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AMES, Iowa -- There are times when senior Deonte Burton can be the most spectacular and maddening player on the floor for No. 25 Iowa State -- often in the same sequence.Harnessing Burtons strengths and minimizing his weaknesses will be a big challenge for both Burton and coach Steve Prohm this season.Burton has been occasionally spectacular for Iowa State. The 6-foot-5, 250-pounder is averaging 14.1 points, a team-high 7.6 rebounds and is shooting 47.4 percent from 3-point range.If Burton can continue to overcome the little mistakes that hold him back, like forced shots and the nearly two turnovers per game so far in 2016-17, the Cyclones can be a serious threat in the Big 12. Iowa State travels to face Iowa (4-5) on Thursday.Some of those shots that he shoots, youre like `Oh man, Prohm said. But those are lessening. Now the biggest thing weve got to get him to do is to make that extra pass, and I think hes seeing that. But hes just an offensive talent.Last season, Burton was a role player for a team with plenty of scoring options.This year, the Cyclones are counting on him.Burton was a top-50 recruit coming out of Vincent High in Milwaukee, and he earned Big East All-Rookie honors for Marquette as a freshman. But after losing his mother to breast cancer just before the start of his sophomore season, Burton opted for a change and left Marquette after just eight games.Like so many transfers before him, Burton found a home with the Cyclones. He became eligible last December and was immediately inserted into a rotation that had just lost starting guard Naz Mitrou-Long to injuries.Burton averaged a career-high 9.7 points and 3.9 rebounds. But with frontcourt stars like Georges Niang and Abdel Nader leading the way and a first-year coach in Prohm that he barely knew, Burtons focus wasnt always where it needed to be.Hell tell you. Last year...he wasnt hard, necessarily, to coach. But he wasnt easy to coach, either, Prohm said. I really just talked to him about my expectations, what I wanted him to do to help him ... the way you go about things, the way you prepare, the way you work, the way you handle yourself. Hes done all that.Prohm also said at media day in October that he wanted Burton to get a double-double every game. Burton is talented enough to come close.Burton has scored at least 20 points three times this season, including a 29-point performance in a 73-71 loss to No. 8 Gonzaga.Burton has shown a knack for getting hot and scoring points in bunches -- like when scored the first 13 points in Mondays win over Nebraska-Omaha -- but hes learning not to do that without disrupting Iowa States game plan.If I start hitting some shots, then I start taking bad shots. So I just try to keep with the flow of the game, Burton said.That 91-47 win over Omaha also featured a sequence that encapsulated Burtons game.Burton grabbed a tough defensive rebound, but then threw a careless left-handed outlet pass the Mavs stole. Burton stayed under the hoop, blocking the ensuing layup try and allowing the Cyclones to get back up the floor in transition.If Iowa State can get those types of plays from Burton -- minus the miscue -- it will be much closer to reaching its full potential.I think Deonte is playing a lot smarter right now. And we need him to, Prohm said.---More college basketball at www.collegebasketball.ap.orgFake Yeezy Boost 350 V2 . 8 Iowa State on Saturday, sending the Cyclones to their third consecutive loss. The Longhorns (14-4, 3-2) got their biggest win of the season with their third in the row in the Big 12. Fake Yeezy Boost 750 . For the Wild it was their first win of the season and they now have a record of 1-1-2 while the Jets fall to 2-2. 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He had to wait nearly five years before wearing the France jersey again, going in as a substitute in a 0-0 draw against Belarus in September.Gameiro had scored only once for France before, in a friendly against Ukraine back in June 2011.His excellent display and gritty behavior at Stade de France, coupled to his promising partnership with Griezmann, will certainly convince France coach Didier Deschamps to call him more often in the future.Im 29 years old now, Im more experienced, and I understand that there are times when one needs to perform. I did it tonight, Gameiro said.FRANCE 4, BULGARIA 1On a cold evening at Stade de France, the hosts were caught on the break almost immediately. Bacary Sagna clumsily fouled Georgi Milanov in the box and Mihail Aleksandrov converted the penalty with a shot past goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in off the post.France had a good chance to level immediately but Gameiro was denied by a last-ditch tackle from defender Dimitar Pirgov.The hosts enjoyed most of the ball possession and leveled when Gameiro connected with a curled cross from Bacary Sagna to beat Vladislav Stoyanov with a glancing header.Payet was a bit lucky to give France the lead three minutes later with a cross which bounced past everyone in the area and went in.dddddddddddd. Bulgaria was then made to pay for a terrible mistake from Pirgov, who gave the ball away to Griezmann in front of goal in the 38th. Grizemann, the European Championship top scorer last summer, advanced to the edge of the area and coolly slotted home with a precise low shot.Bulgaria players did not make up for their lackluster display after the interval and were pegged back in their half for long spells. They conceded again near the hour-mark after Griezmann assisted his clubmate Gameiro, who slotted home with a clean finish from close range.Its just natural, Gameiro said about the good understanding on the pitch he shares with Griezmann. We are both small in size and love to play with the ball.NETHERLANDS 4, BELARUS 1In Rotterdam, Quincy Promes scored his first two international goals and striker Vincent Janssen rediscovered the scoring touch that has deserted him in the English Premier League.The Netherlands, which failed to qualify for Euro 2016, dominated a Belarus team that held France to 0-0 in its first Group A qualifier.Winger Promes scored twice in the first half hour, and helped to set up Davy Klaassens 55th-minute rebound strike eight minutes after Aleksey Rios capped a spell of Belarus pressure either side of halftime with a goal.Promes first goal was a shot that through the legs of three defenders.I shot it deliberately through the legs of the first defender, he said, but you have to be a bit lucky to get it through two more sets of legs.Vincent Janssen, who has struggled to find the net for Tottenham since joining the London club from AZ Alkmaar, scored the goal of the night by stealing the ball just inside the Belarus half, outpacing two defenders and thumping a curling shot into the far top corner.LUXEMBOURG 0, SWEDEN 1Sweden remains unbeaten after their first two matches after Celtic defender Mikael Lustig scored the winner with a half-volley from Marcus Bergs corner in the 59th minute.---Mike Corder in Amsterdam contributed to this report. 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