re: Gotta love it. One of the biggest choke jobs I've ever seen.

Plenty of reasons for that loss, but one big one was Haith getting outcoached big time. Not trying to be negative, but this was eating at me all day at work today and maybe it will help to list them out!

1. See how Ole Miss had 2 physical post players get 2 fouls a piece early in the 2nd half, but yet they rotated in, kept playing and held a deficit that should have been 12-15 to only 7 at the half. Yet every time Bowers and AO get in foul trouble early, they sit the entire half. Typically they pick up 1 more foul rest of the game, and we just took 15 minutes of possessions away from our team strength. I don't get it, especially Bowers who plays a lot on the perimeter, you really cant try to let him play through it?

2. When the other team is taking a huge risk by playing posts in foul trouble, and you have 2 good offensive post up players, they should get a post up touch every possession. Eventually you are going to draw a HUGE 3rd foul, or their player will have to play weak D and give up great looks.

3.Again we went to the stall/burn offense way too early, something we are not good at. We should not even think about doing this at the 5 minute mark, much less at 8 or 9 minutes like last night. We are not good at it, especially when we don't run sets and expect Flip to get creative and bail us out.

4. in the last 2:30 of the game each team took 2 timeouts. After the Ole Miss timeouts they got a layup on a great play design, and a play ran for their best player who passed it off for an even better shot. After our 2 timeouts we ran high ball screens for Flip like every other play. This makes the rest of the team stand around and become passive while letting Ole Miss get away with not having to work to defend. We should be running sets, setting screens, and see if anything easy opens up first.

5. with 29 seconds left in a tie game with a timeout in your pocket, you should never attempt a high risk deep pass like Bowers did even if Bell did communicate with him. Its a high risk play with zero reward cause even if it works we wouldn't score right away cause you have to hold for last shot. The coach should tell the inbounder to run the baseline, count to 4, and if nobody gets open call a timeout and draw up another inbound. Again we do not screen off the ball enough so this never happened.


Sorry for the way too long of a rant but as a coach that game was brutal to watch last night. That being said we still are as talented as almost anyone in the country and all the pressure is now off because we have lost so many games to kill any hype or expectations. Depending on the draw we could do some damage and save this season.