Oso planning to go pro
MU is like 4/4 in getting stops with that zone at the end of games with 3 or so turnovers. I definitely would have liked to see that when it was clear they weren’t getting stops.
How can Wojo not know the score? They just had a timeout. What did they discuss? Wojo said there was confusion in the huddle - how can that be? There are scoreboards. Marquette deserves better than this. Wojo needs to be better than this, as does his staff. The players played their hearts out tonight. Coaching let them down and that’s inexcusable.
This exactly. You are conceding that you cant stop your opponent. How about playing some damn defense or devising a way to stop the guy. If you lose because he beats your best effort. ok.
The point is to win the game. If he was going to devise a different defense he would have had to have done it already (and I agree he should have), but by then it was too late. Who gives a crap that fouling meant we were conceding that we couldn't stop them? We hadn't been stopping for a long stretch whether we conceded it or not and there was no reason to think we would stop them on that possession.He/we f'd up the endgame a half dozen ways, and that fact that he called for the foul because he did not know the score is just brutal. When it first happened, I figured that Bailey screwed up, then when I read on the board that Wojo called for it, I thought that it was a good gamble. When I read that Wojo called for it because he didn't know the score, I thought it was a brutal but happy accident. It worked by the way. We got to OT, which was best case scenario if not fouling. If we ran some semblance of an offense instead of chucking up a contested three with 10 seconds left, we could have won the game right there.
It's a bad decision. You may think that it was sound strategy as a fan, as a coach you don't make that call. It sends the message to the team that the coach has no confidence in them.
Wojo f'd up. He owned it.
There's nothing he can say. He's inept. And You're comfy with this guy. Just think if there's a similar situation in a tourney game....... I mean how many times does it take?
So, lose the game to show the team you have confidence in them? You could spin it to show that you had confidence in the offense to win the game. At any rate the point was moot, because what Wojo did by admitting a gaffe after the game was the worst of all things. He showed the team he didn't know what he was doing.
You have been on vacation the last three games until tonight...you are nothing but a troll
Steve “JR Smith” Wojciechowski Every scooper felt like Lebron. Know the score man. So disappointing.
Can’t believe it got to the 5th page to refer to this: https://kenpom.com/blog/studying-whether-to-foul-when-tied-part-3/Given a 30% chance to win, MU should have fouled a 78.7% foul shooter or less. Baldwin was not. Ken tweeted about it during the game.
It was a bad, bad decision, but still didn't cost us the game. Markus' chucking and turnovers, plus no ability whatsoever to find a way to stop baldwin did
Nice find. Thanks for sharing. Can we hire KenPom? (Joke) But wonder if we have a data/statistics scientist working with the program? Progressive NFL teams now have one, and they are using the data to decide when to go for 4th downs to increase win probabilities.
Prior to Markus getting clocked at the 15:44 mark, he had 24 points and 6 assists in 24 minutes and was playing a solid game. The next 12 minutes or so, he didn't force much. He missed shots, but they were in the flow. Sacar and Bailey scored a lot in this stretch. For some reason, with 3 minutes to go, he decided to go hero. Whether he took it on himself or Wojo told him to, it didn't work. I have very few complaints about Markus, the team, or coaching decisions, through the first 37 minutes.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
So for 12 minutes after he hit his head he played ok. The hit in the head somehow affected him only for the last 3 minutes. Ok
Yep. The rationalizing here on this is nuts. I do give Wojo credit for owning it. Could have made some lame excuse.