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Tie the game, crowd into it, all the momentum going your way, why call a timeout and slow the game down to a crawl??? How often do these "plays" drawn up ever actually work anyway? Most lead to a bad shot or in this case, no shot at all. On the bright side, Ponds using up the whole clock was still a better plan than going to Sima in the high post.
Does this coaching staff ever go over last game situations with the team, ever?? What are there, 5 assistants? What do these guys actually do? Down by 3, you have Simon giving the ball to Owens, on the run, down low? Why?? Then, needing to foul, immediately, you have Ahmed let them milk five seconds off the clock, I ask again, why? Simple basketball, yet it never gets done correctly.
Great to see the team battling hard, just too bad they are so undermanned and get no help from the staff.
While I was writing this, JP Macura came barging into me out of nowhere, and I got called for the foul, unreal!
 
Funny line about Macura, who is a very good player who is the most hated guy by opponents on their squad.

Did you want them to freeze out Owens cutting across the paint and in position to drive? Coach him not to travel maybe?

Maybe coach our guys into stepping up and making free throw in the last 3 minutes of a very close game? Fact is that very good players elevate their game, including free throws, when the game is on the line.

Xavier game plan was to give Simon, Clark, Owens, Ahmed - anyone not named Ponds plenty of room to fire up threes. I'm sure they watch game tape, and we shoot from 3, it's like adding 5 spectators to the game attendance - everyone watches.

Do you really have to coach making free throws, or to follow your shot, or to crash the boards. Do you think because the casual fan sees this that the coaching staff isn't pointing this out? From what I understand, St. Jean from his NBA days, analyzes game tapes and prefers to point things out in practice and meetings.

I know that a few good players can change everything, and we played the 6th ranked team in the country to a draw for nearly the entire game. That says a lot given how undermanned we are. But I'd agree that it's frustrating that a few simple things, like getting better looks, making free throws in crunch time, not turning the ball over, and hitting the boards were the difference in last night's game between a W and L
 
Funny line about Macura, who is a very good player who is the most hated guy by opponents on their squad.

Did you want them to freeze out Owens cutting across the paint and in position to drive? Coach him not to travel maybe?

Maybe coach our guys into stepping up and making free throw in the last 3 minutes of a very close game? Fact is that very good players elevate their game, including free throws, when the game is on the line.

Xavier game plan was to give Simon, Clark, Owens, Ahmed - anyone not named Ponds plenty of room to fire up threes. I'm sure they watch game tape, and we shoot from 3, it's like adding 5 spectators to the game attendance - everyone watches.

Do you really have to coach making free throws, or to follow your shot, or to crash the boards. Do you think because the casual fan sees this that the coaching staff isn't pointing this out? From what I understand, St. Jean from his NBA days, analyzes game tapes and prefers to point things out in practice and meetings.

I know that a few good players can change everything, and we played the 6th ranked team in the country to a draw for nearly the entire game. That says a lot given how undermanned we are. But I'd agree that it's frustrating that a few simple things, like getting better looks, making free throws in crunch time, not turning the ball over, and hitting the boards were the difference in last night's game between a W and L
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well said
 
Coaching didnt loose the game. We missed fts, goal tended, traveled, and let the shot clock expire.Another game (against great competition), we could have had. We are a lot better than our record. Perhaps, fatigue plays a role at the end of games.
 
Tie the game, crowd into it, all the momentum going your way, why call a timeout and slow the game down to a crawl??? How often do these "plays" drawn up ever actually work anyway? Most lead to a bad shot or in this case, no shot at all. On the bright side, Ponds using up the whole clock was still a better plan than going to Sima in the high post.
Does this coaching staff ever go over last game situations with the team, ever?? What are there, 5 assistants? What do these guys actually do? Down by 3, you have Simon giving the ball to Owens, on the run, down low? Why?? Then, needing to foul, immediately, you have Ahmed let them milk five seconds off the clock, I ask again, why? Simple basketball, yet it never gets done correctly.
Great to see the team battling hard, just too bad they are so undermanned and get no help from the staff.
While I was writing this, JP Macura came barging into me out of nowhere, and I got called for the foul, unreal!
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Sima???
 
Coaching didnt loose the game. We missed fts, goal tended, traveled, and let the shot clock expire.Another game (against great competition), we could have had. We are a lot better than our record. Perhaps, fatigue plays a role at the end of games.
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Coaching was fine this game. Results were not.
Timeouts were used to give our guys a breather. Ponds and Clark played 40 minutes, each, and Simon played 37 minutes.
 
I agree Eric, poignant summary by Beast.
Repeating what has been oft repeated herein, it's hard not to imagine what one more additional decent player (Lovett or???) would have made with these single digit losses. Wow. But this year is what it is and, in a strange way, will help many of us appreciate the (likely) better season ahead 2018-19. I know I will not take for granted when we play better and gather enough Ws to make for a nice season.
;)
 
Make your free throws and layups (Ahmed) they win.

Besides the play coming out of the timeout in the last minute really not on coaching this game.
 
After reading post after post on thread after thread bashing Mullin the only thing I can think is Norm Roberts should thank God he was not the program's GOAT. Because if he was, I can only assume all the goodwill and positives posted about him for the first FOUR years would not have happened. Am I right because otherwise the double standard between the two would not make any sense. The funny thing is it would be easy to just bash the younger posters( wow, when did I not become a younger poster? When exactly did that happen?) but it appears that posters of all ages have lost patience sooner than would have been expected.
 
After reading post after post on thread after thread bashing Mullin the only thing I can think is Norm Roberts should thank God he was not the program's GOAT. Because if he was, I can only assume all the goodwill and positives posted about him for the first FOUR years would not have happened. Am I right because otherwise the double standard between the two would not make any sense. The funny thing is it would be easy to just bash the younger posters( wow, when did I not become a younger poster? When exactly did that happen?) but it appears that posters of all ages have lost patience sooner than would have been expected.
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There may be some fatigue from our lack of success this millenium in play
 
After reading post after post on thread after thread bashing Mullin the only thing I can think is Norm Roberts should thank God he was not the program's GOAT. Because if he was, I can only assume all the goodwill and positives posted about him for the first FOUR years would not have happened. Am I right because otherwise the double standard between the two would not make any sense. The funny thing is it would be easy to just bash the younger posters( wow, when did I not become a younger poster? When exactly did that happen?) but it appears that posters of all ages have lost patience sooner than would have been expected.
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There may be some fatigue from our lack of success this millenium in play
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Yes but generally fans are disloyal but than whine when player X leaves to go somewhere else .

The way I look at it with Mullin is he gave me 3 great years of fandom.(I started as a fan his frosh year but was really too little to know what was going on other that David Russell could jump).

He has given me three crappy years of fandom as coach. It is a push as far as I am concerned.
 
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