Another Drew moment (collect them all)

[Bob in Houston]

This guy continues to do things that make me wonder about his ability to coach.

They fight back from 14 down, to pull within two with a minute left. They only have one timeout left. He uses it with 59 seconds left.

<shakes head>

You now are close enough to play standard defense, if you choose. You don't have to press. You don't need a timeout, much less your last one.

Thing was, they kept pressing when they didn't need to. I realize it was working, but you wind up putting more pressure on your own team when they continually fail to convert.

And they could have used that TO when Aaron Bruce had his brainlock.

 

[ThirtyFiveAlive]

Well said. There were some other moments when I wondered if Drew (and Bruce) had his head in the game or, well, somewhere else.

In fact, I wondered that every time he complained about the officiating.

 

[TomTerrific]

All **** talking aside...I admire the hell out of what he has done with that program considering what he inherited.


We collapsed at the end....his "coaching" should have never been an issue.

 

[TomTerrific]

although I understand what you are saying.

 

[Statalyzer]

I was hoping he would stop pressing, but he was too smart not too. Why stop when it's working and we're burning timeouts and turning the ball over?

 

[Bob in Houston]

What I am trying to say is that when you put yourself down double digits, you have to press, etc., to get back into the game. When they got within a bucket, they should not have been in panic mode.

All it would have taken is a couple of sets of made FTs (which Texas ended getting only once out of what, six or seven chances?), and Baylor's out of it. Then the decision to keep pressing down just two looks pretty silly. You can't count on those guys continuing to miss, even though they did.

 

[Bottlecap]

With all due respect, I don't know what the heck you are talking about. We had NO solution for the press. That was the perfect call to maintain pressure and helter skelter. They put so much pressure on us, we couldn't even make a gimme free throw the entire 2 mins. Player stupidity bailed us out.

 

[TomTerrific]

I would have bet on us missing free throws, too.


If that is what this is about.

 

[Bob in Houston]

From the point of the last timeout until they got to about 30 seconds (when the shot clock was off), they didn't need to press, and they didn't need to foul.

IMO, the fact that it worked out well does not mean it was great strategy.

 

[AggieFactFinder]

man I totally disagree with you here Bob. We completely lost our composure. The only panic was on our side, not theirs. The fact that it worked doesn't mean it was a great strategy (though it is about as good an indicator as you can get), but it sure doesn't necessarily mean it was the wrong strategy.

We got a good shot just about every time down the floor in the half-court. We had no ability to take advantage of the press with easy baskets, we couldn't make our free throws, we couldn't inbound the ball, they were hot if they needed a 3 had we made FTs, we couldn't guard anybody, and DJ appeared tired. There was almost no risk at all.

 

[Statalyzer]

Yeah but I was thinking to myself "Just based on standard time/score logic, Baylor ought to stop pressing now. I really, really, hope Baylor follows that standard logic."

 

[ThirtyFiveAlive]

Continuing the press might've been the right thing for Baylor to do, but wasting its final timeout wasn't. I realize one helps set up the other, but Baylor is fast and athletic enough that it shouldn't need to burn a timeout to enforce a press.

And I don't think anyone is trying to impugn Drew's acumen as a head coach. As another poster noted, the turnaround he's performed, given the depths that program hit in 2003, is nothing short of miraculous.

 

[hoopdoc]

What AggieFactFinder said. They were just watching as we imploded. Inbounding under pressure has not been our strength this year. For that matter, defending the inbounds under opposing teams basket is, to put it nicely, horrible. Can we please just defend the rim and not let their post guys have a slam or layup on the inbounds.

Thank you.
That said, very good game for 38 minutes by a lot of the supporting cast.

 

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