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Post by Dr J on Feb 11, 2016 21:58:02 GMT -5
BD needs to learn that there are three parts of the game of basketball and rebounding is one of the three. UWM defeats Oakland and we lose to UIC. We went back to pass, pass oh wait somebody shoot.
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Post by hhgreen on Feb 11, 2016 21:58:25 GMT -5
Flames are going to burn bright next year. Why do we always lose to a bottom feeder at the end of the season? If it is not the Flames it's the Penguins.
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Post by gerb on Feb 11, 2016 23:32:11 GMT -5
This showed up on my 'On This Day' feed on Facebook today. We'd just beaten a top 20 team and sold out the arena. Cut to eight years later and we lost to the fourth worst team in the country. My, how the mighty have fallen.
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Post by Willie on Feb 12, 2016 11:36:27 GMT -5
As frustrated as everyone is about this game, it simply happens. Obviously it was the poor shooting that did us in; face it, we had a cold night. Better now than in the tournament. In my view, we did what we often call for--when cold at the three, drive the lane and try to draw fouls. Unfortunately, that did not work as UIC simply was too strong defensively underneath. At least we tried the right things, including switching to a zone defense. We simply could not buy a basket. Hoping we can find our touch before playing Valpo. If we win out, we still get a 2 seed for the tourney, and that is the goal before us. Opti Blah Blah Blah. The truth of the matter is good teams find a way to win these kind of games, even on a bad night. UIC was 1-19 against Division I competition. We were a team that had a chance to move ahead of Oakland by a full game and keep us in contention for first place with Valpo. This team has no killer instinct and our coach does not know how to motivate them.
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Post by Dr J on Feb 12, 2016 13:16:39 GMT -5
I was very disappointed when I read that BD said we were just bad. I have never heard him say, " I didn't have them prepared or my game plan was not the correct one for this game." I had a coach in college if we would lose a game like this he would take the blame for the loss. BD wants to place the blame on the players. He is more of a negative type coach than an encouraging coach. He shows more emotion to correct a mistake than encouraging a great play. His game plan wasn't working but never made a positive change.
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Post by Dr J on Feb 12, 2016 18:49:10 GMT -5
Opti, you don't see the point. When the coach says I didn't get them ready or have the right game plan you are helping the players confidence. A truly good coach understand that the players really feel bad about that type of game so why pike it on more. But we each have our own feelings.
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Post by bballraider on Feb 12, 2016 19:41:06 GMT -5
Opti, you don't see the point. When the coach says I didn't get them ready or have the right game plan you are helping the players confidence. A truly good coach understand that the players really feel bad about that type of game so why pike it on more. But we each have our own feelings. Coach almost always takes the blame for losses, and gives the players credit for victories, you would know that if you listen to his post game interview, the coaches show or news interviews. I'm sure when he said we played bad, the players were the first to agree. It's not about confidence. We flat out missed wide open shots, lots of them. Had we made one or two of those open shots, the game changes and we probably win this game. Some days the shots don't fall, and coach can take all the blame he wants, but the players know they missed the shots, and it wasn't just one player, it was most of them. Luckily the quick turnaround doesn't give them too much time to worry about the past.
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