Load Management?
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I like giving guys like Banks, Gunn, and Sparks more minutes but college players should be able to play 35 plus minutes comfortably when needed.
They train at a high level year round and only play 2-3 games per week during the season. And they have plenty of rest during the game with all of the tv TOs.
My two cents as a guy who played at the HPER for 3-4 hours on four hours of sleep and slightly hungover.
They train at a high level year round and only play 2-3 games per week during the season. And they have plenty of rest during the game with all of the tv TOs.
My two cents as a guy who played at the HPER for 3-4 hours on four hours of sleep and slightly hungover.
Ware or Reneau need to be on the floor at all times. Sparks should rarely see the floor. Mgbako needs a shorter leash.
The first half is scripted…only foul trouble changes the sub pattern.
I haven't rewatched the game yet but to me the feel of the game from the hot start was that the core of the starting group should have played until the 9 to 10 min mark with the backups taking their PT to to the 6 min or so mark.
This starting group seems to lose a lot of intensity/momentum from sitting, through the first handful of minutes into re-entry, for some reason.
From a macro level, a well timed timeout or two should have been used against Auburn to stem the tide of momentum and keep the starting group fresh and on the court longer together.
In the first halves of UConn and Auburn, X and Trey have each put senior leadership/experience aside, been in foul trouble, thus limiting their minutes and causing a cascading and frustrating effect in these two losses.
So the seasons starting backcourt, in the early seasons two most high profile games, in the combined first halves, have logged what around 15% to 20% of available minutes?
That's what makes me shake my head in disgust.
This starting group seems to lose a lot of intensity/momentum from sitting, through the first handful of minutes into re-entry, for some reason.
From a macro level, a well timed timeout or two should have been used against Auburn to stem the tide of momentum and keep the starting group fresh and on the court longer together.
In the first halves of UConn and Auburn, X and Trey have each put senior leadership/experience aside, been in foul trouble, thus limiting their minutes and causing a cascading and frustrating effect in these two losses.
So the seasons starting backcourt, in the early seasons two most high profile games, in the combined first halves, have logged what around 15% to 20% of available minutes?
That's what makes me shake my head in disgust.
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Yeah Tyler (Zeller) use to tell me .No matter what..Coach Robinson asst for Williams had the timer on. Every game no matter what ..You came out after a certain amount of minutes..Didn't mater it you were on a 12 -0 run. Or not.
Front court foul trouble and the back court are the problems. Renault has to stay out of foul trouble. Mgbako needs the time. He is our most creative player. Does not stay focused, but he has slowly improved. The real problem is the backcourt. Galloway has been a major disappointment. We need a healthy X back to have any legitimate shot at being a good team.
I don't know if this is CMW's strategy or not...I doubt it, but I am sitting there scratching my head trying to figure it out. And I have coached at a fairly high level...still.
Nobody likes the hockey line substitution pattern but Mike continues to be a stubborn and set in his ways.
I don’t remember this level of “load manegement” back in the day (70’s).
At my age, it now means taking a dump at the same time every morning.
At my age, it now means taking a dump at the same time every morning.
The game is completely different now. In the 70s teams could take “a break” by running offense for 60-90 seconds and catching a blow on the court. Now you must be go mode all the time. At the end of the RMK era and CTC era, one of the complaints was that by the end of the year the team was spent.
I do find it hard to believe that a 20 year old athlete can not go hard for 35 min twice a week, but I also find it hard to believe that a Div 1 bball player cannot hit 75%+ from FT line, so I’m obviously a grumpy old man.
Coach Knight would cut down practice later in the year to keep guys from getting too tired.
You reply here again with a poke you’re gone. Not reading pages of that nonsense. Call him and tell him you think he’s cute if you wanna play HS games.
It is more of a strategy in the NBA and I am not suggesting that this is the plan…just trying to figure it out in the moment.
Crean notably did not, or at least I seem to remember this as one of the many complaints about him.
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