That was life on day three of the event’s new LED-backlit glass ground, which has drawn combined critiques each for seems to be and for security. Several gamers have mentioned it has extra bounce than a wooden ground however extra are saying it’s slippery than those that say it isn’t.
“Obviously, the floor is a bit slippery,” Anderson mentioned later, based on the Kansas City Star. “I just kind of misstepped or did a move that caused me to slip and kind of ended up in an unnatural position.”
But in the end, no Wildcats had been harm and Burries mentioned, after getting used to it throughout warmups, the one time that it bothered him was when he shot free throws.
“If you’re shooting a free throw and you’re on the other side, the LED lights get in your eyes a little bit,” Burries mentioned. “But ain’t no big deal, really.”
UA ahead Ivan Kharchenkov, who performed on the same glass ground final season for Bayern Munich, mentioned he truly felt the ground was safer as a result of logos and graphics had been in lights, not stickers.
“Back in Germany, we have a lot of stickers on hardwood floors. It’s slippery,” Kharchenkov said. “I don’t know if it’s a European thing or whatever, but stickers are horrible. They just don’t have the grip. You slide above the sticker, and then you get traction with the floor again. It’s really dangerous.”
When discussing Friday’s Arizona-Iowa State matchup, Big 12-focused ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla mentioned no fan base has been crazier contained in the T-Mobile Center than Iowa State’s.
Yep, much more so than the followers from Kansas, who’re famously recognized for his or her legendary noise at Allen Fieldhouse, nearly an hour to the west.
