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Pretty accurate"We just couldn't get that (aggression) back" she said as she sat passively on the sidelines without doing anything to stop her team from being dismantled or to help it regain its composure. Then she mentions turnovers as an afterthought as an answer to one of the questions. Just unbelievable.
The fact is a hallmark of her teams is high turnovers and she did a poor job preparing them to face a press while offering no instruction during the game when they were struggling against it.
This game hurt her way more than she realizes.
Also she says the guards were winded in the third, but putting on a press is more draining than breaking one. We have plenty of depth so OSU should have been the team wearing down at that point. Is our conditioning really that bad?
And she doesn't mention her substitution patterns being a huge problem that assured the press was effective for as long as possible as each new combination of our players had to learn to break it.
Maybe this is just the public face and she's a seething volcano underneath! Because this is very "Meh?". Yep, the turnovers. Whatever.Agreed, the team takes on the personality of their coach. Not expecting Kellie to be Pat, but this sure isn't how she would have reacted to a loss like this. It's baffling Kellie can be this tone-deaf in such a pivotal year for her...
Can't keep going back to the locker room speech as her pinnacle moment.Agreed, the team takes on the personality of their coach. Not expecting Kellie to be Pat, but this sure isn't how she would have reacted to a loss like this. It's baffling Kellie can be this tone-deaf in such a pivotal year for her...
Had an entire halftime to talk about beating the press (which should have happened in practice since we knew it was coming). Then sat on your timeouts while we got back to back 10 second violations, turned it over a million more times and they went on a massive run that put the game out of reach. Not a great start for the coaching staff.
Somebody help me out - honest question - why, after an opponents made basket, do we sometimes fart around for several seconds getting lined up for the inbounds pass? Or sometimes we have to wait a few seconds for a specific player to come take it out. This gives the other team time to set up also. Shouldn't the closest player to the ball and the endline take it out so we can get it in quickly before the opponent has time to set up?
Well, in Kellie's defense, no amount of telling her team how to break that press at halftime was going to work. That's a "do it in practice" thing, not a "hear about how it's done" at halftime thing.
The staff dropped the ball in not adequately preparing them in practice. I think I remember hearing Jordan say something along the lines of "we practiced it all week" -- someone please correct me if I'm misremembering -- and if they only really started giving extra time to working on breaking the press in the, what, 8-10 hours of total practice time they had in the last week, then.... Hope that's not the case although it kinda felt like it was.