinking about how to fill that soon to be empty four hour chunk of your day that basketball represents. I recall a few Orr teams that did just that in KC. Get down by 10: Where am I going on Spring Break again?

If Greg has instilled anything into this program, the most incomplete team in the league this year, is that despite all of your limitations, hustle and smarts can keep you in games and even win a few along the way. That is a powerful lesson to have learned with the core of your team intact and more talent coming in for next year. Six wins will be a disappointment next year.

Peterclone