Horrible coaching at end of purdue game

#202
#202
I'm sure UT is always taking resume's. With all the basketball geniuses on here you'd figure we'd win a NC in about a year. Why don't you guys apply??
 
#203
#203
alwaysorange81 said:
I'm sure UT is always taking resume's. With all the basketball geniuses on here you'd figure we'd win a NC in about a year. Why don't you guys apply??
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You don't need to be a chef to recognize bad cooking...and you don't need to be a coach in order to recognize bad basketball.
 
#204
#204
Pearl doesn't like calling T.O. at the end like that. Chism missed, and I know we only needed a 2, but that shot had a great chance of going in. You can't ask for much better of a look.
 
#207
#207
A three-point shot is not a high percentage shot; to take one when you're fifteen seconds from losing is asinine, and shows poor coaching. When's the last time a team that lives on the three won an NCAA championship? I didn't watch the entire game; I did notice in a couple of the moments I caught switching back and forth from the Titans game that we seemed to be trying to take it to the hoop some of the time; but excessive reliance on the three has sunk this team repeatedly in the past few years, and it's just bad coaching, and it gets old watching it. Here again, if we weren't jacking up threes left and right last night, and are trying to get inside more this year, I stand corrected, and applaud the change; but that was perhaps the stupidest single shot I've ever seen in a basketball game. If we were down three, it would have made sense; if there had been one second left, it would have made sense. But to jack up a three when you're not our best shooter (or even if you are) when we've got fifteen seconds left to try for a higher-percentage shot? I was dumbfounded.
 
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#208
Jaytrain5 said:
You don't need to be a chef to recognize bad cooking...and you don't need to be a coach in order to recognize bad basketball.
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not tryin to start anything here Jay but if you dont like the cooking you go to another restaurant. Talking to the Chef is a waste of time.
 
#209
#209
I'd have Chism take that shot everytime! Nothing wrong with it. If you want to place some blame, try looking at Tyler and Hopson for being non-existant just about the whole game. Tyler needs to step up and be a leader. Instead we saw a player apparently afraid to take a shot or drive or anything else other than pass the ball off. Chism is the better ball player right now. Hopson cannot handle a tight defense at this point in his career. It's obvious he still has some growing to do before he moves on to the NBA.
 
#212
#212
haha i love how everybody rides bruce's nu%$, then when we loose they throw him off a bridge. Some people do forget we are TENNESSEE and are not ment to win EVERY game we play. We had a chance to beat the number 6 team in the nation. What more can yhou ask for.
 
#213
#213
UTvolinBGKY said:
haha i love how everybody rides bruce's nu%$, then when we loose they throw him off a bridge. Some people do forget we are TENNESSEE and are not ment to win EVERY game we play. We had a chance to beat the number 6 team in the nation. What more can yhou ask for.
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We should obviously be NC contenders after 5 years of building from virtually nothing. 30-0 is the only acceptable record.
 
#217
#217
This is such a non-issue. You take a timeout, you give them time to setup their defense which has been stout all game. Some coaches believe in letting them make the play. Pearl has always been that way.

Weezy had a wide-open shot (3 pointer or not) he has to take that. It's on him that he choked completely and miss fired. If he would have pumpfaked and tried to take it in the lane and missed, we would all say " why didn't he take that shot?!?!?"
 
#218
#218
NastyNate said:
Weezy had a wide-open shot (3 pointer or not) he has to take that. It's on him that he choked completely and miss fired. If he would have pumpfaked and tried to take it in the lane and missed, we would all say " why didn't he take that shot?!?!?"
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Some of us aren't wondering why a guy who'd been 7-9 inside the three-point line and 7-7 from the free throw line, was floating around 20 feet from the basket.
 
#219
#219
I'm not sure of the exact amount of time but in my opinion what really hurt us was the scoring drought in the second half. It seems like we didn't score for about 10 minutes. That's where the game was lost. It should have never came down to Chism shooting a three.
 
#221
#221
dshad said:
I'm not sure of the exact amount of time but in my opinion what really hurt us was the scoring drought in the second half. It seems like we didn't score for about 10 minutes. That's where the game was lost. It should have never came down to Chism shooting a three.
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Agree. If anything to complain about coaching is here it is the lack of performance during other points in the game. Do I want Chism taking a 3-pointer at the end of the game to win? Not really, but in this case he had the best look despite the fact that he could have made that a much easier shot.
 
#222
#222
You take the open shot. If he tries to dribble down the lane, he could lose control of it, travel, or turn it over.
 
#223
#223
Jaytrain5 said:
Some of us aren't wondering why a guy who'd been 7-9 inside the three-point line and 7-7 from the free throw line, was floating around 20 feet from the basket.
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Pick and pop! For a wide open shot. Chism's just got to have better nerves, I don't think he expected to be that wide open.
 
#224
#224
If memory serves, I believe the Vols failed miserably on their last possession of the first half as well. After a while it stops looking like a coincidence.
 
#225
#225
UNAVol89 said:
You take the open shot. If he tries to dribble down the lane, he could lose control of it, travel, or turn it over.
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So if the other team leaves you open at half-court you take the shot?

Better question: if Kobe Bryant had that shot with fifteen seconds left, being the best player in the game right now, would he take it or try to get a better one, knowing if he missed that the game is undoubtedly over? He would try for a better shot. Because I've seen him do it many times in that same situation. It's pretty common for a team to allow the other team to shoot three-pointers open, because they know that unless the other team is hot, there's a high probability they're going to miss.

Over-reliance on three pointers has killed us in big games for at least three years now, and it led to a very stupid shot last night. Do you think one of Dean Smith's players would have taken that shot with fifteen seconds left trailing by one?
 
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