Exhibit 1
We have the ball, tied game, with 40 seconds to go. Buie runs out the shot clock for a terrible shot.
Why? No clue. If a team has the ball with say, up to 35 seconds, tied, I can understand running out the clock. Play the one on one, run out the clock. You don't leave the other team with the opportunity to score that way. At least that.
But with 40 seconds to go, the other team is going to have a decent chance of scoring in any case that is not an offensive rebound for us. So why would you not run your offense for 15 to 20 seconds at least? Why not see if you could generate an easy shot before you go one on one? The one on one play will be there after 20 seconds of offense anyway.
Unless you don't agree with this logic, this is 100% on CC. Not on Buie. CC could have called a timeout to make this happen
Exhibit 2
We have to miss a FT. We miss it, we even get so lucky that we get the ball. We lucked out. Winning an offensive rebound on a FT is always lucky. We got lucky.
But, why were Verhoeven and Nicholson on the bench for this rebound? You run that FT situation 100 times with them in and I guarantee you we will get the ball back more often than with them out.
I don't know, it felt to me like last year's deer in headlights end of game management.
We have the ball, tied game, with 40 seconds to go. Buie runs out the shot clock for a terrible shot.
Why? No clue. If a team has the ball with say, up to 35 seconds, tied, I can understand running out the clock. Play the one on one, run out the clock. You don't leave the other team with the opportunity to score that way. At least that.
But with 40 seconds to go, the other team is going to have a decent chance of scoring in any case that is not an offensive rebound for us. So why would you not run your offense for 15 to 20 seconds at least? Why not see if you could generate an easy shot before you go one on one? The one on one play will be there after 20 seconds of offense anyway.
Unless you don't agree with this logic, this is 100% on CC. Not on Buie. CC could have called a timeout to make this happen
Exhibit 2
We have to miss a FT. We miss it, we even get so lucky that we get the ball. We lucked out. Winning an offensive rebound on a FT is always lucky. We got lucky.
But, why were Verhoeven and Nicholson on the bench for this rebound? You run that FT situation 100 times with them in and I guarantee you we will get the ball back more often than with them out.
I don't know, it felt to me like last year's deer in headlights end of game management.