Tuesday, December 06, 2005

This will be a maddening bunch

Basketball will be a wild ride all winter.

ISU lays an egg against Fresno State, then dominates Drake in Des Moines. Go figure.

Each game will be a question of "Which team will show up?" Monday, it was Good Cyclones. Friday it could be Bad Cyclones, or at least, Cyclones Who Are Trying Too Hard, which is easily mistaken for Bad Cyclones.

This bunch could easily beat KU twice and Texas at home, and yet get swept by CU and lose at Baylor.

If I was Steve Alford, my plan would be to have Brunner touch the ball on every possesion at least once. The old "Shoot it up and crash the boards" strategy will work well on two fronts: SUI will get lots of garbage buckets, and will decimate the ISU front line with foul trouble. It's a perfect plan.

Peterclone

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