What the hell Bruce?

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zjcvols

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With one timeout left, instead of saving it in case he ended up missing the FT, and you can still set up some form of a play, you instead, for some inexplicable reason, take a timeout before the free throw. So what happens? He misses intentionally, and Hopson has to jack up a 50 footer with no hope of going in. Instead of waiting to take a TO, and maybe you can something closer to the basket. Why wait to take the timeout? I have no earthly idea. Anybody want to explain this to me?
 
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Especially when you have time with the Williams foul out to call up a play.

Terrible decision by Pearl. Shows again where he lacks as a coach.
 
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#7
Should of taken that TO after the Harris in bound score to set his defense.
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King Webbsticles said:
Especially when you have time with the Williams foul out to call up a play.

Terrible decision by Pearl. Shows again where he lacks as a coach.
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He had 30 seconds to do whatever the hell he had to do. I don't get it. My dad and I are terribly confused.
 
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tripper said:
Should of taken that TO after the Harris in bound score to set his defense.
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If he wanted to use that last timeout then, that's okay. I get that and respect that. I personally wouldn't, but understand. Why he called a TO before the FT boggles my mind.
 
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colvol said:
I was just about to make this thread.
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of course you were ...

Had Pearl waited to call the timeout and we turned the ball over or got off a bad shot anyway due to poor execution, you'd still making this thread. **** already.
 
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Did you just realize that Bruce can't manage the clock in the last seconds of a close game? Never could, never will.
Watched a team just last weekend get 2 plays off with .8 seconds left on the clock 1 timeout and had to go the length of the floor.
No excuse for Pearl.
 
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zjcvols said:
If he wanted to use that last timeout then, that's okay. I get that and respect that. I personally wouldn't, but understand. Why he called a TO before the FT boggles my mind.
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He probably didn't know he only had 1 left. And I'm not joking.
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mch317 said:
of course you were ...

Had Pearl waited to call the timeout and we turned the ball over or got off a bad shot anyway due to poor execution, you'd still making this thread. **** already.
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Um, what the hell are you talking about? Give me a good reason why we should have called that timeout?
 
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Pearl is bad with timeouts. Has been and looks like always will be. letting ramar smith run down the court and lose the game for us in the NCAA tourny instead of calling time out and letting lofton win the game for us comes to mind.
 
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#20
I like the philosophy Pearl shows towards timeouts, but the timing of the last one was terrible.
 
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The biggest mistake in that last sequence wasn't necessarily the timeouts - it was having absolutely no strategy whatsoever for when the FT was missed or made. With 3.4 seconds, you can't dribble the ball up the court. You have to set it up so that you pass it up quickly and get off something better than a double-pump halfcourt shot.
 
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TennNC said:
The biggest mistake in that last sequence wasn't necessarily the timeouts - it was having absolutely no strategy whatsoever for when the FT was missed or made. With 3.4 seconds, you can't dribble the ball up the court. You have to set it up so that you pass it up quickly and get off something better than a double-pump halfcourt shot.
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No doubt. You screen fr a shooter and hit him off it to square and shoot. Dribbling is easily the slowest option.
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calban said:
Did you just realize that Bruce can't manage the clock in the last seconds of a close game? Never could, never will.
Watched a team just last weekend get 2 plays off with .8 seconds left on the clock 1 timeout and had to go the length of the floor.No excuse for Pearl.
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I'm pretty sure that is impossible unless they are throwing full court alley oops from the inbounds.
 
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