I'm sorry, AG just can't have it both ways.
If you're disappointed by the effort or energy, bench someone or call timeout. Does he do that? No.
If you're feeling the game slip away at the end of the first half and beginning of the second, call timeout or sub in some new players. Does he do that? No. (He ended the first half with all four of his timeouts unused).
He doesn't call time outs, and he leaves a lineup with lackluster effort in for 7-10 minute stretches. Yet after the game he claims he didn't like the effort. WTF?
If that's not on the coach, who is it on?
Additionally, look at the tape and tell me why jordan deserved to be benched for the last 13 minutes of a game in which our best scorer was on the bench? Jordan's first 7 minutes of the second half was probably the best of any of the five guys on the floor. Yet he is benched and never to be seen again when he was playing smart offensively, and not turning the ball over and had 10 of our points in a low scoring game where we couldn't score. Of all the players to bench, he chooses Jordan? Really?
Makes total sense.
I'm not complaining about the last play. It was poorly executed and that is on trey. But that play can and should happen 15 times a game. Josh needs the ball. A child could see that. We have our #2 scorer who shoots 69% for the season against an undermanned
umass team and 37 minutes into the game in which our #1 scorer was sidelined with fouls he had taken only 5 shots.
That is simply asinine. It makes zero sense. And the coach and the staff do not get a pass on this one. It's on them.
