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Sorry but that's just not true. The idea that Butler was guaranteed to score there is absurd.
Forgetting the score one time is a far more forgivable mistake than having your team shoot the ball in a tie game and no shot clock with enough time that you lose the game. Butler should be far more worried about their coaching situation if they let that happen. You shoot the ball with about 4 seconds left so there's enough time for a putback on an offensive rebound, but not enough time for anything but a full court heave on a defensive rebound.Again, the absolute best case scenario for Marquette when Butler got the defensive rebound was to get to overtime. Marquette got to overtime even with this "unforgiveable mistake." The mistake was not the reason Marquette lost the game. Being unable to stop Kamar Baldwin was.
Forgetting the score one time is a far more forgivable mistake than having your team shoot the ball in a tie game and no shot clock with enough time that you lose the game. Butler should be far more worried about their coaching situation if they let that happen. You shoot the ball with about 4 seconds left so there's enough time for a putback on an offensive rebound, but not enough time for anything but a full court heave on a defensive rebound.
I specifically said that Wojo not knowing what the score was and ordering a dumb play be made by one of his players was NOT (ultimately anyway) the reason we lost. His deer in the headlights inability to notice/adjust to the fact that Butler was doing the same thing successfully time after time after time down the stretch and his acquiescence to Markus playing hero ball was. But not effectively adjusting in game and having a free reign star system have been hallmarks of the Wojo era from day one. And it hasn’t stopped his supporters from comparing him to Jay Wright, K and other coaching legends. But when a guy doesn’t even know what the score is at crunch time that is, to me at least, incompetence at a whole other level. And when it’s added to lack of adjustments, star system, inability to control the locker room, etc., etc., it pushed me over the ledge. I hope he can recruit well enough to overcome his sideline inadequacies, but if I’m up against him on the trail my message would be simple - “Do you want to entrust your NBA dream to a guy who doesn’t even know the score”?
Nothing in life is guaranteed. But Butler was going to score and end that game.
Wojo gets no credit for some sort of strategy considering afterwards he admitted he made a mistake.
Well the good thing is a guy who played over a decade in the NBA apparently has no problem entrusting his child's NBA dream to a guy who doesn't even know the score.If that's a coach's recruiting pitch against Wojo, I'd feel very confident in where MU stands.
I'm not giving him credit for a strategy. I'm saying his "unforgiveable mistake" was so unforgivable that 1) we got the ball with a chance to win the game and 2) the best possible result we could've hoped for prior to that mistake being made is the exact result we got. That "unforgivable mistake" is not what lost us the game at Butler.
It didn’t cost us the game. But that didn’t make it any less shocking. And it made official what 4ever, Goose and others have asserted for a long time. Wojo is in over his head. There was a lot of circumstantial evidence (inability to adjust in game, failures in the tournament, last season’s total collapse, a system that deferred to his gunners and all too often resulted in hero ball, Hausergate, etc.,) that Wojo was overmatched, but the projos always had a counterpoint. Wojo needs time, Markus was hurt, Sam and Joey were at fault, etc. So a stalemate - until Friday. Initially, I didn’t believe what I was seeing. “How could Brendan be so mixed up?”, I wondered. Marquette had just used a timeout 20 seconds earlier - didn’t the staff talk about time and score and how to play things if we didn’t score? Then my disbelief turned to shock. It wasn’t Brendan who panicked in utter confusion. It wasn’t Brendan who didn’t know the most elementary item (the score) in the final seconds of a game. It was Wojo. I’m still in disbelief. As for him being given credit for “owning it”, what else was he gonna do? Add a lie to the panic and incompetence?I still don’t want Wojo fired - I don’t want to lose this year’s recruiting class. And maybe (doubtful) he’ll out recruit the rest of the Big East coaches by a great enough margin to be consistently be successful. But I’m no longer kidding myself. Coaching wise, he’s not ready for prime time and I don’t think he’ll ever be.
Can you clarify #2? Wouldn't the best possible result we could've hoped for prior to that mistake being made is an outright stop, wherein we get the ball back tied, and worst case scenario we go to OT if we miss the last shot?
There is absolutely no chance that Butler does anything other than have Kamar Baldwin stand near the center court line with the ball until about 8-10 seconds left and then runs the pick and roll they scored on over and over again down the stretch, getting a shot off around the 4 second mark. If Baldwin happened to miss (he hadn't been) and Marquette does rebound the ball, they do so with, at best, 2 seconds left. So sure, Marquette could've got a stop and hit an 88 foot shot to win the game I guess. But that's an absolute pipe dream scenario. It just isn't going to happen.
Markus not being Markus. Hmm, shouldn't a coach realize that and adjust appropriately? I like Wojo and think he has a number of positives. But some items are tough to watch as a fan. Especially on such a well played game by the rest of the team.Some games we wouldn't have won without Markus, but this game, just having Markus on the court and not having him touch the ball would of probably provided us the victory.
There's a reason Wojo was welded to the Duke bench for almost two decades.
82Guys are not assistants for 15 years and become HC. You always not this is not the '70's anymore, same holds true to your comparisons. Coaches are younger and younger. He was welded to the bench for a reason.