I love Vic but...

[HWY51dog]

He has to sub more in big games. Flat out we are tired in the 4th qt and it shows.

 

[Shamoan]

T not even going after loose balls...just watching. Insists on keeping bibby on that under cut that hasn't worked since the second quarter.

 

[skydawg1]

Something's wrong with BigT...all night.

 

[MSUDC11]

He has to sub more in big games. Flat out we are tired in the 4th qt and it shows.

I get the vibe he doesn’t think his younger players are nearly ready for these big early season games. They’ll get plenty of playing time as the year goes on and we blow out most teams we play. And I bet we go deeper into our bench come March. But he’s counting on his veterans to carry him right now. It worked against Texas and Marquette, didn’t tonight.

 

[Apoplectic_Objurgator]

Something's wrong with BigT...all night.

its on her - she didnt nut up - team expects her to be a leader when it gets tough and she showed shes not

 

[bulldognation]

She lacked energy. Looked lost.

 

[West Tn Dawg]

its on her - she didnt nut up - team expects her to be a leader when it gets tough and she showed shes not

She definitely was not in it tonight and let them get in her head early!

 

[drummerdawg]

Hasn't been the best floor coach, especially in big games. We never change anything up on defense. Good teams take advantage of getting T to the 3 point line, and she's too slow to get back once she's that far up. But we keep doing the same thing. Also, cant expect to have energy when you only play 6 or 7 kids and press the whole game.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Last year we had Danberry, Holmes and The Aussie off the bench. We don’t have that luxury this year. Don’t forget that two years ago we lost a good big that would be giving T quality rest and then this year our freshman 5 star post player from the coast quit... or got asked to leave. But either way, the young bench will probably be very good when they are juniors but they just aren’t good enough like Danberry and Holmes were last year. Danberry and Holmes were juniors last year as backups. ALL of our backups this year are redshirt freshmen or true freshmen.

 

[HWY51dog]

He can do a better job resting players. You can steal a minute or two during games. Before tv time outs or before end of quarters. Any extra rest would help and get the bench time to develop.

 

[klong-dog]

No doubt about it. I love Vic but just not very smart on this, so far this season.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

Something's wrong with BigT...all night.

The ****** officiating neutralized her all game because of her size. The girl from Oregon had an elbow in her back all night and got away with it yet when T turns around she gets a 17ing Flagrant. The difference between me and her though is I would have kept playing my game and let them foul me out whenever the 17 they wanted. Officiating in Basketball is so bad and subjective it’s hard to be taken Seriously the same way as football to me. Officials can 100% effect the game whenever they want to a worse degree than football. These basketball officials make SEC Football officials look good.

 

[thekimmer]

Tough nite but not the end of the world.

He has to sub more in big games. Flat out we are tired in the 4th qt and it shows.

We ran up on a team at home who’s refs allowed their forearm to the back strategy to neutralize T and she wouldn’t call em on it and start banging back. I don’t care if you foul out you gotta do it. The refs also called a butt load of fouls away from the ball mostly on us which resulted in a buttload of four shots of which they missed one and fouled out two players. Vic waited way too long to pull T. We actually played with them once he did that. T was doing nothing for us on either end most of the game. I think we will learn from this and get better. I hope so.

 

[SirBarksalot]

its on her - she didnt nut up - team expects her to be a leader when it gets tough and she showed shes not

Kind of like ND last year?

 

[Len2003]

Last year we had Danberry, Holmes and The Aussie off the bench. We don’t have that luxury this year. Don’t forget that two years ago we lost a good big that would be giving T quality rest and then this year our freshman 5 star post player from the coast quit... or got asked to leave. But either way, the young bench will probably be very good when they are juniors but they just aren’t good enough like Danberry and Holmes were last year. Danberry and Holmes were juniors last year as backups. ALL of our backups this year are redshirt freshmen or true freshmen.

Right. You can't have players playing a full court press and man on man for 40 straight minutes. They will tire out. But the bigger problem is Oregon scoring on us with a pick and roll and driving the paint at will. This happened during Marquette, and no adjustment was made. No attempt to play zone, which would have also protected our players from foul trouble and expended less energy. We had two starters foul out.

 

[jdbulldog]

How about a 2-3 zone......T in the paint preventing all those easy layups they got off the ball screen on top? Why not at last try it? The result couldn’t be any worse.