The male basketball of Iowa’s state returns to the basics to prepare for Arizona

Ames – the strict daily habits of Iowa are designed to form a bullet against adversity.

This is due to the fact that cyclones are taught to expect and overcome adversity, not be caught outside the guard and decrease.

But the latest men’s basketball loss, ranked ninth place, an amazing ISU, 74-68, delay in Big 12 Bottom Feed Oklahoma State has best proved the best established and tested plan for success in court is not unregistered. It is also not optional.

Each of the top players cohort of Cyclones cyclones completely buys, or grabs a chair on the bench.

“We spend a lot of time for the consistency of habits, daily habits, physics, mental hardness in the way we do this,” said Otzelberger, whose exhausted injury team (21-7, 11-6) is trying to return to routes at 8 pm (ESPN) against no. 22 Arizona (19-9, 13-4) at Hilton Coliseum. “So, regardless of injury, no matter what the boys deal with, all these things, there is a standard that we have to display when we go out and compete. And that 95 percent (the rate of accession) must tend to 100 percent of the time.

“I can’t explain why I had a few games this year in which it wasn’t at standard.”

The lack of continuity in rotation for more than a month explains at least partially some of the struggles of cyclones. The top 3 -point shooter, Milan Momcilovic, missed almost a month due to a hand injury, but when he returned, ISU shook four direct victories. Then, the main scorer, Curtis Jones was hit by pneumonia, which forced to miss the loss 68-59 at the number 4. Also, Keshon Gilbert’s assistance man missed that game with a muscle tension that expanded in the loss of agitation of the head in Stillwater.

Jones returned for that game and scored 11 points. Gilbert, said Otzelberger, could be again to face Wildcats on Saturday, but remains questionable.

“We are optimistic that it will be able to return,” Otzelberger said about Gilbert, who is also one of the best paint cyclones. “Again, his health and well -being (is) no. 1 (he) was able to practice (Thursday) for the first time (in a time), so we will see how his body responds to it and where it is. “

The loser of ISU alone this season, when it came with maximum power against Auburn in Maui, but some of his spine problems (careless, occasionally, occasionally slipped even in the best periods.

Therefore, Otzelberger’s team has returned to Back-to-Basic mode this week, in the effort to recommend those long-term habits that remain critical for success.

“I think I only took the state of Oklahoma too easily,” said the versatile ISU, Joshua Jefferson, which has an average of 3.8 thefts in the last four games, but has transformed the ball four or more times into three of these matches. “We will never do this for the rest of the season. We just want to play how we play – how we should play – every game from (here) on the exit. “

This means that cyclone practice performance must be mirrored in games. ISU gave up the seed no. 3 In the latest projections of Joe Lunardi’s NCAA NCAA NCAA tournament, but Top 25 victories over Arizona on Saturday, and By-Hot Red on Tuesday at Hilton could propel the cyclones again on the line no. 2.

And there were some positive evolutions for ISU, despite its two-game tumble and deleted last month. Guardian Nate Heise has registered a high level of cyclone career in points in three consecutive games, and the former northern transfer of Iowa drilled three of his four attempts in 3 points against Oklahoma.

“Nate is playing at his skill level,” said Otzelberger. “I don’t think he does something at the moment beyond that. It is extremely capable. “

Like the ISU team wrote the great-which that can avenge a loss of roads for Wildcats, made possible by a 55-meter regulation in the regulation. Cyclones do not need a makeover. They simply have to unravel their roots and dig deep into them.

“The way we solve is through practice,” said Heise, who has an average of 12 points in the last three games. “Only by going through it as hard as the effort we have to make in the game.”

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